Disqus - Latest Comments for tommylee

Re: Slow Down in Georgia

tommylee — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:16:33 -0000

boy, they did already the calculations and split the spoils. Put it on cruise control people. 4 miles above the limit.

Re: Happy 20th Wedding Anniversary

tommylee — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:59:41 -0000

Enjoy the day and many more to come I hope. Congrats for holding on based on memories and promises as life's greatest gift to you both is the union of being able to count on each other to endure the challenges it throws while enjoying those moments that count and make it worthwhile.

Re: Major Airports are re-designing the way we travel

tommylee — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:50:30 -0000

and Cruise commissions for travel agents seems to be on the way out according to this article on Travelmole: Cruise Agent commissions on the way out!

Re: Open Casting Call Today

tommylee — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:38:20 -0000

wondered if someone else would catch it. Was reading it this morning at 1:30 am but was too tied up with all kind of other stuff to get to point it out. Anyway, a movie about dairy would be interesting too.

Re: Washington and the Essence of Chaos

tommylee — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:17:47 -0000

That may be correct for smaller islands such as St. Maarten and it may have been once correct for the Dominican Republic, but now it is all legal and financial here as well, although they do still have a foot on mainstreet as you mention.

Re: Washington and the Essence of Chaos

tommylee — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:21:53 -0000

An accurate recount of the current "screenshot" of the US evolution. I'm afraid not many will be able to follow along with the jump from "free market mechanisms" to "Subsidized practice to deceive". I personally have a hard time explaining to my "temporary" countrymen in the Dominican Republic why load shedding of power is necessary given based on the amount of people that pay for electricity vs. people that rather believe that someone else needs to pay and simply "borrow" from the electricity company.

Strangely, the people that pay for electricity, defend those that don't????? and see it as perfectly normal while pointing fingers at government as incompetent not being able to maintain a balanced infrastructure offering sufficient supply. Politics is a game of "promise" to allow for complaint.

This electricity thing in the DR is rather "nothing" in the spectrum of a US economy where exactly the same principle unfolds albeit on a larger scale. Our rationale calls it "Stealing" yet when the elected body does it on a large scale, the stealing I mean, it justifies in people's mind that not paying for a service is called "Socialism" and "do as I tell you but not as I do" doesn't work anymore.

You cannot put an equal surface square through a round hole, yet that is what we all expect from life and the promise of politicians.

Re: Jacksonville Florida

tommylee — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:46:06 -0000

What I don't get in the story about Jacksonville is why it is one of the most densely populated areas if so many have to commute into the inner city to find employ and thus so much parking space is required and yet it seems to be readily available due to huge undeveloped inner city areas turned into parking? Densely used maybe and even there I put a question mark, but how does this calculate into densely populated (total amount of people living per Sqmile)?

Re: Brandname Power in a Recession

tommylee — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:08:14 -0000

Even Fiat, now master of Chrysler, reported a modest profit increase of 6% (unexpected).

Re: The Oil Spill and our Belief System

tommylee — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:39:46 -0000

Your elaboration is exactly the reason why I used the word dogma (and that was not only religiously meant). The position you have been dealt within a circumstance is influenced by your values and those values are based on the day one is born and everything from one's upbringing to education to the sleepless night one had before dealing with the circumstance is that what molds one into the position of one's belief.

Truth as well as belief are relative based on the notion that for it to exist (truth or belief) it must have a counter balance such as black and white, day and night, matter and anti-matter. In light of this counter balance your article is justified in its conclusions and thus deserve praise for it to be brought to light.

Re: The Oil Spill and our Belief System

tommylee — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:52:55 -0000

A well known fact: "Put the content of the Good Book into a Satan's Titled Manuscript and it will be condemned to eternity". Even stronger:" Separate the 4 editions of the modern Bible as written by the 4 apostles and you'll get 4 opinions of truth according to the reader".

If this weren't the case why would there be so may different religious congregations all using the same book to defend their "truth" based on excerpts of each of the 4 writers. This gives an infinite number of "truths" outnumbering the chances in the lotto by 1000 to 1 in favor of the lotto.

Our internal belief system is based on dogma if I read that Mel Gibson's Dad being a strong Christian, defends that the Holocaust could never have taken place since it would take 1 gallon of gasoline and 20 min of burning to erase a person. So in his calculation 6 million+ people could not have been killed in the concentration camps.

I leave it up to the reader of this to place their beliefs in which truth is the correct one since mine doesn't matter in the magnitude of its implications.

Re: Obesity and Health not Mutually Exclusive

tommylee — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:52:02 -0000

You bet, it's the first day that the sun is shining since I got here and just got some power. don't know how long the power is going to hold, but who cares right? Should improve my mood because I was getting ready to start an all out war on obesity, what's wrong with the US society and eating habits in general. Just had breakfast and that calmed down the urge on the lash.

I guess I will have to wait until the next 6 day rain storm is heading into it's 5th day.

Re: Sticky Fingers: My Midweek Treat

tommylee — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:20:02 -0000

Well mine would be Big Sugar Jefferson. So I guess that makes Jefferson the undisputed most popular US president... right?

Re: Obesity and Health not Mutually Exclusive

tommylee — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:45:05 -0000

William Douglas II, MD probably never visited Europe or the Netherlands specifically, because if he did, he would refrain from questioning the report at all.

Now in all fairness to the good doctor, it is difficult to compare apples to oranges. Until my departure from Holland in 1990 and the infrequent visits during the last 20 years, processed food did not exist, food additives are out of the question and microwave is still absent in most households and thus discarding "TV dinners", microwavable Pizzas and other crap such as sugar substitutes, sweeteners and other chemicals absolutely untested on their influence on obesity.

