By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail

I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home.

Robert Goolrick

The most frightening thing I can think of is…

…to be the president during one of his lucid moments. Imagine suddenly realizing that you promised to fix the economy, and not only did none of your socialist gimmicks work, they've made fear and stagnation a national policy. Millions of investors and employers are frozen in the fetal position.

And, the only way to begin setting things right is to give up most of your power.

This is the same situation Franklin D. Roosevelt got himself into during the 1930s Great Depression.

FDR launched his socialist New Deal, which is what Obama and his economic advisors are trying to copy.

Contrary to what Obama and the rest of us were taught, the New Deal didn't work. The government's own statistics show that unemployment was higher in 1939 (17.2%) than in 1931 (15.9%).

What did FDR do about it? At the 1941 Atlantic Charter conference, he told Churchill he was looking for a way to get into the war. He cut off the Japanese oil supply and secretly sent warships to invade Japanese home waters.

It worked. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese navy attacked Pearl Harbor. Unemployment quickly plunged, eventually hitting an all-time low of 1.2% in 1944, and FDR's popularity became legendary.

Do you think perhaps someone has whispered this history to Obama?

Maybury EWR

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.

We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race . . . .

The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

Robert A. Heinlein

Experiencing Post Trauma means you survived it. Quit whining.

Shig Takada

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Einstein