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Why I am against Voter ID amendments..
I could go on about how this is a solution searching for a problem, but the more I have thought about it, the more I realize I would likely still vote against an amendment life this even if a problem existed.
I come to this conclusion by following the same logic that our forefathers did when they decided on the American justice system following the ( Read more... ) -
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I've said it before, and I will say it again.. there are two things we need to put in place to have a snowball's chance in Tampa of making American Politics really work again.
1) All states lay out their voting districts via a non-partisan committee/computer program who's goal is to help the voters, not to keep the currently elected politicians in ( Read more... ) -
Eat Real Food.
I've learned a new word... Obesogen a term coined by Bruce Blumberg, professor of developmental and cell biology and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
What's it mean? Substances that are now prevalent in our food supply that may be altering the way our bodies store fat and regulate our metabolism. From: What's ( Read more... ) -
Am I missing something here.. ?
In this article, House Speaker John A. Boehner has a quote I'm fairly used to seeing coming from Republicans:"It sounds to me like the same old policies that we've seen: more spending, higher taxes more regulation - the same policies that haven't helped our economy; they've made it worse," Boehner said on "Fox News Sunday."
Now not even commenting ( Read more... ) -
The 99 Percent and Social Security...
There are lots of things I don't like about the concentration of wealth going on, but this is one aspect of it that's been coming up frequently in my mind.
From here.. (among other sites)
2. The Top 1 Percent Of Americans Take Home 24 Percent Of National Income: While the richest 1 percent of Americans take home almost a quarter of national income ( Read more... ) -
My Neices are competing for the First Lego League Global Innovation award..
I don't talk a lot about them here because I try to avoid tossing my sister and her little girls into the internet deep end. I figure they'll do a good enough job of establishing their net footprint without my help ( Read more... ) -
Dry Erase girl? Yea.. not it.
HOPA girl a brilliant marketing strategy to go viral befoer the world even wakes up.
Wonderful.. Am I the ony one who gets a tad grumpy when folks pull this crap? The purpose of the hoax was to entertain and inspire, not to inform, so what difference does it make if the story has a single ounce of truth?
Because when something's presented as real ( Read more... ) -
Clothing Color effects attractiveness..
BoingBoing and a couple of hops to a Reuters article and a Google search finally lead to an example.
'cause being in a shade that's more plum today I got curious... "what shade(s) of red have this effect, only the bright red of my swingline stapler, or any shade of red?"
Apparently this isn't covered by the article.
Specifically, in a series of 7 ( Read more... ) -
Unbelievable stupidity...
One would hope that being a police chief of a major city would actually require you be able to examine what idiocy you're about to spew forth from your mouth and put a halt to the worst of what's coming out before you speak, especially at a public event like a Public Safety Meeting.
Not so much.
Don't take the bloggers word for it, listen for ( Read more... )
