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POLARIZATION - Or - CONFLICT RESOLUTION
F rom My Perspective - - - It is obvious that polarization (a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions) is a reality within our nation. In an effort to address conflict on a secular level, someone has developed a list of 8 Possibilities For Conflict Resolution......Read More

Posted on: 2009-01-02 05:03:11 | Rating:

| Views: 35 | Comments: 2 | Tags: Disputes Misunderstanding

EXPECTATIONS VERSUS ABILITIES
From My Perspective - - - As events unfold in ones life, sooner or later reference will be made to “The Peter Principle”! The general interpretation is that a person has a level of ability/competency and to go beyond that level invokes The Peter Principle. What is The Peter......Read More

Posted on: 2009-01-03 05:52:06 | Rating:

| Views: 13 | Comments: 0 | Tags: New-Creation Potential

DISPOSSESSING GOD
From My Perspective - - - All too soon (in the year 2026), the United States of America will mark the 250thyear of existence as a free and independent nation. This nation has been preserved through good times and bad times. We have endured several wars, including two World Wars. We were......Read More

Posted on: 2009-01-06 06:15:06 | Rating:

| Views: 22 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Coincidence-or-Warning-Signs

LISTENING OR LISTING
From My Perspective - - - The US Senate is beginning to look like a Mental Institution that has been taken over by the patients – there is so little order, decorum or common sense on display there currently. An example is a Newsday Article (January 8th, 2009) regarding:......Read More

Posted on: 2009-01-08 05:27:06 | Rating:

| Views: 22 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Nabob-Noises

UNIMAGINABLE AND UNPRECEDENTED
From My Perspective - - - If one scans his/her lifetime, many events come under a heading of being UNIMAGINABLE. Events such as Great Depression; rise of Nazism in Germany; War In Europe; sneak attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor; World War; use of Atomic Bombs; Increase In Nuclear......Read More

Posted on: 2009-01-09 05:49:46 | Rating:

| Views: 30 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Irrational

INAUGURAL PRAYER FOCUS
From My Perspective - - - It seems as though an innate propensity for many leads one to negative opinion and bent rather than to a more positive approach and inclination. This is reflected in our national elections and the close percentages in terms of how the citizenry votes. Even with......Read More

Posted on: 2009-01-13 05:38:08 | Rating:

| Views: 23 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Spiritual-Values-and-National-Virtue

JUGGERNAUT OR FOIBLE
From My Perspective - - - Generalization is a tool in expression that allows one to either overstate or underestimate what is or is not factual. Next week will be observed as National Right To Life Week. An example is this statement appearing on www.OneNewsNow.com: “Less than 10%......Read More

Posted on: 2009-01-16 06:36:05 | Rating:

| Views: 31 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Life-Or-Death

POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE
F rom My Perspective - - - The Feature Headline in the Drudge Report for Monday, January 19th is: “Anything Possible”! In a Pre-Inaugural speech, The MY-WAY Report states: “Two days from the White House, President-elect Barack Obama joined a vast throng Sunday at a......Read More

Posted on: 2009-01-19 05:46:29 | Rating:

| Views: 21 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Ceremony Lofty-Rhetoric

TULIPOMANIA AND HOOPLA
From My Perspective - - - TULIPOMANIA = “A violent passion for the acquisition or cultivation of tulips” -- In Holland, in the first half of the 17th century, the cultivation of tulips became a mania. It began about the year 1634, and, like a violent epidemic, seized upon......Read More

Posted on: 2009-01-21 06:24:15 | Rating:

| Views: 14 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Authenticity-Versus-Hype

BASKIN-ROBBINS COMEBACK
From My Perspective - - - Somewhere in the 1950’s, Baskin-Robbins started Ice Cream Franchises that featured 31 different flavors. Even though the Chain is somewhat diminished from its peak popularity, where it continues to be operational, they advertise and boast of now having......Read More