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politics: Entrepreneurial Spirit License - 03/20/12 08:02 AM
There is so much sung about American Entrepreneurial spirit. So much, that you start suspecting that something is not right here…
We tend to speak with great aspiration and admiration about things that we often do not have. The childhood in the 50s, when kids were roaming outside most of the day, and parents did not have to watch us like hawks…
The time when we could make a few bucks selling lemonade at the road stand…
The time when entrepreneurial spirit meant doing something…
Seems that we are now so regulated, that freedom comes with a big dent. It is … (30 comments)
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politics: Too Clever To Be President? - 03/07/12 10:24 PM
I ran into the blog post by Satar Naghshineh There goes CRAZY Ron Paul again saying CRAZY things in 2002! Watched this fascinated video, and decided to reblog, and turned out it was “Members only” and I could not reblog. Hence this post… There is nothing easier in the world than making predictions. And for longer period they are, the easier. People hardly remember what you were saying yesterday, left alone what you were saying years ago. Life is changing so fast, and political life is not an exception. If somebody have told me that the country would be making such … (16 comments)
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politics: The Master Of Waste? - 02/23/12 10:22 PM
I am watching local channel on TV, and it is all about Obama coming to Orlando. And why is he coming to Orlando?
Oh yes, he is hungry… Not for food that is, but for money. He is coming to pick about $1.2 Mil for Democratic Party and his own election campaign…
Why now? Good question. There are no coincidences in high politics. The dinner with the president goes for $30K a plate, and there are not many people in Central Florida with wallets that deep.
But it is an All-Star game time in Orlando, and there are some celebrities in … (20 comments)
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politics: After Spring Comes Winter... - 02/10/12 08:23 PM
Something is freaking wrong with the climate. And as if global warming was not enough, now we are witnessing a very weird natural unnatural phenomenon. After Spring comes Winter...
I am watching TV and for a few days they are talking about Americans, that Egypt is not letting go, and taking them to court...
What is the crime? They were doing what they were doing for years, promoting democracy. One of them is the son of Transportation Secretary Sam LaHood, who was the head of International Republican Institute (IRI, for short, is a democracy promotion organization that operates in some … (12 comments)
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politics: Who Needs A Shrink? - 02/07/12 12:11 AM
Nobody loves the government. Even Real Estate agents… Real estate agents do not like what government is doing… Real Estate agents are smarter than the government…
Maybe, maybe, maybe…
May be not…
I think that we on AR mirror the “big” government.We just do not notice it.
Take so popular challenges on AR, especially those serial challenges, running for weeks and months. When the government comes with a stimulus (challenge) with a lot of dough (points), it works poorly.
I wrote that, then stumbled on “it works poorly” and then figured that this is a senseless phrase. The exact statement … (12 comments)
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politics: Daddy, Why Don't You Go To The Bank And Take The Money? - 02/02/12 07:46 AM
My dear friends’ granddaughter when she was little was told that they couldn’t buy what she wanted, because they did not have money.
- Daddy, why don’t you go to the bank and take the money, and then we can buy (whatever was there that she wanted)? She is 18 today, and she already knows that you do not just go and take the money in the bank and buy what you want. But the President, who is over 18, still does not know. And he goes to the bank and takes the money... Our money... My money... Would I, personally, give him … (6 comments)
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politics: Amendment to First Amendment - 12/12/11 09:24 PM
Does it bother you that on the one hand we are proud of having free speech, and we are ready to die for it, and on the other hand we are afraid to open our mouth so that we are not get sued?
Do you know that in many other countries the government can’t take children from parents because somebody called the authorities, even if you spank them good?
If we compare it to Real Estate, don’t you think that we live in a country with more and more restrictive HOA rules and regulations?
The country that not only … (20 comments)
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politics: Why Not Take The Money? - 11/06/11 08:49 PM
A fellow Floridian Ron Bolton posted The government considering a new Senate bill designed solely to lure investors.
It is about the bill sponsored by Charles Schumer (d- N.Y.) and Republican Mike Lee from Utah. It would allow US visas to foreigners investing $500,000 cash in residential real estate in the United States.
For some reason Ron blocked comments, and did not allow reblogs, so I can only respond by writing my own blog.
Ron gives the statistics, which shows how much money foreigners invest in residential real estate in US, and it all sounds OK until the last sentence “I … (23 comments)
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politics: To Take a Stand or to Stand By? - 10/15/11 11:30 PM
This is a political blog post. Not for or against Democrats and Republicans. First and foremost we are Americans.
Here's the story. A 26-year old Sean May was a Front Desk supervisor at the most beautiful hotel in historic St. Augustine – Casa Monica. A 4 Diamond Hotel in the heart of this oldest city in the United States. It is in part of Marriott Corp. If you wanted to stay there tonight, the rate starts from $669 per room a night and goes up.
I am in love with St. Augustine, and I love Casa Monica after it was restored … (29 comments)
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politics: Pursuit Of Little Happiness - 10/08/11 12:32 PM
In 1985 my wife applied to the Teacher's Union for a vacation abroad, and to my big surprise, they let us go on that fabulous 10-day bus tour of Hungary. Beautiful country, so clean and so neat...
It was strange, but many Hungarians we met were not happy. For us, coming from the Soviet Union, it was a beautiful country, but they did not compare to us, they compared to neighboring Austria... For them Hungary was a jail and knowing that Soviet Union was worse did not bring happiness to them.
