Good grief and %&^%$#!!! I added a few years (50+) to the Un-Civil War post yesterday (now corrected) because I just didn’t like Math in school. That’s correct. I am blaming the error on my inability to put 2 and 2 together to come up with 5. I spent more time looking out of the school windows and writing love notes to half of my class rather than slaving over the puzzle of how many oranges were in a basket before someone took a few of them out, leaving how many behind? Huh? Why oranges?
Thus, once again I’m sending myself off to the woodshed for being a tad thick-headed and rushing to publish. What I’ve always told authors/clients is to set their work aside for at least 15 minutes before the final edit and fact-checking. The little break brings fresh eyes to the writing, and glaring errors are avoided through the patience required to wait and take a walk -- or something -- to provide objectivity. But do I listen to my own advice? Of course not. Isn’t that the way of human nature? We can dish it out but can’t take it in?
The above statement reminds me of something I instinctively knew at 18 and forgot at 30 onward: if something doesn’t feel right in one’s gut, don’t do it. Don’t go there. If one has to ruminate -- endlessly -- before making a decision, chances are that the first impression is ultimately the best guide. How often do we get into jobs, relationships, etc. in spite of our deepest “knowing” that it/they/that isn’t the best choice for us? We certainly are ignoring our own advice by going forward with whatever the “not right” decision may be.
Well, I can tell you now that my “gut instinct” has begun to return after its lengthy hiatus. What I’m hearing from my Self is to listen to those alarm bells clanging away in the form of “Nooooooo” gurgling in my stomach, trying to be heard through the jumble of everyone else’s voices in my head.
And what is my gut telling me to do now? Considering the Math issue, I should go back and re-balance my checkbook. Methinks I spent too much on my brief vacation….
Hey Shauna, not that you're rededicating yourself to math, do the math on this.....
ReplyDeleteObama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents
Published November 24, 2009
President Obama is shown here at the White House Nov. 24. (AP Photo)
President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents -- spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history.
In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion -- $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush's term and the first eight-and-a-half months of Obama's.
That price tag came with a $1.4 trillion deficit, nearly $1 trillion more than last year. The overall budget was about a half-trillion more than Bush's for 2008, his final full fiscal year in office.
(Your Nemises) John
Hello Mr. Nemesis - Had Bush not put us into the hole, I doubt Obama or anyone else would have felt the need to add to the deficit to keep the country from sinking into a deeper recession.
ReplyDeleteThere you go again. You can only blame Bush for so long. He's GONE. It's been two years. Obama owns this debt. 14 trillion!!! Unreal. And most of it from pie in the sky socialistic pipe dreams. When Obama took office, gas was HALF the price per gallon that it is now. Nemesis John
ReplyDeleteAnd by the way, that so called "stimulus" money didn't go for helping the economy. It went for paybacks for campaign favors and donations. John
ReplyDeleteDear John (How I've always wanted to begin such a sentence) -
ReplyDeleteLet's try to stay on point in comments if you don't mind? If you must impose your political beliefs into non-political topics, it loses its punch. You have every opportunity (and have done so) to respond to the point of the posts at hand. In this case, I'd rather banter over the issue of being a fool at Math than the math of Obama, et al.
Please choose your subjects wisely.
Mucho appreciado, as it were.....
SZ
Final comment ever: When we began our correspondence, we agreed that it would be fun to have a back and forth exchange on the issues. However, with all of the research I did, with all of the facts and challenges I presented to you, I got no response. You're only real response was "put it on my blog...I'm to busy for these personal emails. The fact is, in the personal emails I sent you, raising legitimate questions and issues, you couldn't even come up with a competent legitimate answer. All you could do was blame Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Fox News, or Rush Limbaugh for everything that's wrong with this country. So, I send you some jokes...you didn't appreciate them. Rather than take them as jokes, which is all they were intended, (off collar humor is FINE THOUGH when it's coming from the left) suddenly after 50 years, I have an "asshole attitude" to use your exact words. Best of luck to you Shauna. Goodbye. Former nemesis, John
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