01.31.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:09 am by livefood
Have you taken a look at some of the project groups that the “stimulus” package is going to help fund? Some of those types of jobs are civil service-like jobs. Actually 1000s of the jobs are civil service jobs…BIGGER government. That will mean as soon as the stimulus money is gone the GOVERNMENT will have to continue to fund the jobs and that means taxes and that means you my friends…TAXES…yes ser ree…taxes. You’ve got more taxes coming at you.
So if you really like the stimulus enjoy it quickly…get as stimulated as you can…cause unless someone is thinking about the end game and how to keep the ball rolling from the civil service job point of view…we will have a crash that will make the current situation pale by comparison. Oh sure, it will be a slow crash and probably be manifested in and blamed on a future administration…but whether you slam into the mountain at 600 MPH or 100 MPH…the end result is pretty much the same.
So you wonder why the Republicans in the House voted NO on the package and why the Democrats voted yes…it’s that same basic philosphy…smaller government vs bigger government. There should be a difference in thinking on this issue…it’s basic to our form of governmental system. We have spent the past couple of hundred years trying to find the balance between too much hand-out-gimme-me-mine-entitlements and not enough help for folks…someplace in the middle is the right amount and we haven’t had that happening very often or for very long.
I’m really concerned about this stimulus package. I think we need one and need a big one and need the big one fast…BUT…I’m not getting a high degree of confidence that this particular package is going to work as well as it’s being touted to do. When I hear the frequent comments that the consumer lacks confidence in the economny and that without that confidence we can’t recover quickly…I hear that stuff…then think about my own confidence and my hope wains a bit. A big bit…and the big bit is becoming bigger fast.
If the government had chosen to send ever man, woman and child who was a legal, tax paying, CITIZEN of the US…say $10,000…I’d be stimulated wouldn’t you? Would you save it? HA HA HA…the average American has less than $200 in a saving account. When the average working stiff in the US is making less than $25K a year…don’t you think $10K would be a big BIG pop in the economy? Sure it would AND it would cost less than HALF of the stimulus package that the government is about to pass on to our children…
Did you hear that the current proposal will be over a TRILLION dollars when the interest is tacked onto the top of the proposal…and the $10K stimulation would be only $350M…and I promise to spend mine quickly…oKay so maybe my wife will spend mine (and her’s) quickly…but it will be spent.
What’s going to happen to inflation with all this money the government is floating about…is it so much money that the entire system will be diluted? That would mean higher prices…not because of demand…just that what you are passing across the counter at the grocery store is worth less that it is now. If that is the case…your bread will cost more “bread”…even the diapers will cost more. Do you think the Congressional folks actually go to grocery stores? They might…to do reseach on how us little people live.
How do some of the give-till-they-vote-for-me Democrats in Congress plan to end the dependency on the stimulus money? I mean, have they even thought about that? Probably not. They don’t demonstate too much understanding of the market driven world…just the entitlement world…two animals that act differently when given money. One sees money as a commody and uses it that way…one sees money as a tool and uses it as such. It’s like taking a bushel of wheat and making it all into bread and eating it OR taking 1/2 and planting it and 1/2 for the bread…and if you take a big risk, you plant it all and call yourself an entremanure. I think if you look at the way some of the big name banks used the first batch of government support…you know, the truely excessive payouts and bonuses to C-level folks that have been in the recent news…THAT my friend is a problem and it’s not a Republican NOR a Democrat problem…it’s a congretional one. They in general don’t get it so didn’t see that one coming…don’t blame that one all on Mr. Bush…Congress could/should have seen it coming too.
I’m not a fan of big government. I don’t like the “big brother” ideas. I don’t like other people being in my pocket. I do however like well maintained roads and the feeling of safety of having a well trained and staffed fire control team just down the road…I like the police helping us keep idiots from being animals. BUT I don’t like government being large by design…I would prefer that IF it is large, it’s because of function. I don’t think our governemtn functions well…that would put it in the wasteful arena. I would think we can agree that a government that spends $600 on a toilet seat might be wasting something. If you’re so big that you don’t know what your spending on that toilet seat is that much and that the “that much” is too much…you might be too big.
I want to be stiumulated by the stimulus package…I just don’t think that payroll deductions are going to be my ticket to stimulation…and frankly if your bank is handing out the big buck bonuses…change the bank you deal with and do us all a favor.
