Holy Cow. How Did Newt Gingrich Do It?

Newt Thinks Clearly - Newt Speaks Clearly

New Gingrich will take the fight directly to the President.  Can you see a debate?  Remember when Ronald Reagan chided Mondale not to bring up the age issue?  Reagan and Gingrich make you feel right.

Right now Newt Gingrich is making us feel good.  He will start drilling, finish the pipeline, cut out the czar’s, and he promises to balance the budget as soon as he can, and begin to pay down the debt.  He certainly is saying what I want to hear.  I hope, and I can only hope, that he means it, and can execute these policies and idea’s.

The field is narrowing.

Standard Schnauzer’s Teasing – Fantastic Funny Viedeo

I’ve Posted this before, but saw it this morning and could not stop admiring and smiling and laughing.  It’s what dog’s are all about.

Liam and Ruby Teasing.

No Surprise New Hamphire, No Luck for Us

Here comes the money

I was hoping that New Hampshire might provide us with a person who would bring ‘cents’ (pronounced sense) to Washington.  No luck.  So today this picture depicts, who?  I guess the answer to this imponderable question is “He Who Gets the Money is Celebrating”.   Rhetoric will not stop the insane accumulation of debt;courage and discipline will.

Ron Paul, hummm.  Perhaps with his age we might elect him, knowing he is the person most likely to stem the flow, and maybe hold back the tide, and probably be a one term president.   Since the planet is relatively peaceful, why not give him a try?

I gave, for me, generously to the Obama campaign in 2008.  I gave this week to both Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman.  Their post-election speeches on Tuesday were very different; one sincere and effective, the other a bit sloppy, with credibility issues.

Hey, that’s my money raining down, and yours, and we need an umbrella and a courageous and diligent and disciplined candidate to stop the rain.

“Hey New Hampshire”, Surprise Us

The Right One

I’m sure you got it, right.  Right.

One would think the congress and the President think they are rainmaker’s, raining money upon us, and scoring large because of it.  We need a drought.

Enough written.  And surely enough said.

Money: Do The Hard Work. Ben Franklin

Bill Johnson, my Father in 1945

My father told me: “Bob, don’t spend what you don’t have’.  In my life I added “Only spend if you have a committed or closed loan”.  Of course a loan will only be available if you have the income that convinces a lender that you have the capacity to pay it back.  It really is simple, but it takes a lot of discipline.  Our leaders always spend our money when they don’t have enough, and always spend without loans approved.

I heard that the President is asking the Congress for an increase in the debt limit, again, of $1,500,000,000,000 .  One Trillion, Five Hundred Billion dollars.  It happens at a time when I think the bankers, especially the youngsters, boys and girls really, in the Banks Back Room, the so-called MBA credit analysts,  are causing the continuing depression for 20% of the nation.  No lending, no jobs.

I says nuts to them all.  Boehner, McConnell, The President, the Banks,  all of them, must go.  There is not a hint of discipline or rational behavior in those who govern.  There are no adjectives to describe what is happening.  I am sorry to say that I gave a lot of money to The President last go around, but I’m loath to do it now, for he lacks the discipline needed to manage a very large enterprise.  But there is not a single candidate worth supporting.  Well maybe Hunstman.

How can three or four presidential candidates not get on the ballot in Virginia, and now sue, all because of their poor organizational skills.  They will spend more on legal fees than it would have cost them to get signatures.  I’ve run for local office and I know it is hard work to get signatures, but you must do it, or not get on the ballot.

I see no leaders in this years race.  It’s the only real thing Boehner can cry over, and I’ll join him.  So if there are no leaders that meet this simple criteria – possessing self-discipline - I just might support a radical, willing to clobber the budgets and tens of thousands of government employees.  I don’t think Americans are ready to roll over and play dead, but we will need nerves of steel to get through this decade and remain leaders.  Gotta do the work.  We all have to do the work.

Keep the guy or gal in the mirror on track.  Exert yourself, and encourage others to exert themselves to do the work.

Here’s looking at you.  Happy New Year.

An Introspector

Come On CBS: one game is enough

Sunday evening I like to relax, and get to bed at a reasonable hour.  I’m 65, and I was watching the Heidi Game.  I am a football fan, yes, a fan, and I like good football games, but I like my life scheduled, and I like my games either good or important, better if both good and important. 

But now it is just plain rediculous.  There is not a single Sunday Schedule on CBS that works as advertised.  And they are in my opinion screwing up.

