January 23, 2010 – 7:44 pm
Yes, I love Toshiro Mifune in the classic “Yojimbo,” A film that is totally funny, but also a morality play. It is also the exact plot of the Classic Sergio Leone – Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Western “For a Fistful of Dollars” — True homage to the source, acting, and impact. But [...]
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Tagged acting, apple, clint eastwood, cut and paste, exact phrase, fistful of dollars, homage, morality play, receipt, sergio leone, spaghetti western, toshiro mifune, yojimbo
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November 27, 2009 – 8:05 am
Adam, Our economy is in trouble. We have widespread unemployment, big banks and businesses are failing, the world is losing respect for us, terrorists hate us, and we don’t trust each other.
You are sure right about the overwhelming power of the “invisible hand” to straighten out the bumps in the road of commerce! [...]
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Tagged adam smith, bump, doors, glen beck, government mandates, holy crap, invisible hand, landlord, lobbyist, madison avenue, marketplace, overwhelming power, rush, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, smith adam, tailspin, tax credit, tent, terrorists, unemployment, zillion
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I have been a Link Referral member for quite some time, and have several sites there. My latest, tweeparty.com is a gateway to twitter. It’s really a Twitter Power Tool, that is totally free.
My goal is to have Tweeparty on the screens of women from ages 13 to 35 and beyond. [...]
Posted in SEO
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Tagged dead links, google, google analytics, high quality, linkreferral, novices, parked domains, power tool, power users, quality reviews, referral, SEO, traffic, tweeparty, tweeters, twitter, web application
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Jon is advocating true investigative journalism. And that is what CNBC is pretending to offer.
If you want to pretend that CNBC is filling any other function that being a mouthpiece for corporate lies, then that’s fine.
Access to interviews is not something that a tru investigative journalist fears. In fact, it’s the other way [...]
February 4, 2009 – 7:36 am
I picked up a copy of Howard Ruff’s good book “How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years in the 21st Century” — I’ve been enjoying economic bad years long before it was fashionable, and even though I now have company in that enjoyment, I’d rather have prosperity in my financial stbility, not just my [...]
Posted in Politics! Oh My!, human nature
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Tagged avarice, bridle, edmund burke, emotional stability, fetters, g w bush, gallantry, howard ruff, human passions, john adams, john ruff, militia, morality and religion, neocons, philosopher edmund burke, president john adams, revolutionary times, Rush Limbaugh, sarah palin, sin tax
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January 31, 2009 – 6:53 pm
Allstate Insurance has created an eye-moistening, persuasive, thunderbolt of a poem in “Back to Basics” with this inspired advertisement.
The words start with –
A stanza of uncertainty
one of appreciation of basic values
care and protection of those values
Now thats a great combination! It’s timeless but appropriate for now: we are in the sea of uncertainty. [...]
Posted in persuasion
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Tagged 1931, advertisement excellence, allstate, allstate insurance, bread lines, camaraderie, dennis haysbert, emotional connection, great depression, hearth, james earl jones, morgan freeman, poem, Poetry, robert heinlein, scope changes, solo piano, stanza, thunderbolt, warmth of the sun
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December 21, 2008 – 10:00 am
Sex and cheating are Christmas companions.
Posted in Sex, human nature, relationships
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Tagged champagne room, chris rock, christian religions, Christmas, christmas time, god work, google, google trends, holiday time, holy time, last several years, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, mysterious ways, open question, Religion, religious leaders, saturday and sunday, search keywords, search volume, seasonal variation, sex marriages, strange coincidence, Valentine's Day
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September 25, 2008 – 10:16 am
Creative commons use: DavidK-Oregon
So I’m thinking of moving from Hawaii to Oregon. It will take a lot of convincing, but seeing this view may be a part of that decision!
The air is clean and clear. The hikes are incredible. There are new things to discover around every bend. There are the [...]
September 19, 2008 – 5:53 pm
http://www.pinearticles.com/Art/4302/185/Publishing-Your-Own-Paperback-Book.html
Not too long ago, I wrote a book for mid-life couples to help them re-focus on each other when the kids leave the home and retirement may be around the corner.
That is a critical time in a relationship: a huge percentage of divorces occur at exactly that time. A couple starts out in love, [...]
Posted in NLP, Technical, do it yourself
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Tagged bingo, bookcover, color laser, common ground, couples, critical time, hot melt glue, mid life, outer edge, paperback book, paperbacks, price tag, raw books, retirement, romance, stack, time changes, toast, toaster, trances
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