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01.30.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:22 am by livefood
Are you kidding me? What is the legislature in Illinois thinking? Don’t they like this guys hair?
They could have solved some of their budget issues by selling the job back to him. They could have had him sign all his hair product endorsements over to the state…they could have set him up as the next big spokesperson for hair relacement therapy (frankly folks who need hair replacement because of some low self esteem issue should probably seek therapy)…but really…what are they thinking. They could have used the money to fund birth control like the feds were considering. I see this as a lost opportunity for the State.
…and on top of that…now that they have impeached him and thrown him out of the office he’s been barred from holding any public office within that State…49 states to go…wait a minute…Palen’s in Alaska…make that 48 to go…oh yeah, Arnold can take him down in CA…so maybe the number is less than I thought.
Do you remember when Mr. Ventura was running and folks were sort of laughing? Have you listened to him lately? Now I may not agree with Jesse but at least he isn’t comparing hiself to Gandi and such. When former professional entertainers like Venture and Arnold in CA make sense and are coherent…don’t you think Illinois would have could have done better than the new hair plugs for men dude?
Don’t you think Ophra was surprised that she was in the running for the US Senate seat? Wow…a Senate book club. I wonder what they would have been reading…oh that’s right, I don’t think some of them can…or they would know that some of the pork in the stimulus package is not very stimulating…or don’t they read what the lobbyists and the staff put together…oh yeah, we’re back to the not being able to read.
The kind of stupid things that the congress comes up with…they down grade the Healthcare IT funding from 70 billion to just 20 billion…in the fastest growing and one of the strongest vertical in the economy…they DOWNSCALED the proposals…of they watered them down to be more precise. What a shame…a group of business loosely referred to as healthcare…one of the cornerstones of both campaigns…they get stuck with a number that is so low it’s really not much when you think of the size of the problem…and it’s also a problem that CAN BE solved…just now it will take a whole lot longer…but hey, at least they took out the $200 million for birth controls.
Perhaps the feds could be considering folks who are growing and not groaning.
Have you noticed that the numbers that they pass around are all nice and round…200, 300, 20, 800…billions and millions. They slash numbers like 200 and 10 and 400 billions and millions too…don’t they know what $1.99 special is? I don’t have a high degree of confidence in the numbers within the plan…too general and too big and too slow to get to me.
…and then Illinois bums me out by actually making it impossible for me to buy an office. How stiumlating is that?
You send me the thousands that you think you are going to stiumulate me with and I’ll show you stimulation…I stick somebody with the package and you watch them jump around like a jumping bean with simulation…you want simulation…SHOW ME THE MONEY!
…and while they’re at it maybe they can add extra zeros on the end like they do to everything else.
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01.28.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:41 pm by livefood
I don’t normally open image files when I receive them unless I’m expecting them and they are from someone I know. So when I recieved the one I’m sharing with you from my brother, I didn’t open it either…at first. Then my curiosity got the better of me and I had to post it.
Now I have to tell you that it came from a Republican source…take that as you wish…and it was in support of some data that, while factually correct, might have been analyized a bit to the right of center. The vast majority of counties did in fact vote for Senator McCain in the last election…and most of Nevada is also public property…but the analysis leads one to believe that those counties are owned by tax paying citizens…well not quite…unless you feel that the US feds are tax paying as an organization. The same ownership situation holds true for Alaska, MT, WY, UT, CO, AZ, and on and on in the western US.
So if I wasn’t please with all of the analysis, why would I want to share this image with you? Well…I have a unique perspective on populations and migration of same. I’m sure that I’m not the only one with the ability to see what I’m about to share, but you might not have the experiences…so I’ll share.
There are some rather isolated counties of blue is some traditionally red areas that indicate something different about those areas. Southern Idaho has one…eastern Urah, western Wyoming…another blue blob around Billing MT…Moscow, ID…Las Vegas…all areas that CALIFORNIAN have been moving too…perhaps areas that are having the influx of California folks move into them should have a reason to hate the immigrants…granted their legal immigrants…but they are migratory in nature. Like the geese migrating from Canada these human migrants only stay to poop and eat…mess things up and nearly all of them leave with the times get tough. Even the few who stay and more-or-less get localized…just poop, eat and unfortunately are loud…and bite if you try to feed them.
