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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Voters are to blame for bad politics
- When I was growing up, I actually considered a career in politics. I quickly changed my mind, though, when I discovered that there was way too much politics involved in it. Obviously, that's a play on words, but I get funny looks from people when I tell them that. However, I am completely serious. The politics of running for and holding elective office is influenced too much by the politics of pow...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The self-appointed altruists
- Their arrival portends rising local prices and a culture shock. Many of them live in plush apartments, or five star hotels, drive SUV's, sport $3000 laptops and PDA's. They earn a two figure multiple of the local average wage. They are busybodies, preachers, critics, do-gooders, and professional altruists.Always self-appointed, they answer to no constituency. Though unelected and ignorant o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Opecs swan song?
- Indonesia's Energy Minister, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, is unhappy with the modest production cut, from June 1, of 2 million barrels per day, adopted by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries last week. He intends to demand further reductions at the June 11 get-together in Qatar.The deal struck is so convoluted and loopholed that actual output declines may amount to no more than 600,00...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The morality of child labor
- From the comfort of their plush offices and five to six figure salaries, self-appointed NGO's often denounce child labor as their employees rush from one five star hotel to another, $3000 subnotebooks and PDA's in hand. The hairsplitting distinction made by the ILO between "child work" and "child labor" conveniently targets impoverished countries while letting its budget contributors - the develop...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Corruption and transparency
- I. The FactsJust days before a much-awaited donor conference, the influential International Crisis Group (ICG) recommended to place all funds pledged to Macedonia under the oversight of a "corruption advisor" appointed by the European Commission. The donors ignored this and other recommendations. To appease the critics, the affable Attorney General of Macedonia charged a former Minister of ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Is america bankrupt?
- The US Dollar has been falling continuously in last year. The Euro, not so long ago worth 82 cents, is now at $1.27 - this is a gain of more than 40 percent in a very short time. The same goes for the Aussie Dollar: from 50 US cents to 77 US cents (that's almost 50 percent up). Gold, which was trading at less than $300 per ounce for years, is now long past the $400 mark. What is happening to the g...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The divided language
- I was dismayed to learn the other day, that my all-time favourite George Bernard Shaw quote may not in fact have been uttered by him.Nevertheless, even the misquotation that Britain and the United States are two countries divided by a common language, will ring true with any British Expat who has tried to make their new home in America.There are hundreds and probably thousands of wor...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dont trade rights for security
- "Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety." -- Ben Franklin, 1776In the wake of 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks around the world, there is a real temptation to allow the government to take away some of our most precious rights in exchange for greater security. We must resist this temptation. In order to have a free societ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The lemon dance: why government doesn?t work
- Former Senator, Daniel Moynihan, accurately summed up the situation when he posited that,"[t]he single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because! it's so rare." In the case of politicians the public is protected from ineptitude and apathy through term limits. Unfortunately for John Q. Citizen, the vast majority of government bureaucrats exist in an environmen...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Asking for proof in the economic pudding
- There are no stupid questions, only stupid people. Ask an economist for proof of one of their pet theories and you'll find quickly that the age old axiom that we all learned in school and work place training seminars is dead wrong. You can ask a stupid question if you're talking to an economist and that question can, in fact, make you stupid.It's a well accepted fact that scientists are not...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The glorious acts of our legislature
- I always have to remember to take a deep breath when examining the laws being proposed by our grand Legislature. I detest most of the new legislation on the table, but have to forgive our representatives in the House and Senate for it. After all, writing laws is what a Legislature does, and if they don't write enough laws, it can begin to look like they've been loafing.Call me strange, but ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - History of the media, radio, and television
- When were the forms of media created? When did advertising first show up? Who owns the media?Creation of the various forms of media*Newspapers & Magazines ~ 1880*Movies ~ 1910*Television ~ 1945*Cable Television ~ 1980's*Satellite Television, Internet, Digital Communication ~ End of the 20th centuryIn 1920, radio wa...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A viewpoint not represented in the mainstream media
- The news media will regularly present views from Democratic (liberal), Republican (neoconservative), and independent (moderate) perspectives. However, I rarely, if ever, see my point of view represented in the mainstream media. Let me begin to sum up my politics by saying that I believe our most fundamental right as human beings is the right to not be bothered if we don't want to be. Supreme Justi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What price loyalty?
