The President of the United States of America makes approximately $600,000 per year. It’s a salary of 400K plus a few perks. Not a bad deal for being considered the leader of the free world. When the baloney goes into the Westinghouse – shit hits the fan to those who don’t understand – the rest [...]
Archive for the ‘Philanthropy’ Category
Just a little bit mixed up
Posted in America, Greed, My Beloved Country, Opinions, Philanthropy, President Obama on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What happens when the game ends?
Posted in Accountability, Athletics, Corruption, Education, Greed, Honor, Opinions, Philanthropy on November 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Something has to change in Division 1 collegiate athletics. This has been the most horrific year that I can remember. Before the football season even began Ohio State asks their head coach, Jim Tressel, to step down for lying and covering up a scandal involving several of his players. Further investigation showed (a) that the [...]
Who really runs this country?
Posted in Greed, Honor, Human behavior, Integrity, Law & Justice, My Beloved Country, News, Opinions, Philanthropy, Politics, Trust, Values on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Colonel Gadhafi’s 42-year dictatorship appears about to crumble. John McCain (R – Arizona) and Phil Gramm (R – Texas) publicly congratulated France, Great Britain, and NATO, and omitted any reference to the part played by their own Commander-in-Chief, Barack Obama. This just shows you have far we have come as a country. Congressmen from the [...]
Let’s get on board
Posted in Law & Justice, My Beloved Country, Personal, Philanthropy, Terrorism on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Eureka! I have discovered America’s problem. As a people, we don’t have attitude! Oh, sure, we’d like to believe that we can have as much attitude as the next guy but truth to tell, our cohones just cannot match up with peoples from other parts of the world. Let me give you a couple of [...]
What Does “Giving Back” Really Mean?
Posted in Opinions, Personal, Philanthropy on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pike It seems to me that it should not have taken more than a century following his death before Pike’s words began to make some sense. Perhaps I grew [...]
