Saturday, January 3, 2009

Valuable book - Assimilative Memory - Loisette

Assimilative Memory, Loisette   Funk and Wagnalls    1896 (c)Prof. A. Loisette circa 1896

My most valuable book.
Assimilative Memory, Loisette   1896 (c)

In the winter of 1959-1960, my dad bought the office contents of a retiring medical doctor, Dr. Loeffler.  This book was among Dr. Loeffler's collection.

In an effort to preserve the fragile book, I wrapped it in an Arrow shirt plastic bag.

Now, more than 40 years later, I have a flatbed scanner and fully intended to generate an electronic copy to preserve the book for posterity.

Google Books has upstaged me. You can read the entire book online.
http://books.google.com/books?id=39lKAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=assimilative+memory#PPA2,M1

I recommend everyone read a few chapters.

From personal experience,
    1) a memory system is useful everyday, in many ways, thoughout your lifetime,
    2) acquiring the memory system at age 12 or 13 may be the optimum time in your personal development,
    3) Loisette's system is excellent and timeless.

- Carl Dick

Sunday, November 30, 2008

HEINLEIN quote - WIDWIDRICSAS

When In Danger, When In Doubt, Run In Circles, Scream And Shout
WIDWIDRICSAS
ABC TV - George Stephanopoulos  -   Nov30 2008

Quoted by Torie Clarke.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=when+in+doubt+scream+and+shout&aq=f&oq=

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Obama On Tape - "I Will BANKRUPT COAL!"

 
Re: Obama On Tape-"I Will BANKRUPT COAL! "

Colin Powell and Warren Buffett have different motives.

Powell wanted to align himself with his ethnic group and thought Bush ignored Powell's excellent foreign policy and military advice.

Buffett switched parties decades ago because Republicans were slow to oppose segregation.

Unfortunately, Obama has a Marxist world view. The new class warfare is between the middle class and the super rich -- anyone who makes over $250,000 a year.

Marxism in all its permutations always fails.

Basically, it has two problems. 1) Marxism doesn't work in theory. 2) Marxism doesn't work in practice.

- CarlD

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http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_A/threadview?m=tm&bn=1105&tid=9628&mid=9679&tof=2&rt=1&frt=1&off=1
 
 

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Political Skeletons

Political Skeletons Coming Home to Roost
Who says I don't know how to mix a metaphor?

Many liberals were stampeded or bamboozled into supporting the Iraq War, against their better judgments, for fear of being branded as soft on terrorism.

Many conservatives supported the Stimulus Package and the Bailout to avoid the specter of Herbert Hoover, whose laissez-faire policies were blamed for the Depression.

- CarlD