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Ooh, I bet you’re wonderin’ how I knew.’ The president, his health care catastrophe, Mrs. Merkel, the honor of la belle France. ‘A man ain’t supposed to cry/ But these tears
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by Dr. Jeffrey Lant.
Author’s program note. Friends and neighbors, are you perplexed, confused,baffled, and irked by the avalanche of bad news emanating from the capital of these United States? Well, join the club. We all need help sorting out this plethora of information that ranges from the usual garden variety nonsense to whole new ways to upset us and rend the body politic.In all seriousness we need a friend like “That Was the Week That Was”,a satirical television comedy program-me on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963.
It was devised, produced and directed by Ned Sherrin and presented by (Sir) David Frost, whose usual impeccable timing for delicious scandal,gossip and tittle-tattle deserted him this time.Sadly, he died just the other day (August 31), thereby missing these imperial pratfalls and hi-jinx which he loved so well and which no one knew better how to present for maximum impact than he did. How he would have savored the bumper crop of idiocies of just the last few days and the melt-down of the Right Honorable Barrack, who has descended from the heady heights of”We Have Overcome” to taking cue and counsel from Marvin Gaye’s grapevinewhere “a man ain’t supposed to cry”.TWTWTW (whose American counterpart ran on NBC from 1964 to 1965 and also featured Frost) had sharp-eyed, tone perfect fun with the best and the brightest,people we are supposed to venerate and admire but whose constant goofs and cosmic errors are just too good to pass by, no more so than in the last week, where the mistakes were hilarious, astonishing, truly awesome, slap your knee and LOL;that is until you stopped and considered who would have to pick up the pieces and carry on…. that would be you and me, the guys from the morning after the hysterical night before. With such an embarrass de richesse, where to start… there is so muchto choose from, relish, and enjoy.Scapegoats wanted.
Please apply to B. Obama, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for details.Unless you’ve been living in a cave (and maybe even then) you know that ourerst while president has nailed his tattered colors to the mast that is universal health care. It was supposed to cover millions hitherto without insurance, with benefits (if you pay close attention) ranging from astonishing to miraculous,not least being the remedy needed to resuscitate and resurrect the careers of lame duck presidents, one in particular. Problem is, even if you want this coverage(and millions do), you can’t get it at any price because the computer program that’s supposed to handle the matter is screwed up to the max. See for yourself at HealthCare.gov.”Computers are so literal.
“This is my mother’s take on computers and pretty well summarizes the Lant family’s approach to the matter. You tell these often infuriating machines what to do…and they do just that… and nothing more. Apparently Barrack’s mother didn’t tell him this and so with his complete disinterest in the annoying and boring details of everything, including his marquee program, he now finds himself in a mess that absolutely 100% of fifth graders assigned to solve the matter could handle withelegance, speed and total accuracy, without sweat or muddle. Big problems right from the start. Richard Nixon, of all people, told newly elected president Bill Clinton not to tryto reform America’s health care system (one seventh of the GNP) all at one go;instead to phase it in. Clinton, of course, being Clinton didn’t listen and did exactly what the more experienced Nixon advised against. The result was a Republican landslide in the next congressional elections and plenty of egg on his excellency’s fleshy jowls, not an edifying sight.Obama learned absolutely nothing from this disaster, more reminiscent of the suicidal charge of the Light Brigade (1854),”C’est magnifique mais c’est pas laguerre” than practical (read do-able, win-able) politics. Thus, instead of creating a model program in a medium sized state (think West Virginia, Indiana or Oregon) hewent for the whole hog, a huge mistake that is plaguing him right now.Except for arrogance and bragging rights, there was never a need to do all theuninsured in every state all at once. But there was (and still is) the need to createa system that’s simple and easy to use, which is most assuredly not what we’vegot now, a Rube Goldberg machine that promises everything and delivers nothing but chaos, confusion and embarrassment. For make no mistake about it, thepresident and his disgraceful computer system has show cased America all right;as a nation of bumblers, inept, unprepared, a brigade of “can don’t” nerds and programming “skills” no better than a joke. And this, mind, in the nation’s strongsuit, state-of-the-art technology. No wonder Obama’s poll numbers are now infree fall. Hail to the Chief.
