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Archive for December, 2009
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
We Are Extras in Green Films.
The greening of us all by Hollywood.
Last night I watched part one of a new adaptation of ‘The Day of the Triffids’. In it, the main characters spoke of the rise of the Triffids as a rightful rebellion by plants against the destruction of the planet by mankind.
The ‘Day After [...]
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
There are likely few of us in the world who have experienced the joy of being totally free. There are some I’m sure who had no freedom, then experienced the joy of freedom from their captors. Freedom from cancer, disease and drugs comes to mind. I imagine though that of the great majority of us, [...]
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
50% of Americans live alone people! The world is over populated and does not need a single more mouth to feed, so “spreading the seed” is obsolete and counter-evolutionary now. Only 12% of American population is man/woman/children nuclear family, that Beaver Cleaver era is gone people.
I am a late-40’s female who worked my way through [...]
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
America’s Artificial Rift: The Two Party System
On any given day you can find a news story that focuses on the conflict between democrats and republicans, or Group A and Group B. These groups could be anything, but as long as they are toted as being the opposite of each other, they will clash. When one [...]
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
This land of a free people and a free-market economy has generated a great wave of innovation that has benefited all of humanity.
This land of a free people and a free-market economy has generated a great wave of innovation that has benefited all of humanity. The essence of freedom and prosperity that moved around the [...]
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
Climate science is a productive pursuit with Nobel Prizes, an Oscar, billions in research funding, massive tax grabs and wealth for exploiters.
Time to Revisit Falsified Science of CO2
Climate science is a productive pursuit with Nobel Prizes, an Oscar, billions in research funding, massive tax grabs and wealth for exploiters. Continuation of these activities partly validated [...]
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Sunday, December 27th, 2009
I will not abide by this bill if it is passed into law. And if the government levies a fine, I will not pay it. I’ve had enough.
I have been a law-abiding citizen all my life. I’ve always played by the rules. That is about to change. The early morning passage today of the Senate [...]
Tags: Nationalized healthcare Posted in Health Care, Trust the Government?, Wealth Disparity | No Comments »
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
How do we fix so many of the problems in this country? Fix our immigration problem!!! I’m not referring to the illegal people that sneak in (though that should be stopped as well) I’m talking about the million plus people that are allowed to move here legally each year. Of course some will say that [...]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Being forced to buy healthcare by the U.S. government will hardly be seen as a gift from Santa.
Senate Passes Healthcare – Victory with no Honor.
Santa came early on Christmas Eve 2009 for the embattled Democrats of the Senate who passed the Obama Healthcare bill as expected.
Being forced to buy healthcare by the U.S. government will [...]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Can We Rescue the Republic Before the Dark Politics Take Over?
Did America slip into a semiliterate, polarized, pre-fascist state over the past decade or so, allowing greedy oligarchs and corporate elites to run the government? Two books I recently read offer reasonably persuasive evidence and arguments that the country did, and a third suggests that [...]
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