45th Anniversary of JFK's Assassination
Today marks the 45th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and for many of us who lived through that terrible moment it felt as though there would never be a gloomier day in our lifetime. But instead of getting better, the world seems to have gotten darker.
Give Barack Obama some space!
The press need to just back off and give Barack Obama, and this country a break. It's still almost two months before Barack Obama takes office, and the 24-Hour News-Bots are already grading him for not making CHANGE fast enough.
The Hypocrisy of Tobacco vs Marijuana
Today marked the annual Great American Smoke-out, and once again, America’s hypocrisy knows no bounds. This ridiculous symbolic event is held annually to raise awareness that cigarette smoking, and the use of tobacco products is killing thousands of Americans every year, very true. But because the tobacco industry is so powerful, the government is not willing to step in and develop a more sensible stance on the use of tobacco.
Fixing the economy: The Big Picture
The United States is facing so many domestic problems at the same time right now, we can only hope that when President-elect Barack Obama finally gets into the White House, he has the vision to look at the “Big Picture”. All of these problems are intermingled, and unless the solutions are intertwined as well, we will find ourselves putting a band-aid on one problem and exacerbating another.
U.S. Auto Bailout? Let the chips fall where they may.
The Big Three U.S. Automakers were in Washington today, pleading their cases on Capitol Hill for bailout money, threatening the country with dire consequences if we don’t give them billions of dollars.
While many top Democrats and top economists seem to agree that the consequences would be grave and could spark the loss of millions of jobs, nobody seems willing to write another blank check, not even with so much at stake. More and more the public sentiment seems to be to let the business marketplace have its way with GM, Ford and Chrysler, and let the chips fall where they may.
Why would Microsoft and Intel need to cheat?
Mega-companies cheat for the same reason everyone else does, greed. And the bigger they are, the greedier they seem to get.
Tibet's political depression
While the powers of the world sweat over the loss of huge amounts of money, and world-wide economic recession, Tibet still contemplates the extinction of their people and culture.
Racial threats and crimes mar Obama election
The Associated Press today reported that “hundreds” of racial threats and crimes have been documented by police departments across the country since the election of Barack Obama for President of the United States. From white schoolchildren taunting black schoolmates with hateful threats against the President-elect, to disgracefully racist public pools, where participants select the date when they feel Barack Obama will be assassinated, and all the way to criminal hate-crimes such as desecration of property, racially motivated criminal mischief, racially hateful graffiti, effigy hangings, cross-burnings, and even white-against-black assault.
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