Monthly Archives: June 2012

CREATE ONE MILLION NEW JOBS BY EXPANDING NATIONAL SERVICE

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I have posted a link and video to OneMillionNewJobs.org ,a campaign of OUR TIME in partnership with ServeNext in addition to a wide variety of other groups who claim to support the expansion of jobs for youth and national service. OUR TIME is a national non-profit with over 300,000 members that promotes economic and political empowerment for young Americans. ServeNext is a grassroots advocacy organization working to make national service a political and national priority. I receive regular emails from this group, and thought I’d share with you, just in case you missed the buzz on the political talk show circuit.

Crazy, but it just might work!

CREATE ONE MILLION NEW JOBS BY EXPANDING NATIONAL SERVICE.

Check out the site, sign the petition; It will cost you nothing, but may gain us something!

Zombie Economics

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The folks at Utne Reader tie the crisis of our elder’s debts all together for you in an article describing “intergenerational” mortgages, known as “the debt that never dies,” where the children take over the family home’s mortgage after the death of their parents.   From the United Kingdom to the United States, it all sounds like a financial zombie film for modern times, especially coupled with all the modern day worries of a watery melting planet.

Debt that never dies.  Are you scared?  I’m petrified.     Continue reading →

Northrop Grumman Awards Lobbyist $500K Bonus Weeks Before Becoming Low-Paid Congressional Staffer Shaping Military Policy

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Please follow the link to a must read article, exposing the incestuous relationship between Industry, Lobbyists and the Federal Employees who are entrusted with how the United States military makes policy and where the military spends our tax dollars, in particular one Thomas MacKenzie, who recently became a policy staffer for the House Armed Services Committee, is a former lobbyist for Northrop Grumman, which paid him nearly $500,000 in bonus pay just a month before MacKenzie went to work for Congress.  Seem shady to you?  Perhaps federal employees need non-compete/conflict contracts??  Please share with as many intelligent people as possible.    Exclusive: Northrop Grumman Awards Lobbyist $500K Bonus Weeks Before Becoming Low-Paid Congressional Staffer Shaping Military Policy | Republic Report.

Keep Looking Up

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With all the crazy things happening in the public arena here in the United States, and in the world for that matter, I wanted to share a little bit of heaven with you.  We so seldom take the time to look up at the stars, or pause to appreciate sunsets, sunrises or any of the beauty of the natural world.  Luckily, people like Randy Halverson document these things for us.  Please enjoy the wonderful time lapse video that enables you to see things in the night time sky that human eyes miss out on in real time.

Temporal Distortion from Randy Halverson on Vimeo. Continue reading →

Daily Kos: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan campaign on the freedom of living without Medicare

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I enjoy a great deal of the content at Daily Kos, and know you will too!  Please click on the link below to view an excellent post by Joan McCarter.   I feel it highlights the creepy, cruel budget brought about by latest round of Ayn Rand-ish Republican weirdness that is passing itself off as fiscal conservatism during this presidential race.  Look at that photo, seems like Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney, pictured with Sen. Ron Johnson, are just the best of buddies, aren’t they?  Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney, with Sen. Ron Johnson, yuck it up. (Darren Hauck/Reuters)

How nice for America’s most vulnerable citizens.                                                               Daily Kos: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan campaign on the freedom of living without Medicare.                                                                                                                           A potential leader’s cohorts are important clues to his character, and not just spiritual advisers.

Rodney King, Unwilling Riots Symbol, Dead at 47

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Who can forget the video taped beating that turned the nation’s attention on the LAPD twenty years ago?  That, and the acquittal of the cops who administered the brutal beating, resulted in the 1992 L.A. riots. Rodney King, who uttered the iconic, “Can’t we all just get along?” plea, died Sunday at his home in Rialto, California at age 47.  Continue reading →

MI Rep. Lisa Brown blocked from speaking- for uttering ‘vagina’

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Lisa Brown of Michigan gave a passionate speech regarding a proposed abortion ban on Wednesday. “I have not asked you to adopt and adhere to my religious beliefs. Why are you asking me to adopt yours?” she said. But her next statement is what got her in trouble, when she said the dreaded v-word: “And finally, Mr. Speaker, I’m flattered that you’re all so interested my vagina, but ‘no’ means ‘no.’”

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Female Fox anchor walks off set after co-host’s sexist joke

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I knew there was a good reason I never tune in to Fox News–
Female Fox anchor walks off set after co-host’s sexist joke, another in a long string of Fox and Friends ‘WTF’ moments: