People have asked for an explanation of Marketing.
Perhaps the following analogies will help clear it up:
You see a handsome guy at a party. You go up to him and say,
“I’m fantastic in bed.” — That’s Direct Marketing.
You’re at a party with a bunch of friends and see a handsome guy. One of your friends goes up to him and pointing at you says,
“She’s fantastic in bed.” –That’s Advertising.
You see a handsome guy at a party. You go up to him and get his
telephone number. The next day you call and say,
“Hi, I’m fantastic in bed.” — That’s Telemarketing.
You’re at a party and see a handsome guy. You get up and straighten your dress. You walk up to him and pour him a drink. You say, “May I,” and reach up to straighten his tie brushing your breast lightly against his arm, and then say, “By the way, I’m fantastic in bed.” — That’s Public Relations.
You’re at a party and see a handsome guy. He walks up to you and says,
“I hear you’re fantastic in bed.” — That’s Brand Recognition.
You’re at a party and see a handsome guy. You talk him into going home
with your friend. — That’s a Sales Rep.
Your friend can’t satisfy him so he calls you. — That’s Tech Support.
You’re on your way to a party when you realize that there could be handsome men in all these houses you’re passing. So you climb onto the roof of one situated toward the center and shout at the top of your lungs, “I’m fantastic in bed!” — That’s Spam
Corporate, Sex
Justice Moore has already begun his inquisition. This past February, he drafted an opinion in a child-custody case blasting gay and lesbian parents who just want to be with their children. In the decision, which quotes the Bible several times, Moore asserted that homosexuality is “detestable and an abominable sin.” Even more alarmingly, he wrote that the state must use “the power of the sword” — including the power of “execution” — to stop gays and lesbians from influencing our youth.
From the Taliban, we might expect words like these. From a public official who wields power in the name of all the people — whether they be believers or nonbelievers, straight or gay — they are shocking.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil,” wrote Edmund Burke, the British statesman who pleaded the cause of the American colonists in Parliament, “is for good men to do nothing.” The next time an elected official seeks political power by wrapping himself in religion or demonizing unpopular groups, I hope men and women of good conscience will rise up in indignation.
–by Morris Dees, “Win over demagoguery saddens,” http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryOpinionedvoice1119web.htm”
Philosophy/Religion, Politics, Quote
Nine year old Johnny, was asked by his mother what he had learned in Sunday school.
“Well, Mom, our teacher told us how God sent Moses behind enemy lines on a rescue mission to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. When he got to the Red Sea, he had his engineers build a pontoon bridge and all the people walked across safely. Then he used his walkie-talkie to radio headquarters for reinforcements. They sent bombers to blow up the bridge and all the Israelites were saved.”
“Now, Johnny, is that really what your teacher taught you?” his mother asked.
“Well, no, Mom. But if I told it the way the teacher did, you’d never believe it!”
Religion
A British doctor says “Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man put it in another and have him looking for work in six weeks.”
A German doctor says, “That’s nothing, we can take a lung out of one person put it in another and have him looking for work in four weeks.”
A Russian doctor says, “In my country medicine is so advanced we can take half a heart out of one person put it in another and have them both looking for work in two weeks.”
The American doctor, not to be outdone, says, “You guys are way behind, we just took a man with no brain out of Texas, put him in the White House, and now half the country is looking for work.
Government
The young specialist in English Lit, …lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern “knowledge” is that it is wrong.
… My answer to him was, “… when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.”
–Isaac Asimov
Philosophy/Religion, Quote
An elderly Italian man lay dying in his bed. While suffering the agonies of
impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favorite amoretto
cookies wafting up the stairs. He gathered his remaining strength, and
lifted himself from the bed. Leaning against the wall, he slowly made his
way out of the bedroom, and with even greater effort, gripping the railing
with both hands, he crawled downstairs. With labored breath, he leaned
against the doorframe, gazing into the kitchen. Were it not for death’s
agony, he would have thought himself already in heaven, for there, spread
out upon waxed paper on the kitchen table were literally hundreds of his
favorite cookies.
Was it heaven? Or was it one final act of heroic love from his devoted wife
of sixty years, seeing to it that he left this world a happy man? Mustering
one great final effort, he threw himself towards the table, landing on his
knees in a rumpled posture. His parched lips parted, the wondrous taste of
the cookie was already in his mouth, seemingly bringing him back to life.
