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Despite Deep Cuts, Defense Spending Deepens
Many of us watched in disgust the ministrations of our lawmakers as they preened, lied, cried, threatened, insulted one another and worst of all, showed their unbridled contempt for America as conservatives promised to shut down its government. The Tea … Continue reading
Posted in Bad, Economy, Government, Human Behavior, Hurting, Hypocrites, Institutionalized Hatred, National, Offensive, politics, Ridiculous/Absurd, Scum Bags, Soup du jour, Trends that suck, World
Tagged Defense Spending, DOD, hopelessness, new thing, politics, poor, Poverty, right-wing, ultra conservative, USA Budget, values
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Study: Future World Water Shortage Spells Disaster
If current urbanization and climate trends continue, by 2050 more than one billion city dwellers will suffer as a dearth of water creates global panic. A study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences predicts that by the middle of the century, an estimated 993 million urbanites will have to make do with a daily water ration of roughly a bathtub full (less than 100 liters [26 gallons]. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, Films, Food Supply, Futue, Greed, Human Behavior, international, NPR, politics, Soup du jour, Trends that suck, World
Tagged "Journet to Planet Earth", Agriculture, Alternat Fuel, Civilization, Climate Change, Earth Policy Instutute, farming, Fossil Fuel, Future, Land, Lester Brown, life, living, Matt Damon, media, Nation, Natural Resources, new thing, PBS, prediction, Public TV, Science, trends, Urban, Water, World
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Utah Legislators Choose Official State Gun
State trees, state birds, state flowers, state songs, states celebrate their histories, heritage, values, economies and much moreby designating special things to differentiates them and makes them special. Utah recently became the first to add a handgun to its identity. Redneck crackers. Continue reading
Posted in Human Behavior, Hurting, politics, Ridiculous/Absurd, Scum Bags, Soup du jour, State, Trends that suck
Tagged GOP, Gun violence, guns, handguns, irresponsible government, new thing, outrageous, politics, pop culture, public behavior, rednecks, religious right, right-wing, trends, trigger-happy right, ultra conservative, Utah, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, values
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GM: Back in Black After Bankrputcy
Old news by now but I wasn’t blogging when this appeared and since I wrote on it earlier, thought it worth revisiting. In case you missed it, GM recently reported profits of $4.7bn on new vehicle sales. As if that … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Business, Economy, Good, Government, Helping, History, Human Behavior, international, National, Performance, politics
Tagged American Cars, Auto Workers, Bankruptcy, cars, Democracy, Domestic cars, Economic Recovery, economy, GM, GM back, GM Profits, GOP, Government Motors, hatred, history, Labor, Labor concessions, liberal progressive politics, life, living, new thing, Obama, politics, public discourse, right-wing, U.S. Auto Industry, ultra conservative
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Facebook Lesson: Post at Your Own Risk
And therein lies the cruel reality of web content. Unlike spoken (unrecorded) words, a record remains. Once one posts, one must assume it can or may be seen by anyone, regardless of intent. Continue reading
Posted in Belonging, Entertainment, Frivolous, Human Behavior, international, online, pop culture, Soup du jour, World
Tagged change, Facebook, friends, Internet, internet law, life, living, Net content, net privacy, networking, new thing, on-line comments, pop culture, social, social networking, trends, web community, WWW
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“There’s a Change in the Weather and There’s a Change in Me”: Mitch McConnell on Quick Decisions
Comparing the Japanese Tsunami, a natural disaster, with the BP Oil Spill (a man-made disaster), McConnell deduces, “I don’t think right after a major environmental catastrophe is a very good time to be making American domestic policy. My, how opinions on the right indeed seem to change “with the weather”. Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatives, decisions, disasters. Tsunami, energy, energy policy, GOP, Government, Japan, Japanese disaster, living, natural disasters, new thing, Nuclear Power, Oil, outrageous, politics, profits, public discourse, religious right, right-wing, ultra conservative, USA
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Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?
Think a million dollars is a lot of money? Well, according to a recent Fidelity Investments survey, forty percent of American millionaires don’t. In fact, prevailing opinion among those surveyed is that one needs $7.5 Million to feel wealthy. Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Greed, Human Behavior, Hurting, National, politics, Record Profits, Ridiculous/Absurd, Trends that suck
Tagged Democracy, life, living, new thing, poor, Poverty, trends, values
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NWO is Back
I’ve been letting New World Odor float in the ether for some time now, waiting for a good reason to return. In my last ADD med consult, my physician asked if I’d blogged lately and I admitted that I’d not. … Continue reading
Posted in Human Behavior, National, politics, Soup du jour, Uncategorized
Tagged Entertainment, life, living, media, new thing, politics, writing
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Dr. West changes opinion of President Obama
Disregard most of the comments in reaction to this clip. I doubt that many of the posters have read Dr. West or know much of his work. Suffice to say that Cornel West is worth listening to…and as usual, I … Continue reading →