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The Drill Goes On II
In my previous article on this topic The Drill Goes On , dated May 21, it was not clear what the magnitude of the BP/Deep Water Horizon oil deluge in the Gulf of Mexico would turn out to be. It appears at this point that the worst case scenario that I...
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The Drill Goes On
I really didn't want to write about this; Nuclear Weapons are still the greatest threat to life on the planet yet, given time, the petroleum addiction syndrome, may produce the same outcome. You see, if it were not for the addiction syndrome, petroleum...
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AT&T: Too Big to Function
A great many people think they are thinking when they are actually rearranging their prejudices.- William James The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety...
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Actions that are Morally Offensive
In their review of cinema, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops defines some movies as “morally offensive.” The definition doesn’t necessarily imply that the movie is explicitly pornographic or violent; the term implies that the content contains material...
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The Dream State in American Politics
Lately many people have been second-guessing the Obama administration’s political strategy. The conventional wisdom seems to be that President Obama tried to do too much — in particular, that he should have put health care on one side and focused on the...
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The Politics of Reality Denial
If one picks almost any issue found in the contemporary political system in the United States, the motives of one component of the process either support it or oppose it because of ulterior antecedents - to say it differently by motives which they openly...
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Polar Bear Story
When I first posted this on Flickr in July 2008, I said that I expected criticism for the content from right-wing elements of the American political spectrum. The picture of the Polar Bear family that I had on Flickr brought personal attacks against me....
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Wars That Are Chosen
What is this, more troops, more war, tell me, is this insanity ever going to end? The national security issues the United States faces are mainly INTERNAL. 9/11 was: an internal security screwup: we couldn’t even defend our own airspace. That’s what is...
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Health Care, Race and Treachery
President Barack Obama is trying very hard to obtain legislation from the U.S. Congress that will address the serious shortcomings of the existing health care system in this country. We have known about these health care deficiencies for decades. They...
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Living on the Edge of Madness
Today in the prosperous warfare and welfare state, the human qualities of a pacified existence seem asocial and unpatriotic – qualities such as the refusal of all toughness, togetherness, and brutality; disobedience to the tyranny of the majority; profession...