Tonight was just insulting.  I had to struggle through a horrible performance by the Eagles, finally ending at 7:30.  So ok, Good Wife will start at 10:30 and finish at 11:30, actually later than I like. 

But then CBS just does a stupid thing, for the umpteenth time, and the next to last for me.  They immediately go to the Denver, San Diego game.  Which?  Denver vs. San Diego, and it has 9 minutes to go, which in football time is at least a half hour, so 60 Minutes will live up to its name and be 60 Minutes late.

It is getting, no, it is rediculous, and time to rethink.  Come on CBS, it is 2011 and if we want to watch the Denver/SD game we can in any one of a dozen ways.  We don’t need you to screw up the night.  Click.

Job Opportunities at KMO

1. Web Site Publisher

KMO has numerous coffee domains and will develop small, educational sites for each one. For example, KMO will publish a site about Ethiopian Coffee using the domain name EthiopianYrgacheffe.com. Continuing this example, there are several other regional designations for Ethiopian Coffee and each would have its own web site. You will reseach the country, its culture, its people and of course the coffee. Each site will have a store selling the coffee featured on the site; EthiopianYrgacheffe.com will make available Ethiopian Coffee.

KMO has a domain for virtually every coffee in the world. So there is a lot to be done.

If you can produce web sites/stores on Yahoo, or other hosting services, that are colorful, well writen, content rich, and interesting and educational, then this position is for you. You must be organized and work well with the pressure of deadlines. You know how to promote using social media. And you love coffee. You must have experience, published sites, and be looking to make a difference in the world of coffee. And create a lottabuzz. Dot com of course.

Send me you sites by e-mail. If you wish, a brief summary resume of your history and credentials, and compensation requirements is welcome. I’m open to paying by the site, or a share of the revenue from each site or some other imaginative, innovative method you may suggest, and your compensation will grow as you get sites published, demonstrate your technical, promotional and interpersonal skills and achieve measurable results. You will work with me.

Bob@kmocoffee.com

2. In office sales and service.

We are looking for two people who positively love to engage other people in conversation on the telephone. These are sales positions, selling to other businesses, helping them meet their goals, using KMO’s well known, great coffee. You will do Great Works in Coffee with Kaffe Magnum Opus.

Send brief resume’s to Cathy@kmocoffee.com. Your initial contact will come from Cathy via telephone.

3. Part Time Quickbooks Enterprise Accounting Expert

Labor Day is a Great Day

Brother Gerry CIA Man Cooking Up a Storm

I love labor day.  The meaning of it pays homage to hard work, and the whole Johnson Clan works hard.  Brother Bill heads up the Rockville Center School District, Gerry in Kauai building houses and cabinets, Paul is retired from the IRS, but doing work for KMO.  We got together this weekend and had a great visit.  Gerry from Hi, Paul from LA, Bill from Long Island and I had the whole day Saturday, a rare occurence. 

 

 

Thankfully No Damage to our Home and Plant

In this area the maximum winds were 50 mph or so. Lot of rain. But all is well here. It is one of the reasons KMO stayed in Southern New Jersey. It is rare that hurricanes hit. They tend to go up the coast, and usually 4o to 50 miles out. So we experience very little of the harsh and threatening weather so prevalent in the rest of the US. I can’t remember a day, even the heaviest snow days, that the plant closed down completely.

Thunder and lightening storms are the biggest threat, so we have to go to cell phones from time to time (although last night our entire family – a housefull of evacuted folks and dogs – spent an hour in the basement because the news said a tornado was on the ground and headed our way). We don’t get tornado’s, but there were a few last night, caused by the hurricane.

So, we know some of you had big problems, and we will do what we need to do, and can do, to help. Let us know.

We are thankful to be safe and sound and up and running.

Music To My Ears – and – Heart

Paul and Bob Johnson, Proud as Peacocks

We started moving our manufacturing facility last Friday, July 29, 2011 and got pretty much everything moved by Saturday.  Man oh Man, or, Woman oh Woman, did we sweat.  It was hot, and everyone dropped a few pounds, but not one piece of equipment. 

 

We held off on our biggest piece of equipment, a Dietrich CR 80 Coffee Roaster, Big Red we called it for a little while, until Wednesday of this week, August 2, 2011, just to make sure all of the roasters we moved had backup.  So Paul and company dis-assembled this monster starting Wednesday, moved it Thursday (mostly by big forklifts) down the road, literally.  They got it together with some tugs and a few hugs, and now it is music to our ears.