Thought For The Day by John Jaeger, MBA

[ChemEngrMBA]

@CyberLiberty, @Bigun, and @MeganC and @pookie18  are my four best friends in the GOP Briefing Room, a very large room full of fine patriots.

Modified August 16, with apologies to BigUn.
Modified August 24, with apologies to the wunnerful Pook.

[MeganC]

@CyberLiberty and @MeganC are my two best friends in the GOP Briefing Room, a very large room full of fine patriots.

[Cyber Liberty]

Thank you for the kind words!  I like it here!

I'd like to take a moment to mention your book!  I've started reading it...it's not light reading, but very meaty!  The title is in your signature line and there is a Kindle version at Amazon.  @Bigun recommends it very highly and he is one of the most intelligent Briefers  know!

[Bigun]

https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/1956583518911234187

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[ChemEngrMBA]

Every day try to help or at least compliment or thank several people, not everyone, but several.
It will make you and them feel better, really.
A big man who looked much like Shaquille O'Neill worked the dairy cooler every morning at my grocery store. One morning, I patted him on the shoulder and said, "Have I ever thanked you for feeding me?"
He replied with a smile, "Several times."  I also tell the hard-working staff, "You're the last link in the food chain."

 I pass these small slips out daily.



136,800 views.  Thank you my friends.  I do it all for you.

[MeganC]

Compliments cost us nothing yet it often seems we are more generous with our money.

[ChemEngrMBA]

https://NatGeoGoofed.blogspot.com

[MeganC]

https://NatGeoGoofed.blogspot.com

Stalagmite, stalactite...

Why should a GEOLOGY magazine know the difference? 

Science is hard! 

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[ChemEngrMBA]

Founder Benjamin Franklin wrote in "Management of the Poor," "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."

[Bigun]

Founder Benjamin Franklin wrote in "Management of the Poor," "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."

 

[MeganC]

Founder Benjamin Franklin wrote in "Management of the Poor," "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."

Here's a few more thumbs up on that one!

 

[ChemEngrMBA]

“Of existing things, God is the oldest for he is ungenerated.  The world is the most beautiful, for it Is God’s creation….  Mind is the swiftest, for it runs through every thing….” – Plato  (428 – 347 B.C.)

[ChemEngrMBA]

“If there is anything in nature, which the human mind, which human intelligence, energy and power could not create, then the creator of such things must be a being superior to man.  But the heavenly bodies in their eternal orbits could not be created by man.  They must therefore be created by a being greater than man. … Only an arrogant fool would imagine that there is nothing in the whole world greater than himself.  Therefore there must be something greater than man  And that something must be God.” – Chrysippus (279- 206  B.C.) 

[ChemEngrMBA]

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” – Aristotle Onassis

[ChemEngrMBA]

https://TheMiserableEndOfDarwinism.blogspot.com

[MeganC]

"When reasonable conversation is impossible unreasonable action is inevitable"

- Asmongold

[ChemEngrMBA]

Highlights of my life:
Married my perfect dream
Travelled the world with her
Had two wonderful daughters, five fantastic grandchildren
Took in-laws to Europe and Hawaii several times
Took my beloved Mother to Europe and Hawaii several times
Took my older brothers and sister and their spouses to London and Paris
Treated five sisters-in law and my wife to Paris and Honolulu vacations
Skied Kleiner Matterhorn with wife and daughters
Chemical engineer with MBA
Built houses, apartments, and condos and earned millions
Speak French
Shore-start slalom water ski from ankle deep water
Thousands of hours scuba diving
Expert snow skier
Desert dirt bike rider, 490 YZ 100 MPH
Tennis 3.5 level, still playing 6 days a week
Hundreds of published letters in magazines and newspapers plus dozens of websites created to educate Americans

"It ain't braggin' if you really done it." - Hall of Fame Pitcher, Dizzy Dean

[ChemEngrMBA]

21 Suggestions for SUCCESS
by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 1940-2021 (Life’s Little Instruction Book)

   1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.

   2. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.

   3. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

   4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

   5. Be forgiving of yourself and others.

   6. Be generous.

   7. Have a grateful heart.

   8. Persistence, persistence, persistence.

   9. Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary.

  10. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.

  11. Commit yourself to constant improvement.

  12. Commit yourself to quality.

  13. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

  14. Be loyal.

  15. Be honest.

  16. Be a self-starter.

  17. Be decisive even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong.

  18. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.

  19. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

  20. Take good care of those you love.

  21. Don't do anything that wouldn't make your Mom proud.

[ChemEngrMBA]

“The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure (and, one might add, poor) fiction. To call it science-fiction would besmirch the name of science.” – Professor John Lennox, Oxford University (God’s Undertaker:  Has Science Buried God?)

[ChemEngrMBA]

"There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle."  -- Albert Einstein
   

Woo hoo!  Twenty-five guests on right now.  I love you guys.  Over 144,000 views.  Mom would be so proud.  Einstein nailed it.  This is a miracle.

[ChemEngrMBA]

For over thirty years, I have been notifying southern California drivers of burned out brake lights every time I drive, in order to prevent their being rear-ended.  The Department of Transportation enacted Standard 108 requiring center high stop lamps (CHSL) in every car and light truck sold in the U.S. since around 1990.  Research determined that the CHSL prevents about 5% of rear end collisions but not if it is burned our or hidden behind heavily tinted rear windows, which I see all the time. 

