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Turn Your Camera On Yourself!!

Revisado: 01-21-22

Margaret Heffernan is a very insightful woman with a great deal of real experience to back the observations in her book, Willful Blindness, that should be an essential read for everyone in Government, Business and even as just plain citizens. She helps us to see that nothing in our economic history, so far,should have been a surprise, the coming colder climate should come as no surprise and neither should the ramifications of encouragement of illegal entry by the current national government...whoever they are..and opposition to legal visas,ETC..
This book was written in 2011. I would love to hear her observations on the handling of the"pandemic".
She apparently has a lot of TED talks which i will look at, later.
One of the greatest examples she gave of WB was that of BP corporation headquartered in posh London and hardly aware of people dying in the Texas City refinery and offshore platforms. She makes it clear that the managerial flow chart was so complex and unreasonable that there was certainly no way to blame anyone for anything that resulted from negligence or especially the overworked and blurry eyed staff. More diversification will save the company?? She didn't mention Sears, a corporation too big to fail with all of its subsidiaries. It is true that the demise is almost final and, like a once beautiful mansion in total disrepair, other iconic brick and mortars and even some of the Amazon-like creations...will fail. How we survive the coming economic crisis will depend on our own ingenuity, the help of God and what we deem important.
Perhaps, Margeret has presented a clear case for turning the camera on ourselves. We stood,inert and helpless, while the "Government Knows Best" mantra was blasted! It is finally being questioned. We can emerge from a longterm stupor caused by dependence on misinformation/disinformation!

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Dopers and Dealers

Revisado: 11-03-20

I am moving to Southwest Virginia because it is the only place I can afford. So...this book was particularly relevant.
I am moving from Philadelphia. Some of my local friends don't understand poverty of my sort and suggest that I could save a lot of money by moving to Kensington.

I disagree with some of her conclusions. I disagree with attempting to save drug addicted people. I have witnessed people nodding off and the insanely see sawing back and forth after injecting elephant tranquilizer. It might be kinder to let them face the firing squad(and cheaper). We can not afford to coddle these people through countless "rehabs", Hep C, ED visits for abscesses, etc. Yet, our "sanctuary cities" approve the right to use any substance and live on the streets(or train stations

I have to add that my own son could be dead. I will never forget Ketamine injectable, in his drawer,. I was a pharmacist so it was shocking...I knew he didn't get it from me. I should have called police. I never found out where he got it. He continued living outside of my house after a military school stint, and I admit I left him in the Lord's hands. He was caught at a pharmacy trying to pass a forged Rx for Tylenol #3(which I always thought should be legal in limited doses). I left him in jail for a couple of days. He came out a shaken person. I didn't interfere and he had to go to some kind of drug court mandated outpatient program. He went back to school without my help or knowledge, became a nurse and an alcoholic for quite a few years.

If I believe him, now, he is off alcohol, off cigarettes and everything else, I hope. He never told me the story. It wasn't that I didn't warn him through his entire life!!

Yes...he was raised in a single parent home. His father died at 6 months old...alcohol and maybe something else I wasn't aware of??? The Er where we both worked...covered for him although his car was strewn with beer cans.

The insurance agent called the next day to ask when he could deliver the life insurance policy....he couldn't, of course....John was already dead. Obviously...he had tried to quit...but in the dark ages of 1978, I had no idea how to help him.

Sink or swim....your choice.

The hypocrisy is that we kill babies every day who are never given even that small choice.

The only people I do know, that have quit using all forms of harmful substances, have had to walk away with the help of God or because they "faced a firing squad of sorts".

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Thankfully Short

Revisado: 09-28-20

Thankfully this is a short listen, and you won't miss a thing at double speed.

Apparently, he didn't have an editor. Conversely, it is honest and forthright and gives a good idea what life is like in Washington, as a freshman, in the house(unless you are AOC). The intricacies of the swamp need to be addressed. unfortunately, President Trump was almost bound and gagged during his first term, in unbelievable ways.

I really think that there was a little too much information on his dating life(or lack of it).
.I do appreciate that good women are hard to find!! I was a little surprised that he got his JD from William and Mary. His vocabulary seems to be more like that. of a ditch digger. Yes, I am old-fashioned!

I do appreciate that he seems to really be interested in representing his constituency and admire his support of the president!!

This is an informative book if you have nothing else to read!

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Almost....not quite

Revisado: 01-30-20

The message is defective. You can not change yourself. He mentions God(as you understand Him), but I don't sense that he really knows the God, who created him. I pray that he will!!

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One Was Enough!!

Revisado: 09-30-19

I fell in love with Bob, the Street Cat, who gave James, the busker, a new outlook on life, in the first book:A Street Cat Named Bob(James Bowen): And How He Saved My Life. I know people who have taken cats out on leads, but I loved the idea of James walking down the street with a cat on his shoulder. The idea of a cat staying on anyone's shoulder, while the person is walking boggles my mind. I think one book was enough and was disappointed in the second book. It had a couple of good chapters, but I was hoping, by now, that someone would be helping him to get a job.

