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Ben Stein The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog – Ben Stein Summer Disturbances "I have told you before, my friends, that the bowels have a powerful effect on the brain and it’s true. “A good set of bowels is worth any quantity of brains,” said Dr. Johnson.... ...America is now just a blind, helpless Cyclops, eye poked out by Obama’s innate confusion and rage about what America is. American leadership is just a memory. American military dominance will soon be just a memory. In five years, we have become a laughingstock. “ Yes, we can… commit suicide ,” is the new motto. And the worst part is that the GOP does not have any better ideas. Lower taxes are more important than defence? Are they serious? China as a benevolent world leader? I guess that’s the future. Mr. Obama actually claims that he has al Qaeda on the run. That’s just plain insanity. Al Qaeda is a mighty force from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the Moslem world. They are not a few guys in a cave. This is a worldwide...

This Sunday I decided to do a little "enterprising". Or what used to be called roving when I worked at the Herald. Just go out and see what's happening around the town and shoot a photo or two. So I went out to the new Symon's Valley Ranch New Farmers market. Posted with Blogsy

Catching up on some filling and paying with a new posting software. Quote of the day: As Thomas Reed wrote, "[o]ne of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." Democracy values each man at his highest; socialism makes of each man an agent, an instrument, a number. Democracy and socialism have but one thing in common-equality. But note well the difference. Democracy aims at equality in liberty. Socialism desires equality in constraint and in servitude. Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a stat...

The Moon Under Water by George Orwell Evening Standard, 9 February 1946 My favourite public-house, the Moon Under Water, is only two minutes from a bus stop, but it is on a side-street, and drunks and rowdies never seem to find their way there, even on Saturday nights. Its clientele, though fairly large, consists mostly of "regulars" who occupy the same chair every evening and go there for conversation as much as for the beer. If you are asked why you favour a particular public-house, it would seem natural to put the beer first, but the thing that most appeals tome about the Moon Under Water is what people call its "atmosphere." To begin with, its whole architecture and fittings are uncompromisingly Victorian. It has no glass-topped tables or other modern miseries, and, on the other hand, no sham roof-beams, ingle-nooks or plastic panels masquerading as oak. The grained woodwork, the ornamental mirrors behind the bar, the cast-iron f...

Well - here it is almost a year later - and I see there are a few cobwebs and dust around the blog.  No excuse, I've been too busy to blog - but I am working on updating and adding new features to the blog - and revising the resume at the same time. I've trying to pivot from the corporate world to a more independent life Enjoy the Decline

Updating machinery – will be back soon.

Newest Addition (sort of) to Cole's Notes It has been a while since I checked notes and such for the Blogs - and I forgot to mention something that a friend from Thailand had mentioned.  For international travelers who want to keep up with news from home, I made up this little Daily update, that automatically updates.   Front Page of my Daily - http://paper.li/Colecoop# Silly Rabbit, I forgot to mention it and link it in to my social networks and such.  Well I've corrected that now.