California legislators violated the Constitution by overruling Standard 108 with Vehicle Code 26708 which clearly states that rear windows can be tinted as dark as anyone wishes, so long as the driver has two outside rear-view mirrors!  (They don't prevent rear end collisions.  CHSLs do.)  I wrote to President Trump asking him to sign an executive order mandating compliance with federal vehicle safety law.

I have continued to supplement my website showing hundreds of photographs of cars at risk of rear end collisions due to invisible or greatly diminished visibility of CHSL.  So far the D.O.T. has done nothing, and neither has California.  But it has banned plastic straws, so......

[ChemEngrMBA]

For thirty years, I commuted to work twenty-five miles while listening to talk radio and classical music.  One morning a woman called in and said, "I'm a feminist."  I thought, Uh oh."  Then she said, "I have learned that if you treat your husband like a king, he will treat you like a queen."  Now that is a brilliant message for all of us to live by.  I always referred to my wife as "My better two thirds."  And she truly was.

[ChemEngrMBA]

"In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty‑nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American could make more money than 93 percent of the other people on the planet and still be considered poor." ‑‑ P.J. O'Rourke, in Parliament of Whores

From my website:  https://TheMiserableEndOfDarwinism.blogspot.com

[MeganC]

The most effective thing to use when you want to kill millions of Communists is...

Communism.    

[ChemEngrMBA]

Have fun with strangers.  Whenever you're out of the house, you will come across people you have never met before.  What fun it is to interact with them.  You can try to guess where they are from, as I did with a gas station attendant. "Are you from Africa?"  yes!  "East Africa?"  wide eyed "yes!"  "Ethopia?"  Bug-eyed: "100% correct!" 
We high -fived and his associate walked up.  "Do you know the capital of his country? He knows I know.  Do you?"
Associate says dejectedly, "Shit" and turns around walking away.  I say "Addis Ababa".  Clerk says, "I am from Addis Ababa!"
So began my guessing countries of origin, and often even cities. 

To Costco food server:  "Namaste".  He replies, "Namaste."  "Let me guess.  Are you from Mumbai?"  Mahesh replied, "Yes, I am from Mumbai."  Lucky guess, but even if you're wrong, it's fun.  When you are right, and I have been right a lot of times, it is overjoyful.

Other lines:  (Put your hands on two people's shoulders at the table):  "Keep it down here;  we don't want any trouble."

To a big bruiser, placing your hand on his shoulder in a friendly manner:  "If there's a rumble, I'm on your side."  Invariably I get, "You got it."  Another new friend.

[Cyber Liberty]

To a big bruiser:  "If there's a rumble, I'm on your side."  Invariably I get, "You got it."  Another new friend.

That one works!

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[ChemEngrMBA]

“When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.”-
Frank J. Tipler  - Science of the Bible, by John Phillip Jaeger, page 12

[ChemEngrMBA]

My Best Prank Ever

 
Our daughters were about 4 and 9 when I came home and told them, "I have a surprise for you.  Let's all get in the car."    My wife asked, "What is it?"  I replied, "If I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise."
I drove them five minutes to get off of the 405 Freeway near Orange County Airport, and to throw them off my prank, said:  "We're going for a plane ride. I have a friend who is a pilot."
My wife objected, "We have to be back in an hour."  Oh we will be, no problem.


Christi started to get into the back seat and I said, "I think you need to sit in the right front." She looked at me suspiciously and did as I asked.  My instructor, who had just given me my final check ride before certifying me, was in on the prank and pre-flighted our Cessna 172 then said, "I have to get something from the office. I 'll be right back."  I hopped into the pilot's seat and closed the door: "I bet I can fly this thing." 


My wife about went crazy and our daughters got upset as I yelled “Clear,” started the engine and radioed the tower.  "Cessna 8 Kilo Yankee to taxi.  Dear, I've been taking flying lessons for three months and just got my license today."  (4/27/78 with a whole 23 hours of flight time)  I took them up the coast, circled Marineland of the Pacific, and then flew back down the coast.  The girls loved it and were glued to the windows for their first flight.  "How will you get back to the airport?", she queried.  "Well, I can follow the coast south and then turn in towards the airport at Newport Beach."  Another question for me:  "Have you ever been this far from the airport before?"  Wives think of everything, don't they?  "How about Bakersfiield, 150 miles?"

I wish I had a video of the whole thing, but it was before smart phones.  Months later, I flew them to the Grand Canyon, dropped down inside its mile wide expanse, spent the night at the South Rim, and the following day, toured Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon, Utah by air before spending the next night in Las Vegas.





This is our later flight to Grand Canyon, Zion National Park and Las Vegas.

If you think your family and passengers' lives depend on you while you drive a car, multiply that by ten for being the Pilot In Command.  It is humbling and for good reason.  The takeoff and flight part is duck soup.  Everything comes down to landing, I'm telling you!

"It is fun to have fun but you have to know how." - The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss

[ChemEngrMBA]

Birthday Present for my sister-in-law



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfsJTjYN8so

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