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US Flood Insurance Program Is “Underwater”
30 August 2011 / No CommentsIrene sends floundering flood insurance program further under water From MSNBC.com http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44334082/ns/us_news-life/#.Tl1x_GEtw3E
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...Which Is More Important ?
27 July 2011 / No CommentsHere’s the latest installment of Which Is More Important ? (WIMI) In WIMI, we compare two stories that are both receiving large amounts of media coverage. I will then ask you to decide which is more important and then ask why the unimportant one is getting so much media coverage? Guess What? I went to [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...Congress and the President Are Really Starting to Irritate Me
26 July 2011 / 3 CommentsOur politicians are playing a VERY dangerous game of chicken right now. The United States is facing a deadline of August 2, 2011 wherein it will reach it’s currently authorized debt ceiling. Once that ceiling is reached, the president is going to have to make some drastic cuts, all because the United States is not [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...Which Is More Important? – Paris Hilton or African Famine?
21 July 2011 / No CommentsHere’s another installment of our ongoing series, Which Is More Important? (WIMI) Mind you, both of these stories got almost equal coverage in the news. I’ll leave it up to you to decide which is more important. Based upon the number of comments to the stories, I’d say some people have put it in the [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...Baby Boomers Getting Fatter and Fatter
19 July 2011 / No CommentsAs I always say, here’s further evidence that we need to get some form of exercise EVERY day. If you’re interested in starting a walking program, check out our companion website at: iWARRIORWALK.COM —————————————— Read the rest of the article at: Boomers losing the battle of the bulge WASHINGTON – Baby Boomers say their biggest [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...Is Google Making Us Smarter, Dumber or Something Else?
18 July 2011 / No CommentsSome people contend that Google makes us smarter, because it puts a virtually unlimited amount of information at our fingertips. Others contend that Google is making us dumber, because we no longer bother to remember anything. We simply look something up on Google whenever we need it, and don’t bother to remember it. Here’s a [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...Debt Ceiling Negotiations
15 July 2011 / No CommentsHere are short excerpts from several excellent articles about the USA Debt Ceiling negotiations that MUST be resolved by August 2, 2011 if the US is to avoid defaulting on its debt. —————————————————————————— Amid dire warnings, a possible debt compromise? WASHINGTON — With time growing short and warnings more dire, the first, fragile signs emerged [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...Where’s The Public Outcry About Debt Ceiling Standoff?
14 July 2011 / No CommentsWhere’s The Public Outcry About Debt Ceiling Standoff? The United States of America has until August 2, 2011 to solve a VERY big problem, perhaps the largest problem it has ever faced. If things do not change by that deadline, the United States of America quite literally goes broke. It will be forced to default [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...Is Income Inequality The Root Cause Of America’s Financial Mess?
13 July 2011 / No CommentsIs Income Inequality The Root Cause Of America’s Financial mess? Personally, I think it is A MAJOR cause, but not THE cause. The current debt ceiling negotiations are attempting to address this problem, but some people in Congress don’t want to do anything that costs their rich constituents money. —————————————————————– Growing Economic Inequality the Root [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...There’s More To Life Than Our Careers
12 July 2011 / No CommentsHere’s an interesting article that suggests we are spending so much energy and time worrying about our careers that we may not be enjoying our lives. I could not agree more. Personally I believe it’s okay to strive to be happy, BUT we should remember to enjoy the steps along the journey. We should not [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...100 great things about America
11 July 2011 / No CommentsHere’s a recent list put out by Fortune magazine. 1 through 25 26 through 50 51 through 75 76 through 100 I can’t say I totally agree with the list, but as I haven’t yet taken the time to put together a better list, I’ll defer to this one for the moment. [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...A Life Changing Moment And One Woman’s Promises To Herself
8 July 2011 / No CommentsHere’s an interesting story that came my way recently. It’s a perfect example of someone deciding to take personal responsibility in their life, BEFORE IT WAS TOO LATE !!! We the People need to do the same, both individually and collectively. —————————————————————————————— BIG AHA! WAKE-UP CALLS We all go along in this life doing what [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...Which Is More Important?
7 July 2011 / No CommentsA quick scan of MSNBC shows one MAJOR headline: Anthony Gets 4 Years For Lying Off to the side, in much smaller print is this headline: 12 million face ‘fight for survival’ in African drought I can’t help but ask, which is more important? One person of “dubious” character who seems to have gotten our [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...Pay Attention To These Stories
6 July 2011 / No CommentsHere’s another installment in “Pay Attention To This Instead” – PATTI Inside the Disappointing Comeback Two years ago, officials said, the worst recession since the Great Depression ended. The stumbling recovery has also proven to be the worst since the economic disaster of the 1930s. The News Hub covers one of the slowest recoveries from [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...No Independence Day Blues Here
4 July 2011 / No CommentsA new poll shows many Americans seem to be feeling a “sense of decline” and are worried about America’s future. The poll seems to suggest that Americans should pay less attention to overseas problems and more attention to their own problems at home. In my opinion, the problem is not that we are devoting too [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...The Pro Sports System Is Broken
1 July 2011 / No CommentsNow 2 Sports Are Locked Out First we had the NFL Football Lockout that is still ongoing at the present time. While both sides are pretending to be getting along and making progress, inside reports seem to suggest they’re still a long way apart. Both sides are apparently continuing to play games and no end [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...Why Diet Sodas Are No Benefit to Dieters
30 June 2011 / No CommentsHere’s yet another example of how a product is “marketed” to Americans as being healthy when it’s apparently anything but . . . We have to stop eating and drink these kinds of things if We the People are going to regain our health and live longer, better lives. Studies: Why Diet Sodas Are No [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...Media Spin – Compare Fox News Headlines With Actual Headlines
29 June 2011 / No CommentsWhere You Stand Depends On Where You Sit Here’s a perfect example of how words can twist / manipulate a situation. Actual News Headlines Vs. Fox News Headlines Washington Times Headline: USDA gay-sensitivity training seeks larger audience Fox News Headline: Obama Bureaucrats Imposing Radical Homosexual Sensitivity Training? Comments – One calls it radical and uses [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...GOP Cuts To Food Aid For Seniors And Food Banks Equals One Day Of Bush Tax Cuts For Millionaires
28 June 2011 / No CommentsGOP Cuts To Food Aid For Seniors And Food Banks Equals One Day Of Bush Tax Cuts For Millionaires Jun 14, 2011 at 4:10 pm Today, the House is debating the Republican’s 2012 Agriculture Appropriations Bill, which, as we’ve been documenting, slashes funding for food assistance, preventing hundreds of thousands of people from accessing aid. [...]
Click Here to Continue Reading the Article...Suicide Awareness and Prevention
27 June 2011 / No CommentsThe Ultimate Personal Responsibility Issue After some thought, it seems likely that the ultimate personal responsibility issue is deciding what to do (or not to do), with one’s own life. It becomes even more personal when one chooses to end their life. Here, in the first of some upcoming guest postings, author Carl David, talks [...]
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