Best of Bear world

This is a pretty scary video of some bears stalking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P3a9zgzEgk

So what do you do when your in this situation? do as this man did

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0vrtmtpN_o


Hope you enjoy

Dont go here!

Don't go here unless your done with work and have some time to kill http://balldroppings.com/js/?2

Fun boat ride

Have you seen this crazy video? Part of me thinks it would be fun.

The secret Gillette does not want you to know

The problem with shaving is the cost of razors. A lot of people have different opinions on how to handle the situation. Some buy electric shavers and never replace the blades until it feels like a snarled tooth cat is clawing at your face. Others just buy in bulk the old style of razors thinking the new ones are barely different and not worth the increased price. And other look for killer coupons and then buy in bulk. Well I have the answer! its easy painless and costs nothing. You take any razor I suggest getting the newest Gillette with battery (best shave ever). Next you take a normal pair of levis jeans. You brush the jeans the opposite direction that you use the razor, make about 10 passes and your done! its so easy and you can keep using the same sharp razor each week. One small step for Greg one giant step for shaving!

Someone who understands democracy

This was an amazing speech givin at SUU graduation last week. I was really impressed.


The importance of the right question by clayton christens SUU commencment speech May 6 2011.

There are two ways to get peace and prosperity. The first is to follow Singapore.
The founder of that small nation, Lee Kuan Yew, pulled together a diverse set of
ethnic enemies, laid out a set of clear rules, and then ruled the nation with an
honest and very strong fist. He set a system in place that could identify people
who broke the rules; held them immediately accountable; and dispensed fast and
memorable penalties. Singapore is a marvelous country – safe and prosperous.
The vast majority of people obey the laws because of the established system.
The other option is democracy. The problem of democracy is that the
government doesn’t look over your shoulder or into your homes to catch you
breaking the rules. And if you are suspected of breaking a rule, it takes a very long
time to determine whether you must be held accountable. There are juries and
appeals – there are no iron fists. So how can democracy work to bring peace and
prosperity to a nation?
I asked my friend, who is a Marxist economist from China who came to Boston
on a Fulbright Scholarship to study democracy, if he had learned anything about
democracy that was surprising or unexpected. His response was immediate and
profound: “I had no idea how critical religion is to the functioning of democracy.”
I had never made this association between religion and democracy, so I was
surprised but he continued to explain,
You don’t see it because you grew up in this society. But to me it is one
of the most unique things I have seen. Perhaps even more in your past
than in the present, most Americans attended a church every week. There
you were taught that you should voluntarily obey the law; that you should
respect other people’s property, and not steal. You were taught to be honest.
In America the vast proportion of people obey the laws because God will
hold you accountable. Democracy works because most people most of the
time voluntarily obey the laws – and it therefore doesn’t matter whether
the police and courts catch you, or how long it takes. Americans police
themselves, knowing that God is their final judge.
My friend then pointed at those countries where, in his words, “America had
naively snapped its fingers and demanded, ‘We want democracy here, and we
want it now!’” Unless there was already a strong religious foundation in those
countries, he asserted, democracy has failed miserably.
My Chinese friend noted that in Russia, for instance, there are religions – but
they are not democracy-enabling ones. Few people are influenced by them. As a
result many people avoid taxes, and the government cannot afford to collect them.
Murder, bribery and stealing are a part of everyday life. He noted that American
foreign policy has been naïve in Haiti and the nations of Africa that have been
torn by such brutal civil strife. “You just think that because democracy works for
you it will work everywhere. It only works where there is a strong foundation of
religion, which inspires people to freely obey the unenforceable.”
In societies between the extremes of Singapore and America, the poverty and
violence suffered is proportional to the number of people who have concluded
that the government will not hold them accountable for their crimes, and they
don’t believe that there is a God who will do this, either. Pakistan, Nigeria and
Argentina are in this morass. Mexico is slipping into it.
Those who seek to minimize the role that religions can play in the public
sphere are making two very serious mistakes. First, in trying to push religions
off the public stage, they are seeking to minimize the very institutions that have
given us our civil liberties in the first place.
And second, the debate that has crept into our judicial discourse about the
separation of church and state is a false dichotomy. Religions, as philosophical
traditions, can be broadly classified as theistic religions and atheistic religions.
Atheistic religions are defined by a set of beliefs, just as theistic religions are.
Atheistic religions are not just sweeping theistic religions off of the democratic
stage. They are knitting the doctrines of atheism into our legal and regulatory
fabric. They are giving us a wrong answer to a badly framed question.
My Chinese friend’s insight has helped me understand what the valuable
question really is: Instead of debating the question about what degree of
separation of church and state the Framers intended, we need instead to be
asking, “What institutions can we rely upon to inculcate the instinct amongst the
next generation of Americans to follow even unenforceable laws? And how can
we strengthen those institutions, so that they do this better?”
The adherents to the dogmas of atheistic religions need to employ their
intellect on this question: Do you want to strengthen our democracy? If so, then
what institutions do you propose to put on the stage to teach the next generation
of Americans – every one of them – to want freely to obey the law?

How much is a trillion dollars.

Many people think they have a pretty good idea what a 1 trillion dollars is... a few extra zeros behind a billion right? well this might help a bit.

Someone told me I was to express myself through creative writing.

I was visiting home one weekend when I met someone new. They introduced themselves and said the could tell a lot about me just by looking at me and observing my body language. His advice was that I should be a creative writer. Well this is a medium for me to express my thoughts. Here is my first thought... Never has there been so many people saying so much to so little! I am now contributing Please stay tuned for great in site into the my great  mind!