Our "free market" society is suffering from a lack of values.
If you look up "values" the dictionary is full of monetary definitions, who cares? Empirical valuation is arbitrary.
The values I am talking about are core beliefs that guide and motivate attitudes and actions.
This evening's music features the King of the Slide Guitar, Elmore James.
Leaders in Congress, particularly John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi are preparing another bipartisan fiasco in order to reward a particularly powerful constituency and stop them from their annual screamfest.
This evening's music features Texas blues guitarist and singer, Lightnin' Hopkins' cousin, Andrew "Smokey" Hogg.
A friend living in St. Petersburg FL sent me a link to this Politico article on Jeb Bush and the Schaivo affair.
This note is about the article and the fact that Jeb is worse than W Bush and there are too many who would champion his further destruction of the government and the environment.
I had not spent much time on Jeb but he will be out there during the presidential race
[Photo Credit: A musher and sled dog team race through the forest between Nenana
and Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday,
March 10, 2015. AP Photo/Alaska Dispatch News, Loren Holmes]
Before I post a brief blurb about the results of the 2015 Iditarod, I'd like to share two more photos with readers.
"war 'ought' to be instrumental, in the sense that it ought to be waged in order to achieve some goal, never for its own sake; and also in the sense that strategy and tactics ought to be directed towards just one end, namely towards victory."
- Carl von Clausewitz
Good Morning, I thought I share with you my translation of an article in "Der Spiegel". I don't know though if these are old news for you. At least it's good to know, imo. I shorten this a bit and just put up excerpts to not get accused of violating any kind of fair use rules or whatever.
Mögliches Mordmotiv: Nemzow soll USA bei Sanktionsliste geholfen haben
