ELECTORAL COLLEGE EXPLAINED When first enacted our Electoral College had many flaws. Those have been mostly solved through careful thought and legislation. For instance, at one time, the person with the most votes became president and the person with the next highest number of votes became vice president. That meant that the #2 guy was usually the president’s …
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GUEST POST from Don – Like Everyone Else
LIKE EVERYONE ELSE One simple sentence tells the whole story. If you want to be different than your neighbor (or your extended family) you have to stop acting like them. Successful people behave differently than your neighbors and friends. If you want to be rich you can’t act like your neighbor. If you want to succeed at …
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GUEST POST from Don – EV Again
TRUE “MYTHS” 8 myths about electric cars“Concerns about the environmental benefits, dangers, and longevity of EVs and their batteries are often misplaced”By William Gavin” as published in Quartz Responding to the “myths” as told by William Gavin, there are at least 4 which ARE NOT myths at all. These 4 are factually true, or his statements …
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GUEST POST from Don – States & Medicaid Rules
STATES AND MEDICAID RULES In a previous article (https://chia.owly.net/35121-2/) we discussed the negative issues with Traditional IRAs (401k, Keogh, SIMPLE, etc). Now we talk about some potential positives (depending on the state in which you live). Retirement is a literal minefield of negative financial possibilities. Getting old is not for the faint of heart. My wife is not strong …
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GUEST POST from Don – Alexithymia
ALEXITHYMIA A recent study suggests that one possible cause of autism is a cold or flu during pregnancy. Possible, I suppose. However autismspeaks.org says, “Research tells us that autism tends to run in families, and a meta-analysis of 7 twin studies claim that 60 to 90% of the risk for autism comes from your genome.” Therefore, I wouldn’t …
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GUEST POST from Don – Social Morality
SOCIAL MORALITY Can we talk about something important? Words can have meaning. Other times they are meaningless. It is in the realm of modern social morality where both can be true. We can talk about the value of people, but in the same sentence proclaim that some people matter more than others merely because that group was …
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GUEST POST from Don: Dumb Headlines
DUMB HEADLINES Dumb headlines (and articles) fill America’s news feeds. One can hardly read the news on any given day without at least one. Each of these articles was written with an agenda and never left the agenda plantation to explore other possibilities. Even if I were to agree with their conclusions I could not agree with their …
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GUEST POST from Don – Marathons +
MARATHONS + Read the history of this race of endurance and you will find that the distance from the battle for which the race was named to the place where news was delivered was about 24 miles. But it was the English Monarchy which determined that 26.2 miles was right. Early Olympic races couldn’t settle on a …
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GUEST POST from Don – Management
MANAGEMENT WON’T SAVE YOU This is a little fact which will save you time and money: Don’t count on management to be your savior. That’s not in the job description. The job of management is to get things done in an organized manner. Efficiency is not required. Example: Microsoft Windows. Well organized, but not what I would call efficient. Don’t get …
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GUEST POST from Don: We Are More
WE ARE MORE Studying humans, researchers have found that we are easily influenced. More importantly, we more easily influence others than we give ourselves credit for. For instance, “paying it forward” (I hate the game). I don’t owe you anything and I dislike purposely influencing someone else either. Nevertheless, multiple studies have shown that a simple intentional …
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