I read a headline today on Palin's speech at the RNC last night, "Perfect Populist Pitch ( Read more... )

How does it make you feel knowing that your government would rather bail-out corporations and foreign governments than provide for the well-being of it's own citizens?

"Capitalism is the only economic system that works!" - the anonymous capitalist

When people say this, I wonder how they define "works?"

Do they mean works for the upper 2% of the population with over half of the world's wealthAre they implying that capitalism works for first-world nations, such as the United States with 4% of the world's ( Read more... )

A woman drew loud cheers and applause when she told McCain: "The Democratic Party has moved so far to the left they're almost falling off of the planet. Will you hammer away at their socialist, Marxist philosophy?"

When the cheering finally died down, McCain revived it by answering, "Yes."

Recent Iranian missile tests are giving policymakers in Washington a hard on, but then the US has always had a thing for Persia. Consider the CIA backed coup in 1953 that overthrew a democratically elected leader and established an oppressive monarchy, but that's just what Iran got for wanting their own natural resources to benefit Iranians. Then ( Read more... )

Carrying Capacity - largest number of individuals of a particular species that can survive over long periods of time in a given environment, this level depends on the effect of the limiting factors.With a world population approaching 7 billion (6,602,224,175 July 2007 est.) and evidence of climate change everywhere, environmental activists and (the ( Read more... )

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." - Oscar Wilde

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This morning I read an obituary of a young man whose life was cut short. His father said something to the effect of "was a good kid, never made anyone angry or upset..." Which got me thinking I hope that no one is able to say that about me when I'm gone. If we never made anyone angry then we haven't ever taken a stand. We're just like everyone else ( Read more... )

Nixon announces the US is opting out of the Bretton-Woods financial agreement. The laissez-faire crowd (free market anarchists) win out. Speculative capital finance trading is the name of the game. High employment rates no longer a focus. Well-paying American jobs begin to disappear. Middle-class gets less middle. Rich become super rich. More ( Read more... )