Yet it is the one country consuming the most potatoes, french fries with mayonnaise and "zourvleish" then any other spot on the planet, next to full milk (not that skimmed shit that people still dare to call milk here in the US), eat real Cheese and butter i.s.o. margarine, use olive oil instead of that synthetic stuff you buy in US supermarkets such as corn oil and vegetable oil? Oh no, Corn is for the pigs and chicken and no self respecting Dutchmen will ever eat pig food (unless there's world war going on) and they would be all baffled by all the stickers of "Diet", No sugar, Fat Free that US corporation slap onto their labels and question why there are sooooo many FAT people in the US if everything is DIET. I did and I still do.

Well I got good news for Douglas the II: It is all that Substitution crap, preservatives and chemical shit you swallow including mass amounts of Chemicals via "meds" and strangely enough, In the Netherlands it may be legal to use pot, but there is no country in the wolrd where more pot is smoked than in the US. Side effect... you get hungry, fat or not, when smoking pot.

So Now i'm going to venture into the most unscientific statement: The US people are fat because they can't stay away from the Pot. Boy that feels better.

Re: Lease Local Art to Spice up Your Workplace

tommylee — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:31:42 -0000

Same leasing art deal I discussed with Kathleen at the EABC meeting in June. It is rather simple to organize, straight forward and very appealing to art lovers that have a budget constraint, yet want some new art in their homes and offices.

Re: Sticky Fingers: My Midweek Treat

tommylee — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:21:55 -0000

There goes your diet!!! Nothing for you the next week and double workouts at Club 14.

Re: Meet Molly the Horse from New Orleans

tommylee — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:59:32 -0000

Duly noted and our apologies as the e-mail did not contain any credits. Corrections will be made expediently.

Re: So Many Ways to Trace and Database Us

tommylee — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:18:25 -0000

The law of economy will take care of the overload in the system. google is already a perfect example by holding outdated information in their system, eventually creating such a confusion that wielding through all information will become cumbersome at best. For now it is still a manageable "mess" yet within the shear volume of data collection it will collapse onto itself. The Law of economy has never failed, nor will it this time.

Re: Another Death Announcement

tommylee — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:06:22 -0000

You are most certainly right and the bell curve seems to develop as a vertical line rising line with speculations that the iPad will have reached in 75 days of sales 4 million in the US alone making it the most successful consumer product launch ever.

Facts and dogmatic beliefs didn't make the "oracle of Omaha" Warren Buffett richer then God, but common sense and direction and that's whom we just buried... right?

Re: Another Death Announcement

tommylee — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:59:01 -0000

Job losses will be enormous, yet new job descriptions will replace those lost in the printing industry, but it will take a change of mentality and "reschooling" to move into those new paperless book preparations. The opportunities are endless but if you're employed in the printing business you better start now in preparing for your future.

I also believe that the magazine business will see a major shift albeit slower than paper books that can expect a "clean sweep" lasting less then 3 years to complete.

Re: Senior Health Care

tommylee — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:39:39 -0000

I guess that crime does pay... Maybe that's why they're building more prison cells then Old Age Homes... in anticipation of all those wishing to enter prison life rather than nursing homes.

Re: A Tear of Happiness

tommylee — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:24:42 -0000

I happened to come across this picture looking for the heritage of the New Hope Plantation Amelia Island and I'm surprised how accurate google "personalization" works. Simply amazing.

Re: The Speed of Obamas Downfall

tommylee — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:30:38 -0000

The last word will never be spoken about this topic well into the future until there is a gadget on the market that allows women to turn-on and turn-off the chance of becoming pregnant. It is my estimation that this gadget will be available within the next 2-3 years and widespread adopted in 5-10 years. This will provide the ultimate choice i.s.o. the flip of the coin and being at the mercy of pro-choice, medical costs etc.

Utopia? don't think so especially since reading on the flight from Jacksonville to Ft. Lauderdale in the Southwest inflight magazine that 73% of the women are "happy" to be solo...for the first time beating men's "54%" solo opinion.

Re: From Pigs to Civets is just another Wall Street Ploy

tommylee — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:50:03 -0000

Without having done any research on the potential of South Africa and the problems the country is still facing (16 official languages, the northern countries still in the stone ages and tribal rivalry still simmering), the country's new economy based on technology coupled with the vast richness in resources does provide a promising future. Their contributions in the advancement of the Internet are short of remarkable providing the cornerstone of understanding the future of business.

Re: It’s the Bottom of the 6th and the Score is Twenty Two to Nothing

tommylee — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:07:53 -0000

Re-reading this article and being a year further down the line in 2010 I think I have a better understanding about Florida's Bankruptcies and the reasons why Florida is or was second highest ranked...

The answer lies part in that Florida is a "Vacation destination" which means that overall most "income" is derived from tourism related activities including retirement purchases.

Tourism pillar economies are much more fragile based on the premonition that in the good years plenty of money is made and this is used as a guideline that life will remain good as tourists will keep on pouring in. Well, there is nothing more fragile than tourism based economies and when the tides turn it is not a slow pace drying up but rather a massive retraction.

All those that "built their future on an ever growing tourism dollar" are caught with their pants down and go faster down the drain than you and I can empty a bottle of water against the magnetic twist (did you know that a drain always drains with the rotation of the clock in the northern and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere?).

And the chain reaction (retraction) is set in motion that can bankrupt a state faster then you and I can spell "help".

Re: Do bicycles have a future on Amelia Island?

tommylee — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:06:58 -0000

Quite frankly, there are many islands on this planet where motorized vehicles are prohibited. I could justify golf carts and electrical go-carts although I believe that my previously suggested absolute ban on cellphones in any circumstance while being on the "road" would be a giant step in the right direction. Also a mandatory annual drive fitness test when reaching 65 isn't a luxury.