The Profit Prophet

Here is a listing of some pretty bright people who made some incredibly poor predictions of things that should have never happened...but did...  "Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." -- Dr. Lee DeForest, "Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television." "The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." - - Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923 "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." -- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year....

Insanity has many meanings but the one I like is about doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results! The perfect example of this would be giving the government, any government, the authority to run some enterprise, any enterprise, and expecting it to be run well, efficiently, within budget and to produce a work product half as good as a company in the private sector could. It has never happened, it's not happening now and to expect it happen at any point in the future can be summed up in one word, Insanity! Now on to the short story: NIGHT WATCHMAN Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. 

 Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night.” So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job. Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?” So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the in...

Look at the wrinkled brow on my face and see the drought in a soul sucked dry by a cold and callous system of men without faith. Look at the tears in my eyes and see that an ocean of hope still wells up within. Look deep, past the years and the fears, and know there is always truth that might shorten your path, and broaden the scope of community. Look where you have not cared to look before, and give a hand up instead of a hand-out! Look at a proud flag flying over all of us, rich and poor, woven in the Maker’s image, for the protection of all those who embrace it. It is not for us to choose the conditions of that freedom or liberty, it is given freely and our oath and loyalties should be also. Look at your condition, and know the only safe harbors for any man in any condition, is under the banner of the red-white and blue. The muddy and bloody tombs of tyranny and elitism are strewn throughout the world where men have thought less of freedom and love, So look long and fondly at the s...

Just 15 years ago most of us were still getting most of our mail delivered by the USPS postman. Now it has become very rare even in the case of most bills. I have often wondered, if the equivalent of today’s mass surveillance had been going on 20 or even just 10 years ago… and people would find ALL their PERSONAL cards and letters had been copied, opened, read and stored by their “Protective government,” would they have responded with the same stoicism and indifference that seems to permeate today’s sheeple? I think here would have been a MIGHTY uproar! Yet because its “Digital” it doesn’t seem to register…GO FIGURE? Who wouldn’t be upset if they found strangers had been going to their personal stuff, searched through their file cabinets and drawers, read ALL their PRIVATE records and looked through their very personal (those not placed on Face Book) photo albums? Or would it be ok if people knew it had happened but the burglars left no traces and placed everything ...

Of course, there is NOT SUCH THIN G as a real perfect husband, but to all the guys who have ever done this , kudos.  Fidelity is NOT about being faithful to someone else, but being true to yourself! __________________________________ A man woke up in the morning still dressed with a terrible hangover, and could not remember what he had done the night before. On the table next to the bed he saw two aspirins, a glass of water, and a note from his wife, saying "Honey, there is a hot breakfast waiting for you in the kitchen. Love you lots! He looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order; spotlessly clean. He quickly notices that the rest of the house looks extremely clean. He decides to get up and stumbles into the bathroom where notices he has a very swollen and very black and blue eye. After showering and shaving, he goes to the kitchen as he passes the hall he sees that the mirror is broken. At this point he is very perplexed. He realizes that his son is in...

Today's post has to do with being let go, something all of us may have had to face at some time. The interesting thing is while this may not be funny, sentence structure still is. Enjoy… __________________________   Times were tough, and unfortunately the boss had to fire somebody and he narrowed it down to one of two people - Debra or Jack. It was an impossible decision because they were both super workers.  Rather than flip a coin, he decided he would fire the first one who used the water cooler the next morning. Debra came in the next morning with a horrible hangover after partying all night. She went straight to the cooler to take an aspirin. The boss approached her and said: 'Debra, I've never done this before but I have to lay you or Jack off.' 'Could you jack off?' she says. 'I feel like shit.'