What should he have done instead? Well, for openers, like any good business person he should have tried (and regularly, too) to order his own product, thereby helping to test and perfect the system on which he had staked so much.Of course, we now know he didn’t do that or anything like it. And so he got onopening day October 1 not kudos but confusion, outrage and fully justified attacks on his competence which have only gotten worse as the problem has exacerbated. It was a bad day for ObamaCare and the people who so need it; another black eyefor the Great Republic.What’s more, when he was told that his system wasn’t ready for an October 1 opening, he should have been sensible and postponed until he could get the desired results, KISS. Sure, there would have been gibes but they would have been as nothing when compared to what’s being said right now about him, his presidency, and his health care “system”, and not just by Tea Party nutters either.It ain’t pretty… and it is accurate.
As if this weren’t enough…As if his woes were not abundant enough October 23 the German government announced that it had received confidential information that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone was under surveillance by US intelligence services and thatshe had phoned President Obama to deliver the strongest possible disapproval.She also cited the great and long-lasting friendship between our nations, makingit clear friends don’t spy on friends. Barrack might give lip service to this pointof view, but he’s an information freak and cannot be trusted.Thus as expected he soothingly said no surveillance had been authorized or occurred but Mrs. Merkel, who knows him well was apparently neither persuaded nor placated,an indignant wet hen closely approximating her mood and demeanor. This was not surprising given the fact that her brush with the president’s global party-line closelyfollowed another jarring story in the Le Monde newspaper. It reported that US intelligence had collected data on 70 million communications by ordinary French people in a 30-day period late last year and into January. I suspect our spooks wanted to know what every Frenchie gave and got for Christmas. French PresidentFrancois Hollande expressed his “extreme reprobation” and marched down theChamp Elysees waving the Tricolour and listening to a recorded version of Marvin Gaye’s greatest hit, “I heard it through the grapevine” (1968) on his cellphone,and this telling line, “You could have told me yourself.” Indeed. And that was the week that was. TTFN.
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Son of a gun. The murderous bullets of Sparks. Monday, October 21, 2013. The ineradicable shame of a great nation, knowing what must be done, unable to do it. And Mozart… who turns our tears and rage into the majesty of Redemption.A tale.
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by Dr. Jeffrey Lant.
Author’s program note. This is the story I didn’t want to write about. Didn’t want to hear about… didn’t want to think about… didn’t want to deal with in any way… but all to no avail. This is a story that demands the telling… insists upon our honest rendering… and calls upon us for anger! Outrage! Enmity! Fury! Impatience! Indignation! Ire! Resentment! Gall! And above all for action, swift, thorough, complete, grossly overdue.
It is a tale that demands to be told with the unmitigated clarity of Mozart and the masterpiece that carried him from the light of the life he loved unto the unimaginable darkness of darkest death which all approach with awe, resignation, and hope.
For this universal situation which touches us all, we need the genius of Mozart who took this great fear called death, the great fact of life, and gave us, always with God’s love, absolution; the thing we all desire but only God may give…
Thus for this article of sharp, sickening pain and terrible loss, the more terrible because unnecessary I give you the necessary antidote, the Requiem Mass in D minor (K. 626), written in Vienna by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791 but unfinished at his death in December of that year. Find it in any search engine. Turn up the volume and be glad this work of genius, empathy and compassion eases the universal way into the eternity into which we all progress and forever abide. Amen!
The city of promise.
The people of Sparks, Nevada, numbering 90,264 in the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau count are the very essence of America. They believe in God… the Great Republic… family… and their right and responsibility to seize the imperfect present and create the always better future. They are proud of the good life they have fashioned for themselves since the city’s founding in 1905, transforming the previously searing and inhospitable land called “snow clad” (“nevada”) by the Spanish hidalgos who were the first Europeans to tread its immensity. Their civic motto is “It’s Happening Here!”… and so it is … for good and now with bitterness and rue for ill.