I would submit that even the archectiture of the areas is influenced by the new-comers. These newcomers tend not to move to an area to live as a new local…they move there and don’t really enjoy it in whole and want to CHANGE it. So what you end up with is a raft of latte and funky colored buildings that look like any growing city in CA…and not like what Billings might have wanted to be.
Perhaps a law making migratory relocation from CA illegal for these poor folks in Sun Valley, ID or Jackson WY would be in order. Not only are the folks from CA changing the coffee and the archetecture (and really WHO CARES)…they are changing the politics of the area they move in mass too…good you think…well…one of these days I would think that guns will be outlawed in some of these areas…and eating an Elk might also. Let’s not talk about Bambi, his Mom or his Dad…all taboo in the LaLa land of the Wonderful World of California.
If you think CA politics are fine and that everybody whould be like, think like and act like Californians…you should live in a state that is considering insolvency…a state that will not be sending it’s tax refund to folks on time this year (no money)…if you like the state…move here (it’s where my house is…but not my home)…but the exits from the state are greater than the entrances (unless you factor the illegal immigrants…let’s not go there…you might be surprized on my feelings about “illegal” immigrants (from a guy with ties to seven on the Mayflower).
I really get peeved at folks moving somewhere and cramming their politics down the throat of the locals. I used to love Sun Valley…its okay now but nothing like it was…I used ot love Jackson and The Hole…but it’s a bit pretentious now and not nearly as friendly as it used to be.
What ends up happening is a rather distinct segregation between the new-comers and the locals…pickup driving folks who work with their hands…and BMW drivers who can’t work with their hands. Once upon a time these would classified as hunters and the hunted.
Okay…so maybe my analysis is a bit raw…perhaps I’m a bit harsh in my catagorical label of Californians moving to other areas all driving BMW and not working…I’m wrong…it’s the Hummer crowd and it’s strenous work climbing in and out of those things.
I think folks should move to areas they want to move too and then enjoy the area for what it is…live there a bit and then perhaps get involved in the changes. That is not what is going on.
Take a look at the map again and pay close attention to ski destinations and tourist reorts areas…red or blue? Serious and productive locals or willy-nilly-weak-kneed-left-winged-socialist-californians-gone-wild? Do you think I have strong feelings on this general topic?
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Posted in Uncategorized at 12:05 am by livefood
According to a CNN sotry today, “Some experts predict up to 30 states could see their funds become insolvent this year if the recession deepens
The story goes on to talk about some of the ways that the involvency sitaution might be dealt with…including but not limited to the raising of the requirements for eligibility…yikes. More folks need unemployment payments and fewer will qualify for as much…which really has never been all that much to start with.
It seems that things are looking pretty grim…or are they?
I’d say that the econmy looks less than good but I dare say that for some it can’t be considered grim or even bleak. Healthcare and Education continue to be strong verticals. But I don’t htink I would dream of a car dealership at this point in time.
We have witnessed clients going through adjustments in their staffing that required a layoof on one side and a recruitment effort on the other…folks leaving by the back door and others coming in the front. So where Microsoft for example has recently announced world-wide layoff of something like 5000 positions, they continue to recruit folks for several thousand posiions that are more appropriate for the needs of the firm going forward. Carol Bartz, darling of CEOdom…now with Yahoo…when she was with Autodesk lead them through a layoff of something in the order of 15%…ouch. I was there on a temporary contract gig and witnessed the pain from the HR side…but it was a process of retooling. Stock has gone up, the company is rock solid and while they may again face a layooff someday, it might just be that retooling going on again.
In this current economic climate, it is important for firms to take the opportunity to retool and to restructure themselves. The slump will not go on forever and when it comes back it will be essential for firms to be poised to take advantage of the new growth. It the retooling does not take place now and the economy catches the company with their corporate pants down…they may not be able to pull them up fast enough to take advantage of opportunities…it could even be a fatal blow to a weaken group.
I once had somebody tell me that the definition of 100% unemployment was, “when you loose your job.”
It is a matter of perspective. Some of the folks in Wyoming (where unemployment is just over 3%) are probalby shocked by the 8% unemployment figures tossed around. Those expensive homes owned by all of the “wealthy” folks in CA who used to cash out the equity and move to Wyoming and Montana…well alot of them lost 1/4 millions in those homes and they think the economy is sucking some air right now…
We’ve been through several economic slowdown with our business and we approach it the same way each time…we retool, we market more, pay extremely close attention to details and get ready for the bubble to pop…and it will. We want to make sure that then the economy changes that we are positioned to make the most of it. Our marketing will mean more clients, our attention to details closes gaps in our internal systems and processes…when the economy turns we will be busier, but we will also be better.
