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e often than not is what cs lewis describes as flippancy people have been trained to talk as if fill in the blank is funny there s no actual joke being told it s just assumed to have already been made the more a person uses this tactic the more immune they become to anything resembling a dialogue the more every other opposing viewpoint appears ridiculous to them for instance when then vice president al gore was running for president a joke arose that to this day continues to dog him in an interview with cnn before he had even secured the democratic party s nomination vp gore was asked why should democrats looking at the democratic nomination process support you instead of bill bradley what do you have to bring to this that he doesn t necessarily bring to this process al gore s answer taken as a whole was pretty generic a sort of look at my record i ve pushed for important things before and i ll do the same as president type of answer that went on for a couple of paragraphs but there was one short phrase in his answer that demonstrates the power of flippancy i took the initiative in creating the internet we all know how that phrase turned out a politician describing his view that he had been at the forefront of legislation which allowed the internet to completely change the world we live in somehow got twisted into a decade long and counting running joke to many the al gore thinks he invented the internet is a knee jerk response to anything the former vp says even if that has nothing to do with current events it s a slam inserted into any discussion of what gore is doing or saying those that do so have safely armored themselves against actual dialogue this is one example of many the characterization of the tea parties and town hall goers as mobs is another it is generally how political viewpoints are dismissed and how political campaigns are waged making your opponent an object of ridicule is far easier and unfortunately more successful than debating ideas in my opinion this is what truly infects our political culture and what leads to incivility it is an easy game to get caught up in and it is up to each individual to see past the flippancy to the real dialogue begging to be held posted by cameron at friday october 02 2009 16 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cs lewis tuesday september 29 2009 2009 democrats need to learn lessons of 1960s democrats lie npr recently interviewed james morone who co authored a book entitled the heart of power health and politics in the oval office the interview centered on how president lyndon johnson pushed medicare through congress until its ultimate passage mr morone and renee montagne who interviewed him for npr both assume great current public support for medicare and this assumption is what allows them to reveal a remarkable fact about how medicare was sold to the public all those years ago morone obtained tapes of phone conversations president johnson had with members of congress as he guided medicare through the political process including one such conversation with noted public health care advocate ted kennedy johnson maneuvered every step of the way getting this bill through congress and one of the things he did and this is a little dicey in today s climate one of the things he did was suppress the costs so this young kid gets elected from massachusetts ted kennedy in 1962 and johnson is explaining to him how you get a health bill through and what he tells him is don t let them get the cost projected too far out because it ll scare other people pres johnson a health program yesterday runs 300 million but the fools had to go to projecting it down the road five or six years and when you project the first year it runs 900 million now i don t know whether i would approve 900 million the second year or not i might approve 450 or 500 but the first thing dick russell comes running in saying my god you ve got a billion dollar program for next year on health therefore i m against any of it now do you follow me senator edward kennedy democrat massachusetts yes right mr morone we believe after looking at the evidence my co author and i that if the true cost of medicare had been known if johnson hadn t basically hidden them the program would never have passed america s second most beloved program would never have happened if we had had genuine cost estimates now the title of this post is written somewhat in jest democrats don t really need to learn the lessons from their 60 s counterparts they re well on their way to upping the ante putting aside for the moment many of the lies and misrepresentations regarding health care reform we ve seen in the last couple of months from a public option not leading to single payer or that you ll get to keep your current insurance if you want to to the president s fact bending health care speech to congress we can focus on and find parallels to president johnson s cost concealing medicare push with what president obama has done with the costs of the proposals we ve seen so far the original bill making waves in congress had a congressional budget office price tag of over 1 trillion having learned the lessons of medicare democrats couldn t allow that number to be taken seriously so they went about trying to discredit the cbo s numbers speaker nancy pelosi it s always been a source yes i will say frustration for many of us in congress that the cbo will always give you the worst case scenario senator tom harkin the way cbo scores some things sometimes doesn t make a whole lot of sense i mean real life sense senator chris dodd one of the things that s disappointing about cbo and frustrating is all the work done on prevention that the cbo doesn t factor in the president also voiced his concern over cbo numbers saying the cbo doesn t give him credit for all the savings included in the bill which would offset many of the costs what he neglects to mention is that the cbo did in fact account for those measures and found they wouldn t save money at all in fact they likely will add to the costs but no matter these statements from democratic stalwarts aren t meant to be used in factual debates rather their purpose is to cast enough doubt on the cbo numbers so that they can more readily ignore the independent group s cost projections cost projections which could very well be on the low end by law cbo projections only go out ten years so other groups have projected beyond that horizon and found significantly higher costs which is not surprising considering recent studies showing government consistently underestimates the true costs of programs so consistently in fact that it s apparent this underestimation is not done by accident no it would seem politicians have all learned president johnson s lesson very well posted by cameron at tuesday september 29 2009 12 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels democratic party health care monday august 24 2009 nephi s psalm scripture study yesterday got me thinking so i put some thoughts to paper here s what came out one of the most important yet often forgotten doctrines of the gospel is found in 2 nephi 4 15 35 these verses are sometimes called nephi s psalm nephi s father lehi has just passed away and nephi is alone as the family s prophetic leader perhaps weighed down by this responsibility coupled with the passing of his father