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First They Came

A German pastor’s poem during the Nazi reign of WWII This poem seems to have more relevence today. First they…
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Never Argue With Stupid People – by Dr. Ross Reck

This is the beginning of a quote from Mark Twain. The full quote reads, “Never argue with stupid people, they…
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Shares Tumble – Tesla’s Downturn, Elon Musk’s Distain for America

Trump and Musk are destroying the electric vehicle market only to benefit themselves.
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Why is Andy Biggs No Good for Arizona?

Holds Town Meetings ONLY for Republicans – Why not listen to ALL of his constituents? Very strange to ignore almost…
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A “Glitch” or “Lock Them Up”?

When Hillary Clinton used a private email server, Donald Trump and his allies wanted her locked up. Now? Senior Trump…
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A Personal Visit to Someone Who is Down Can Work Miracles – by Dr. Ross Reck

Recently, I called a friend of mine who had been experiencing health issues for several weeks. When he answered his…
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View This Video – Twenty Minutes of Your Time – Tesla Take Down

The backlash to Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s alliance is hitting Tesla hard. From boycotts and protests to attacks on…
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Mr. Trump – Crowd Size Matters

Even during a non-election year, certain politicans bring in larger crowds than Mr. Trump.
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Disturbing – Elon Musk HATES US

The ultra-wealthy talk about solving the climate crisis or ending inequality. But what they’re really interested in is outliving or…
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What Does the World Think of the United States

Denmark “Ivan Hansen, a retired Danish police officer, loaded up his basket at the supermarket, carefully checking each product to…
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Barter

There are moments in a speakers career when it is not all about the money.
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Canada Has Eggs – United States’ Eggs are Scarce

Canadian chickens can catch avian flu, just like their American cousins. But the impact on Canada’s egg supply has so…
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Elon Musk’s Failures – Panels Fall Off

After falling sales, now Elon Musk faces another nightmare; Tesla halts Cybertruck deliveries as indestructible panels mysteriously fall off, sparking…
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The Foundation of a Meaningful Life – by Dr. Ross Reck

In their book, The Good Life, Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz point out that human beings are social creatures which means…
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I’m The King!

Great graphic from investigative reporter, Vince Wade. Visit his website at VinceWade.com
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Even Rubio Seems to have Lost his Spine

Rubio sat spineless during Trump’s and Vance’s meltdown in the oval office, then has the “guts” to post the following….
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Screw the Veterans – Another Service Disappearing

Phoenix VA Newsletter – March 12, 2025 Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center Library Closing
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Arizona Billboard Mocks Trump

Free Speech Opponents Throw Death Threats at the Artists
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Ugh? SpaceX Make Air Travel Safer?

You think Musk will make air travel safer? View of March 6, 2025, failure from Jamica changing the flight path…
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Poet on Poet Walk

