One of the favorite tactics of sneaky, stealth bullies is to set traps for you.  When you fall into their snare, they’re gleefully smug, “Gotcha!  See, I told you!”  Their hidden agenda is to prove you’re wrong, dumb and bad and they’re right, smart and good.  They’re not interested in truth or equal relationships; they’re [...]

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“We can rebuild him. We have the technology.” If this familiar phrase gets your adrenaline going then I have a feeling anything I’m going to say below this paragraph will be mostly irrelevant. The only thing you need to know is that The Six Million Dollar Man is finally available in North America – and [...]

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Final 24 A Dramatization It is by luck not judgment that I chose today of all days to review this DVD. It was on this day 47 years ago that his father, president John F. Kennedy lost his life. There are few people of my generation that do not remember November 22/1963. What happened in [...]

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Alan Fine is the president of the very successful executive coaching company InsideOut Development. He decided to share some of his pearls of wisdom with the world in his book You Already Know How To Be Great. The self help genre of books is not one that I delve into with any great regularity and [...]

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Today’s interview is with Mark Oetjens, author of the science fiction novel, The Staff of Rahgorra. Q: Thank you for this interview, Mark. Can you tell us what your latest book, The Staff of Rahgorra, is all about? The Staff of Rahgorra is a science fiction action-adventure. The crime lord Thrull wants to rule galaxy [...]

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On October 12, 2010, Pope Benedict introduced his latest motu proprio, Ubicumque et Semper as an introduction for the Church into the ‘New evangelization,” necessary to restore the prominence of the Catholic Church globally, especially where it has been faltering in recent years.  The observation by Pope Benedict that the “phenomenon of abandonment of the [...]

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Who Runs Our Government — Elected Representatives or Security Operatives? One of the first examples of security reps running things I learned from an excellent high school teacher when I was a junior. An example at the time was the undermining of Iranian early stages of democracy to keep control of its oil by the [...]

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