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Jan 27 2010
Putting People to Work: HR 4290 — NOW, not Someday
Putting People back to work, takes more than rhetoric — it takes Action.
It takes Dollars. It takes investing in Main Street — for real.
It takes turning those Unemployment Checks into Paychecks!
It take compassion and guts. Putting People back to work takes HR 4290.
Rep. Phil Hare (D-Ill.) writes in a 12/03/09 op-ed:
“Second, I intend to introduce the New Deal for a New Economy Act (H.R. 4290), legislation that creates a hybrid of Roosevelt’s WPA and an expanded version of the Conservation Corps of the 1970s. This bill will authorize a multiyear grant program administered by the Department of Labor to provide funding for the creation of resource management positions on federal and state lands, public works projects on the state and local level, and public interest work with community-based nonprofit organizations. This legislation would provide a lifeline to the many Americans who find themselves out of work and out of hope… “
Jan 24 2010
Grayson challenges the Supreme Court give away
The Decision
by Alan Grayson — Thu Jan 21, 2010
In a 5-to-4 decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that corporations have the “right” to spend an unlimited amount of money to influence and manipulate federal elections. The decision overturns more than a century of law and precedent.
[…]
“The Supreme Court has decided to protect the rights of GE, Volkswagen, Lukoil and Aramco, at the expense of our right to good government,” Grayson added.
[…]
Today, Rep. Grayson called for immediate action on his Save Our Democracy bills. “If we do nothing, then before long, there won’t be Senators from Oklahoma or Virginia, there will be Senators from Citibank and WalMart. Maybe they will wear insignias on their $500 suits, like NASCAR drivers do.”
Question is, do our Legslators have the guts to make use of our Constitutional “Checks and Balances”?
Can the Legslators actually pass laws to reel in the excesses of the Corporate Rights enabling Court?
Jan 08 2010
How about a Booster shot for Cheney’s Failing Memory
Exhibit A: Cheney Knows Nothing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Melanie Sloan:
In his FBI interview
He [Cheney] says, ‘I don’t recall.’ ‘I don’t remember.’ ‘I don’t know.’ well over 75 times
Why is it Cheney always has something to say —
except for when it comes to owning up to his own actions?
Jan 03 2010
Quantity vs Quality — is one metric “Better” than the Other?
Quantity vs Quality — is one metric “Better” than the Other?
Back in the day, during my “formative college years”, I was given an assignment, that definitely changed the way I looked at the world ever since.
The lessons I learned in that Creative Writing class, I still carry with me, to this very day.
The assignment: Read the American Classic:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig
And then, Write an Essay on “What does it means to write a Quality Essay?”
(ie. Why is one Essay, better than another? … How can you tell?)
Is it the count of the words that matters … or their depth, when taken as a whole?
Dec 31 2009
Uncle Cheney: ‘I don’t recall.’ ‘I don’t remember.’ ‘I dont know.’
Why the fawning Media runs to cover, every ranting statement that Dick Cheney, mumbles — I’ll never understand? When really they should be bringing him a Blanket, a Rocking Chair, and maybe a super-hero comic book.
Dick Cheney’s FBI Interview Notes on Valerie Plame Leak
Oct 30, 2009, TalkLeft
Cheney could not recall 22 things, including, whether he had ever told Scooter Libby about Valerie Plame. Via Mother Jones, A list is below
It seems the old man, may be suffering from Amnesia, Dementia, or perhaps even Unchecked-Power-withdrawals?
But don’t take my word for it, you be the judge. Are these the actions of a rational, stable man…
Dec 30 2009
Need a Job? DC Lobbyists are a Growth Industry
In these times of record unemployment, there are some sectors that CAN”T hire em fast enough! There are hearts and minds to be won — and YOU just may have the skills to “get er done!”
Just be ready to check your squeamish morality at the door — afterall DC doesn’t run on good intentions. It’s more a city of players. Players who know how to twist arms, take names.
Players who know how make back room deals.
Dec 27 2009
Historical Income Tax Rates for the Top Tax Bracket — with Charts
Increasing the Tax rates on the Wealthy — can it happen? should it happen?
Dare we let the fabled “Engine of the Economy” grind to a halt?
How about a little Historical Perspective — How does the “Upper Crust” ever manage their Tax Burden?
(By the way, that red line is the “Historical Trend” for the Tax Percentage Rate, for the Top Tax Bracket in America. It just keeps going down.)
How much do you have to make, before that burdensome Top Percentage Rate kicks in? — here are the Historic Thresholds:
(That Super Wealthy threshold, has been creeping up since 1992.)
Dec 26 2009
Orrin Hatch: Six years ago, “It was Standard Practice NOT to Pay for things”
Uh-Oh! Did someone just let the cat out of bag?
Democrats See GOP Hypocrisy in Health Care Debate
Citing 2003 Medicare vote, Democrats see GOP hypocrites in debate over health care spending
Charles Babington, AP Writer
Dec 25, 2009
[…] when Republicans controlled the House, Senate and White House in 2003, they overcame Democratic opposition to add a deficit-financed prescription drug benefit to Medicare. The program will cost a half-trillion dollars over 10 years, or more by some estimates.
With no new taxes or spending offsets accompanying the Medicare drug program, the cost has been added to the federal debt.
[…]
Six years ago, “it was standard practice not to pay for things,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business…
Watch out Orrin, speaking the blunt truth, is NOT a GOP strong suit,
best to stick to the Lock-step GOP Talking points, you guys NO best!
Leave the blunt talking to those with real guts, those like Alan Grayson & Co.
Dec 20 2009
Champagne Corks are Poppin in the Insurance Lobby Boardrooms!
6 Months Gains in Stock prices — 3 Health Insurance Giants
6 Months Gains in Stock prices — 3 more Health Insurance Giants
Notice the recent spike in price, in the last few weeks, when they knew “Santa got their wish list, and was making a special trip, just for them!”
Dec 19 2009
When will Humanity make that Leap?
We are on the verge of a new age, a whole new world.
Mankind’s consciousness, our mutual awareness, is going to make a Quantum Leap
Everything will change. You will never be the same.
All this will happen just as soon as you’re ready.
— Paul Williams, Das Energi, 1973
Ever since I first read that,
I’ve been waiting, and working, and dreaming of the day,
when it finally happens.
As Pink Floyd might say — “I’m Still Waiting!”
Well Quantum science, is all about a New Paradigm …
all about looking at the World, from a different perspective.
All about tapping that unseen potential …