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Suck It Up
There are in this life a great many things affecting you which you can’t change. You might try, but if your attempts affect too much other people, it will simply create more and bigger problems. Do I need to raise … Continue reading
Sometimes It Scares Me
It scares me when someone in a fairly mainstream publication says something which makes sense. I’m afraid Greenwald does that now and then. In a democracy, one could expect that politicians would be afraid to express a view that 70% … Continue reading
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Tagged geography, government, history
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Dream Ride: Mass Transit
Thanks to the US military service, I spent quite some years in Europe. I must confess I prefer living there over living in the US, but I could never afford to go back there on my own. I’m not too … Continue reading
Posted in globalism, social sciences
Tagged culture, economics
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Can’t Be Justified
I can’t support this: Israeli Diplomats Prepare Ground for Gaza Action. When the attack comes, I can’t watch. Israel has the upper hand in every way. So much so, they have to provide their own undercover fake terrorists to launch … Continue reading
Never Wrong
The alternative and underground news sources are loaded with stories of various plans to permit more and more use of force against ordinary folks. Naturally there are a thousand justifications for all this. Even the Pentagon is now revealing plans … Continue reading
She Doesn’t Get It
Jojo Moyes says the scientists are wrong. When their research indicates chick-flix (“romantic comedies”) raise unrealistic expectations, which expectations cause needless conflicts in relationships, she says they don’t realize women know the difference between fiction and reality. Such stories are … Continue reading
We Deserve to Lose
We are accountable for commands from God as found in the Bible. It helps if you have some grasp of the context in which that Bible was written. Jumping into the narrative with Western philosophical assumptions will simply get you … Continue reading
Retirement Will Retire
Used to, only the wealthiest folks retired. Others simply died working, or got too infirm to make their own way, and moved in with family so they could die in peace. Most folks didn’t talk about retirement. A few got … Continue reading
All Too Soon
As mentioned previously, all this prognostication is just a guessing game. But you’d have to be completely blind to think we aren’t going to experience significant misery here in the US, and quite likely the whole world. One of my … Continue reading
Dire Predictions: Guessing Game
We are in recession; that’s official. Actually it’s far worse than that, but our government is notorious for torturing statistics, among other victims, and these statistics will confess to anything the torturer wants to hear. To the government’s advantage, the … Continue reading