But where’s the beef?
The year was 1984, and the fast-food battles were in full swing as purveyors employed every tactic imaginable to discredit one another. The phrase ‘where’s the beef’ became an advertising icon and was used in every possible sense, even straying into the political arena. Even Congress, the opposite of progress, used this catch-phrase…
The phrase implies that something is missing.
The missing component is recognizing and accepting responsibility for words and actions… You know, consequences.
There is a reaction for every action; that’s Newton’s third law. It’s been parsed and rehashed into various phrases like ‘cause and effect’ and ‘Nothing comes from nothing…’ It boils down to actions and reactions. Although Newton’s laws are primarily applied to physics, they also extend to more mundane aspects of life. Continue reading
We’re all familiar with the story behind this article’s headline. It was the last day of the Constitutional Convention, Sept. 18, 1787, when a prominent Philadelphia socialite, Elizabeth Willing Powel, confronted Benjamin Franklin outside of Independence Hall and asked him, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy”?
Why is probably the most open-ended indirect question ever posed, yet it’s on my mind constantly. An indirect question is a rhetorical device used to provoke thought or conversation, and it makes an excellent opening for this article.
March 31, 2009
Economists have for months warned that tariffs would cause an inflation surge, but as of July, there’s little evidence of that in economic data, despite about $100 billion in tariffs already collected by the Treasury. Fortune asked economists to explain why. The possible reasons range from “it’s too soon” to “consumers won’t stand for it.”
Everyone seems to be getting the vapors over the Trump administration’s new, aggressive scrutiny of those people who have become U.S. citizens through the naturalization process, but for me, it’s simply a heightened awareness that far too many new “immigrants” – legal and illegal – have used our freedoms, laws and system to take advantage of any weak link they could find, and it’s far past time to bring the gravy train to a halt, to bring the deceptions and subversion to a halt. Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice is doing exactly what several past administrations failed to do, and no one can find any real fault in her orders or those of President Trump’s in this regard, unless of course they are already in the camp of the damned anti-American Democrat Party communists. 
A massive data leak has compromised the healthcare records of more than eight million Americans.
We are now struggling to emerge from the wreckage of a constitutional republic, transformed into a kleptocracy (government by thieves), collapsing into kakistocracy (government by the worst), and enforced by a police state algogracy (rule by algorithm).
July 3, 2011