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The The "The Beat(en) Generation"

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:41:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And our youth, oh youth, are being seduced
By the greedy hands of politics and half truths

The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination

We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes
And hypnotised by the satellites
Into believing what is good and what is right

You may be worshipping the temples of mammon
Or lost in the prisons of religion
But can you still walk back to happiness
When you've nowhere left to run?

If they send in the special police
To deliver us from evil and keep us from peace

Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues
When they tell us justice is being done
That freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun?

The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination

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When you cast your eyes upon the skylines of this ...
Once proud nation
Can you sense the fear and the hatred

Growing in the hearts of it's population?

The Sad Illusion Of Happy Customers

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:16:15 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: Best Buy is not being picked on here, it could be them or anyone else.

As a regular part of my work I have to trudge through large retail stores all the time and my biggest complaint is the lack of help. If you want us to buy, then have enough informed sales people to help us and get us through the lines quicker!

"It's not rocket science. To make customers happy, all you need to do is offer high-quality goods at competitive prices and staff your stores with a sufficient number of well-trained personnel to ensure a smooth shopping experience."

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

This week, electronics heavyweight Best Buy launched a nationwide marketing campaign under the banner "They'll be happy, you'll be happy, we'll be happy."

What they're saying is that the company will bend over backward to help you shop for gifts this holiday season and will do whatever it takes to ensure that gift recipients are pleased with what they get.

That's the idea anyway. But after visiting a couple of Best Buy stores and chatting with customers, I'd say the company still has some work to do on the happiness front.

"The trade-off is that you get the selection and square footage, but you have to hunt to find someone to help you,"

"I had to hunt to find someone to help me."

You know what I mean: Epic lines at the cash register. Salespeople who don't have a clue about what they're selling or are nowhere to be found when you have a question.

Customer support that makes you feel like an uninvited dinner guest

Sometimes it feels like companies are determined to chase us away

Proclamation of National Thanksgiving, George Washington

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:58:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.pbs.org

Proclamation of National Thanksgiving

George Washington

City of New York, October 3, 1789

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.

Ayn Rand on Rights of An Embryo

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:38:01 GMT

clipped by: sahara
clipper's remarks: "Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living: the right of young people to set the course of their own lives. The task of raising a child is a tremendous, lifelong responsibility, which no one should undertake unwittingly or unwillingly. Procreation is not a duty: human beings are not stock-farm animals. For conscientious persons, an unwanted pregnancy is a disaster; to oppose its termination is to advocate sacrifice, not for the sake of anyone’s benefit, but for the sake of misery qua misery, for the sake of forbidding happiness and fulfillment to living human beings."

"By what right does anyone claim the power to dispose of the lives of others and to dictate their personal choices?" ---- This quote is precisely the way I feel about mandating people to buy health care / insurance! I agree we need reform (of some type), but not to mandating coverage with penalties.

Clip Source: aynrandlexicon.com

An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn).

Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body?

Never mind the vicious nonsense of claiming that an embryo has a “right to life.” A piece of protoplasm has no rights—and no life in the human sense of the term. One may argue about the later stages of a pregnancy, but the essential issue concerns only the first three months. To equate a potential with an actual, is vicious; to advocate the sacrifice of the latter to the former, is unspeakable . . . .

the revealing of freedom

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:31:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As Evey struggles to comprehend V's understanding of love, so Lori struggles to understand how her husband can believe that sealing her memories away was a charitable act of love.

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V Because I love you, Evey. Because I wanted to set you free.

EVEY Set me free? Don't you realize?

EVEY Don't you realize what you did to me? You nearly drove me mad!

You put me in a prison to set me free?!

V You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. EVEY Shut up! I don't want to hear it. I wasn't in a prison. I was happy! I was happy here -- V Happiness is the most insidious prison of all, Evey.

EVEY That's warped! That's evil and it's wrong! What gives you the right to judge? Who are you to say what's not good enough?! V You were born in a prison, Evey. I didn't put you there. I just showed you the bars. You've been in a prison so long, you no longer believe there's an outside world.

EVEY Shut up! You're mad! I don't want to hear it! V That's because you're afraid, Evey. You're afraid because you can feel freedom closing in on you. You're afraid because freedom is terrifying.

