Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category

Why Vote?

Short question that could generate  a virtually  unlimited number of answers, I guess. Because we are supposed to, I don’t know, it’s the American way, use it or lose it, to get my candidate elected, to defeat the candidate I don’t like, etc. I know there are many more, some very meaningful and others not [...]

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Scary Things

Tomorrow is Halloween and that means different things depending probably on your age as much as anything else. For the little people, it means legally sanctioned plundering. All the candy and goodies and McDonald’s coupons you can persuade people to give you. Fyi, don’t you hate it when people  who are old enough to know [...]

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Traveling Through Medina

Not the city in the Saudi Arabia, but the one located in the state of Washington; actually should be considered a suburb of Seattle, I guess. It  is a  small city of  3,100 with an extraordinarily high average income of several times the national average. It also has a relatively unique sign welcoming those who enter the city [...]

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Will This Fix California?

The great state of California is in a mess. The state has no money to pay its employees and has even resorted to the use of IOU’S. Yes, this is a state, that if it were a country, would have one of the top 10 GNP’s in the world. After convoluted wrangling, they passed  a [...]

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Paging Al Michaels

Or,The Three Amigos ride again. Just to show that upsets happen in other venues beside sports, President Barack Obama was named the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, surprising both friend  and foe alike and leaving the President “surprised” and “deeply humbled”. Not sure I buy either of those statements but shall let them [...]

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Did You Eat Breakfast Today?

The breaking of the fast, aka breakfast, has long been my favorite meal. Give me my coffee and  an egg mcmuffin or dounts  or  just regular muffins or any one of an almost endless number of  choices, always including coffee of course, and I am content. Alas, it has not always been so. As an [...]

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Next Stop,Norway

A study has been released by the UN  that ranks the quality of life for 182 countries.The annual human development report was issued Monday in Bangkok by the UN development program. The index factors in life expectancy, literacy,school enrollment and  per capita gross domestic product.
Alas, we are not #1. But we are #13, well up [...]

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Very Healthy Health Care

I suppose the hottest of hot button issues these days is the subject of health care. How can and how should it be reformed or fixed, who has it, who needs it, who should get it,etc. It is by no means a simple topic or a  small one(1/6 of the US economy) and it has [...]

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This Is The Party of Compassion?

We evilllllllllll   Republicans are at it again. According to 1st term Florida congressman, Alan Grayson (landslide Alan 52-48% winner), Republicans want people to die. That is the Republican health care plan, he says. Either don’t get sick or get sick and die quickly. He quotes from a study that says some 40-45 thousand people die [...]

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This Really Burns Me Up

Would that  I knew a more expressive word to describe my response to this article. Energy Secretary Dr Steven Chu has compared the american public to teenaged kids when it comes to  greenhouse gas emissions. A quote,”The American public…just like your teenage kids aren’t acting in a way that they should act.The American public has [...]

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