Marcus Arelius' Seventeen Injunctions of Life

Before taking an action, always put yourself in your neighbor’s shoes for he is a creation of God too, unless you know that the other person is a sociopath. Then don’t weary yourself in an attempt to regard his feelings, for to empathize with a sociopath in such a case is to begin to become like him.

Always ask yourself when taking an action you believe to be prudent, “What would the world be like if everybody else did what I am doing now?”

You will always prevail against your opponent in the long, and sometimes short run in a conflict if God has given you more time than God has given your opponent.

Revenge should be ended when it stops being punitive and becomes obsessive.

Consistency will cause your enemy never to doubt you.

The same repeated effort tword a goal should end the minute you know you’ve learned everything possible from the last attempt. Impornatunity leads to obsession.

Never operate outside your experience and “comfort zone” when combating your opponent, but you should always seek to make your enemy oppperate outside his experience and comfort zone.

Cowards die many deaths before their time; the valiant tastes of death but once. Valor is redeeming. Therefore the truly evil cannot partake of it.

Victory has a hundred fathers. Defeat is an orphan.

Never let your enemy see you express self doubt. Your own thoughts are for you alone and never for your enemy to know.

Take your neighbor at his word, even if he is a conservative or a Christian, but verify it in a way he knows nothing of. If your enemy’s words proves to be false, nothing he says need ever trouble you again.

Make your enemy live by his own words. Point out for all to see your enemy’s flaws of character. Make his own foolishness come back upon him.

Pleasure is its own reward. Rewards bring self confidence, and self confidence brings about the ability to expand one's horizons. Desire is the one sure sign you're really alive.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Always have at least one Ace in the hole, and preferably several.

Crisis means "opportunity" in Chinese, but whether it's an opportunity for you or your opponent all depends on the way God has written the script in advance.

Everyone has his price, and that includes God, or so called.

OK this is radio free Muskogee, on the air. Earlier today I had on channel 40 and they were bemoaning the fact that the Wall Street reform bill was passed and how it’s going to strangle the economy with new regulation and it’s going to make it harder for consumers and business to get credit. I had Rush Limbaugh on for an hour this morning because I got tired of hearing about Shirley Sherad (?), the former Black secretary of Agriculture. I know just from the blurbs of Rush they play on progressive stations that Rush has really slidden off the track, but listening to a whole hour of him is really trippy, let me tell you. He said that that Black secretary of agriculture was still a racist and if you heard the whole forty minute speech you’d realize this. She had no “conversion moment”. Rush took a call the last five minutes of the hour or so and it was from some woman who wanted to expand her business because “she was digging out from the ravages of 9 – 11. But she couldn’t get anybody to front her a loan and she blamed Obama for it, and Rush agreed with her. There was another speaker saying that the people of the gulf don’t want government checks; they want jobs. Rush explained that the biggest problem with the Gulf spill was the 33 operating wells that were shut down temporarily. Apparently the devastation of the fishing profession was and is of no concern to Rush. Rush referred to General Motors as “government motors” Rush Limbaugh calls the “NAALCP” racist, and yet I remember a remark he made about Collin Powell where he said the problem with is that he’s Black. “It’s all about race!” You hear Rush froth and sputter aimlessly for the whole hour venturing into more and more areas. Rush was mad at veterans for asking the government for back benefits. He called unemployment insurance that you pay for out of your payroll check as “welfare”. He again said that President Obama “Is always the least qualified man in any room that he occupies”. Rush said that the Gulf oil spill wasn’t any problem and that “all of these clean-up boats go out there and can’t find the oil”. I’d like to drown Rush in it. Rush said that the oil spill was something “the earth” could take care of on its own, and further said that the magnitude of the spill was like spilling a 24 oz can of beer in the Dallas football dome stadium. There were times Rush became so hyper I thought he was going to have a coronary right there on the air. It just might happen one of these days. They should put all of Rush’s quotes in a book and title the book “Rush – the Most Depraved Man on Earth”. I don’t think I need to hear any more. He is clearly “Out to Lunch”. You’ll get more lucid conversation from the inmates in “Ward Twelve” of “The Snake Pit”. There are some conservatives you might be able to sit down with and tell them to make an itemized list of all their specific complaints about the government’s action, and what they believe should be done. I know it’s a free country but the thought of anybody listening to him and actually believing him would give anybody pause.

Under nerd science we have two stories. First of all there is some alliel on the dopamine gene where if you have seven of these genes, then you lose self control and have to conform to any group you’re in, be it heavy drinking or whatever else they are involved in. I’m wondering whether evangelical Christians have this excess in genes. Maybe this is what causes their minds to shut off. They just go on feelings.

They have now perfected a new solar photoelectric cell that is a hundred times smaller and more efficient than the old cells. They are the size of “lint” and you can wear a swath of it on your clothes and it’ll be enough to power your I Pad. I would like to see our energy needs become a thing of the past. T Boone Pickens’ ideas are a good start with wind power and natural gas. But after that we need to go to the next step.

President Obama won’t be signing the new unemployment extension bill for several days due to legal technicalities. New unemployment claims are up this past week. Thom Hartman says “when employment goes down, corporate profits go up”.

The beauro of land management is undertaking a program to massively slaughter wild mustangs in Wyoming. This is because British Petroleum wants to build a pipeline from Wyoming to Oregon and the mustangs are in the way. Apparently the beauro of land management has been "taken over". (by whom?) I thought "The Misfits" movie was the last word on the senseless slaughter of horses, but 49 years later, here we are. At least we were spared Andy Williams singing “Born Free” with guns and bombs going off.

One thing the President needs to do next is to get an immigration reform bill passed by Congress. Too many illegals are living in a state of limbo. They want to "do right by their karma" or whatever they have to do to become American citizens. This hostility the right bears tword them has become obsessive. America has always assimilated minorities to that they too may taste the blessings of liberty. It is written, "to whom much is given, much is required". Slamming the doors of opportunity on others will adversely affect the karma of those who do so.