Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
1
Nov
Posted by tarheeltalker in Culture, economy. Tagged: Alma Adams, Chapel Hill, Daily Advance, East Carolina University, elections, Elizabeth City, Elizabeth City State University, Greenville, Guilford County, North Carolina, State legislators, University of North Carolina, voting, Wal-Mart. 1 Comment
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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30
Oct
Posted by tarheeltalker in Children, Culture. Tagged: NCIS, dogs, McDonald;'s, pets, Chris Matthews, MSNBC, CNN, Afghanistan, Washington DC, Linus, Great Pumpkin, Taliban, Capitol, Halloween, Tony DiNozzo, Peanuts. 2 Comments
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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11
Oct
Posted by tarheeltalker in Culture, Technology. Tagged: ACLU, Crime, Department of Homeland Security, Doug Honig, Jeffrey Chen, Lucius Biglow, Manhattan, Medina, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, privacy, Robert Rudolph, Saudi Arabia, Seattle, Washington. 3 Comments
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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10
Oct
Posted by tarheeltalker in Culture, Politics. Tagged: Arnold, Berkeley, California, Congress, Doug Richardson, Eric Holder, Greg Kerlikowske, H D Palmer, Justice Department, Los Angeles, Marijuana, Nevada, Rush Limbaugh, San Francisco, taxes, White House Office of Drug Control Policy. 2 Comments
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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9
Oct
Posted by tarheeltalker in Culture. Tagged: Al Gore, Al Michaels, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Denmark, Desmond Tutu, George Bush, Iran, Jimmy Carter, Lech Walesa, Nobel Peace Prize, Norway, Olympics, Poland, South Africa, Steve Martin, Theodore Roosevelt, Three Amigos, Woodrow Wilson. 15 Comments
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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8
Oct
Posted by tarheeltalker in Children, Culture. Tagged: Arlene Ackerman, Coffee, Community Legal Services, Department of Education, education, Food Research and Action Center, Jim Weill, Kathy Fisher, McDonald;'s, Michael Masch, Philadelphia, Public Citizens for Children and Youth, Wayne Grasela. 3 Comments
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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7
Oct
Posted by tarheeltalker in Culture, Life. Tagged: Bangkok, Barack Obama, Cyprus, Denmark, Dr Mahbub ul Haq, George Bush, Norway, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Unied Arab Emirates, United Nations, United States. 1 Comment
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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5
Oct
Posted by tarheeltalker in Culture, Health. Tagged: Associated Press, Barack Obama, Cary, Matt Ehlers, News&Observer, North Carolina, Physicians, Raleigh, SAS. 5 Comments
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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30
Sep
Posted by tarheeltalker in Culture, Health, Media, Politics. Tagged: MSNBC, Supreme Court, Minnesota, Health Care, Alan Grayson, Florida, Dianne Feinstein, Arlen Specter, Robert Byrd, Frank Lautenberg, Republicans, Chicago Tribune, Garrison Keilor, Prarie Home Companion, Tim Pawlenty, Elijah Cummings. 5 Comments
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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22
Sep
Posted by tarheeltalker in Culture. Tagged: algore, Dan Leistikow, Dr Steven Chu, Energy Department, Environment, Greenhouse gases, Joe Biden, Oxford University. Leave a Comment
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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