Comments on: Tuesday, Sept. 3, 1901: Roosevelt at the fair

By: amber weston

amber weston — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:33:18 +0000

i dont understand whats going on in this but i guess thats why i am failing US History

By: alaKurt

alaKurt — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:38:39 +0000

Sidebar to history: Mr. Roosevelt did some hunting in northern Minnesota around this time as well, specifically staying at the Whispering Pines Lodge on Crooked Lake in Cass County. Later, the Powers That Be renamed the lake in his honor: Roosevelt Lake, at a little bend in the road called “Outing on the Narrows” - now called Outing. The lodge is still there, either privately owned, and I believe is used by some corporate group as a retreat center. Corrections are welcome in this sketchy sidebar!

By: WRK

WRK — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:44:37 +0000

Hence, all food at the MN State Fair is now served on a stick.

By: 1 Boring Old Man » disincentives…

1 Boring Old Man » disincentives… — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:02:23 +0000

[…] Answer: Disincentives, Deterrants, Negative Consequences, etc. are the natural and normal methods that parents use the point kids in the right direction. It just makes intuitive sense that if you want to move people in a certain direction, you make the correct direction pleasurable, and the alternative aversive. Parents do such things with reward/punishment schemes, but more often by first occupying a position of respect, then shaping behavior by subtle changes in parental approval levels. There are two kinds of authority. The first is the authority of power, like that of a Major over a Seargant [delegated authority] as in "by the authority invested in me by the…" The second kind is the authority of expertise, as in "Einstein was an authority in the field of…" I guess that why authority has is derived from the word author. The optimal kind of authority is the second kind [backed up by an ability to use the first kind when necessary], as in "speak softly, but carry a big stick." Teddy Roosevelt said it in a speech when he was Vice President in 1901, a few weeks before the President was assassinated and he became President: Right here let me make as vigorous a plea as I know how in favor of saying nothing that we do not mean, and of acting without hesitation up to whatever we say. A good many of you are probably acquainted with the old proverb, “Speak softly and carry a big stick – you will go far.” If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power. In private life there are few beings more obnoxious than the man who is always loudly boasting, and if the boaster is not prepared to back up his words, his position becomes absolutely contemptible. So it is with the nation. It is both foolish and undignified to indulge in undue self-glorification, and, above all, in loose-tongued denunciation of other peoples. Whenever on any point we come in contact with a foreign power, I hope that we shall always strive to speak courteously and respectfully of that foreign power. […]

By: R. Roycki

R. Roycki — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:50:23 +0000