This is a great presentation and very powerful. Also, the TED crowd gave the good General a standing ovation at the end!
The other thing that I noticed was the ideas he talked about, totally mesh well with Jundism. Learn from your people or learning organizations, and listen to your people or get feedback. Even the shared reality concept was an issue that the General discussed as a difficulty with command in the modern age. Very cool and check it out. -Matt
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McChrystal had a bunk with a blanket. He had a footlocker and a standup steel locker just barracks issue. He had a few books. That was it.
He was a RUTHLESSLY honest man and he was a Leader. He listened to his men. Dont waste his time, dont ask for favors.
A man who was humble with the power he expressed. He wasnt afraid of power, he used it and it didnt use him.
And nobody was going to piss on the United States shoes while he had command. He spoke the truth.
You cant replace men like that. You never have enough men like that.
He would have picked up a gun and gone into the line himself in an emergency. He is the real thing.
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de Medici,
Here's another post I'll allow it the moment, but you know you're being monitored, right? Watch yourself!!!
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I'm surprised the TED people would let a gentleman like McChrystal in the door. They tend towards touchy-feelie, UN-flavored hipster sensibilities as you can see from reading a few comments at the link.
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Research McChrystal's politics, and you'll see why.
I wonder how many in the DNC are ticked at Rolling Stone for denying them the chance for a future political candidate. Then again, this could be the start of a 'rehab'.
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de Medici Howdy!, You do have a following here. Good to see you are more in tune with everyone. I need to study General McChrystal more. Sounds like he has great qualities.
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Yes. he is is one of the greats. Fantastic leadership qualities. Building consensus, shared sense of purpose and reverse mentored. I have heard the name now and then but never learned of the man.I am glad he is where he has been. That is the sort of individual who could do great things in politics. Those that I have met when told that say their job is political enough. I had trouble with his voice at the start but got used to it. I don't believe his voice could handle the strain. It is refreshing to hear him speak. Everything I have believed in validated.
This was the highlight of the day for myself.
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A Brit SAS trooper was quoted as saying, you're in the crapper and a guy takes a knee next to you and it's Stan fucking McCrystal.
Now, when it comes to the demographic to be "marginalized" first, would it be lawyers, the traditional favorite, or journalists?
Hell,why not both?
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06/04/2011 20:43 Comments ||
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An odd TED talk. Normally they show the audience and show audience reaction. They light the audience when the presentation is over. This was all dark all the time. Odd.
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Mitt is disappointing. He just isnt there. Global worming?
Mr. Whipple-able kinda guy.
What else y'got?
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de Medici,
Wow! As a site moderator I almsot feel conditioned to sinktrap you on sight, but this one time you actually managed to make a civil, well-reasoned discourse and for the life of me, I can't find a worthy reason to censor your post. Well done!
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Given that I don't think Mitt believes a whole lot, I'm wondering if he believes MMGW.
I think he can't, as much as many of us would like, come out and say that it's all crap. The middle of the road independents are the key to the coming election, and Mitt can't afford to alienate them.
Mind you, if Mitt is the Pub nominee I'll vote for him.
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It is comments like this that keep Cain and Palin and the rest in the game and rising. Mitt has too much baggage and is too much of the country club Republican.
Granted, he will be 3000 times better than Obumble, but I don't think he is up to the task of really trying to turn the US around before it plunges off the cliff. He is just too wishy washy and too much of a country club boy.
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My dad taught me that it's better to sit quietly and be thought a fool than open one's mouth and confirm even the worst of thoughts. Mitt just proved he's a first-class "go along to get along" fool. We've already got one of those in the White House. With Mitt, the only thing that would change would be the "D" to "R".
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I think he can't, as much as many of us would like, come out and say that it's all crap. The middle of the road independents are the key to the coming election, and Mitt can't afford to alienate them.
"Middle of the road independents" have been a crucial factor in every step of the way in exporting our industries to the control of people like Hu and King Abduallah. They're doing as much damage as Zero, implementing the socialism but calling it "middle of the road"ism instead.
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I have had the same reaction. Mitt has lost my interest. Now I'm losing interest in Boehner. They act like they want to be on the team. Old Patriot that has always been my thought. I have most of my life been quiet and reflective. I would say I may be a fool but if I open my mouth everyone will know it. My handle now is gabby geezer. I like Palin because the left hates her so much. She loves this country and shows it.
