Category: Insights

Habits are contagious. Surround yourself with good people with good habits. Why? You become like whom you work with, whether you’re coach (boss) or player.
-SPW

It’s a sad thing when a citizen in good standing has to get permission to leave the country.  You wonder, is it a country or a prison?

(BrightCitizen.com)  The late Robin Williams’ suicide was a shock to most Americans and even many in the global community.  He was a talented actor on the silver screen but made some pretty dark comments in his stand up comedy performances which shocked those who thought of him as family friendly.  He had multiple personas and impersonations that he had mastered for live audiences as well as film and TV.  Was there something behind what made him so convincing?

One author noted that Williams himself that there was.

Williams also recognized that these powers had manifested a very evil influence on stage and that there could be a hefty price to pay for their assistance. Williams told James Kaplan of US Weekly:

“Yeah! Literally, it’s like possession ‑ all of a sudden you’re in, and because it’s in front of a live audience, you just get this energy that just starts going…But there’s also that thing ‑ it is possession. In the old days you’d be burned for it…But there is something empowering about it. I mean, it is a place where you are totally ‑ it is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, where you really can become this other force. Maybe that’s why I don’t need to play evil characters [in movies], ’cause sometimes onstage you can cross that line and come back. Clubs are a weird kind of petri dish environment. I mean, that’s where people can get as dark as they can in comedy ‑ in the name of comedy, be talking about outrageous stuff and somehow come out the other side. I mean, that’s one place where you really want to push it” (Robin Williams, “Robin Williams,” by James Kaplan, US Weekly, January, 1999, p. 53).

Read more about that here on the GoodFight.org website.

Thomas Jefferson once advised that “whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”

(BrightCitizen.com) After 7 years of wishful thinking from the political left, leftist press corps, news channels, and entertainers are finally starting to question Barak Obama’s fitness to govern a large nation.

As the issues in the Ukraine unfold we see more and more of Russia. We usually think of the United States as a free and open nation however that no longer seems to be the case. With the open persecution of Christian Americans in education, the military and schools, the takeover of muslim extremists in nations around the world, and a complete lack of leadership the democratic spirit of America seems to have left after Obama spent a year in the Whitehouse. He seems preoccupied with buying votes by his repeated calls of ‘rich is evil’, tax the rich, strengthen the unions, don’t support large American enterprise. America is contracting under Obama.

On the other side of the world, Putin seems to understand capitalism. He’s no advocate of communism but he seems to demonstrate that a nation needs to be strong to grow economically. He is former KGB spy agency leadership, but that does not stop him from raising the corporate flag for Russian industry.

Who is the true communist? It certainly isn’t Vladimir Putin.

A user interface is like a joke, if you have to explain it, it was not that good.

-source unknown but great thought

(BrightCitizen.com)  Forty percent of the $626M weapons that Americans sent to Afghanistan are missing the Washington Times reports.  They report,

Over the past decade, the Pentagon has provided what the report describes as more than 747,000 weapons and auxiliary equipment to the Afghan National Security Forces. Small arms, such as rifles, pistols, machine guns, grenade launchers and shotguns, account for the majority of those weapons.

Read more here.