Random RecitalsWe've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. Carl Sagan Lively LinksLinks change randomly each time the cache is refreshed. |
Article by John on January 27th, 2010 at 10:03 am This is very unlikely because we either have to Change Congress first or expect the individual states which are also corporate controlled to call for a constitutional convention, but one can still hope. Amendment Petition var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/action.change-congress.org\/page\/s\/amendpetition","http:\/\/foavc.org\/","http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/25863305\/Amendment-Petition"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “oinw”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnL2NvbmdyZXNzL2pvaW4tY2FsbC1jb25zdGl0dXRpb25hbC1hbWVuZG1lbnQtcHJvdGVjdC1kZW1vY3JhY3kvPHdwdGI%2BSm9pbiB0aGUgY2FsbCBmb3IgYSBDb25zdGl0dXRpb25hbCBhbWVuZG1lbnQgdG8gcHJvdGVjdCBvdXIgZGVtb2NyYWN5PHdwdGI%2BaHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnPHdwdGI%2BRGVtb2NyYWN5IGZvciBWYW5jb3V2ZXI%3D”;
Article by John on December 24th, 2009 at 1:56 pm Image via Wikipedia For those readers in the Vancouver, Washington area, I am sure you will personally recognize the singer in the video below. That is if you shop at the local Costco. If you do not, you should. Costco pays well compared to its competition and really is a great company. Full disclosure: I am a member but I do not own [...]
Article by John on November 22nd, 2009 at 7:44 pm This graphic to the right doesn’t make one proud to be a Washingtonian. And a big part of the reason is Washington, like Florida, has no state income tax. So the sales taxes, the property taxes and all the other “taxes” just keep climbing on the poor while the rich get richer. Oregon needs a sales tax and they need to use some of the money [...]
Article by John on October 26th, 2009 at 6:44 pm ING to be broken up in wake of bail-out. The US government should do this also. The big banks are too big to not fail. And the failure has already happened. Related articles by Zemanta Geithner still worried about recovery (dailyfinance.com)
US Treasury backs plan for banks to make ‘living wills’ in case of collapse (telegraph.co.uk)
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Article by John on October 5th, 2009 at 2:43 pm Newspapers are dead. I mean the kind that get ink on your hands. How do I know newspapers are dead? Because I started reading newspapers when I was 9 years old. I loved the NY Herald Tribune. Unfortunately The Herald shut down a couple of years later and I was forced to become a New York Times reader which was much more dry and boring. [...]
Article by John on September 15th, 2009 at 9:32 am In the end this peasant will probably get the short end of the stick, but maybe she will get lucky and receive some leniency from the King. And who knows, maybe this is the beginning of a debtor’s revolt and a new movement. Reminds me of burning draft cards in the 60’s. We could have demonstrations where everyone burns their [...]
Article by John on August 11th, 2009 at 9:41 am After all the flip flops and disappointments that are piling up around the President, his recent deal with the pharmaceutical companies is a hard pill to swallow. Here is a 53 minute film about these scumbag companies. Cenk Uygur reminds us that President Obama might be right with regard to his drug company deal. But if the President does not get [...] | |
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