Adversity is something everyone experiences. Currently, our entire country is feeling some sort of adversity. Everyone either knows of someone, or are themselves, in financial difficulties. Like some sort of Snidely Whiplash, the economy is robbing us of everything including our homes. People are edgy, nasty and cannot see beyond their own need. We are like lions on a carcass growling at anyone who may appear on the horizon. We are no longer friendly because being nice is weakness and right now the only thing that is taught on the streets is ‘The Eye of the Tiger’.
Our government has spent $50 billion in reconstruction, and according to more than 300 different audits, $5 billion of the $50 billion has been wasted on projects that have either been abandoned, unused, or completely left empty and unutilized. We, as citizens, and voters, should be outraged, and should really make sure that this kind of thing stops happening.
What is Freedom? Is freedom your -not so admirable- ability to buy what ever the f*#! you want whenever you want? Is it exercising your own free will? I would say the latter of course, but I highly doubt this comes to mind with most folks around here...Take away their ability to buy shit, and you might see a full on civil war. Pass another rule, make another law...and no one really gives a f*#! as long as they can keep on working behind their olive colored cubicle walls and continue to buy meaningless stuff.
Financier and speculator George Soros may just be the most powerful man in the world, but you'd never know that by reading newspapers or watching TV news. We all know about mediamatters.com and his other "front" organizations. We know of his ties to Barack Obama, but that information has mainly been dug out by bloggers and the Internet news.
If the United States Government truly believes that the women and men of the Armed Forces are our real live heroes after sacrificing their lives and limbs in protecting our country in these dangerous times, then why do they have to work to make ends meet while others are encouraged by this very same government to sit down doing nothing, receiving a check, housing, food and free health care to produce nothing with their lives except more babies?
The conventional top-down media driven political campaign isn’t working anymore because we don’t believe what we hear from strangers. Now each of us must conduct our own campaign within our own circle of acquaintances, until the circle spreads to include thousands of voters.
Blogger Georgeann King links to many of the popular, funny and effective GOP ads that have Conservatives watching with approval and eager to vote in the 2010 midterm elections. She gets inside the mind of Don Draper of the hit AMC drama, "Mad Men," to make the point that new media and old media work together but new media ... not on the networks ... has a big influence in today's politics.
Although I am left of President Obama on most things, I still voted for him and will again. I will continue to support Democrats with the following exception. I will work to have liberals and progressives replace any centrist or conservative "Democrats" in this year's and following Primaries. It really cracks me up how the current media infatuation with the clearly maniacle Tea Baggers makes less informed folks on the extreme right think that they will be overthrowing the wave of change still coming to our great Country. There is still much more change to come folks!
What will the future hold for Tea Party revolutionaries, militia members, and Oath Keepers, for people opting out of the culture in ever-increasing numbers, once the Revolution ends? It’s unlikely that the future will be as kind to them as it was to the peace-and-love revolutionaries of the 1960s, who lived in a kinder, more permissive world, one with greater career opportunities and a stronger social safety net.
Temperatures on earth have been rising and falling over billions of years, and evidence that man's pre-dominantly responsible is far from conclusive (particularly since our existence only counts for a tiny fraction of the evolutionary timeline). However, the danger of exhausting current energy supply is beyond dispute, and more likely to affect us sooner than the need to seek inspiration from a certain biblical shipwright.
Being a critical medical researcher, I give advice to my friends, particularly my friends who are also parents, about vaccination. I do not do so in a forceful manner, I just ask people to bear in mind what they are putting into their bodies, considering the toxic "non-medicinal ingredients" such as glycine and aluminum hydrochloride, that comprise a good deal of new vaccines. I became quite passionate about arguing against vaccination during the H1N1 panic, and as new vaccines are being released en masse now - for example the "TwinRix" vaccine recommended for anyone traveling s
Is the purpose of Communism just to kill all of the people that can see the alien presence? I figure that this is why disclosure is not forthcoming. The aliens have experienced plenty of human ‘acceptance’ throughout history. That is why real history is hidden and vaulted away in places like the Vatican. Are bluebloods aliens? Are they Khazars or Ashkenazi? Is the Zionist conspiracy to cover up their extraterrestrial origins? Were the Bolsheviks murdering alien whistleblowers?
The Brady Campaign has initiated a bully campaign against Starbucks in the hopes to intimidate them into changing their policy on patrons openly displaying their sidearms in states where open-carry is legal. Starbucks has fired back saying they do not appreciate being drawn into this debate, and request both pro-gun and anti-gun forces to take their battle to state legislatures. It is my view that the Brady Campaign has crossed the line and are bordering on harassment, and Starbucks would be in the right to take legal action. What do you think?
This week, a White House official said, and the Associated Press dutifully reported that "President Barack Obama is a Christian, who prays daily". While a statement by one anointed official captured the headline, 61% of people polled collectively spoke "It Doesn't Show". 18% of people believe that Obama is a Muslim and another 43% said they don't know his religion. The Christian faith does not show in this man.
I blogged today on Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Russell Simmons, who gave great statements of reason on the presence of a mosque on the Ground Zero site.
For my first six months as a blogger, I did not dare show an actual photograph of myself on my blog, or elsewhere on the web. I was just a ghost with the screen name "scarsarestories". I was a little paranoid, since I blog about contraversial, and sometimes local topics. Then I thought, "Screw it!" How many times a day is my face captured on camera while walking down the street, never mind when speaking with folks from around the world who read my writing and talk with me about it? - this is my dream come true!
I had to do it. I found that friends were starting to treat me and others like "facebook friends" in real life, for example, "collecting friends" - so that just like you can show off how many "friends" you have on your "facebook friends list" - you can do this in real life, by calling people and making tentative plans without any attention of following through with them. I have lost friends via facebook because I have found people will be reactionary and start throwing insults at me that they never would in person if they disagree with something I say. I also noticed that
Last week I was doing research at school for a writing class project. I had found a few good journal articles on my subject via Google Scholar. My professor suggested that I dig through the references list of an article we already had to find some good source material, which sounded like a good idea. There were probably fifty or sixty references listed in the article I chose. I typed the name of the first article into Google Scholar and clicked the title.
Is it just me, or is it just getting too much now? The constant talk, so-called ‘expert analysis’, endless trite journalistic commentary, minute probing of every possible element of the party leaders’ purported personalities, cameras and microphones extended ruthlessly into every conceivable party-political orifice, and all of this played over and over again ad nauseum.
UNITED NATIONS – In James Cameron’s Blockbuster hit Avatar, an indigenous people called the Na’vi try to fend off a private military force from invading their mineral-rich land. In the Brazilian state of Para, the situation isn’t all that different, as 13 indigenous tribes are working to prevent the construction of the Belo Monte electro-power plant.
America is fat, sorry, obese, and we're mad as hell about it. I've figured out how to fix this. The answer to ridding America of obesity? Change the language. We all know the age-old chubby girl trick of calling a fat girl pleasantly plump and telling your overweight husband that there is more of him to love. But these methods are trite. We need a systemic change.
What happens now? Let's forget about just health care for now (I know, that's difficult!). Congress has just changed the rules forever. The method utilized by the Dems means that the filibuster is dead. Nothing will stop any bill that the majority wants passed now. All that needs to be done is to pass anything on any topic with the 60 votes and then put in what they really want with a simple majority.
In both the wedding world and politics, gay marriage is a very hot topic. First, there was a the passing of Proposition 8 in California, which had banned gay marriage in the state. Then, Martha Stewart Weddings featured its first ever gay wedding in their magazine.
