The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs, but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

The Paradoxical Commandments were written by Kent Keith in 1968, when he was 19, a sophomore at Harvard College. They were part of The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council, his first booklet for high school student leaders.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Yes, the change is going to come!

This is National Service Day, Bloggers!

Ecological Shopping

Bloggers, Siel, of Green LA Girl, has helped solve one of the most pervasive problems associated with modern shopping: How to shop without creating further need for bags which become landfill. Here is her response:

Question: I don’t need a drawstring bag, but could use a plain cotton string bag. 7th Generation used to sell them and now I don’t have a source. Can you suggest anyone? Thanks!
David

Answer: I’m unsure what you mean by a “string bag.” Do you mean a mesh bag? Or a plain cotton bag (right) to carry or store produce and grains? In either case, I suggest heading over to Ecobags.

Many thanks, Siel!

Quote: Friend of Blue Gal

"Stay strong, stay focussed, stay humble, fight on."

Health Care Canned

My Health Care Canned Me. Suggestions?
Written by Administrator
Wednesday, 22 August 2007
We try and stay away from self-indulgent weepy, bloggy crap here… BUT ….

Here's the deal, I've been working freelance for the last year and been paying Cobra.

Well, the jackasses at the COBRA SERVE NATION (from Florida) upped my policy by $15 and changed my due date UP two weeks. I received no notification of this.

When they got the regular payment I had been electronically transferring every month, they said "Whoa! You're late! You're short! You're CANCELLED! Effective immediately." I’m not quoting but that was the feel.

Here's the rub, as many of you know, I am a type-one diabetic. This means I am uninsurable across the board. I have about a month’s worth of insulin left. I am truly lucky to have the cash today to pay uninsured premiums. Today.

Amazingly, after a vitriolic conversation I had with COBRA SERVE NATION on Monday, they did not see things my way. Usuall, my gift of calm, caustic language works wonders. I once got a health insurance company to cough up some of my teeth after threatening to burn down their office. It was a bit “Studio Exec” but it worked. I even threw in the Michael Moore line, to no avail.

In essence, I think I'm fucked.

Sure, I can get an office or barista job or marry someone who has bennies, but all of these things will take at least three months. If I won the lottery today, I still couldn't get healthcare. I need to get it now.

If anyone has any suggestions, I would love to hear them.

Thanks.

Dave
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Tuesday's Word: Skunk Treatment

If you or a favored pet runs into a skunk, the sprayed areas my be treated by applying a homemade spray removal. De-Skunk Formula: one quart of hydrogen peroxide; one quarter cup of baking soda; one teaspoon liquid dish washing soap. Mix together and wash the skunk-sprayed areas, keeping the mixture out of its eyes, nose, and mouth. Rinse it off in tap water. Use immediately and do not store for future use.

Thursday's Quote: Aristotle

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then,
is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle

This week's quote comes by suggestion of mi amigo, John Pritchard. Gracias!

Tuesday's Word: pre-nuptial agreement

pre-nuptial agreement*: one entered into by prospective spouses prior to marriage but in contemplation but in comtemplation and in consideration thereof; by it, the property or other financial rights of one or both of the prospective spouses are determined or are secured to one or both of them or their children. Friedlander v. Friedlander, 80 Wash.2d 293, 494 P.2d 208, 212. A number of states have adopted the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act which prescribes the content, execution, amendment, etc. of such agreements.

This blog has no desire to entertain he said-she said arguments. Those with any capacity to think must understand that nothing edures but change. Those who live as mercenaries may expect to be treated as such.

*Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition