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Sequestration Will Have Deep Impact On National Parks {Gadling}
Feb 21st 2013 2:15PM Why is it that if the government wants more money in taxes we are expected to suck it up and get by with less, but they scream and cry if they have to cut just a couple cents on the million ?
Most of these stories are pure hoke'em made up to try and scare people into putting pressure on congress to raise taxes.
Plan to Build Home on Top of Historic Heard Cemetery in Sandy Springs, Ga., Enrages Neighbors {AOL Real Estate}
Oct 7th 2012 6:27PM In Indiana we have laws on the books that protect cemeteries. When they are old enough, prior to 1939, the DNR keeps tabs on them.
I cannot believe that Georgia, a much older state with a longer history doesn't seem to have as much respect for it's own history.
This just smells like a sweetheart deal for the buyer with a number of people looking the other way to pay a debt.
People should write the Statehouse and demand the State take steps to insure the history and cemeteries of the state are protected as they should be.
Teacher Layoffs Sweep The Nation {AOL Jobs}
Apr 10th 2010 10:22AM Teaching used to be a calling that someone felt drawn to. Now it has become a good paying, good benefits, great retirement, career.
Until just this year in Indiana a teacher was not required to have any training in the subject they taught. Just a degree in teaching.
If this attitude, that anyone can teach anything, is common then no wonder our kids are falling behind. And trying to blaim the parents is even sillier, just how many parents have any teaching skills?
The reason driving the push to blaim parents is comming from these teachers who don't have any grounding in the subject they teach. They monitor a room full of kids that are expected to teach themselves from the text book as the teacher watches them read.
And the guy with the Mass Media class. What the heck is that going to give a kid that they can use in the real world?
Our local school system has 50% more teachers than class rooms. Many only teach an hour or two a week. The catalog lists class like, no joke, basket weaving.
Stop baby sitting and teach things kids need.
Newsweek Blames George Bush for Dark, Depressing Movies - Do You Agree? {Cinematical}
Dec 13th 2009 10:45AM Maybe 2012 will destroy the world, or at least the left coast. Maybe if we flush that cesspool down the drain along with the likes of Micheal Moore and the lot we can get some entertainment that doesn't reak of politics for awhile.
We are reaping the results of a generation raised on prozac and shrinks that say we can blaim our lives on parents that wouldn't buy us a pony.
The movies and the networks have joined Big Brother in his push toward control. Every prime time program now takes direct aim with attacks on his opponants by name.
Roosevelt had the blood of millions on his hands for WW2 yet no one blaims him. Truman dropped the bomb on Japan and took us into Korea yet I see no complaints here about that. Kennedy took us into Vietnam and the blood of 60,000 Americans and a million Vietnamese should drench his memory, but it doesn't. Clinton fired cruise missles at everything that moved, yet that's forgiven.
But some how Nixon gets blaimed for a war that others started and he ended. The Bush's get treated like mass murderers for what history will record as minor events in military history.
The difference is sharp and clear. It is all about politics and nothing more. Just as the Soviet film industry made films that glorified the revolution and the party, the American left must try to build support for their party.
Think about it. A Peace Prize almost before he took office?
Give me a break.
Toxic fish in U.S. streams tell the true cost of coal emissions {Daily Finance}
Aug 21st 2009 8:38AM Contrary to your assumptions, Mercury, and even lead, are natural elements found in some quantity in almost every watershed in the country.
Ask anyone who works in a sand and gravel pit, or pans for gold as a hobby, how often they see these elements in their washings. I pan and have a jar full of Mercury I have found, and several nice specimens of lead ore.
SOS from VFW: Combat Vets in Trouble {Politics Daily}
Jun 3rd 2009 9:32AM Rudyard Kipling said " That in peace time everyone scorned and belittled a soldier, but let the bullets start to fly and everyone's your best friend."
I started my service in Vietnam and ended after Gulf War 1. I know what they mean about not feeling comfortable at home.
We blamed the Vet for Vietnam, and Hollywood and TV made him the bad guy. A hair triggered, drugged out, loser who would kill just for fun or while in some "Black out" from a flashback. Viet Vets learned quick to not mention their service.
Strange how even today we don't blaim Kennedy for that 10 year war.
Today Hollywood and TV are showing the Gulf vets in the same light. Killers, haunted by PTSD, who will lash out and kill at the drop of a hat. Your sons and daughters will have to face a life time of forced guilt and shame just because they were there.
And we will blaim Bush for it. Just as WW1 was Wilson's War, WW2 was Roosevelt's, and Korea Truman's. But wait, we won those and we now blame those who lost for the war starting.
The truth is WE start the wars. We write the letters and make the calls for action that send kids to Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Lebanon, Mogadishu and God knows where. We have the power to get to congress, just like they did in 1973, and cut off the funds for a war and end them.
And we have the power to get our vets taken care of.