For the sad fact is an overwhelming majority of these people of the sierras adheres, and adamantly too, to their right to keep and bear arms and to use these arms, thereby paying the terrible price, now regarded as the “cost of doing business”. In such circumstances what does it matter if a few children and their teachers are gunned down, dying in their own blood, in their once amiable classrooms? Yes, it’s just the cost of doing business after all; a mere bagatelle.
The facts.
Before the opening bell on Monday, October 21, a student at a Sparks, Nevada middle school opened fire with a 9mm semi-automatic Ruger handgun, wounding two 12-year- old boys and killing a math teacher who was trying to protect children from their dangerous and determined classmate.
The still unidentified shooter then killed himself with the gun after a rampage in front of 20 to 30 students who had just returned to school from a weeklong fall break.
As news of the shooting got out 150 to 200 police officers responded, including some from as far away as 60 miles. The two wounded students were taken to hospital for treatment and are now listed in stable condition. One was shot in the shoulder, and the other was hit in the abdomen. Students from the middle school and neighboring elementary school were evacuated to the nearby high school, and classes were cancelled. The middle school will remain closed for the week so that the scene of grim carnage may be scrubbed clean and be pristine again… as if that were even possible… or desirable.
For we do not need to forget. Instead we need to remember, that is the thing of utmost necessity, for only memory can help us solve this problem, now seen by many as inevitable and unsolvable, no longer a conundrum to be unraveled but an immutable fact of life in our murderous age where there is nothing odd or even noteworthy about a 12- year-old blowing his former friends and beloved teacher to kingdom come. But of course this is not merely odd but a chilling abomination and profound moral outrage.
To accept evil as inevitable when it can be eradicated is evil itself, not a fact of life, but a fact of death, mayhem, and our descent from grace. Michael Landsberry not only knew this, not only lived by this but died by this. Thus he woke up Monday a math teacher… but ended both day and life an American hero, the victim not just of the child who pulled the trigger but the larger society which enabled him to do so, failing to act to prevent such predictable and periodic slaughter.
“Mr. Landsberry”.
Just 45, a man in his prime, Michael Landsberry was a contented man, a man respected by his peers and grateful community for his actions in war and peace; loved by an affectionate spouse and even by his two step-children, a success not given to every step-parent; admired and looked up to by his eighth grade mathematics students and by the young people he coached in soccer and basketball with strict guidelines and an unyielding belief that while winning the game was important, playing it with enthusiasm, integrity, heart, and honor was the real objective. This is the true Semper Fi and Michael Landsberry, once a Marine, always a Marine, was its unwavering example and proud ideal.
Michael Landsberry, the man who survived war, only to be cut down in the peace that is no peace.
This modest and unassuming man was a dedicated and caring leader, his gruff demeanor fooling absolutely no one. He did his bit… more than his bit, including two tours in Afghanistan. Thus when the pint-sized angel of death entered Landsberry’s classroom intent on inflicting maximum pain with a gun he had so easily taken from his parents’ house, the good teacher did what he taught others to do… doing the right thing, the valorous thing, the most perilous and sublime thing; interposing his own body between gunman and his adolescent targets.
In this way did Michael Lansberry die in the most righteous fashion of all. Thus was his bald head, which students loved to touch for luck before a big game, dappled with the blood of a hero. Thus did the man who posted on his drole website his “one classroom rule and it is very simple: ‘Thou Shall Not Annoy Mr. L’ ” expire, the most honorable of men, the noblest of deaths and the most unnecessary for we all know what needs to be done, don’t we, though we seem, from the very White House itself unable to change courses, to move a single inch towards the necessary solution…
Thus more children, achingly young, must die tragically… more families must suffer and grieve their loss through the long days and longer nights… innocence no shield… the most worthy of professions and the most important of work affording no protection whatsoever. So much pain is sure to come, the unarguable result of accepting “business as usual”, convinced by naysayers that what is is what must be, despite the little we have done to solve a problem which was not so very long ago unthinkable, a challenge for the Great Republic to be sure, but surely not too great for our collective mind and capability.