10 days lasted just... 10 days, and we were back … (30 comments)
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politics: Politically Correct... - 10/01/11 03:14 AM
«Muslims have taken a hit since 9/11» said Bob Becker speaking on Fox Channel.
Hmm, I thought it was America, that was hit on September 11. I also thought that the guys who perpetrated it were... what a surprise – Muslims.
Bob asked «what good did we say about Muslims»? Interesting, about those 18 Muslim terrorists, hmm, Bob is right, not a single good word.
How could this happen in our so PC world?
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politics: A State of Hyperactive Coma - 09/03/11 09:28 PM
In January 2009 I posted The Man Who Shot Down McCain
It was a bit of surprise to see the comment on this old blog coming in August just a few days ago. Actually two angry comments from a Russian named Boris. The comments were so familiar, that even if he would not have a Russian name, I could tell it in a fraction of a second.
The hatred, the blindness, lack of attempt to see world any different that what our propaganda instilled in us.
Anyway, I responded, and then there were two more comments, and it was turning … (19 comments)
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politics: What a Baby-Turtle Can Teach the President - 08/09/11 02:00 AM
One summer a few years ago my daughter adopted 3 turtle nests. When time to hatch was close, Olga and I would go to the beach and we would make sure that the path from the nests (they are staked out and circled with a yellow tape) to the ocean was easy for the baby turtles ready to hatch any day. We would remove the seaweeds, and try to smooth the sand.
After they hatch, they wait till evening and then make their way out and go to the ocean. This is how their journey starts, and many years later those … (38 comments)
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politics: Opening the Door Going Backwards - 07/03/11 10:56 PM
I ran into Bill Pohl's blog post Debt bill fails, neither party blinks quite some time ago. I did not agree, so I left a comment, and moved on. But somehow I kept thinking about the idea behind it.
Bill's blog is about the inefficient ways both political parties work. He contends that we need change in Washington and he thinks the solution is in term limits for our politicians. This is not a rebuttal of his blog. But he inspired me to think about the whole idea behind limiting the terms.
We are a democratic society, we elect people to Congress … (10 comments)
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politics: The Beast in a Skirt - 06/22/11 02:17 AM
Long ago that I wrote a blog about Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a famous Soviet dissident, a great novelist, Nobel Laureate in literature. Americans know him, he was exiled and lived in Vermont until he returned to Russia in 1994.
There was another figure in the Soviet history, also a Nobel Laureate (Peace Prize), a dissident – academician Andrey Sakharov. He was called «the father of hydrogen bomb», was one of the highest decorated scientists, who forfeited everything he had and became a staunch opponent of the Soviet regime.
He died of a heart failure in 1989, and he would have turned 90 about a … (40 comments)
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politics: Getting Closer? - 06/05/11 11:35 PM
When asked about future elections and whether he and Medvedev would go against each other in the election, Putin said something along these lines "We are adults. Why do we need to fight? We will sit with him and decide how it will be". This answer Prime Minister Putin gave quite some time ago to a Japanese journalist.
Obviously, the funny side of this did not occur to him. Elections, and the will of the people - it is all PR. They will sit and Putin will decide - is the reality.
Of course, we laugh at this from the height of … (6 comments)
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politics: What Is Wrong With The World? - 02/23/11 10:25 AM
What is happening in Egypt, Libya, Yemen is of great concern to all of us. Are falling dictators a good thing? We like to think so. They are not democratic, and we are opposing dictatorships.
However, toppling those regimes is like letting the mighty genie out of the bottle. And this genie is not a peaceful one. When you keep people under constant pressure for so long, the relief of this pressure may be destructive and devastating. So, yes, there may be people in the streets celebrating, but what after the dust settles?
People, who used to live all their lives under dictatorship, … (17 comments)
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politics: Rolls Royce of AR Political Blogging - 12/15/10 01:39 AM
I love congratulating achievers when they hit a notable AR milestone even if I miss the exact moment. This time I am doing the same, but the points here are only a pretext to introduce you a heck of a blogger. Maybe the best political blogger on AR. And, believe me, he is bigger and better than this cliché.
My congratulations to Ted Baker on reaching 200,000 points. Ted helped me get on my feet, watching over and commenting, so that I was always regretting that he would throw a comment way better than a blog, instead of just writing … (13 comments)
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politics: Who Is The Winning Loser? - 11/03/10 07:48 PM
Did Democrats win the election in 2008? I don’t think they did. I think they didn’t.
It is Republicans who lost it. People did not vote for Obama, they voted against Bush and everything associated with Bush, even though he was not for reelection.
Yesterday we had an election. A historic one. It was the same old same, just reversed. Now democrats were on the losing side. Did Republicans win yesterday? I do not think so. I think democrats lost...
What exactly did Republicans do to cause this massive shift? I am afraid nothing. Did voters shift to the Center, or … (39 comments)
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politics: The Importance of Security - 07/14/10 12:56 AM
I posted yesterday a saga of a 800’ section of the Shortcut to Magic, a road, that gained a national significance after being named after the 44th President of USA – President Barak Obama Parkway.
It was warmly met by concerned AR members, and I felt obligated to inform you of the progress of the road to Magic. Due to the importance of the project, extraordinary measures are taken against terrorism, preventing those bad guys from creating man-made disasters (whew, this is as far as I could manage. with being PC).
Bad guys, reading this. Do not even think of it. … (10 comments)
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