Barack Obama Pic "I'm surrounded by idiots" ;)

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This is just a test, do not adjust the vertical...

I'm trying out Twitterfeed from my blogger blog.  This post (and hopefully this tweet) should send my blog posting to Twitter.  I'm just typing more because I want to see how it handles posts of more than 140 characters.  I think that's reasonable? Don't you think that's reasonable? You don't? Well! Who cares what you think anyway?!  Hrmmmph!  K. That should be enough. ;-)

Twitter Re-Dux

Since I last bitched about Twitter, I decided I need to give it a fair shake before judging it so harshly. I've also found that what had really frustrated me was the supply-push of Twitter from the media giants, rather than the service itself.  But since I wrote that I guess the push has worked because a LOT more people are tweeting away.

 

So I'm going to give it that fair shake. I'm @corymacdonald, should ye care.

Get Out Of My Brain, Barack Obama!!

At his Town Hall in Europe, Obama said something that I've been thinking for a long time - and, not surprisingly, said it better.

 

"But the point is that what I found at a very young age was that if you can only think about yourself -- 'How much money can I make? What can I buy? How nice is my house? What kind of fancy car do I have?' -- that over the long term, I think you get bored," he told the audience of mostly students.

"I think if you're only thinking about yourself, your life becomes diminished, and the way to live a full life is to think about what can I do for others, how can I be a part of this larger project of making a better world," he said.

 

His idea is slightly different than mine in execution though. He's talking about public service in an altruistic sense, and while I agree with that my idea is broader. Doing for others isn't limited to charity.  Every day millions of people go to their jobs complaining that it isn't fulfilling for them because they aren't "making a difference" and they want a "job that fulfills them". I think that that is an attitude that promises to lead you straight to a life of ennui.  If you want to be happy, ask yourself "where can I best be of use?" Every job needs doing. Just find a job suited to your skill set and do it well.  Take pride in what you give to the collective enterprise of your office or company.  Basically, to paraphrase another U.S. President, ask not what your job can do for you but what you can do for your job.  Don't do this because you owe your job something. Do it because it'll make you happier.

Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria's GPS is what all cable news should look like. It embarrasses the rest of CNN and its competitors by comparison. Zakaria actually acts like a) there is an important world outside the United States and b) that insight can be gained by interviewing  a broad range of non-famous experts rather than just asking the same fifteen full time employed pundits how the world works (David Gergen, Paul Begala, Donna Brazile etc).   He also seems to focus on how policy will affect people, rather than how it will affect the outcome of the mid-term elections.  To say it's a breath of fresh air is gross understatement. 

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Peter Schiff responds to Obama Stimulus

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