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Reading Between the Lines

Revisado: 04-27-19

It is hard to say anything about this book, a raw and excruciating look into the life of an extremely privileged cancer patient. I can picture Kate, for whom I do have a lot of empathy, going off the rails if she reads that sentence. Although she might deny it, her soliloquy of pain is eloquent, but what she says is true: she is not an ordinary, generic person. She is Kate Bowler, fading meteor.
I have not and will not read her extremely well researched book on the "Word of Faith" or "Prosperity Gospel" movement. This false gospel, which would normally take 5 minutes to dismiss, has consumed her life and may have contributed to her demise...too soon.
I read this book because it has contributed to the expansion of my area of research which revolves around the many women who are driven to "success" and leave the world too soon. Brain tumors, breast cancer, and any number of terminal maladies cut their lives short. Physicians, researchers, attorneys, financial wizards, software engineers, and single mothers all try to juggle too many balls. In some cases, they lose their families from neglect, as well..
She describes her arms and hands failing to work, before her dissertation was complete.. I identify with that for sure. She saw 32 doctors before a physical therapist helped her to relieve the nerve impingements that caused the dysfunction. I identify with being told that not being able to function was a "psychosomatic disorder". I was thrown into the loony bin, too, when I could not move and had to stop work, as a pharmacist. Kate bravely dictated her dissertation(and later book) to her dutiful parents because the voice controlled software kept tripping over the words.
What is most mysterious, to me, is that, perhaps she calls herself a Christian, but I could find very little evidence of much dependence on God or the feeding of her soul. The Ultimate Source of strength, in these kind of trials, is minimized. She focuses on a clinician's pass to live two more months after each scan shows shrinking or stable tumor size. Her life revolves around Wednesdays.The chemo is debilitating and one famous drug had to be discontinued because her hands and feet became numb. She debates about discontinuing the other to become solely dependent on the immunotherapy. How these variations are allowed in a clinical trial disturbs my scientific soul. She believes that she is extending her life by enduring a grueling 20 hour day of a roundtrip flight to Atlanta and back, admin of chemo and $16,000 worth of immunotherapy(available in a trial) and hours of waiting and subjection to the trials being undergone by others. I couldn't tell if her faith was, solely, in this unknown therapy.
She seems uncertain of Heaven and eternal life.
Perhaps, all of that research, on a false gospel, has blinded her vision.
All of us are terminal! I would gladly take her place. My ultimate home is not here. I am thankful that I will spend my life in the presence of God, my Maker.

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This Is A Book Everyone in America Should Read

Revisado: 04-04-19

I have never been an alcoholic, but I could have been! As a 70 year old woman, I look back at the fallacies on which I based my life, in the false era of "women could do everything". We can't. In my case, I was a widow by the time I was 29 . I had given birth to a son that year. It was overwhelming....but I kept going. I almost lost my son, in the haze. He ran away from home when he was 17. I had been an "unpresent" parent when he needed the most guidance. I am thankful to say that he is more successful than I was and has stayed away from some of the pitfalls I created for myself.

This autobiography, of a very successful woman, is a revelatory tale to which the public, government and health officials should applaud. CDC quote, "Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths and 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States from 2006 – 2010, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 30 years". Ann brings out the point that alcohol advertising is targeting young women...very young women unable to make very wise decisions. Sometimes their lives spin out of control quickly, sometimes there are periods of controlled consumption an sometimes the control is completely lost; blackouts and a death spiral ensue.

The ramifications are huge when you realize that women sometimes raise their children officially drunk.

The propensity for alcohol(and other drug abuse combined with ethanol) may be genetic, but I disagree that alcoholism is a disease(The Biology of Desire by Marc Lewis). Sometimes it skips a generation or so.

Mankind, without the help of the true and living God of the Bible, seeks all kinds of ways to try to achieve artificial standards or to be a person they are not!!

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Clever Title and a Few Good Lines

Revisado: 03-13-19

Perhaps, this is a book that is not suitable for audio translation. I suppose the worst part was that the author read the book himself. It will put you to sleep because it seems like he is speaking a foreign language. There are a few wonderful descriptions of wildlife and scenery. Maybe he had no editor.The first 6 hours or so are too explanatory of his battle between relationships with women who turn out to be jealous of his greatest, all consuming love. He tried. The great bear story, about 7 hours into the audio, is one story not to be missed. The last couple of hours lapse into a mixed jumble of climbs interspersed with his Mom's death and moving the houseboat, where his father lives, to a new slip after being evicted from the old mooring. The description of his father ; a tea imbiber (replacing booze), a smoker of cigarettes and inveterate TV watcher....helps to explain Nick's need to be the opposite.

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Why a third edition??

Revisado: 08-27-18

I realize that I had read the first book in paper form. I actually bought this edition to allow some other people to hear it for discussion.

Zondervan is a master of sales craft. If you read the first book, there is no reason to get this 3rd edition. It seems exploitative that they had to resort to taking advantage because Nabeel is with the Lord,now. It may reach some people who hadn't read it, before.

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Daniel Springs to Life(but the reader...awful)

Revisado: 08-11-18

Daniel is a well known book in the Bible written at the time where many royal princes were moved from Jerusalem to Babylon.
In our day, this would be like moving from Utica, New York to New York City. John Lennox, as usual defines the issues of the day and emphasizes the protection, believers, in the Living God, can count on still. His protection(the virtual shutting of the mouths of hungry lions) is a well known story. The "punishment" for continuation of Daniel's habit of praying to his Lord 3 times a day was well known, but the craftiness of his enemies backfired. King ‎Nebuchadnezzar was impressed by Daniel's preservation, in such an environment, and bowed to Daniel's Lord(at least temporarily). He threw the bad guys into the Lion's den, and their stomachs were filled with these tasty morsels.
Even people, who are not convinced that Jehovah reigns over the earth, should read this book. A lot of truth and great history is contained in these audio bytes!

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