The aged and withered hand trembled on its way to a cookie at the edge of
the table, when it was suddenly smacked with a spatula by his wife……
“Back off!” she said, “They’re for the funeral.”
Relationship
Patient: “Huh? What? Where am I?”
Nurse: “You’re in a hospital. You have just come out of a coma.”
Patient: “How long was I in a coma?”
Nurse: “Ten years”
Patient: “Wow…Who is the President?”
Nurse: “Bush”
Patient:
Patient: “How’s the economy?”
Nurse: “Lots of layoffs lately.”
Patient:
Patient: “Who is advising the President?
Nurse: “Cheney and Powell.”
Patient:
Patient: “Are we by any chance bombing Iraq?”
Nurse: “Yes, regular airstrikes.”
Patient: “How long was I…”
Nurse: “Ten years.”
Government
A sharp young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old tomes by hand. He notices, however, that they are copying copies, not the original books. So, the young monk goes to the head monk to ask him about this. He points out that if there were an error in the first copy, that error would be reproduced in every subsequent copy.
The head monk says, “We have been doing it this way for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.” So the head monk walks down into the cellar with one of the copies to proof it against the original.
Hours later, nobody has seen him. One of the monks goes downstairs to look for him. He hears sobbing coming from the back of the cellar, and discovers the old monk leaning over one of the original manuscripts, crying.
“What’s wrong?”
“The word was celebrate,” cries the old monk.
Religion
Via mapletree7
His continued support for policies that allow law enforcement agencies to label someone as a terrorist, thus circumventing due process, would certainly be unconstitutional.
Via catdaddy
Certainly. But can it be said that this springs from his religious beliefs?
Directly no, but the elimination of due process is undertaken with a clear conscience when you are sure the person is guilty. We have discussed on occasion how a true believer can believe with absolute certainty with very little evidence.
I’m not convinced that his certainty isn’t rooted in his religious belief. The sense of I get of his speeches suggests that he believes that god is guiding him and he is doing good. If he believes god is guiding him there is no reason to allow the imperfect human courts second guess god.
That string of reasoning can’t be construed to be evidence that the depriving of due process springs from his religious beliefs but it does fit in with his religious beliefs.
The real question becomes does he believe he is guided by god? We’ve certainly come across trolls on this board who certainly seemed to think that god was guiding them. Does Ashcroft strike you as more or less religious than these people? Does he seem more or less rational?
To my mind (opinion) he seems like he strips away civil rights because of that absolute sureness that the fanatical seem to have. So in an indirect but very tangible way it is possible (if not certain) that Ashcroft’s religious beliefs are depriving people of civil rights.
–Zafkiel
Philosophy/Religion, Politics
The Supreme Court has declared the BSA a private organization and I think it is time we started treating it as such. The flaw in the Supreme Court’s judgment comes from the fact that it requires acts of Congress for us to do so.
The BSA operates under the auspices of a congressional charter. It has this charter because it is supposed to represent core values of America. At some point it stopped being a representative of America and became a private religious organization which reserves the right to discriminate. That indicates to me that they need to have that congressional charter repealed. The BSA changed it’s time for them to accept the consequences of that change.
Let’s be clear, the “Leave No Child Behind Act” of 2001 does not mean schools must treat the BSA like it does any other private religious organization such as bible clubs and Satanist organizations, they must be treated as a most favored club. Something to hold up as good. As a private religious organization it isn’t clear that treating them in that way is constitutional, much less desired. Like a I said before they BSA changed now they need to accept the consequences of that change.
The BSA is granted huge subsidies in the form of free and greatly reduces charges for space and services that needs to stop. They rent an army base for their annual gathering at a rate of $1 per year. This is a subsidy that needs to stop. They receive money from United Way and other organizations that claim that they don’t give money to organizations that discriminate. In giving money to the BSA they violate their own rules. This needs to stop.
The BSA choose to cast themselves as a private religious organization so that they could expel members with different beliefs and sexual orientations. They have won the right to do this, now they must pay all their own bills and pay the same prices as any other organization.
Philosophy/Religion, Politics