Our friend Sidney Smith sends us this to continue the recent discussion: pl -------------------------------------------------------------- "David Habukkak: Thank you very much for your critique and extraordinary insights. At least in my opinion, the vision underlying economic "shock therapy" is the same as that leading to "shock and awe" as well as that which has resulted in the color-coded revolutions cheered on by the neoconservatives. As mere speculation...I'll offer the following for your consideration: that this vision is the same as that of the esoteric Straussian club. Or to word differently, the worldview of the Straussian club embraces these economic, political, and military revolutions and therefore they offer a way to define exactly what is the "fire in the mind" of the Straussian neoconservatives, if such indeed does exist. The symptomatic manifestations of this vision -- as the Peter Murrell suggests in his work -- are glaringly apparent and point to one thing -- a type of elitism that aspires to impose radical change. Economic shock therapy entails top down changes by an elite of technocrats who, in essence, foster a revolution and not an evolution. In the political realm, we have witnessed "revolutions", such as the cedar revolution, so wildly cheered on by the National Review crowd. And certainly Rumsfeld and sci fi art he Pentagon architects reflected the same approach to the prosecution of the Iraqi war.

My pretty little heart-shaped denon d m31s lock of beeswax...for applique and quilting...was kidnapped... attacked... violated... CHEWED! I'm not sure how it happened, but possibly one of the six dogs caught a whiff of it on my little work table. Belle, one of the four English Shepherds, is particularly skilled in "Sniff, Snatch and Snack". Over the years, Belle has bagged a turkey, several hams, a good many hamburger patties and countless partially-eaten meals, left unguarded to answer the phone or the door. She is talented! One ham she snatched right off of the platter as it was being carried to the table with holiday company as witnesses. It was one of those slow-motion moments when one feels frozen and helpless. But that is a funny story for another time....back to minding my beeswax... I was stitching and visiting with my mom one afternoon recently when I realized I my little beeswax heart was missing. We found it later, quite chewed and slobbered over. I know it was washed thoroughly in puppy slobber because all the tiny little pieces of thread fluff caught in the thread stripes were gone. A quick rinse, and my favorite little heart-shaped beeswax is back in service, coating the threads I am using in applique, piecing and hand quilting. Now, each time I pick it up that re-sculpted beeswax to use, I think about those precious teeth marks...a personalization by one of our fur-babies...from teeth willing to protect us if ever needed.

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Paul Henderson and friends at ruralnet|uk have now reported on their year-long I-See-T project to explore the use of new technologies in the voluntary and community sector. I'm comforted to see it chimes in with a lot of the points Beth Kanter and I register canada ill be making at our workshop on Monday ... and in doing so offers a detailed account on the project blog of how the information and insights were gathered. I really like the way that the blog provides opportunities for people to comment on different sections. Why couldn't Digital Dialogues do the same? The project looked at: What do we mean by ICT for collaboration (blog, wikis, shared database, forums, extranets, diaries etc?) Why is ICT not used for collaboration? What are the barriers to ICT use for collaboration? How can we overcome those barriers? The project looked at blogs, wikis and other new tools as well as email and forums.

This is a tough one...Are you ever down and out because of something you have no control over? Many people out there spend too much time and consume all their thoughts on things that are over and done with. For example: Let's say you lost a significant other because they found someone new. Your natural reaction; initially your hurt, you start to second guess yourself, you wonder if your are or ever were good enough roulette wheel diagram or them, etc, etc. Many waste their time dwelling on this instead of taking the lessons learned from it, and moving on. I have actually been caught in this when I was younger, and I wish I could have moved on alot faster then I actually did. It would have cut out my depression time in half. Instead of focusing on the things you can't control, put all your attention on focusing on things you can. I take pride in putting destiny in my own hands. Even if I mess up, I never regret it because it's what I wanted to do in the first place. Be proactive and take the uncontrollable out of your diet...Controlling things are a healthier food for thought!!

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Our friend Sidney Smith sends us this to continue the recent discussion: pl -------------------------------------------------------------- "David Habukkak: Thank you very much for your critique and extraordinary insights. At least in my opinion, the vision underlying economic "shock therapy" is the same as that leading to "shock and awe" as well as that which has resulted in the color-coded revolutions cheered on by the neoconservatives. As free business thank you letters ere speculation...I'll offer the following for your consideration: that this vision is the same as that of the esoteric Straussian club. Or to word differently, the worldview of the Straussian club embraces these economic, political, and military revolutions and therefore they offer a way to define exactly what is the "fire in the mind" of the Straussian neoconservatives, if such indeed does exist. The symptomatic manifestations of this vision -- as the Peter Murrell suggests in his work -- are glaringly apparent and point to one thing -- a type of elitism that aspires to impose radical change. Economic shock therapy entails top down changes by an elite of technocrats who, in essence, foster a revolution and not an evolution. In the political realm, we have witnessed "revolutions", such as the cedar revolution, so wildly cheered on by the National Review crowd. And certainly Rumsfeld and the Pentagon architects reflected the same approach to the prosecution of the Iraqi war.