Happiness and the Ripples it can Cause.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:33:46 GMT

clipped by: ClipDawn
clipper's remarks: "Can you feel it...?

Clip Source: www.dawnpugh.com

Happiness and the Ripples it can Cause.

How to find happiness? is a common question, so is How to be happy?

According to researchers in Harvard Medical School, Happines is infectious and can ripple through society into social groups. If for instance you have a friend who has health and happiness and they live less than a mile away, then this can increase the likelihood of you feeling the ripple effect by 25%. Resulting in you living a happiness life.

it’s official: happiness is contagious

increased probability of happiness for the friend of a friend is 15.3% and 9.8% for the friend of a friend of a friend. the diagrams in this post show the ripple effect of happiness. wow. examination of this same group of people shows …

The Ripple Effect

Let me know how this information affected you.

Tags: happines, happiness and, happiness health, happiness life, health and happiness, how happiness, how to find happiness, ripple, ripple effect

Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:45:23 GMT

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Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce

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http://www.ted.com Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

Tags: malcolm gladwell, spaghetti sauce, food, food industry, happiness,

Eat your way to happiness

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:13:43 GMT

clipped by: Tri-City Psychology

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Feeling low? Banish the blues with mood-enhancing foods that will give you a lift – and keep you healthy

It’s the season of mists, mellow fruitfulness — and comfort food. But try to resist — or, at least, don’t go for the traditional, stodgy, fat-laden offerings. Research published last week in the British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP) showed that people who ate a Mediterranean-style diet (fruit, vegetables, pulses, cereals and olive oil) were 30 per cent less likely to get depressed than those whose diet was laden with processed and high-fat foods. And since the No 1 rule for keeping your mood on an even keel is to eat regularly during the day, you can take comfort from the fact that the research doesn’t advocate starving yourself.

The key is to stay off fast-release carbohydrates such as croissants with jam, cereal bars, muffins, sugary cereals and sweet drinks. These are digested rapidly, giving your blood glucose an exaggerated spike, which is swiftly followed by a low.

Tags: depression, diet

Don't Let Yourself Be Held Back In Life

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:08:05 GMT

clipped by: Uniec
clipper's remarks: A blog entry about a serious problem

Clip Source: www.thedailymind.com

1. Fear
Fear is the number one thing that will hold you back in life. And fear comes in primarily two forms:

3. Arrogance

2. Attachment

4. Dogma
Dogma is a very dangerous thing. It is where you become so blinded to a way of thinking that you are closed off to all other possibilities. It is where you accept something as fact without taking the time to really establish whether or not it accurate. And, like all things here today, dogma is holding you back in a big way.

5. Money

Most of the time it is your own negative emotions that hold you back in life. The opportunities for happiness and success are out there, you just need to make sure you are willing and able to get them. If anyone has any other thoughts about things that hold us back in life please drop a comment and let us know.

fear of failure; and

fear of success

Tags: problem

Taking a break breaks the tedium

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:20:19 GMT

clipped by: chetler
clipper's remarks: I find this is true with favorite foods: having them occasionally is much more satisfying and I enjoy the flavors. When anything becomes routine, it moves into the background. This is especially true in church life.

Clip Source: www.slate.com

People are adaptable. We quickly adjust to a new life circumstance—for better or worse—and consider it normal. Although this helps us when our situation worsens, it means that when circumstances improve, we soon become hardened to new comforts or privileges. Scoring air-conditioning, a bigger house, or a fancy title gives us only a brief boost in happiness before we start to take it for granted. As Aldous Huxley wrote, “Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.” That’s the hedonic treadmill.

One cure for this “hedonic treadmill” is deprivation. Deny yourself something, and your pleasure in it will be re-activated when the denial stops.

Deprivation is one of the most effective, although unenjoyable, cures for the hedonic treadmill.

Tags: routine, happiness

Repaving Slave Street

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:52 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Demanding unquestioning submission, Obama has set about using liberal principles laid as a horsewhip to the back of freedom. Obama offers the false promise of free honey " beckoning Americans inside the gates of the plantation herding them into the field to work with the goal of collecting sweat to “redistribute” for the common good.