- With the recent shakeups in the presidential cabinet, it has frequently been observed that the quality most treasured in the present administration is that of loyalty.Is that such an admirable quality?We prize the loyalty of our friends who protect our good name when we are not present. We respect the loyalty of committed couples who stay true to each other no matter the outside temp...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Business: ?where is america headed to??, new york millionaire wonders
- Hello! Happy new year. May you live a long healthy life and prosper.According to a study by US dept. of Health & Human Services, 96% of Americans never achieve financial independence. They end up depending on charity, welfare, family, or are forced to keep working past their retirement age.According to the IRS, 85% of the people reaching age 65 years don't have even $200 in their ban...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Government overregulation of broadcast content could backfire
- Rush is right! The government's stepped up bid to regulate broadcast television content is indeed frightening. Limbaugh made his comments during one of his regular radio broadcasts last year. Those remarks were in response to the FCC's crackdown on broadcast indecency and Congress' threats to hand out much larger fines to broadcasters for such violations, in the wake of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Affirmative inaction
- One of Abraham Lincoln's claims to fame is the fact that he is best known for abolishing slavery. While he may have felt some personal satisfaction from liberating the Negroes from their bondage, Economy was the main reason why he made his emancipation proclamation. He wanted all of America to move into the Yankee version of capitalism. Over half a decade later, and after a series of civil rights ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Fact to fiction: the brutal truth about the practice of stoning
- "Like humans void of soul or mind, they jeered and yelled as they went about selecting their most jagged stones." ? David Hearne, excerpt from Hulagu's Web.Stoning is a brutal and outdated practice that is kept alive only by Muslims under Sharia rule. Although it has been practiced since biblical times, every other culture has systematically ceased the practice in favor of more hu...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Seven things that make me angry
- I watch the TV news and I get angry. I really need to quit that. It's not good for my blood pressure. However, there are certain things that always get me going no matter how hard I try to ignore them. They get me hot under the collar and I guess they always will. I feel a need to vent right now, so I'll discuss seven of them below. (Hey, that's a nice round biblical number).(1) Unrighteous...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The looting of american taxpayers social security disability by fraudulent employers pt. 1
- For more than a decade, you the American taxpayer have been burdened with my disability assistance. Why? Because my high-profile employer, a member of the bar and a politically connected entity in this area along with the assistance of his insurance carrier, insurance investigator and other members of the bar as well as a president-elect of a national civil rights organization at the local level a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The american worker: downward mobility
- All the indicators show an improving economy and, finally, the start of job growth. More than eight million unemployed workers see hope around the corner and re-enter the nightmare of job search with increased enthusiasm and the positive outlook they lost six months ago when they virtually gave up on ever finding a good position.What do they find?Service jobs: customer service, hospi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Recycling the mentally ill
- 30 years ago, California, later followed by other states, decided to virtually close down the State Mental Hospitals.There had been multiple exposures of abuse throughout the Nation's systems such as over-medicated individuals kept on back wards for years without clinical justification. However, the primary force leading to the widespread closures was economic. Providing free room, board, m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Revitalizing the power of the baby boomers
- As baby boomers, we have been spoiled all of our lives. When we were teenagers, the world took note because there were so many of us. Our music, our beliefs, our fashions, our styles dominated the culture of the age. When we took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and to support the Civil Rights Movement, we found a ready audience. Television came into its own and we splattered ourselves...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The ugly american returns!
- Originally published in 1958, "The Ugly American" (Lederer & Burdick) documented American blunders abroad and our failure to identify that what we termed communism in undeveloped countries was merely the screams of hunger and hopelessness becoming manifest. 15 years later, we extricated ourselves from Vietnam and licked our wounds for 30 years, finally coming to some sort of accommodation with fre...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Bush victory: a defeat for the have-nots?
- The shouting is over and directions for the next four years selected. Judging by past behavior (the best predictor, psychologically, of future behavior), we can look forward to:1. Continued and probably expanded tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and large Corporations. It is no surprise that the stock market soared on the election news: big business stands to gain greatly by the results...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A noble attempt to bring peace in assam
- United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), one of the most powerful militant organizations operating in the northeast region is in the limelight again but this time for a better reason. Attempts to initiate talks with the center and the group are in progress. The group was established in 1979 by Paresh Baruah along with his associates. The group aims to establish a Sovereign Socialist Assam.I...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A workable alternative to term limits
- The end of another election once again brings into focus the problem of Washington politicians raising money and running for re-election as soon as they get into office. Many citizens and various government-accountability advocacy groups have done little more than complain from time to time. However, some of them, along with many members of the media, have been pushing for term limits as a solutio...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A look ahead to 2008 (part ii)
- Last week, I began my look ahead to the 2008 presidential campaign with the potential Republican candidates. Today, I will continue by taking a look at the potential Democratic candidates. Among them are New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, former Vermont Gov...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A look ahead to 2008 (part i)
- Just as everyone has breathed a sigh of relief at the end of 2004 presidential campaign, I would like to take a quick look ahead to 2008. Unless George W. Bush is unable to complete his second term, 2008 will bring the third open presidential election (no incumbent running) in 20 years. Even though that's still four years into the future, the campaign will be unofficially getting underway almost i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Abu ghraib: our surprise is the only surprise
- As pictures and videos surface showing young American soldiers humiliating and dehumanizing Iraqi prisoners, we, as a society, recoil in disgust and disbelief. Friends and family of those charged with such crimes, shake their heads in bewilderment and assure the world that the perpetrators are normal, caring, loving individuals without any prior sadistic or bullying traits.As the picture of...