Category: Current Events

  • Living Forever! I’m tellng you, I’m going to do it

    Living Forever! I’m tellng you, I’m going to do it

    Check out this article. It’s from a scientist who thinks we can live forever:My bright idea: Aubrey de Grey on living longer | Science | The Observer I’m all for it

  • Why I think we’re at the bottom

    Why I think we’re at the bottom

    I follow the economic catastrophe at a variety of places. One blog I love is Calculated Risk. Today, they link to an article by Roubini: Calculated Risk: Roubini: “Reflections on the latest sucker’s rally” People love Roubini because he pretty much called this economic situation spot on: Nouriel Roubini – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fortune…

  • Dalai Lama’s utter distortion of Tibet history

    Dalai Lama’s utter distortion of Tibet history

    It’s truly rare for me to get an extremely clear perspective from a news organization that has a total different point of view. Educated Americans love to sight the BBC as “unbiased, unfiltered news.” It’s just news that fits with their own bias. I just read this fascinating story about the Dalai Lama: Dalai Lama’s…

  • Jindal Is Wrong – Expanding State Unemployment Insurance Is Temporary

    Jindal Is Wrong – Expanding State Unemployment Insurance Is Temporary

    I’m really curious about this whole thing of some Republican Governors not accepting part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 a.k.a: stimulus package: Jindal to refuse some stimulus money – Alexander Burns – POLITICO.com Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced Friday that he will decline stimulus money specifically targeted at expanding state unemployment…

  • America on Center Stage

    America on Center Stage

    Op-Ed Columnist – Paging Uncle Sam – NYTimes.com This is a Thomas Friedman (“Hot Flat and Crowded”) piece. He is writing it from Asia. There are many, many Americans who often feel embarrassed by their country and fellow countrymen. One reason is because we are so self-obsessed that we hardly acknowledge there are other countries…

  • My Prejudice

    My Prejudice

    I fight with a known prejudice I have concerning this whole economic thing. But I know I’m not the only one who does this. Factcheck.org points out an important fact: Why all the uncertainty among first-rate economists? Well, for one thing, economists have very little data with which to work. There are plenty of theoretical…

  • Obama Declares War On Winter

    Obama Declares War On Winter

    February 6, 2009 WASHINGTON  — U.S. President Barack Obama has announced that war against Winter has begun. In his address at 0315 GMT Thursday, Obama said: That every effort would be made to spare the lives of innocent civilians, But the campaign will be “broad and concerted” and will use “decisive force. No outcome but…

  • Sage The Web Marketer

    Sage The Web Marketer

    I happen to know something about this whole $250,000 tax issue debate. That’s almost exactly how much money I made last year in profit. Watch this video if you want an unvarnished assessment of what it’s like being a small business owner who makes $250,000. [youtube]Gxg9WyRfc9Y[/youtube]

  • Terry Pluto on Ted Haggard

    Terry Pluto on Ted Haggard

    Akron Beacon Journal writer Terry Pluto comes to the defense of Ted Haggard. The article is here. _GQZ5UMmS08

  • Truth

    Truth

    Truth is the first casualty of war. What is true is not nearly as important as what is believed to be true.

  • My Vote Is… We’re Already In A Civil War

    My Vote Is… We’re Already In A Civil War

    I’ve been saying over and over again how I think we are headed for civil war in Iraq. I realized that we’ve been in the middle of one for some time: Civil war – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “A civil war is a war in which the parties within the same country or empire struggle…