$100, 8 Hour CPA CPE

"What Could Happen
After What May Happen Next"

September 30, 2010

8:30am to 4:15pm

Quality Inn
440 Griffith Road
Charlotte, NC 28217

Greensboro CPA CPE

"What Could Happen After What May Happen Next"

September 21, 2010

8:30am to 4:15pm

Drury Inn & Suites,

Greensboro, NC

$100, 8 Hour CPA CPE

"What Could Happen After What May Happen Next"

September 9, 2010

8:15am to 4:30pm

Days Inn, Raleigh-Airport

Research Triangle Park 1000 Airport Drive Morrisville, NC

Geo-Politics and business is Zugzwang

Zugzwang…describes a situation where one player is put at a disadvantage because he has to make a move – the player would prefer to pass and make no move. The fact that the player must make a move means that his position will be significantly weaker than the hypothetical one in which it [...]

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Think does not = Chess

If you can’t necessarily control your pieces,
can you be obliged to move and/or sacrifice when you don’t want to?

If players don’t necessarily follow the same rules,
which can change without everyone knowing,
should you break rules if your opponent does?

Everybody sooner or later
sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Can winning be [...]

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What does a carnivore look for in the face of its prey and why?

If mold continues to multiply after eating half a piece of cheese
what happens when demand exceeds supply?

Are there times when compromise isn’t appropriate?

Should you do what you need to whether you like it or not
sooner than later?

Is the definition of civilized changing again?

I don’t care if I follow your rules, if you can [...]

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On China vs. USA and Chess: If nothing doesn’t change, is not making a move moving?

All warfare is based on deception,
…when able to attack we must seem unable,
when using our forces we must seem inactive,
when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far…,
when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

Sun Tzu

China’s hawks demand cold war on the US

…almost 55% [...]

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Think = Chess

A metaphor.

 

If there are 9,183,421,888 ways to play the first nine moves,

9,417,681 the first six, 72,078 the first four, 5,362 the first three

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Is this George W. Bush’s Legacy?

Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit

 

…President Obama called it “a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices [...]

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Is it a coincidence that corporate America received permission from SCOTUS to go after Obama the same day Obama went after corporate America?

Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit

 

Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

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Why would who have wanted Greensboro’s City Council to vote on the Swim Center before new members were sworn in?

Yvonne Johnson  for Mayor

 

Kelly Harrell                                    $100

Real Estate Developer, Koury

 

Stephen D. Showfety                       $100

Real Estate Developer, Koury

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Geo-Politics and business is Zugzwang

Zugzwang…describes a situation where one player is put at a disadvantage because he has to make a move – the player would prefer to pass and make no move. The fact that the player must make a move means that his position will be significantly weaker than the [...]

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If I get to Wednesday, I challenge Zack Matheny to a televised debate

Without censorship

 things can get terribly confused in the public mind

 

William Westmoreland

American military commander, Vietnam, 1964 [...]

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