nephi writes of his sadness at not living up to the blessings he has received he recounts how he and his family have been led through the wilderness to a promised land choice above all other lands he has seen angels been carried away to the tops of mountains and had many marvelous visions yet he still falls prey to temptation indeed in verse 27 he writes and why should i yield to sin because of my flesh yea why should i give way to temptations that the evil one have place in my heart to destroy my peace and afflict my soul there are a couple of important lessons to be gleaned from the verses to this point first it can be somewhat heartening to know that a person as righteous and close to god as nephi is can still feel inadequate at times there is a measure of comfort to be taken from the knowledge that even a prophet can feel overwhelmed by their weaknesses additionally these verses teach us that the closer we get to righteousness the more our own failings however small they may be become apparent to us the seminal lesson to be learned though is how nephi deals with these feelings of failure he writes and when i desire to rejoice my heart groaneth because of my sins nevertheless i know in whom i have trusted my god hath been my support yea i know that god will give liberally to him that asketh yea my god will give me if i ask not amiss therefore i will lift up my voice unto thee yea i will cry unto thee my god the rock of my righteousness behold my voice shall forever ascend up unto thee my rock and mine everlasting god all of us every one can relate to nephi s feelings of depression and failure we strive to do what s right we raise families attend church meetings fulfill our callings and reach out to those around us it can seem overwhelming at times often we fail to do what we know we ought but do not let that recognition of our own weakness allow us to be led by satan down a path of depression and discouragement those moments of failure are some of the most important moments of our lives they offer us the opportunity to look heavenward to know in whom we have trusted and tie us ever closer to our father in heaven too often we like nephi have the light of truth shine on our small imperfections and we feel like we ll never make it that we ll never be good enough but that is not the message of the gospel the good news is that through the atonement we can triumph over our sins this is a marvelous promise in the words of ammon there never were men that had so great reason to rejoice as we and why should we rejoice the savior taught us why when he appeared to joseph smith in the kirtland temple and said behold your sins are forgiven you you are clean before me therefore lift up your heads and rejoice may our voices like nephi s forever ascend up to him for if they do we will never despair posted by cameron at monday august 24 2009 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels book of mormon religion friday august 21 2009 how you can make millions of dollars and go bankrupt one of the principles of accounting is to match revenue and expenses to the period they are incurred that becomes problematic when you are working on a long term project like building a house you might start the house in august but not finish and sell it until february under normal circumstances you would show your profit in february however you ve been working on it and incurring costs on it for the seven months previous shouldn t your income statement take that into account the percentage of completion accounting method allows you to do so when you start building that house in august you also start recognizing some of the profit assuming you build at a steady pace you would finish 12 5 of the house per month accordingly you would recognize 12 5 of the projected cost and revenue each month but here s the problem this only works if you are certain to sell the building when it s done ie you have a contract in place commercial construction works this way but the housing market only partially so when you contract with a builder to start a home you generally have to put in some earnest money this assures the builder you won t walk away in the middle of construction and leave them with an unsold property however and this happened a lot during the recently ended housing boom the earnest amount can be quite low so low that it isn t much of a barrier to backing out of the contract if the builder was using the percentage of completion method in this case then not only have they lost the sale but they ve already recognized a portion of the expected profit from that house couple that with the rapid decline in housing prices we ve just experienced and you can see how a builder can see profits on one income statement and nothing but red ink on the next this is a lesson on reading financial statements i have talked to troubled business owners who say they were profitable and don t fully understand what happened they didn t understand what accounting system they were using and so didn t understand the risks involved posted by cameron at friday august 21 2009 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday august 20 2009 cheneyed by a guy named barack obama those crazy right wing extremists are at it again calling president obama a fascist from the huffington post a memo obtained by the huffington post confirms that the white house and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of wide ranging deal that both parties have been denying over the past week the memo which according to a knowledgeable health care lobbyist was prepared by a person directly involved in the negotiations lists exactly what the white house gave up and what it got in return critics on capitol hill and online responded with outrage at the reports that obama had gone behind their backs and sold the reform movement short furthermore the deal seemed to be a betrayal of several promises made by then sen obama during the presidential campaign among them that he would use the power of government to drive down the costs of drugs to medicare and that negotiations would be conducted in the open posted by cameron at thursday august 20 2009 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels barack obama health care wednesday august 19 2009 a picnic that changed the course of history from the ap twenty years ago wednesday members of hungary s budding opposition organized a picnic at the border with austria to press for greater political freedom and promote friendship with their western neighbors once the initial group got through hundreds more east germans joined them still vivid in bella s mind was the reactions of the germans including many young people and families with small children once they were on the other side they embraced they kissed they cried and laughed in their joy some sat down right across the border others had to be stopped by the austrian guards because they kept running and didn t believe they were in austria bella said it was in incredible experience for them hungary it turns out has an interesting history posted by cameron at wednesday august 19 2009 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday august 13 2009 i love that regular people are getting involved oh and larry o donnell is still a shmuck this video annoys me for a couple of reasons first for larry o donnell to cluck 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