It is hard to believe that it is Wednesday already? It just seems like it was Sunday just a day ago. Work is going great. There are still so many things to learn. But I'm beginning to get my head wrapped around everything that I am doing and going to be doing. So much information....yet it is wonderful. I'll almost have an entirely different skill set once I get finished learning all that I need to do just to maintain the membership website and doing video blogs.
I got out during lunch today and put down the security deposit and pet deposit on the apartment. They have everything they need to finish up processing my application. I believe that I have worked out so that I can get the key to the apartment the day before I actually move in so that I will have it without having to juggle getting to the office before they close on the 1st.
This evening Walter was at the house waiting when I got home. He was dropping off his car so that his windshield could be repaired tomorrow.
I've been hanging out on the phone this evening with Alice working on the APS logo design. I think that we have just about got it worked out, at least to the point of being able to get some feed back from the client as to whether or not we are on the right track. But what we have gotten together so far is really nice looking.
Email & Newsletter Gleanings:
Thought for the Day: Finish each day and be done with it . . . You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million;
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
States won by: Gore: 19 Bush: 29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2
Bush: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government welfare..."
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake,knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom. "in God we trust"
I got out during lunch today and put down the security deposit and pet deposit on the apartment. They have everything they need to finish up processing my application. I believe that I have worked out so that I can get the key to the apartment the day before I actually move in so that I will have it without having to juggle getting to the office before they close on the 1st.This evening Walter was at the house waiting when I got home. He was dropping off his car so that his windshield could be repaired tomorrow.
I've been hanging out on the phone this evening with Alice working on the APS logo design. I think that we have just about got it worked out, at least to the point of being able to get some feed back from the client as to whether or not we are on the right track. But what we have gotten together so far is really nice looking.
Email & Newsletter Gleanings:
Thought for the Day: Finish each day and be done with it . . . You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy
How Long Do We Have?About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
- From bondage to spiritual faith;
- From spiritual faith to great courage;
- From courage to liberty;
- From liberty to abundance;
- From abundance to complacency;
- From complacency to apathy;
- From apathy to dependence;
- From dependence back into bondage ."
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million;
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
States won by: Gore: 19 Bush: 29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2
Bush: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government welfare..."
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake,knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom. "in God we trust"
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