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PEORIA, Ill. - How is the economic downturn affecting motivational speakers who rouse breakfast audiences - those seminar stars who promise to spur sales and company coaches that seek to boost the bottom line? The short answer is that when business goes bad, business experts get busy. That's the consensus of several people who make their living addressing companies across the country and around the world. "We call them 'one-day wonders.'" said Mary Pille, CEO of the Employers Association, a group that plans meetings for business audiences throughout the year. "One of the first things to go when times get...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE RUSTAMIYAH, Iraq, Dec. 4, 2008 – A Multinational Division Baghdad soldier serving in southern Baghdad with the 10th Mountain Division’s 94th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, uses his off-duty time to hone his boxing skills. Army Spc. Chad Reed, right, spars with Sempa Wilson at Forward Operating Base Rustamiyah, Iraq, Nov. 19, 2008. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jeremy Todd  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Army Spc. Chad Reed has become somewhat of a superstar here, especially since he recently defeated a Golden Gloves boxer on nearby Forward Operating Base Loyalty. “When I’m...

With the long odds given the GOP by pollsters and the MSM, it is time to shock the world. Instead of my normal Friday video, I wanted to share inspiration with the music. With an outstanding soundtrack by Sir Patrick Doyle, Kenneth Branagh's Henry V offers the greatest motivational speech of all time. The King looks upon his tiny contingent of bedraggled soldiers as they prepare to face the royal French army. Outnumbered ten-to-one by a fresh, confident army, no one gave the British a chance. So Henry offers his men some perspective...

With speculation of Hillary dropping from the race and Obama seeming to be the leading candidate for Dems.... and McCain as our only choice? Man, I think we all need motivation now....

Barack Obama has for at least 20 years been listening to preaching of hatred from the pulpit. This must have some effect on a man who listened to this preaching all them years. I have placed a shot video, I call, Live and Let Live, that depicts an innocent dove being shot with a slingshot and a mortal wound to the dove’s head. I ask if Barack Obama gets the White House and becomes the next president of the USA, will Obama be the one holding the sling shot and the average American the dove? o7jimmy (Revski)

1,721 years ago, two Christian brothers in pagan Gaul were martyred. 300 years later, they were named Saints of the Catholic Church, celebrated on the 25th of October. On the Feast of Crispin and Crispinian, some of the most climactic battles in Western history have been fought: Balaklava, Leyte Gulf, Cap Finisterre. The Cuban Missile Crisis began on Crispin’s Day, as did the First Marxist Revolution, and the United States invaded Grenada. Pablo Picasso and Minnie Pearl were born on Crispin’s Day; Geoffrey Chaucer and Bat Masterson passed away. But no one remembers Saint Crispin’s Day the way Will Shakespeare...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2007 – Forces in Iraq are studying detainees to find out what motivates insurgents and terrorists in that country, the general overseeing detention operations there said today. Marine Maj. Gen. David M. Stone, the chief of Multinational Force Iraq’s detainee operations and commander of Task Force 143, spoke to online journalists and “bloggers” from his headquarters in Baghdad. Stone’s task force has launched an extensive study into just who detainees being held by coalition forces in Iraq are, what motivates them and what their morale is like. The whole idea of the study is to remove the...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2007 – Ask Army Staff Sgt. Jerome MacDonald why he serves in the military, and he doesn’t talk about pay raises, tuition assistance or job security. “My biggest reason for serving is my family,” said MacDonald, a combat medic who returned in 2006 from a deployment to Iraq. “I looked at my family, and I realized that I want them and their way of life to be protected,” he said. “And one of the only ways to do that is to go overseas and take the fight to the enemy who are perfectly willing to come...

The continued attacks by Islamic terrorists against the West have led many to ask, what is the motivation of the terrorists? Commentators are eager to offer a bevy of pseudo-explanations--poverty, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, etc.--while ignoring the motivation the terrorists themselves openly proclaim: Islam. The near silence about the true role of Islam in motivating Islamic terrorists has two main causes: multiculturalism and religion. Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture. And the strong commitment to religion of...