Or have we indeed sunk so low that we not only tolerate such a matter but accept it as given, understandable, unfortunate to be sure, certain, tolerable, tolerated, an occasion for a president… a governor… a mayor to send a formulaic message and prattle futile generalities about “an isolated incident”, then disengage from the matter as soon as possible, while everyday people leave teddy bears and home made signs about love and loss at the death scene, nothing accomplished, absolutely nothing; no progress made, or even a beneficial discussion about what must be done, at once, with commitments, not platitudes.
Thus are we condemned to repeat this maddening process over and over again, less consideration given to this outrage than to the one before; less consideration given to the next outrage than to this one, whilst people, good people, die, along with our high ideals once sacred guidelines for our purposeful endeavors, now flagrant ironies mocking who we were, who we are, and the widening chasm between these glaring, irreconcilable realities.
“I fear I am writing a requiem for myself.” Mozart, 1791.
In such an unsatisfactory, worrisome situation we need hope, we need to believe that things can be better, that we can make them better. We need Mozart who on the very threshold of death wrote a stirring tribute to the glory of life and the possibilities which exist to its very last moment before eternal repose.
“I fear I am writing a requiem for myself,” he wrote as he worked day and night on his last great labor… and so he was… for himself, for you, for me, and for the victims of Sparks, especially a hero named Michael Landsberry whose work at its unexpected conclusion was as tragically incomplete as Mozart’s requiem… left for us, the living, to finish, a matter of the utmost necessity for us and what we owe our honored dead whose ranks are sure and unnecessarily to grow apace if we fail to act as we have failed to act for so long.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is the author of over a dozen business and marketing books, several ebooks, and over one thousand online articles. Republished with author’s permission by Howard Martell <a href=”http://HomeProfitCoach.com”>http://HomeProfitCoach.com</a>. Check out Niche Flipper -> http://www.HomeProfitCoach.com/?rd=cf4VDpsD
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CONSISTENT PROMOTION is the CRITICAL COMPONENT in making sales!
Platinum VIP Member, Johan Willems reveals his “SECRETS” to building his online business. (THANK YOU JOHAN for sharing your expertise).
Here’s the interview with Johan Willems
Question: Johan, how long have you been an online marketer, or working to build your own online business?
Answer: Actually I started when i joined Worldprofit, about 18 months ago. I was just looking for a way to get traffic,
but I got so much more. Before that, I studied the matter very closely. But I was studying the wrong material, all those ‘get rich quick schemes’
that ended up in my spam folder, which was my favorite ‘email literature’ at that time. I had been a Unix System Administrator for quite
some years and thought I knew it all. But the fact was: I knew nothing – especially on the matter of Internet Marketing.
I was still ignorant enough to believe that one website with a couple of clickbank affiliate products would be profitable.
but I got so much more. Before that, I studied the matter very closely. But I was studying the wrong material, all those ‘get rich quick schemes’
that ended up in my spam folder, which was my favorite ‘email literature’ at that time. I had been a Unix System Administrator for quite
some years and thought I knew it all. But the fact was: I knew nothing – especially on the matter of Internet Marketing.
I was still ignorant enough to believe that one website with a couple of clickbank affiliate products would be profitable.
Question: Johan, can you tell us how much time you spend promoting to build your business?
Answer: As much as I possibly can. The first reason for me to get involved with IM is my wife.
She has a disease that can’t be cured. She has her ups and downs, but she’d rather have me taking care of her than some nurse she hardly knows.
So I divide my time between household and taking care of my wife, and I spend the rest of my time at my online business.
