Sometimes I can really relate to an old cartoon called, "Born Thirty Years Too Soon." Most days, lately, I have to shake my head and wonder just what is going on in the world. Do any of you other old-timers feel the same way?
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Most Americans love their country and consider themselves to be at least somewhat patriotic. But what do Americans actually know about their country?  read more »

In one of life's great ironies the three term, nine year, left of centre Labour Party led New Zealand government  turned to the right last weekend. Why? Was there some great policy shift, some significant reason for change, apart from the economic tsunami to hit the world economies? No and no!
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The government calls it sweetening the deal--I call it bribery!
 
A few years ago, a large section of the State of Oregon depended on the logging industry, not only for daily wages, but for taxes to support schools, law enforcement, etc.
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Sometimes I wake up in the morning thinking that I am emerging from a horrible nightmare. In it, Hillary Clinton was actually running for president of our great country. Oh, no! It wasn't a dream--it's true. But how could this be, I wonder.
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In the business world, if you have employees that can't get along and get their work done what do you do--you fire them.  read more »

 
These are some headlines I saw on the Internet as I browsed around last night. It does make you think at times.
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A popular pitcher with the Boston Redsox baseball team inked a deal with his team in recent days.

What makes this contact interesting is one of the incentive clauses, which states he will have 6 random weigh-ins, if he stays under the teams specified weight, he earns 333,000$ each time totaling 2 mill$.  read more »

I know I have a Legalization of Marijuana blog and I should posting this on there but I try to keep those posts fact based. This is fact based but it just makes me so pissed off that I need to Vent.  read more »

I have recently been asked to be a (paid) spokesperson for an organization trying to get Medical Marijuana legalized federally in the US. One of the arguments, opps I mean Debates, I recently got into was the FDA has not approved Marijuana for medical use.  read more »