Poet’s Walk I visited the Poet’s Walk and what a joy it was for me last Tuesday. 14 students with…
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  • Safety Hard Hat
    Better Safety Meetings
    The entire audience was hissing the speaker except for one man. He was applauding the hissing. Does this sound like your last safety meeting? Oh, if this could have been your last safety meeting, but no, there is another one staring you right in the face.
  • Art Fettig - Safety Pledge
    A Whole New Look
    Did you ever go to describe something to somebody and as you did so you got a whole new look at what you were describing? 
  • Humility Is The Key To Sustaining Success by Ross Reck
    There’s a very seductive trap that people often fall …
  • By Risking Nothing, You Risk Everything by Ross Reck
    The above quote from actress Geena Davis says it all …
  • Reconciling Works - Lutherans for Full Participation
    Positive reaction to the decisions of the 2009 Churchwide Assembly
    We have not exulted about the decisions of the 2009 Churchwide Assembly regarding the Social Statement on Human Sexuality and the change in ministry policies. We have been mindful that there were sisters and brothers in Christ who were pained by the decisions, and we wanted to treat their pain with the respect it deserved.
  • Art Fettig in Mt. Airy, North Carolina - Andy Griffith
    Mayberry Days – by Art Fettig
    That was the weekend that was and I doubt that I will ever forget it. With my host, Dan Hornak, I visited the Mayberry festival held at Mt. Airy, N.C. and I shook hundreds and hands and posed for so many pictures that my upper lip was numb from all that smiling.
  • Danger
    How Many Lives?
    I have a Distinguished Service to Safety Plaque from the National Safety Council dated 2002 and the metal plate fell off of it. I took it to the frame shop for advice and then stopped over at a friends repair shop.
  • Abe Lincoln
    A Lesson from Honest Abe – by Art Fettig
    Abraham Lincoln was reported to have said, 1.You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
  • Jet Airplane
    Changing the Mood
    I first met Sue in Atlanta when I worked with her husband, Richard, while I was doing some speeches for Alabama Power there.
  • Couple on Bench watching the ocean
    Vocations and Vacations
    “The secret of success…is making your vocation your vacation.” – Mark Twain As I read this quote I started looking back on my career and I can honestly say that I did just as Mark Train suggested many years ago.
  • Golf
    See It In Your Mind’s Eye – by Art Fettig
    Recently when Korean golfer Y. E. Yang absolutely whomped the one and only Tiger Woods at the PGA Championship at Hazeltine he said, “I tried to visualize … how to win if I ever played against Tiger.”
  • Writing Things Down
    It Goes On and On – by Art Fettig
    I had another of those phone calls yesterday. It began like most of them do, “Art, I heard you speak ten (or fifteen or twenty) years ago and you talked about positive interaction. You persuaded our entire work force to sign a commitment to safety and we have signed that commitment again and again each year pledging to look out for our own safety and the safety of our fellow worker.”
  • Walter Kraft - WXYZ-TV, Southfield, Michigan
    Eastern Michigan University names Kraft vice president for communications
    YPSILANTI, July 27, 2009 – Eastern Michigan University has named Walter Kraft as its new vice president for communications, pending approval by the Board of Regents. The appointment is effective August 10, 2009.
  • Candle
    Renewal – by Art Fettig
    It seems like most of the work I do lately ends up on a pile some where.  Some of the things that used to take me an hour now take me a day or even two.
  • Courage
    Courage – by Art Fettig
    It takes real courage to work in the safety field. Sometimes resistance is coming at you from all directions at the same time. Here is something I wrote some time ago in my book Serenity! Serenity! Living the Serenity Prayer.
  • Make a Circle
    Make a Circle – by Art Fettig
    People don’t do what you tell them to do, they do what they see you doing and if you don’t like the way your children are turning out then take a look at yourself. Remember when you point one finger at them you have three fingers pointing right back at you. Don’t like the way your teenagers are driving and smashing up your cars? Take a good look at your own driving, after all you have been teaching them by your example for years.
  • There is a Way to Pay for a Nationalized Health Care Program that Would Make Everyone Happy by Ross Reck
    Right now, nobody seems to be happy with President …
  • Art Fettig’s Newsletter – June 1, 2009
    In the very early seventies I started working with a noted psychologist from Notre Dame University to learn more about employee behavior.  I was trying to figure our why we had such a rotten safety record and what we might do about it. 
  • Marriage License: California Supreme Court
    On May 26, 2009 the California Supreme Court issued a ruling upholding the constitutionality of Prop 8 which bans gay marriages in the state. Soulforce of Colorado held a nonviolent direct action that same afternoon to protest the ruling and also remind Colorado that marriage equality does not exist here either.
  • 68%Increase in Business by Art Fettig
    For years now I have been saying that for every negative thing that happens there is an equal positive force if you can only find it.  Well, today I read that GM is closing over a thousand of its dealerships
  • Hypertrophic Osteodystrophy of the Proximal Humerus in Two Dogs
    Two dogs, 3 and 6 months of age, were presented with painful, swollen shoulder and carpal joints; reluctance to stand; and pyrexia. Radiographs in both cases revealed an irregular lucent zone in the metaphysis of the proximal humerus, parallel and adjacent to the physis.
  • Ross Reck: Abusive Bosses Are a Luxury No Business Can Afford
    We’ve known for nearly a century that the better you treat people, the harder they’ll work. It’s a pretty straightforward relationship. This being the case, it seems logical to conclude that the job of every team leader, supervisor, manager and executive should be to treat their employees as well as possible so they become excited about coming to work and applying their best efforts toward performing their jobs every day. Unfortunately it turns out that such behavior is the exception rather than the rule.
  • Girl Reading
    Don’t Wait Too Long – by Art Fettig
    I wrote a song with the above title and as I was listening to it I had the thought today, “Just what is too long?” Is there a certain time in your life when you should give up on a dream and let it go? What if that dream comes back again and again throughout your lifetime? Should you pay any attention to it? What I am learning as I get older is that the real joys in life come in the journey. Reaching your destination is always a sort of a letdown.
  • Icy Road
    Climbing an Icy Hill
    Sunday we drove over to a beautiful little mountain village named Cashiers, in the Blue Ridge Mountains discovered the Laurelwood Mountain Inn.
  • Paper Trail
    Leaving a Trail – by Art Fettig
    Whenever the President nominates someone for an important position in government the Senators get their bird dogs out and they start searching for any paper trail the candidate might have left to be exposed in hearings.
  • University Lutheran Church Newsletter - January 2008
    Newsletter – January 2008
    University Lutheran Church, Tempe, Arizona
  • Travel Luggage
    Capitalize On Your Moments Of Truth – by Dr. Ross Reck
    A moment of truth is an opportunity to come through when the people around you don’t expect you to. I was on a Hertz Rental Car bus in Chicago one time when a pregnant woman traveling with three kids and six suitcases was about to get off.
  • Hardware
    Customers Prefer Special Treatment Over Low Price – by Dr. Ross Reck
    Some relatives of mine, Dick and Lucille, own and manage a hardware store in a small town in Michigan.  The hardware store they own is part of a chain of hardware stores that specializes in serving small communities.

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