The romantic comedy "Failure to Launch," which opened as the No. 1 movie in the nation this month, has substantially exceeded pre-launch predictions, taking in more than $64 million in its first three weeks. Matthew McConaughey plays a young man who is affable, intelligent, good-looking — and completely unmotivated. He's still living at home and seems to have no ambitions beyond playing video games, hanging out with his buddies (two young men who are also still living with their parents) and having sex. In desperation, his parents hire a professional motivation consultant, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, who pretends to...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (March 8, 2006) -- “At first it was rough, because they didn’t look at me as a Marine,” said Cpl. Christine DeCaprio, an administrative clerk, of fitting in with an all male military police squad in Iraq. “But, once I got up on the [.50 caliber heavy machinegun] they changed their minds.” This event set the tone for DeCaprio’s next ten months in the desert with Company B, 2nd Military Police Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group. Being the only woman in a platoon full of men proved difficult in the early stages of the...

The contracts former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham browbeat the Defense Department into awarding two contractors who showered him with money and gifts were not in the nation's interest, according to documents filed by prosecutors yesterday. Instead, the prosecutors said, “Cunningham and his co-conspirators fleeced the people of the United States to the tune of millions of dollars, earning profit margins on some contracts in excess of 800 percent.” In pleading guilty in November, Cunningham admitted taking more than $2.4 million in bribes in return for steering those contracts to two defense contractors, but he insisted the contracts were for legitimate...

Winning Iraq: The Untold Story Sun., Dec. 25 at 2 a.m. ET •Reporter's Notebook: The Making of "Winning Iraq" Hosted by David Asman Terror attacks always make it to the evening news. But is that the complete picture of what's happening in Iraq? We wanted to find out. While Americans debate whether we're winning the war in Iraq, we sent FOX News correspondent Greg Palkot and a production team to crisscross Iraq for almost six weeks. [...] This documentary includes reports about peaceful vacations spots, a vibrant Iraq economy, plus interviews with grateful Iraqis and stories of average people triumphing...

Hoo-ah! July 1, 2005; Page A8 The announcement this week that the Army met its recruiting goals for the month of June is welcome news. Unlike the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, the Army had missed its targets for the previous four months -- in large part, the conventional wisdom goes, because of the violence in Iraq, where 105,000 of the 139,000 U.S. troops serving there are Army. Well, maybe -- but the war on terror is the Army's best recruiting tool too. Uncle Sam's biggest recruiting challenge is mothers, Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey told us a...

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first...

Sometimes it seems as if liberals have a genius for producing an unending stream of ideas that are counterproductive for the poor, whom they claim to be helping. Few of these notions are more counterproductive than the idea of "menial work" or "dead-end jobs." Think about it: Why do employers pay people to do "menial" work? Because the work has to be done. What useful purpose is served by stigmatizing work that someone is going to have to do anyway? Is emptying bed pans in a hospital menial work? What would happen if bed pans didn't get emptied? Let people...

The Bizarre Motivation behind Michael Schiavo's Right-to-Die Lawyer George "Killer" Felos Catholic Citizen.org ^ | 10.24.03 Posted on 10/24/2003 12:47:20 PM PDT by Coleus TORA! TORA! TORA! The Bizarre Motivation behind Michael Schiavo's Right-to-Die Lawyer George "Killer" Felos Thrilled to Death: Euthanasia proponent George Felos is Michael Schiavo's lawyer CLEARWATER, October 23, 2003 - The motivation behind Michael Schiavo's dire quest to end the life of his severely disabled wife is not certain. He has a child and another on the way with another woman but a divorce would suffice in that case. However, there is the suggestion that he...

The Real Story Behind ThanksgivingDid you know that the first [Plymouth Colony Pilgrim's] Thanksgiving was a celebration of the triumph of private property and individual initiative?William Bradford was the governor of the original Pilgrim colony, founded at Plymouth in 1621. The colony was first organized on a communal basis, as their financiers required. Land was owned in common. The Pilgrims farmed communally, too, following the "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" precept.The results were disastrous. Communism didn't work any better 400 years ago than it does today. By 1623, the colony had suffered...

The REAL Story Behind Thanksgiving Did you know that the first [Plymouth Colony Pilgrim's] Thanksgiving was a celebration of the triumph of private property and individual initiative? William Bradford was the governor of the original Pilgrim colony, founded at Plymouth in 1621. The colony was first organized on a communal basis, as their financiers required. Land was owned in common. The Pilgrims farmed communally, too, following the "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" precept. The results were disastrous. Communism didn't work any better 400 years ago than it does today. By 1623, the colony...