Concerns on the Coratian Front

The Croatian portal selling the “Flirting” book,

http://www.superbookshop.net/index.php?page=book&ean=9781770676145

carries this prominent announcement on the website:

“All products on www.superbookshop.net buyer will be delivered within 25 days from receipt of order (customers within Croatian). Delivery times for overseas orders is approximately 35 days. In some cases it may be a delay in delivery.”

This does not seem to be a promising strategy for selling any product in any market.  Somebody’s got to do something about it and that somebody’s got to be me.  The something is still quite outside of my deployable arsenal of actionable options.

The Italians Have Gone Out of Stock

I wonder if I should notify the publisher about this. The Italian portal Amazon.it

http://www.amazon.it/Flirting-Misadventures-Escapades-Exotic-Life/dp/1770676147

featured this announcement on its page:

“Attualmente non disponibile.

Ancora non sappiamo quando l'articolo sarà di nuovo disponibile.”

Translation into English:

Currently not available. Still do not know when the item will be back in stock.

To run out of the product you are supposed to be selling is no way to flourish in the marketplace.

Surprising to See it in Some Unexpected Places

The Flirting book has been advertised in French:

http://www.amazon.fr/Flirting-Misadventures-Escapades-Exotic-Life/dp/1770676147

And in Korean:

http://book.nate.com/detail.html?sbid=9831235&sBinfo=bookinfo&mode=search

Now all I need are a few hearty souls in these marketplaces who are ready willing and eager to read it in EnglishJ

Hubristic Exuberance

Hubristic Exuberance: A Memo to Bill O'Reilly

There is one word that most appropriately characterizes the Obama Administration: Arrogance. If one is a stickler for modifiers, the phrase would be Unbridled Arrogance. In essence, it is borne of, if not the exact equivalent to the memo headline, Hubristic Exuberance.

The underlying premise evinced in Bill O'Reilly's Factor interviews with Joe Trippi, Lanny Davis, Karl Rove and Denis Miller is demonstrably an unadulterated fallacy. It is a mistake to attribute the seeming bungling incompetence exhibited by the Attorney General Eric Holder and Presidential Press Secretary Joe Carney as stemming from not having been adequately briefed by their respective staff. The reality is far worse than that. It is that plainly and simply this administration just does not care an iota of what we the people think.

As aptly emphasized on page 202 (and several other parts therein) of my recently published book,

"We are at a crossroads when political decorum disregards well established protocols of intellectual inquiry in order to pursue and forcibly implement political agenda as demanded by ideology of the Progressives genre. The will of the governed is completely and unabashedly ignored by the ruling elite so obsessively blinded by their determination to control and lord it over the political landscape."

The list is legion to illustrate the Administration's total disregard for the will of the governed. To cite a few examples, it includes the manner with which ObamaCare (cf op cit pp 291-292 ff) was enacted into law, not to mention the very substance of the bill itself. The czaring of America is an attempt to implement policy by bureaucracies not accountable to any kind of monitoring by the governed citizens. The circumvention of congress respecting implementation of the Immigration Dream Act by the bureaucrats at ICE after the idea was summarily rejected by Congress approaches the apex of lawlessness.

Don't be fooled by the seeming clumsiness of Holder and Carney. This Administration needs to be stopped sooner than later by whatever means we can legally leverage to deploy to countermand its none too subtle subterfuge.

Mahidlawong Paghandom (Nostalgic Remembrance) with Audio

Greetings, world, especially the Southern Bisayan speaking sector!

Below is a modest product of my effort to celebrate the halcyon days of yore, those good old days which brought us to this, our ever treasured here and now. The musical score of this obsession has been the classic Russian folk song dubbed in English as "The Long Road Ahead," and popularized in the '70's by Mary Hopkins as "Those Were the Days, My Friend." It has been lyricized in almost every language you can think of. When I could not find one in Bisaya, I decided to write my own.

I first intended to circulate this effort in an audible form. But I discovered my many attempts to vocalize it has been hindered by my being choked with emotion. Maybe someday when I am less sober than I am now, I'd be able to sing it to my heart's content.

In the meantime, I enjoin everyone familiar with the tune to take it for a test drive. It goes without saying that I solicit your feedback, constructive, disparaging, indifferent or otherwise. Here's hoping I hear some from a lot of you sooner than later.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-OApxb0kN0

 

Bisayan lyrics for "Those Were the Days, My Friend" or "The Long Road Ahead."

By Constancio S. Asumen, Jr. 8/25/2011

 

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.

(1)

Kahapdus handomon ang kagahapon

Ta'ng lundag sa pagandoy'ng nawagtang

Tubod sa kalimot ang mga luha

Nga naghugas ning kalag nga samaran.

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.

(2)

Sugyot sa kahidlaw nga dalikyaton

Kanhing gitagbo-an tang dalan

Dili mahimong mausab langkaton

Ligdong pasalig tang gi-usikan.

 

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.

 

(3)

Tugob sa pagla-om king handurawan

Nga magdasig sa damgong gui-hidlaw

Uhaw sa pag-amuma nga makapukaw

Sa mithing banag-banag nga tuman.

 

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.

(4)

Hilaw ki'ng baraha sa kapalaran

Ug walay tupong ang kapintas

Walay bili'ng ilang ti-aw-ti-awan

Hingpit nga pakig-bisog dili mokupas.

 

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.

Questions for Republican Primary Presidential Candidates

Questions for Republican Primary Presidential Candidates:

Good evening, fellow Americans. I have two questions:

(1)    How would your administration propose to deal with the intricacies and ramifications of baseline budgeting?

(2)    I have painstakingly demonstrated in a recently published book {chapters 11, 18, 19 & 20}*

(Cf., http://www.flirtingwithmisadventures.com/)

that to as much as pay a lip service to the narrative of Man-Made Global Warming as the gospel minted in Copenhagen purports, you have to be either intellectually incompetent, or politically dishonest, or both. How would your administration propose to deploy the enormous human and infrastructural resources at the Federal government's disposal already invested to promote and implement the popularly accepted Global Warming agenda?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdfAFi1XeSY

 

 

*Now available at these locations:

FriesenPress.com (Canada);

http://www.friesenpress.com/bookstore/title/119734000001612306/

Amazon.com Whispernet (United States); and

http://www.amazon.com/Flirting-Misadventures-Escapades-Exotic-ebook/dp/B005MCCBZS/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316191673&sr=1-4

Amazon.com Whispernet (United Kingdom)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flirting-Misadventures-Escapades-Exotic-ebook/dp/B005MCCBZS

The Dignity of Labor

Labor Day Song I Vaguely Remember

There is a song I learned in my fourth grade ('53-'54) which seems most appropriate for the Labor Day celebration. I don't exactly know the title to it. I vaguely remember it as "The Dignity of Labor." But I remember singing it with my chapter delegates at the provincial 4H-Club rally during my junior year in high school ('60) to the generous acclaim of both the judges and the general audience.

If anyone knows anything about it, please be kind enough to fill me in. I want to put it in some historical context of sorts.

The clip below is just to give you an idea on how the music goes,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGPS7K7250c

The lyrics goes like this:

The Dignity of Labor

Out in the world we are going

Striving in life's glorious den

Joy and success ever seeking

Hoping to conquer and win

Labor's our best inspiration

Thrilling both body and mind

Labor enriches the nation

God's gracious gift to mankind.

 

Refrain:

In loving world there is honor

Labor with love wins the strife

Dignify and cherish labor

Giving our nation with life.