Am I saying that to pull through this period we need to keep our pants on? I’ll have to think about that inbetween my attention to details…but whatever you do about the pants…keep it to yourself…way WAY too much information.
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01.26.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:18 pm by livefood
I just love reading material…sometimes. Sometimes not…this was a funny on a BLOG that we read for business. The bloggers were discussing the power of the media…most felt that the media really drives situations rather than just reports it. Not going there in this post (later I’m sure)…but the little piece I’m pasting below says a lot about which side the media favors don’t you think:
1/23/2009 12:07 p.m.
Headlines On This Date 4 Years Ago:
“Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration while troops Die in
unarmored Humvees”
“Bush extravagance exceeds any reason during tough economic times”
“Fat cats get their $42 million inauguration party, Ordinary Americans get
the shaft”
Headlines Today:
“Historic Obama Inauguration will cost only $120 million”
“Obama Spends $120 million on inauguration; America Needs A Big Party”
“Every man, Obama shows America how to celebrate”
“Citibank executives contribute $8 million to Obama Inauguration”
…would that be Citibank funding the inauguration with tax payer bailout money? Oh that’s right, it came from the check book with the money in it…not the one that the government helped to fill up…we got no ponzi going on here.
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01.23.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:41 pm by livefood
The number of threats against our President are climbing. He’s been in the office for 3 days. I think he chould have a little slack on hating him.
I don’t care what color he is…I don’t even mind that he is now from Chicago (get it NOW from…he’s been around)…
The guy is bright. He surrounds himself with bright people. He has a since of humor. He is a sense of humility. I don’t feel threatened when I don’t agree with his opinion. He is a happy family man…his wife and kids seem to be on the same page. No Monicas to embarrass us. All this and I didn’t even vote for him.
The only thing I’m a little leery of is the same with all of these now Washington insiders…they seem to either not have in the first place of loose someplace along the way…the capacity to understand what the “normal” person in American is really going through…daily..the nutz and bolts of normal life…the very small triumphs that those insiders might not even know about.
But in the President’s defense, I think he seems to demonstrate that he has a grasp of the little guy and gal at this time….I just hope he doesn’t loose it too fast.
It’s pretty hard to see the picture when you live in a bubble. The President is forced to live in one because of the idiot threats to harm him and those close too him (I’m assuming that last bit…no one has mentioned threats to those close to him in the news)…so those idiots threatening him really hurt all of the rest of us by making the bubble smaller and more opaque rather than large and transparent.
On the other hand, most of those silly congressional folks just let the Washington scene go to there heads and loose touch in the process. They don’t really answer to the voters…they answer to just about no one. Occasionally one goes screwy and does something really REALLY stupid and they get pushed aside through an election of the next candidate for a swelled head…but most of the time they just take the lobby money into their election bucket and use it to beat up new opposition.
Now just because I didn’t vote for the President’s team this time…that by no means drives me to bash only one side in the notion of carrying a collection bucket around like swill for hogs…no…I consider both sides to be in the same trough on this one…but not buckets for the sly ones…they use a collection plate like one in a Church…much more subtle and so-fiss-tee-kay-ted than the swill bucket. But in the end it’s the same result. By and large the congressional groups are out of touch and don’t even know it. They must be better than the rest of us…most of them seem to have degrees in law.
Oh…you think they know all abot you. When was the last time you ever ran into one in a mini-van like your’s…you know the one with the dried up sticky soda in the bottom of the kids cup holder? Did you catch your congressional bucket holder at the last soccer game…or was that just at the pizza parlor for the after game party? I’m sorry, your Girl Scout sold them cookies right? Or was that your Boy Scout who sold them that popcorn?
In all probability you don’t know how many kids they have. Get real…they don’t know you either.
But if you don’t know the President on a first name basis…haven’t put money into anyone’s swill bucket…it’s still a better system than most others. People continue to want to come here to live and to work and to raise their families and have their dreams come true. No reason to make threats against any of them…that’s just a chicken way to go about change. Our President has told us that he is trying to change things and is willing to put himself and his family into a bubble..,loosing touch with all normality…forever.