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I'm still waiting to hear from Republicans who want to stop the looting of the public treasury and start prosecuting the malefactors of great wealth who are at the root of the current financial disaster, or as I like to call it, the biggest theft in world history. MMGW is IRRELEVANT and, like 'immigration reform' indicates an attempt by those who mouth the term to continue business as usual.
Here's a step in the right direction: Bank of America branch seized after it ignores court order. 5 months ago BA tried to foreclose on a couple who had nothing to do with any BA mortgage. The couple countersued & won their case. The judge ordered BA to pay the couples' legal fees. BA ignored the order. Some kind of court order was issued to seize BA assets in the county. Sheriff's deputies, movers, and the... attorney went to the bank and foreclosed on it. The attorney gave instructions to to remove desks, computers, copiers, filing cabinets and any cash in the teller's drawers.
After about an hour of being locked out of the bank, the bank manager handed the attorney a check for the legal fees.
The attorney should have insisted on cash, I wouldn't be surprised if BA tries stopping payment on the check.
Anyhoo, multiply THAT by a few million times and the US will be on a path to real improvement.
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I was thinking about this the other day when attempting a new recipe. If I had followed the recipe down to the letter of the chef I would have ended up with sticky briquets and a bucket of sand. So here we have obamacare which has already unraveled like a ball of yarn eaten by a dog and it has not even taken full legal effect yet.
Mittens. I don't want a waiver to all 50 states I want the damn thing thrown out and start over if at all. Y'all gave us an unreal recipe with real world consequences without fully vetting or even bragging pass it to see whats in it. Goebal Worming? You twit, you tool, you damn fool all you do now is make any other candidate look good.
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I wouldn't put it passed the Dems $upporting Mitt in the primaries along with the MSM (a-la McCain). He has the MassCare cloud over his head, which may help BO.
Unfortunately, the election comes down to the only (10) states that were once in Bush hands, that ended up with Obama in '08. (Fla,Oh,NC,Va,In,Col,Iow,Nev,NM,NH).
All the other states voted blue consistently or red consistently in the last (3) elections.
Obama needs to pickup 28 electoral votes to win, or the Rep candidate needs to pick up 90 electoral votes to win.
Of course this is way too premature and I am all wet.
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Thing about Mitt is that he's convinced he is so brilliant that it no longer matters to him what anyone else thinks. This he has in common with Bammo. The problem, of course, is when he gets it wrong, he gets it catastrophically wrong. Give me Cain any day -- a man who will ask questions and listen to the answers. Or Pawlenty, who will admit when he's wrong. Or Perry, who is usually right :-)
As for preferring Mitt over Bammo, it is an academic choice. RomneyCare can't beat ObamaCare in the general election.
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As you may have heard by now, San Francisco will be voting this November on whether or not to ban circumcision in the city.
Defenders of the measure say its all about human rights and protecting babies from unnecessary procedures.
But critics suspected there was something vaguely anti-Semitic about the whole proposal, since among Jews (and Muslims, as well) circumcising male babies is a religious duty, not just a mistaken medical procedure.
Ban proponents insisted their proposal had nothing to do with Jews really, its all about the rights of children.
Well, any doubt that they were lying have now been dispelled, with the publication of new campaign literature for the upcoming circumcision ban. The campaign comic book, called Foreskin Man, after its baby-saving superhero, features a litany of evil Jews doing battle with blond Nordic saviors.
Yes, really.
(Oh, and did I mention the artists last name is Hess? A relative of Rudolph, perhaps?) "Hess is a mess." -- Hogan and company, German Bridge is Falling Down
Below you will find a selection of images taken from Foreskin Man, the campaign brochure for San Franciscos anti-circumcision ballot measure. You tell me: anti-Semitic or not? The comic follows. I'm not fisking it; I doubt even Linkara himself could do a funny drubbing of this comic. If supporters of the measure have any sense, they will come down hard on this.
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If I was a practicing Jew living in SF, this is exactly the kind of reverse propaganda I would create and publish. We call it PsyOps where I use to work.
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