Big debate about “Obamacare”

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about health care reform that is, of course, the big topic now. It comes from the founder of Whole Foods. While he says he is not attacking Obamacare, a few people think he should have kept his mouth shut.

What do you think?

• Interesting Libertarian Rant Of The Week This is an interesting rant on the equality of paying taxes by newsletter editor Porter Stansberry: According to the federales themselves, the top 1% of wage earners in the United States earned more than $388,806 in 2006. There were 1.65 million citizens in this category. As a group, they paid......
• Actual Letter from a MonaVie Distributor A reader sent me a mail saying: My wife got duped by one of these salesmen, they encouraged her to buy without my knowledge and consent a very large amount of this product and also to help sell it. The following is the email that a MonaVie distributor sent his......
• Why is Peter Catalano Spamming Twitter about MonaVie? This is a little of an unusual topic for me to write on, but I was just looking on Twitter to see what people are saying about MonaVie. It turns out that Peter Catalano has a monopoly on almost everything on Twitter. I counted 7 Twitter accounts pushing MonaVie that......
• Britain Is Going To Burn Trash for Energy. From Time.com: "For all its fervent advocates, recycling has come nowhere close to allaying the world's burgeoning production of garbage. Now Britain's Isle of Wight is presenting what proponents hope will be a parade example of how to deal with the megatons of waste that can't be reclaimed. This summer,......
• Why Is Haiti Such An Economic Mess? Of course by now you've heard about the disaster in Haiti. It's an awful situation to say the least. Just for the record I want it to be known I fully support any aid that the United States provides, so long as FEMA isn't involved. I couldn't help the cheap......

What Glenn Beck understands and How to Get 10 million Watch Dogs

Glenn Beck notices that there are problems, that there are issues in this country.

What

he doesn’t get is that he can’t direct the battle as some mighty general. Selecting which

battles are to be fought by the top will not be successful.

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• How Hybrid Diesel Electric Technology Makes a Difference While there are some hybrid diesel electric buses and locomotives operating in the US, the long-awaited Volkswagen hybrid diesel electric Golf that's manufactured in Europe won't be released to United States market as they had originally planned.  Volkswagen claims that the price of manufacturing the vehicle is too high. The......
• The Top 100 Corporate Polluters In The United States. Here is a list that you don't want to read...but you have to. The Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at UMass has updated their list of the Top 100 corporate polluters in the U.S. for 2009, which "identifies the top U.S. air polluters among the world's largest corporations. The index......
• Review: Hot, Flat, and Crowded Tom Friedman returns to milk the cash cow he created earlier this decade called The World is Flat.  Milking the cash cow may have a negative tone, but that isn't always the case.  In fact it's usually during this that we create our best stuff.  The World is Flat was......
• Whoopi & Barbara Blindside Glenn Beck Glenn Beck, for one reason or another, agreed to be on The View.  While on the program, he was probably supposed to be debating current events with the cast of the show.  Instead, they brought up an inconsequential point from his radio program and debated it for a good five......
• China tops U.S. as largest auto market in ’09 [/caption] Beijing total vehicle sales hit 13.6 million — a 45 percent growth over 2008 BEIJING - China overtook the United States as the biggest auto market in 2009 and automakers should see more strong growth this year, an industry group reported Friday. Boosted by Beijing's stimulus, 2009 passenger car......

Glenn Beck’s finally starting to “Get it”.

Glenn’s newest

article shows some insight into the current problems we have and the solutions. It has

taken him quite a while, but I am glad that he is figuring it out now.

• Amor Amor Perfume Review This is a review of the Amor Amor perfume; a perfume intended for women and designed by Cacharel in Paris. The Amor Amor perfume was designed by the design house of Cacharel in Paris, and it was originally introduced in the year 2003. The Amor Amor perfume offers a truly......
• Athlete Profiles: Andre Agassi Andre Agassi has become a fixture in the tennis world, and thanks to a series of high profile relationships, sponsorship deals and a great will to win, he has become an indelible fixture of pop culture as well. His gold medal win in the Olympics, and the sheer number of......
• Who's To Blame For The Binge Drinking Culture?  This post on binge drinking was originally written and published on 24/02/2008 on my old site, 'The God Is You', and may conflict with my current philosophy.   I WAS LISTENING to the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2 on Thursday - a show I both love AND hate. I......
• Personal Finance Review - Egg on My Face Edition Sometimes there's just not enough wood in the world to knock on. I found this out the hard way earlier this week. It took less than a week for my post about the 2001 Patriots to come back and haunt me. For those living in closet, or not interested in......

Rugged Individualism

We in the United States often talk about Rugged Individualism–this strangely-definable characteristic of doing everything your way–all by yourself.

The truth is, those that we know and admire–the famous ones in America–are not rugged individualists. They all work together with teams to accomplish things.

Note, I didn’t say “parties”. I said, “teams”.

This site is about empowering you to use the power of teams to change your world for the better.

• The end of the office... and the future of work [/caption] By Drake Bennett By the end of the month, a company called txteagle will be the largest employer in Kenya. The firm, started in its original form in 2008 by a young computer engineer named Nathan Eagle and, as of this coming June, based in Boston, will have 10,000......
• The Chicago Cubs Go Bankrupt, How Do You Do That? Bankruptcy is as American as baseball, so it’s not surprise that the Cubs are bankrupt.  The current owners are the Tribune Company which also owns the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times.  It would seem the Tribune Company has a knack for owning businesses of the early 20th century.  Tribune......
• Thieves steal Auschwitz's 'Arbeit macht frei' entrance sign [/caption] A gang of thieves in Poland has stolen the infamous wrought iron sign announcing that “work sets you free” that spans the main gate of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The long, curving sign, reading “Arbeit macht frei”, was erected by the Nazis soon after the old Auschwitz barracks were......
• LinkAdage’s Take On Google's New Search Engine Patent Has Google thrown the cyber world a curveball? Let's fill in some blanks and connect a few dots regarding the recently-filed patent application for Google's latest Search Engine algorithm - Search Engine 125. For those unfamiliar with the inner workings of search engines, each Search Engine uses its own unique......
• Florida at the Sugar Bowl On January 1, 2010 at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time, the Florida Gators, the SEC Eastern Division Champs, will meet the Cincinnati Bearcats, the Big East winners, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The University of Florida Gators have played in the Sugar Bowl 7 times before, with......