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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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Indy At Christmas
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Positivity vital factor for long life, study says
the researchers found that the pessimistic test-takers had a greater risk of death. And the more pessimistic the person, the greater the risk. In my circles, I’m known as the rose colored, half full guy. It turns out that’s doing me more good than I even thought. As the optimist I must tell you, don’t…
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Elf Snowball Fight Game
If you need a reason to waste like the rest of your day, check out this game: Elf
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The Apprentice 4 Episode 12 – The Final Showdown
Each of the finalists must manage a massive charity event: one a celebrity softball game, the other a star-studded comedy show. It’s Randal and Rebecca. I just got home from my own bit of business. Our business had a booth at the Search Engine Strategies show in Chicago. This is a picture of our booth…
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Ses 2005
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The Apprentice 4 Episode 11 – To Lead Or Not To Lead
The final four contestants must create a promotional video for one of the world’s largest software companies. So we’re down to: * Randal, 34, is the founder, president and CEO of his fifth venture “BCT Partners,” a multi-million dollar management, technology and policy consulting firm * Rebecca, 23, was named “One of 20 Teens Who…
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The Apprentice 4 Episode 10
I have had way too much turkey. I also have to get up early tomorrow. Being that the clip show is at 9:00 and the new show is at 10:00, there will be no new blog post on this episode. But you might check out the resources page below and check out what others said.…
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My Toastmaster Ice Breaker Speech – Organized
?Mr. (or Madam) Toastmaster?; then face the audience and say, ?Ladies and gentlemen?? or ?Fellow Toastmasters and welcome guests?? “I’m an atheist. (pause) But I do have at least one belief. I co-own, SageRock.com, with my wife, Rocky. We have something called The SageRock Experience. This is the roadmap for all of our actions. Within…
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My Toastmaster Ice Breaker Speech
My first toastmaster speech is coming up this week and I need to get ready. This is a four to six minute speech. There are some points that they want to make sure I meet. Begin by facing the Toastmaster and saying, ?Mr. (or Madam) Toastmaster?; then face the audience and say, ?Ladies and gentlemen??…
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The Apprentice 4 Episode 9 – One Hit Blunder
Here we go again. If you are into Apprentice, are you checking out this blog: The Apprentice Blog – Season 4 It’s lively and fun. Be sure to check it out. This week, Mia from Gucci Buddhist is hanging out watching The Apprentice with me and Rocky. I’ll be sure to fill you in on…
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The Apprentice 4 Episode 8 – Store Wars Series
And we’re back. In case you haven’t seen it check out this insane Markus story: Apprentice Outraged At Seeming Dumb On Television – Defamer Apparently Markus is convinced he has been shown in a poor light and incorrectly. Look, you go on a reality TV show, you get what you get. Move on Markus. You’re…
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Army Ranger Tips of the Day
“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast” Stay slow and smooth. Violence of Action – Used to gain or regain surprise: You are the shit. Be aggressive. The equipment, the training and the guy next to you will get you through.
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I’ve Been Looking For This Very Picture!
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The Apprentice 4 Episode 7 – Back to School
Sorry everybody. I missed last week’s episode. Unfortunately, I was actually doing business instead of blogging about “reality business”. I was flying back from California to Ohio Here’s The Apprentice 4 Episode 6 – Wikipedia update. It pretty much sums it up. And here is a good review from PJ: No Deep Thoughts: The Apprentice…
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The wealthiest 10%
The wealthiest 10% “the wealthiest 10% of U.S. households (as defined by net worth) have an average annual income of $270,000, with an average net worth of nearly $3 million. ” I have this theory that many people believe they are part of the top 10% and therefore think the tax cuts republicans give are…
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Leadership Challenge
Leadership Challenge This is a really excellent book. A must read!
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Feedster (sf) RSS Search : edi
this site is cool Feedster (sf) RSS Search : edi
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Indiana October 2005
Here are the Halloween pictures… Indiana October 2005
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Some Inspirational Words
“How long, O Lord, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?… How long will my enemy triumph over me?” This is a nice, encouraging article about how to carry on when things are rough. Beacon Journal | 10/29/2005 | Pray rather than gripe in job chaos
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Business is more like war than it is like physics.
There are many business models but there are no business laws. Physics can be deduced to 3 main laws. Business has endless models with endless variables. Marketing is a great example of this. No matter how proficient and tested a marketing strategy or company may be, there is never a guarantee of success. The client,…
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$10
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Ad Test
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Dog Toys
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The Apprentice 4 Episode 5 – Lost In Space
The Apprentice 4 Episode 5 Before I jump into the current episode, I thought I might point you to some of the latest Apprentice news. First, check out this article: Trump blames Martha Stewart for his ratings slide – Yahoo! News The show currently averages 10 million viewers a week, down 4 million from last…
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IBM VersatileScroll Mouse Drivers
I just got a new mechanical mouse from Amazon, the IBM VersatileScroll Mouse. So far I really like it. It only cost $8. You can check it out here: IBM Versatile Scroll Mouse (Stealth) The only problem with it is that the drivers no longer work that come with it. I found the updated drivers:…
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Less as a competitive advantage
Here’s a very innovative speech given at Web 2.0. It questions and suggests alternatives to how we all work. I highly recommend giving it a read: Less as a competitive advantage: My 10 minutes at Web 2.0 – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
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The Apprentice 4 Episode 4 – Ice Cream of Genie
One of the down sides of not having a dedicated blog to the Apprentice is that having these posts intermingled within all the other posts makes it hard to find all of the other Apprentice posts. But I’ve been thinking a lot about it and decided to try using an include file to easily link…
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Saint Paul Sunday from American Public Media
My friend Zuill is goiing to be featured this Sunday in a live concert on the radio with Awadagin Pratt. They are performing a “live” recital with interview on NPR’s Saint Paul Sunday Morning Show. It will also be broadcast on XM as well. The concert will include Debussy’s Cello Sonata, the Beethoven A Major…
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