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Master List: Authoritarian and Anti-Constitutional Actions by Donald Trump (2025)
The last update to this was on May 24, 2025. Let me know if I forget to add to it. This post is a rolling chronicle of executive orders, proclamations, federal memoranda, and allied state-level initiatives that legal scholars, journalists, and watchdog groups have flagged as authoritarian, unconstitutional, or corrosive to democratic norms since President…
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Sage’s Big AdSense Experiment
OK, now this is not ready for any kind of consumption… mass or otherwise. Today and over the past weekend, I have been setting up several sites. They all have the same layout. But they will have distinctly different content. I changed my mind of posting the addresses to these sites right now. I was…
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Password Protect a Directory – .htaccess
I thought I’d pass this link along. I needed a refresher on password protecting a directory on a Linux-type server. This site gave me an online form that generated both the .htaccess and .htpasswd files. It then tells you exactly how to create them and then where to upload them. The only tricky thing to…
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Movie: Saw from 2004 by Director James Wan
I can’t believe I am doing this to myself. It’s 10:00 at night. I’m sitting upstairs in the dark all by myself watching Saw. I’m so freaked out. Everybody told me this was a totally freaky movie. It’s put out by Twisted Pictures. These camera shots and lighting are really good. Adam and Lawrence Gordon,…
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Movie: The ‘Burbs with Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern and Rick Ducommun
I finally have gotten around to seeing The ‘Burbs by director Joe Dante. It was put out in 1989. I can really relate to Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks). For his vacation he just wants to sit around, watch the ball game, drink a couple hundred beers and maybe smoke some cigars. I actually just took…
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Google Quote of the Day – sin of commission versus the sins of omission
Today’s Google Quote of the Day is particularly good: Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sidney J. Harris It reminds me of one of my favorite poems: Ogden Nash – Portrait Of The Artist As A…
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Joe’s birthday
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Changing the collective whole by changine your consciousness.
What I learned in Yoga today: Changing the collective whole by changine your consciousness. It all made complete sense. If you are relaxed and at ease, your world will be relaxed and at ease. If you are anxious and frustrated your world will be anxious and frustrated. Pretty obvious, huh?
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Running a Service Business – the hardest business in the world
Running a Service Business is without a doubt the hardest job in the world. The reason is because there are endless variables. No matter how many systems you have in place you can’t plan for everything. Imagine this scenario… you and some people on your sales team are pitching a giant project to a major…
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Michael R. Coppola Jr., CLU, Long Term Care and Benefits Insurance Agent located in the Akron, Medina, Cleveland Ohio area
Mike Coppola is a friend of mine. I’ve known him for a number of years. I was actually his bartender at the Medina Country Club when I got out of college. Mike is a Benefits Insurance Agent. He can help your company find the best benefits plan for you. If you are in the Akron,…
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What is it that I’m for exactly?
You’ll forgive me for thinking out loud here. But I’m in the process of trying to find a group to join that I can really get behind. My focus is Workers’ Rights. But what does that mean exactly? My interests in that area currently are all the middle class people churning away their hours at…
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You Die For Your Beliefs
This has been an interesting week from a conscience point of view. The question has been, do you have a moral obligation to stand up for your beliefs… No matter the consequence. This question becomes all the more interesting from a blog point of view. Now you can stand up for who you are in…
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Don Plusquellic Is Now Holier Than Thou
Akron Mayor, Don Plusquellic has defended himself in today’s Akron Beacon Journal in regards to a run-in he had with a local valet attendant. You can read his entire editorial here: Beacon Journal | 07/31/2005 | Mayor: What’s at stake downtown I will give him credit that he does admit at least a little wrong…
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Peter Lewis – Vanity Fair Article – A House Divided
I added a bit more to this post finally My man, Peter Lewis, is featured quite prominently in the August 2005 Vanity Fair. I’ve never really done this kind of collection of data on any one person before. It’s turning out to be pretty fun. Here are some Peter B. Lewis notes of interest from…
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Don Plusquellic – Akron Ohio Mayor – Don’t Be a Jerk
This is a story that has two sides to it: Don’s and the parking attendant’s. They both agree on these things: [Plusquellic says,] “I swore at him, fine. I threw in a few choice swear words to suggest to him that he was not being reasonable.” They both agree that the mayor threatened his job.…
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Google Quote of the Day
Google Quote of the Day Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. – Herman Melville Man, isn’t that the truth. This is my agenda… not allowing the powerful to push around the weak.…
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integration
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the next generation of Twenty Questions
OK, this is just crazy. This thing has you think of something (anything) and within 20 questions it tells you what it is you are thinking. So far it’s 2 for 2 in the office: 20Q.net – the next generation of Twenty Questions
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Damn You Ohio
There is a new blog in town that is strangely addictive – at least to me: Damn You Ohio It features all of the things that are wrong with Ohio. I’ll leave you to decide if you think it’s a good thing or a bad thing.
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Sage’s Wish List
Don’t forget. If you are ever thinking to yourself, “Boy, I really need to get Sage a gift, but I just don’t know what to get him.” Hop on over to Sage’s Wish List I have a wide selection of affordable gifts for you to send me. Oh, and if our paths aren’t going to…
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Joke of the Day
“You’re one in a million, kid, but there are a thousand kids in China just like you.”
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Zazen Posture – What I learned in Yoga today
Zazen Posture Zazen (pictured above) when done correctly means taking the correct posture and entrusting everything to it. It leads to many good things: better circulation, allieviated congestion, lessened excitability, better digestion… Once you take the correct posture in life, you can allow whatever may happen, happen. The outcome is no longer your responsibility. You…
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Steve’s Blog: If It?s Not Medicare, It?s Medicaid
Here’s a great Healthcare M&A blog: Steve’s Blog: If It?s Not Medicare, It?s Medicaid
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Bob Parsons Ran With The Bulls In Pamplona
This is a very nice article about positive thinking… very inspirational, very encouraging. blah blah. This dude ran with the bulls in Pamplona. WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE!!! He was a rifleman in the marines in Vietnam and he ran with the bulls in Pamplona. I can’t take it. I have got to…
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Steve Jobs Commencement Speech at Stanford – My Take
This speech is so good, it’s joining the all time great viral pieces found on the internet. It’s so good, you almost have to think it’s a hoax. But it’s not, you can read the text of the address right here on the Stanford site: Steve Jobs Commencement Speech at Stanford And I do recommend…
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Harp
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Drinking & dialing
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Death, Death, Death
OK. This is morbid and funny. My friend Joe just put up a blog that will feature all the ways you can die. I don’t know why, but I laugh just thinking about it. I must be in that kind of mood. Oh yeah, and it’s titled: Death, Death, Death That’s just hiliarious. The other…
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Introspection
I have this peculiar habit when I’m feeling down. It’s going to be hard to describe specifically. But it’s something along the lines of: no one else must ever feel this way. No one else must be worried, weak and just mired down in it. No no. That’s not quite it. Scared, alone, not effective,…
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BlogWrite for CEOs by Debbie Weil
This is a useful site. I thought this morning that a collection of CEO blogs would be interesting. I’m glad to see Debbie has already jumped on the idea. Nice work Debbie! BlogWrite for CEOs by Debbie Weil
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Bob Parsons Gitmo Blog Post
OK. This is facinating to me. As a business founder, who has a personal blog, I feel Bob’s pain. He wrote an opinion piece about Guantanamo Bay and how he felt it should stay open. He also apparently made some incorrect statements about torture. This seems to have caused a bit of a firestorm for…
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