I hope the number of threats decreases so that the President can remain in touch with folks for as long as possible…and I’m certainly glad that he’s not carrying around a bucket.
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01.22.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:59 am by livefood
I don’t think the death penalty is a good idea. I think that I would cut a deal…no more death penalty and instead it would be life in prison…no choice…no options…no appeals either.
Now, I’m not going to address the morality issue of killing someone else. That’s pretty well established as a bad thing. But from my conservative fiscal point of view…we spend way too much money on appeals of the death penalty to make any sense. It cost less than $50K a year to house an inmate and bazillions to pay for the defense of appeals to avoid the chair, noose, needle, gas, bullet etc. Save the tax payers the money…avoid the grief of defending the undefendable nasty person and take the death off the table…house them forever.
On that “less than $50K” to house the inmate…I’m not sure what the actual cost is…I’ve seen as low as $32K and some numbers higher…it’s an amount I’m sure varies even between facilities…the point is that it’s a lot. When the average worker in the USA makes just less than $24K…anything spent above that for housing an inmate is rather insulting for the working folks.
Lower the cost of housing the inmates. What’s with TV in prison. The only TV the inmate should see would be black and white with lots of “snow” and limited channel availability. I hope they like reruns…because that is all they would see if I waved my magic wand. You have homeless Moms and Kids outside of prison and inside…the nasty people are watching TV in clean clothes…and what’s with those clean duds? Those Moms and Kids probably scramble a bit for the quarters to do a load of wash.
Make Peanut Butter and Beans the two sole sources of protein in prison…oKay…a bit harsh…baloney on Sunday. Why do those Moms and Kids struggle to get anything to eat when the prison population is eating 3 a day?
Do we really have to have a time when the idiots in prison need to socialize in a playground?
Do the idiots really need equipment to work out…I’ll bet the Mom with the Kids doesn’t have a membership in the local gym…her workout could be trying to make the ends meet.
I’m pretty sure I’d feel comfortable with keeping the nasty people in their box 23 1/2 hous a day…the 30 minutes is to take that luke warm shower. The rest of the time…stay in your new home alone…idiot.
Why is solitary for special folks…make the boxes a little smaller and give them all a private room.
I’m pretty clear on segregation in prison…not the black and white and brown kind of segregation…the “crimes against humanity” and the truely “I’m stupid” types of crimes. You hurt a kid and you go forever…you steal from your boss and you may get out someday. Now I haven’t spent a lot of time catagorizing all crimes, but I think you get the idea…rape…forever…shoot someone on offense…forever…drug use…maybe…embezzlement…maybe…the Enron folks…well, that’s one I’d think about.
I’d bet that if you made the prisons even less enjoyable (I understand that they’re not enjoyable now)…but make them even less so and DON”T let some out so quickly…crime would go down.
In the professional criminal world…do you really think that the resume looks good without jail time? I would not hire an accountant without education and experience…I’m pretty sure the hookups in prison is like the Linkedin, Facebook and MySpace of the criminal world.
No death penalty…but you’re not going home either…and I hope you really like Peanut Butter and maybe Jelly.
Still at the Bible Reading Project…and no I’m not dwelling on the “eye for an eye” passage to justify killing folks…but 21 days into the project…279 to go…84 passages and stories read…1116 left to read. Still reading and still counting…but I stopped counting generations after the first couple of days.
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01.19.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:35 pm by livefood
Three things today…First…HAMAS…stop. Don’t take that to mean that I think Israel is golden in their approach, but stopping the fighting really puts Israel on the spot…if they continue to fight when Hamas is peaceful they’ll look like idiots to alot of people. Right now, I can list nearly all my friendsin the catagory…you’re BOTH wrong. Somebody needs to change paths (like maybe the “high road”) and look like they care about people. I’d ask Israel to stop first…but I’m pretty sure they won’t…you are the only hope I think.
Second, I have a really big agrenda today…tie my shoes and walk the dog…I’ll get back to you on the rest of the agenda.
Third, well…I’ll have to get back to you on that one too.
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01.15.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:40 pm by livefood
St. Patrick’s Day is coming up quickly. About 1/2 Irish…that’s me. I love St. Pat’s Day…just think it should be a National Holiday.
