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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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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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if it doesn’t work, they can’t eat you.
“Robert, they can?t eat you!” My rules for survival.: Rule #4 of Bob Parsons’ life rules is: “if it doesn’t work, they can’t eat you.” Man, he’s not kidding. Keep some perspective people. It’s all small stuff. Lighten up and have some fun.
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Google Quote of the Day
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. – Maurice Maeterlinck” That’s so sad it’s funny.
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The History of Qualcomm
This is an interesting story. Qualcomm started from very humble ideas: On NPR, today, they discussed the beginning of Qualcomm: NPR : Qualcomm Founder’s Son to Assume Control of Company It is turning 20 years old this month. It had no particular product in mind, just something in the wireless business. Irwin Jacobs wanted to
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Bob Parsons Blog -? A blog by Go Daddy founder and president
In today’s New York Times, they covered corporate blogs. They mentioned Bob Parsons’ blog. It was interesting in the story because he didn’t pull any punches in his blog. He gives his opinions on the world without second guessing what kind of effect it may have on his business. That’s inspiring and not typical of
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Picture of Peter B. Lewis
I’ve been trying to track down a photo of Mr. Peter B. Lewis. I was fortunate enough to get one. So Viola!: Quite a dapper man.
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ING DIRECT Summer Reading List
I’m a proud customer of ING DIRECT. They have made a big effort in trying to make saving hip. I’m sure trying to push that marketing concept through a financial services company was no small task. But I just got a cool email from them recommended some books for the summer. I thought I would
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Seth Godin: Agent of Change
Here’s a pretty interesting general marketing blog I just came across. Seth Godin: Agent of Change
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Fast Company Now – Attitude Adjustment
many of today’s young workers are massively disaffected with their jobs and often constitute a negative influence on the whole workplace. I was reading a Management for Dummies book put out in 1996. It’s all about empowerment, encouragement, being an effective leader. It’s been common knowledge for sometime that managers must be compassionate, empathetic, encouraging
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EBSQ Artist – Joseph Gut – Art For Sale
If you aren’t familiar with EBSQ artists, but like art, I highly recommend you check out the scene. You can search these artists on ebay by typing in EBSQ and you can go to ebsqart.com. This is a group of self representing artists. What this means is that they are basically cutting out the middle
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Love: I Corinthians 13:1-13 Part 3
Order Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ and receive a FREE Bible, only at GospelDirect.com Ok. This is the last I’m going to do of this. Here are the different versions I’ve collected, verses 4-8 side by side: NAB – New American Bible version ESV – English Standard Version KJV – King James Version
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Love: I Corinthians 13:1-13: Part 2
Order Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ and receive a FREE Bible, only at GospelDirect.com Of I Corinthians 13:1-13, these are the versus that really speak to me: “4: Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 5: it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own
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Love: I Corinthians 13:1-13: Part 1
Order Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ and receive a FREE Bible, only at GospelDirect.com If you aren’t aware, I’m in a string quartet. I play the cello. I do a lot of weddings. I would imagine I’ve done a couple hundred at this point in my career. I can safely say, in my
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My Spirituality Disclaimer
OK. Before I go any further down this spiritual path, I need to make a policy statement. I am in no way Christian. I am much closer to atheist than most spirituality. I happen to like Buddhism, although I know very little about it. One of the reasons I like it is because it is
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Finding Nothing In Myself
In Tuesday’s yoga, I realized my own Nothingness that I talked about seeing in Indiana here:Sage Lewis: Allegory of the Cave and God I felt strongly being the observer watching the entire world, starting from my mind and body, it all being completely out of my control. I don’t own any of it. I may
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On Taking
Something that I don’t think was covered, or at least I don’t recall it off hand, in Think and Grow Rich, is that in order to become rich, part of the mental shift is that you must become a taker. Maybe this isn’t an issue for many people, but I realized that I’m not a
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Work Addiction
I don’t really know how I manage to do this to myself. But I am apparently addicted to yet another thing. Not that I didn’t know this already, really. But I really felt it this morning. Today is the first day of my 3 day vacation. I woke up this morning at 5:30 and I
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