Joyanna Adams

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What Do These People Have In Common?

Making the List of Acceptable Risks: What do these People Have in Common?
 
 
Nobody Remembers one of the reasons for Charles Lindbergh’s great success, was that he was, according to his youngest child, Reeve Lindbergh, “an inveterate list maker. We used to make fun of him.” He would follow his kids around with lists for them to do.
 
To Charles, they were a point of self-preservation, and he insisted that lists were part of the important mental task of being prepared for calculated, acceptable risk.
 
Gee…I guess Bernanke didn’t keep lists, nothing about TARP was acceptable or calculated. (Or was it?)
 
Lindbergh used to make great lists before a flight, and even the fishing hooks (in case of a crash over the Arctic) were counted and weighed several times. Every ounce over meant less fuel.
 
Another famous list maker, according to those who know her, is Madonna. It seems she gets in her limo and marks off all she has to do that day. People who have worked for her say she is almost obsessed with list making. Nobody wonders if she gives HER kids lists of things to do?
 
Once, Gene Simmons went practically crazy when he lost his little black appointment book on his show.
 
Seventy percent of the people in the world, it is said, make lists. Some of them even use sticky notes on their computer. I make lists, but then, I almost never finish my daily tasks. Out of a list of fifteen, if I am lucky, I might make it to four. Show me a man or women who finishes their list every single day, and I’ll bet you they are 1. famous and 2. probably rich. That kind of drive takes superhuman effort. Not to mention—no kids, no pets, no demanding spouse, no house, no dishes, no laundry, no email, no Supernatural reruns, and no earthquakes, tornadoes, or hurricanes. It also helps if you don’t have to cook.
 
The only good piece of advice that I ever got from Bill Clinton, came from his book called, “My Life,” which, I must say, is one of the most boring books you can ever pick up…but it did have one redeeming factor which was…Bill told us all to make lists each and every day, and do the most important thing first, then go down the list and finish things off in the matter of their importance.
 
No doubt it’s one of the reasons why some little fat boy from Arkansas grew up to be one of the most powerful men in the world: He made lists. And don’t you wonder what happened to those “lists?” I bet if we could find some of Bill Clinton old lists, we would not only find thousands of telephone numbers, (and bank accounts) but lists of White House enemies, and who he had audited. Because Bill took a calculated risk even making them, you can bet they have all been shredded.
 
You would think by the horrible failure of the current administration, that nobody is keeping any lists at the White House…but that’s not quite true. Obama has a Blackberry. So, in the fine Nixononian tradition of keeping lists…I can only speculate what a daily list on Obama’s Blackberry might look like…

 

‘President’ Obama’s List of THINGS TO DO TODAY
 
Things with calculated acceptable risk:
 
1. Make sure they put your Presidential Obama logo on the cardboard Easter eggs for the Easter Egg Hunt. Make sure the Easter Party inside has the real chocolate ordered from France.
 
 2. Call Louis Farrakhan. Explain that this war will get you reelected, and remind him that that’s important for the Muslim Nation. Mention that Kaddafi is okay.
 
3. Send Michelle to the Bahamas for another vacation.
 
4. Golf: tee time 10.am tomorrow, and Sunday. Bring the clubs Tiger gave you. Send Air Force One to pick up Jeffery.
 
5. Photo-op with NBA players at 1pm. Let them all stay overnight for a big party.
 
6. Lunch with Beyonce. (Keep the NBA players away for at least an hour)
 
7. Meet with Jeb Bush to go over immigration reform at 3pm.
 
8. Invite Donald Trump to White House, but then cancel.
 
9. Fly to Chicago to meet Rahm for dinner. Make sure Daley knows he can fly on Air Force One. Go over strategy for re-election.
 
10. Get invites out to all the highest campaign contributors to get a ride on Air Force One to Dublin. COST: $700,000 a seat. Make sure Stevie gets to come.
 
11. Invade Libya, but make sure it doesn’t get out.
 
12. Call George Soros before you retire, you know how he hates it when you don’t.
 
So,..as you can see that there are LISTS…and there are lists. They are not all the same. which means, after reading Obama’s list mine is starting to make me look a lot more like Lindbergh. I’m going to start weighing my essays from now on, because, I’m sure even Charles would agree….I am taking a calculated but acceptable risk just writing this.

April 1, 2011 Posted by | Just life, Obama, politics | | 4 Comments

Blowing Gumballs with George and Laura

Nobody’s Fool: I don’t know about you, but the LAST thing I want to hear from an X-American President and his wife is how they are going to spend all their remaining years devoted to bringing education, and jobs to Afghanistan women. What about AMERICAN woman?
What a bunch of holy gumballs!
 
That’s right. I said gumballs. I spent a few hours today blowing gumballs off my driveway. I hate gumballs. I know that mother nature gave the sweet gum tree a special gift in this world.. ” God said, “Be fruitful and multiply!” and it does…all over my driveway and backyard. My sweet gum tree is right over my driveway, and so far this year, I have manually swept my entire driveway at least four times trying to rid it of gumballs. My neighbor (whom I’m always trying to impress) did not believe me when I told her, that already this year, I have cleared the driveway of gumballs many times, so THIS time, I got out my loudest blower. I wanted to make SURE she heard it.
 
I cannot for the life of me, figure out any good purpose for a gumball, besides to drive me crazy, and tonight that’s just what George W. Bush and his wife Laura did in their interviews with Greta on Fox.
 
First, let me say this: This nobody does not think these two are together anymore. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Like Bill and Hillary, they make appearances together, but then if you follow them daily, they are almost never together…not even in interviews. George had his interview first. (see here) He said he (meaning we) was going to stay in Afghanistan and save the Afghan women. George Bush is now the new Gloria Steinem…the great feminist himself. Free them from their bondage. It’s a noble cause, and his buddy Karzai is helping him set up programs in his multimillion- dollar global Bush ‘think tank’ enterprise in Texas.
 
It was heartwarming.
 
Then Laura came on and told us that economically women HAVE to work over there, otherwise the country cannot become a democracy. They both mentioned Iraq, BUT– they are out to save Afghanistan.
Where’s my blower?
 
Now, we have Barak Obama, George W. Bush, and Laura Bush, concerned about making democracy in Afghanistan. How George and his wife are going to change thousands of years of fanatical religion is beyond comprehensions. Sure, we’d all love to see it happen, but is that really what our X-President should be doing while we are drowning in debt?
 
All I can say is, our former President and first lady were blowing holy gumballs of Afganistan concern out of their mouths every other second. It almost makes me feel like making a mock gumball head of thorns to send to them.
 
I’m sorry. It’s just…all so political, isn’t it?
 
We are learning…when a President pontificates the most NOBLE of reasons for justifiing fiddling in other nations, there is almost always another reason, which is the real one, which they can’t tell you, so it just makes them look good to make up some humanitarian agenda.
 
Obama is trying to take credit for sending democracy through Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt. George Bush is trying to tell us that he will be responsible for saving the country of Afghanistan, almost as if he didn’t want to be left out of history…or upstaged.
 

This nobody says:…Before you go blowing holy gumballs of benevolence, telling us democracy is going to shine in Afghanistan, you guys,…How about saving America first?

 
Remember…America? Or….have you forgotten her?  As I remember…she served you well.

April 1, 2011 Posted by | Islam, Middle East, Presidents | | 2 Comments