In an effort to retain power through, “leveling the social and economic playing field” Obama’s slave owner policy initiatives tether Americans to a ball and chain style of socialistic governance that is realized by enslaving those who would otherwise be free. The President’s utopian aspiration is on track to transform Americans into chattel trapped within a restrictive dependency, robbing us of God-given liberty, preventing the acquisition of property and thwarting individual pursuit of happiness.

Obama refuses to appreciate that the type of collectivist schema he campaigns for fosters a shadow of the slavery his wife’s ancestors struggled

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Barack Obama recently said, “I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slave owners.” It was while on the campaign trail that Michelle Obama reconnected with relatives and became aware that on her father Fraser Robinson’s side her great-great-great grandparents toiled as slaves in mosquito infested rice fields in the low country of South Carolina

If not for the dichotomy of the overbearing plantation-owner attitude both she and Barack Obama demonstrate–Michelle Obama’s inspiring roots would otherwise be compelling.

Obama’s approach toward government indicates that he identifies with the slave owners not with the slaves who reside in Michelle’s family tree. Obama should hearken to the words of Abraham Lincoln who poignantly expressed in an April 1859 letter, “…he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”

Tags: 0bama, ball & chain socialistic governance, collectivist ideology, fascism, michelle-the blood of slaves & slave owners, redistribute for the common good

Send Online Gift to Hyderabad for Birthdays

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:57:05 GMT

clipped by: giftsindia
clipper's remarks: This article discusses about sending online birthday gifts to Hyderabad. The website helps to sending various gifts in Hyderabad in less span of time.

Clip Source: www.giftstohyderabad24x7.com

The idea of getting older with each passing day is a mere perception as age hardly matters if the mind is still young and blooming with all happiness. It is quite natural of an adult person who fantasize about his/her birthday celebrations as birthdays are the special occasion in anybody's life. Birthdays are the time to leave aside all worries and simply celebrate with all heart.

Tags: birthday gifts to hyderabad, online gifts to hyderabad, send gifts to hyderabad

Thomas Paine distinguishes society from government

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:05:30 GMT

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Clip Source: reason.com

If Paine was not a pure libertarian, he did have an undeniable libertarian streak. It was Paine who wrote that “society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil.” And it was Paine, in Common Sense, who declared: “Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.”

Republicans Need to Dump the Neoconservatives

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:45:00 GMT

clipped by: blueridge
clipper's remarks: The republicans need a "tea party" within their own camp! The Bush and present GOP "conservatives" are pushing big government Statism as much as Democrats, with only a different slant. Wars for democracy are a key element of both parties now.

There is an insidious philosophy underlying this acceptance of the "natural" growth of statism. Neoconservative columnist David Brooks wrote ... we need "a vigorous One Nation Conservatism ... by making the nation great, individuals are able to join their narrow concerns to a larger national project."

Actually, it was originally the Democrats that used to believe in curtailing the powers of the Federal government. (This was after the Civil War where they were called Dixie-crats).

See this related Clipmark: Danger--America Becoming Statist, First Bush Now Obama

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

The GOP should dump the neocons

Limited-government conservatives have been undermined by big-government neoconservatives.

The founders envisioned a federal government constitutionally limited to defending our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. For that to happen, we must have at least one political party that strongly advocates limiting the power of government. For much of the 19th century, that party was the Democrats. For the early part of the 20th century and from the early 1960s through 1988, that party was the Republicans.

Today, it is difficult to find noninterventionists in either party.

It is important to realize that neocons are not just nation-building, America-first advocates. They like big government across the board.

As for the GOP, it has outwardly abandoned the limited-government principles of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.

What happened to the Republicans? Well, the two Bush presidencies didn't help.

Tags: republicans, democrats, neoconservatives, constitution, limited government, statism

The 5 secrets of happy families

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:50:25 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

In the hubbub of life with kids, it's amazing how fragile happiness can seem.

One minute everyone is enjoying breakfast together, and the next the orange juice is toppled and the drawing is ruined and nobody wants the pancakes anymore. Blown out of proportion by a cranky preschooler, sulking tween, or grudge-holding parent, a single mishap can expand into a gloom that lasts for hours.

Instead, as Tolstoy said, happy families actually are all alike -- at least in that they practice common habits that help inoculate them against setbacks large and small.

Give thanks -- no matter what

Seek Out Satisfaction in Your Choices

Lose yourself in the moment

Spread out the joy

Focus On Your Circle

Tags: family, happiness