The Ceoiltais that I play with on Wednesday gets a number of requests for musicians to play Traditional Irish tunes around St. Patrick’s Day…this year the requests are up. We only have enough folks to cover about 5 gigs or so…even that means that some of the folks will need to consider doing a lunch deal and hop in the car ot drive to the next in the early evening. Because SPD is more-or-less in the middle of the week this year just about everyone has pushed their special event to Saturday before. It’s going to be a wild day on Saturday that I can already tell. Tuesday (the actual St. Patrick’s Day) is the normal night for the Session at the local Pub…that should be an electric event…way too good to pass.
Sometimes I get asked why I like to go every Wednesday to the Ceoiltais..that’s an Irish word for the tune learning community event…and it’s hard to explain but it’s a simple reasons. I go there to relax. Since I play a bodhran (single headed drum) and beat it to death all night it’s hard to imagine it being relaxing BUT the evening never sends me home in a knot. The reason…well…the group doesn’t pick at each other. There is no pointing fingers when the tune “goes South”…no “you should have…”…it’s just a time when folks who are trying their best (at what level of commitment they find time for) to play the tunes while helping others do the same. What a great concept…do YOUR best and help others do THEIR best…without creating the hierarcy or being better than or worse than someone else.
So all of this helping, non combative stuff helps the stress out…but I really enjoy the music. I like the history of the tunes (some have very colorful names and history)…I like the antiquity of the tune playing. I like the historical and musical ties to the USA old-tyme country, hillbilly, folk, bluegrass, appalachian musics…I think a little of me likes the romance of being tied to the music in an ancestral way.
The only bad thing about Ceoiltais being on Wednesday was I missed the hilarious Idol episode…but then if those folks were playing as poorly at our Ceoiltais as they “sang” for their auditions, we would treat them a tad differently than the judges on Idol…but then that wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining to the masses I’m sure.
I’m sitting here with my buds in my ears hooked to the iPod listening the the Chieftains. I can’t type to the beat but can feel the green…
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01.14.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:22 pm by livefood
I attend a Church. I’d really prefer to say I belong to a Church or that I feel like I belong to a Church, but where I attend I can’t really ever be anything more than an “outsider.”
The reason I attend this particular Church is a long a protracted story, but the reason I stay is because they have a fairly decent handbell program an I love to play and write music for handbells. No other Church within the region offers anything near the program of this particular Church. So I go to the Church to play handbells and when I think about leaving it pains me greatly.
However, I can never be more than an outsider for reasons other than my attending only to play the bells. I am an ordained Deacon and have sat on as many as 4 committees at the same time that I was the Head Usher at the Church…designing their sound recording system and on and on…BUT
…years ago this Church had a Pastor who apparently did some things that were unethical. I say apparently because that is what I’m told. I was not there…I was not associated with the Church (or any Church for that matter)…have no personal contact with the Pastor…don’t even know his name. But the issue of the ethics is brought up, even from “the pulpit” several times a year. When I question the degree to which folks can’t let to of the issues I get the same types of responses, “You don’t understand, you weren’t there.”
Well I quess they’re right on that. I don’t understand because I wasn’t there. But my life continues to impacted by whatever happened. The Church folks can’t understand now…even though they are here…that most of the people attending were not in the Church when the event tooks place so many years ago and because they too, “don’t understand” they too are not “IN” the Church but are just newbies. Look, I been going ot the Church for about 6 years and am still told that I’m not “one of them.”
Other local congregations still talk about the events (and others). I know this as I am reminded when folks hear where I play the handbells…Geeze people…LET IT GO.
But I hope they don’t let it go just to let me in. I’m gone. They drove me away with the self inflicted abuse about issues long LONG gone in the real world. I beat myself up enough without taking on some worn out baggage that can’t carry anything of importance.
Okay…you don’t attend a Church like this. I’ll bet you have run into other groups where the “but we have always done it this way” mantra is repeated over and over. It’s the same sort of thing. If you dwell in the past you can not expect anything other than the same results. Unfortunately, the results from before are frequently not as appropriate or applicable to today as they were for yesterday.
There is a big difference in remembering history, not repeating history, learning from mistakes and DWELLING on the past. People use a phrase, “mired in the mud” or “bogged down in the mud” in part because mired and bogged are a whole lot more colorful if mud is used…it’s not “mired in the diamonds”…mired and bogged are nasty within the context of smelling gooey dirty slippery mud. Don’t get yourself mired and bogged…unless it is in fact in diamonds (or other really cool things).
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