Some readers may have skipped the Classics. Some may just have memory problems associated with age. That I can identify with.
Ms. Cassandra’s beauty caught the eye of Apollo. He gave her the gift of knowing the future.
She spurned Mr. Apollo, so he cursed her. Her predictions were to be ignored. Obviously she is no more welcome here today than when she warned that the Trojan Horse was filled with armed men.
Have you been enjoying the economic meltdown? You will not need nostalgia to relive these exciting times when you have a few more rings around your trunk. There will be another.
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Back in September of 2008 I posted an article that has special pertinence this week. Stay with me. We will get to that after a few facts concerning this present explosion.
I’m sure you have heard of the mining disaster in West Virginia. It is the worst we have experienced in over two decades.
It is a regrettable situation, particularly as experts say all such accidents are preventable. If that’s true, why did it happen? Would you believe pure, unadulterated greed? Would you believe that the state’s supreme court played a role?
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Yeah, I know. There isn’t such a thing as a good tax.
Well, maybe there is. Let’s think about it for a moment.
As illustrated by the graphic, Wall Street got a huge tax break. Actually, they got a lot of our tax money. That in addition to several reams of tax breaks, subsidies and such that they have been getting all along.
I would like to see them bear some of the load for the disaster they created.
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Thirteen states have filed a lawsuit claiming that the healthcare bill is unconstitutional.
Will they win or are they just wasting taxpayers money in an attempt to look good to their political bases? If you guessed the later, you didn’t require anyone to read this to you.
Given that we have five Supremes who can’t differentiate between human beings and things that human beings create, anything is possible. By the way, since voting is the most important form of free speech, why have corporations never voted? Sorry, I didn’t mean to give them any ideas.
Even if the courts were to rule in the favor of these thirteen grandstanding attorneys general, they can’t win.
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It happens to everyone. My personal life and other commitments have intruded upon the time I have had to devote to this blog for the past few weeks. There has been an almost constant string of matters hitting me at an accelerated pace.
There have been funerals and visiting friends in the hospital. That is likely a factor of my age and that of my friends.
There is my attempt to help with a lawsuit that deals with Constitutional issues relating to mental illness. There is research on other matters. And the list goes on.
I am taking a shortcut by posting an Op-Ed piece from the New York Times by Phil Keisling. It offers a potential solution to an endemic problem of our body politic.
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As young males we were told that a certain private activity could cause warts on your hands and/or blindness. That appears not to have been accurate.
However, I have since learned that ideology and politics can cause blindness. Blindness has become pandemic across the country.
Those that suffer from this form of blindness also seem to have language difficulties. They can’t seem to appreciate the differences between the meanings of climate and weather.
It snowed, so Al Gore is proven wrong. Yeah, sure.
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This is a subject that I wanted to post on but found someone who has already done it in a much more entertaining manner.
Bill Maher periodically offers his “New Rules.” I have provided this one unedited for your edification.
A school board in Rhode Island just fired all of the teachers at a school that was not performing well. So, blame the teachers. That takes the heat off of the guilty.
Full disclosure requires me to admit that my wife retired after 34 years of teaching in the public school system. I, also, have taught on a short-term basis in that system, as well as on the college level.
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Did someone revise the English dictionary while I wasn’t looking?
Reading and watching the news is disconcerting and disorienting.
Liz Cheney, a graduate of law school and self-proclaimed patriot, calls the Department of Justice the Department of Jihad. Why? Because seven attorneys in that department once represented terror suspects before the courts.
This law school graduate says that lawyers agree with their clients. She thinks some people should not have a right to an attorney. I must have misread or misunderstood our Constitution and legal system because Liz shouts quite loudly and clearly that she is a patriot. Should I have put that in all caps?
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It isn’t even close to Halloween but this post should spook you.
Why would I try to scare you? Can’t it wait until the end of October? No. I’m funny that way.
Just saying the word economics causes most people’s eyes to glaze over. Actually finding out what is going on in the economy has the opposite effect. It is called the dismal science with good reason.
Stay with me here. I can assure you that you will not be as happy as you are at this moment.
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If you stay to the end of this post, you will see an offer you can’t refuse – no strings attached.
My last post was about a health issue, not healthcare reform. Writing so frequently on healthcare reform and the economy has built up a tremendous reserve of frustration.
I wanted to take a psychic break by expounding on other subjects but it seems not to be possible to get away from these matters. Storming once more into the breech they come again to the subject of reform.
Just now I feel more inclined to address the method than the substance. Could it be that there is so little substance to speak to?
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