Never appeal to a man's better nature.  He may not have one.  Invoking his self interest gives you more leverage.

Heinlein/Long ...still... read everything of his I could get my hands on  during this period.

A competant and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anythings.

Heinlein again, via Lazarus Long, again.  As were several of the earlier ones.  Detecting a theme?

Oh .... and Happy Bastille Day

No THERE'S a slogan for POTUS to run on in 2012.

Several links: JAMES TARANTO: Raise Taxes, Or Granny Gets It. “The kids are acting up, so he threatens to starve Granny to death. That’s just how a strong father behaves. It looks to us as if Obama may once again be overestimating his persuasive powers by relying for feedback on journalists who, for a combination of ideological, partisan and personal reasons, are predisposed to take his side.”

Human Shields: Obama to use Social Security recipients as human shields if GOP doesn’t give him massive tax increase.

RICH GALEN: “After watching the President for the past 26 months I have determined he has two negotiating positions: Arrogant and petulant.”

MARK TAPSCOTT: “Washington gets $200 billion a month, Social Security costs $50 billion a month, and Obama is threatening to starve Grandma?”

So was that whole Trust Fund business just a big fat lie all along?

There are a LOT of places to start, but here's one.

The highest-paid state employee in California last year, a prison surgeon who took home $777,423, has a history of mental illness, was fired once for alleged incompetence and has not been allowed to treat an inmate for six years because medical supervisors don't trust his clinical skills.

Only a sadistic fool or a scoundrel tells the truth on social occasions. -

Robert A Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long, and other sources

and the sad thing is most readers won't get the title reference.

Sherwood Schwartz, 'Gilligan's Island' and 'Brady Bunch' creator, dead at 94

but others aren't so optimistic

"–JOHNNY DEPP IN BIG SCREEN VERSION OF “THE NIGHT STALKER”?

It’s one thing for an increasingly desperate Hollywood to remake a decent concept, it’s another to try and remake an iconic character. Like the ill-fated television reboot of “The Rockford Files” (that never got past the pilot stage), you can’t recreate Darren McGavin’s Carl Kolchak any more than you can create James Garner’s Jim Rockford or Red Foxx’s Fred Sanford. These are lightning in a bottle, character-driven classics.

Furthermore, television already tried and failed to reboot “The Night Stalker.” Is Hollywood now so out of ideas they’re actually remaking failures?

Note to Hollywood: You can call it “The Night Stalker,” but it won’t be “The Night Stalker.”"

in todays presser.