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Mr. MacLean is the founder and President of the Michigan based, directional Quality firm, Q21: 21st Century Quality, LLC. Gary is certified as a Mechanical Inspector, Quality Technician, Quality Auditor, and Quality Engineer by the American Society for Quality

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Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms Should US citizens focus less on material wealth and more on quality of life?: 3 of 45
I'm basically, pretty much a materialistic kind of guy. By that, I mean I like things, lots of things. I want to own things and play with them and enjoy them. I think a certain amount of material wealth reflects a person's hard work and success. I appreciate the developments our world has made in regard to electronics, appli... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Lifestyles & Subcultures (Other) Living versus existing: 3 of 37
I live; therefore I exist. I exist; therefore I live. I cannot do one without the other. I must exist before I live, for without existence one has nothing and one is nothing. To exist I need but wait. I wait for the moment when the Father of my future is blessed by the all mighty, who in turn touches the Mother of my future ... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Racism Is racism taught or learned?: 9 of 80
For something to legitimately be "taught" there must be purpose; mutual, beneficial purpose. The teacher must have purpose, to improve the student's level of understanding of the subject, and the student must have purpose, to improve their personal comprehension of the subject. It is very difficult to force teach anything to... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Racism Understanding why people stereotype: 5 of 44
Why do people stereotype? Because it's fun and it's quick! It's totally harmless and usually all in fun. I do not understand the fuss about the whole thing. My ethnicity is Scotch / Irish / English / Indian. I'm a third generation American. My Grandparents were full blooded from wherever they came. They married and one set b... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values Hometowns: Reminiscing about the place where we grew up: 5 of 37
DAD'S HOUSE My Mother and Father got a divorce when I was four years old. Mom had been awarded a life-long lease to live in Dad's house. She didn't get the house or the property but she did get "life-time" rights to the house and the property immediately surrounding the house, about three acres. The few acres around the hous... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values 10 things I hate about the world we live in: 39 of 273
I hate to think that I hate anything about our world. Wait a minute, does that count as one of my ten? We have no alternative; we live here or we don't live. We have some freedom to choose where on this world we live but that's as much control as we really have. So I thought about and some how I came up with a list of over 3... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values How to love your life: 7 of 37
I lost my job a couple of years ago. I was making a solid six figure income. We were very comfortable. We had what we would call luxuries. We could go to the movies whenever we wanted to. We went out to dinner nearly every night. We had services to clean our house, do our dry cleaning and tend to the yard. We were financiall... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Cultural Relations Resolution in Iraq: Creating stability and assisting the Iraqis: 1 of 5
My God, can we please quit ragging on the current administration for the war in Iraq. None of us have ever even been there for Pete's sake. What do we know? All we know is what the few people we each associate with know; nothing more. It's a war already, what do you want? War is war and war is hell. That's all there is to it... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms Is the slang use of the word "retard" or "retarded" discriminatory?: 9 of 33
At times I feel we may accommodate everything too much. I think the practice of giving every negative human trait a name of a disease contributes to our belief that we are in control of nothing. Anything that does go wrong is purely a result of some sort of exotic disease. In a way, the use of the words retard or retarded is... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values Once a criminal, always a criminal: 6 of 21
ONCE A CRIMINAL - ALWAYS A CRIMINAL If a person becomes a criminal will he stay one? Are the rewards of being a criminal such that it is more appealing to steal than it is to make a few dollars with an honest day's work? When I said "...becomes a criminal..." I did so because I don't think one mis-deed makes a criminal; it w... More..