If I mention Tucson, Aurora, or Sandy Hook, everyone immediately (or relatively so) identifies them as the site of a violent shooting that rocked America. So why does nobody mention Milwaukee ( Read more... )

Altaz: Indeed ( Read more... )

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Given

• The dollar is progressively weakening.
• Commodity prices are rising.
• For the past 50 years, the US Dollar has been the currency of mark for international business contracts.
• All those EU businesses with multi-billion *DOLLAR* contracts suddenly faced with a dropping value , having to pay out in much more valuable EUR.
• Already French-owned/operated ( Read more... )

50 years ago today, a San Francisco judge ruled that Alan Ginsburg's poem "Howl" had literary merit, and was therefore not obscene ( Read more... )

Working at my new job, I now have a *security badge!*

*giggles madly*

Unfortunately only one friend of mine will understand what this signifies, and he doesn't use LJ.

*sigh*

America is not at war.
The Marine Corps is at war;
America is at the mall.

*sigh* All too damn true. My heartfelt thanks to all currently serving, trying to bring stability and peace to their theatres of operation. My thoughts about the management and leadership of these servicemen, I think I'll keep to myself, though.

"By their essential nature triumphs can't be
given. They must be taken, and the worse the odds and the fiercer the
resistance, the greater the honor. Victories can't be gifts."
Miles Vorkosigan in Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign

"If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may know peace."
Thomas Paine

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