I love working at night, without any distractions. And since i live in Europe, it’s the perfect way to adjust myself to the different timezones we’re in.
She has a disease that can’t be cured. She has her ups and downs, but she’d rather have me taking care of her than some nurse she hardly knows.
So I divide my time between household and taking care of my wife, and I spend the rest of my time at my online business.
I love working at night, without any distractions. And since i live in Europe, it’s the perfect way to adjust myself to the different timezones we’re in.
Question: Johan, what kind of promotion do you do? Free? Paid? Both?
Answer: I do both. I am investing more now in paid traffic, which is not a bad thing at all. After all I’m building my list. But it’s perfectly possible to invest,
making a good profit, and injecting half of what I earn back into my business.
making a good profit, and injecting half of what I earn back into my business.
Question: Johan, which Worldprofit services do you find the most useful in building your online business?
Answer: That’s a difficult question, because our Worldprofit backoffice is really stuffed with nothing but good, solid tools. Everything you need is right there:
the bootcamp training sessions, the prebuilt landingpages, cloaking/masking tools, incentives, automation tools.. But what really struck me from the beginning
was that a live person started talking to me when i first entered the Live Business Center. I also have great respect for the Worldprofit support team.
I also learned a lot from the other members, everyone is really being supportive.
the bootcamp training sessions, the prebuilt landingpages, cloaking/masking tools, incentives, automation tools.. But what really struck me from the beginning
was that a live person started talking to me when i first entered the Live Business Center. I also have great respect for the Worldprofit support team.
I also learned a lot from the other members, everyone is really being supportive.
Question: Johan, what advise or suggestions do you have for someone very new to Worldprofit who is eager to build their online business?
Answer: Never give up. It’s like playing chess – thinking 3 steps ahead. You really have to think about your business on a long term basis.
I gave up once, but I came back.. because I realized the following: if you’re not capable of building a successful business with the help and training of Worldprofit,
you’re not going to make it in ANY business!! And of course: follow the bootcamp to the letter, and apply what you have learned.
I want to thank Sandi Hunter, working the accounts department in the background, but always open for questions, her responses always being friendly but straightforward.
You can actually FEEL that she’s supporting us. I’d like to thank George Kosch, for all the tools and training he’s providing us.
He’s a genius, AND one of the few “Guru’s” out there who is not afraid of sharing all his knowledge. And last but not least I want to thank Dr Lant, for being so direct,
honest, always mentoring us Monitors, making us feel more and more self confident. For sticking his neck out when he’s writing another daring article on matters many
authors wouldn’t even dare to touch. I regard him as one of my best friends.
I don’t know what the heck I would be doing online without the help of Worldprofit, but I know one thing for sure: I’m far better of now than I was 18 months ago!
I gave up once, but I came back.. because I realized the following: if you’re not capable of building a successful business with the help and training of Worldprofit,
you’re not going to make it in ANY business!! And of course: follow the bootcamp to the letter, and apply what you have learned.
I want to thank Sandi Hunter, working the accounts department in the background, but always open for questions, her responses always being friendly but straightforward.
You can actually FEEL that she’s supporting us. I’d like to thank George Kosch, for all the tools and training he’s providing us.
He’s a genius, AND one of the few “Guru’s” out there who is not afraid of sharing all his knowledge. And last but not least I want to thank Dr Lant, for being so direct,
honest, always mentoring us Monitors, making us feel more and more self confident. For sticking his neck out when he’s writing another daring article on matters many
authors wouldn’t even dare to touch. I regard him as one of my best friends.
I don’t know what the heck I would be doing online without the help of Worldprofit, but I know one thing for sure: I’m far better of now than I was 18 months ago!
Johan Willems
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Thank you Johan Willems for taking the time to share your insight with our Members. You are a valued member of our team and your commitment to our Monitor Network helps all members of Worldprofit’s home business community.
We’ve been interviewing our most active Dealers and it should come as no surprise that the ONE thing they ALL do without fail is: PROMOTION.
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