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Archive for September, 2009

Ribbon of Highway Endless Skyway: Tribute to Woody Guthrie

Saturday, September 26th, 2009 Posted in Music | No Comments »

I've had this CD a while, and I have listened to it a couple times.  Those times had been when there were other distractions going on, so I was not really paying that much attention to it.  I was definitely ...

Is this racist?

Saturday, September 26th, 2009 Posted in Politics | 5 Comments »

I don't like this man. And at the same time I sometimes feel like we see racism where it ain't. Howard Cosell (not old enough to remember who this is?) lost his job over a "monkey" remark. I can see this clip ...

Glenn Beck refuses to define ‘white culture’

Friday, September 25th, 2009 Posted in Politics | No Comments »

This man can dissemble with the best of them.   I could make some more comments, but watch the video.  He pretty much makes an idiot of himself.    It is so sad to think that FOX is the number 1 cable ...

Michael Franti: Hey World(Don’t Give Up)

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 Posted in Life | No Comments »

...about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine" ~ Woody Guthrie  

Red Heads and Lime Green VWs

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 Posted in Life, Religion | 4 Comments »

When I think of  my Aunt Gayle I think of a big, lop-sided smile and red hair.  Her hair had been many colors through her life, but mostly it was red.  Folks who knew her called her a lady.  She ...

The New Pledge of Allegiance

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 Posted in Politics | No Comments »

I pledge allegiance to the registered trade mark Of the United Corporations of America And to the greed for which it stands One conglomerate under  Adam Smith Outsourced, with excessive profit And power for an chosen few

Wealth Distribution in USA

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 Posted in Politics | 2 Comments »

Just in case you cannot read the graph which is data on wealth distribution in the USA from 2003. The top 1% have 25% of the wealth in the USA The top 5% have 50.7% The top 10% have 62.9%. That leaves 90% of ...

Quirkiness and intelligence

Monday, September 14th, 2009 Posted in Randomness | 3 Comments »

I heard an interesting theory this weekend.  The theory is that you can judge a person’s intelligence by their degree of quirkiness.  The theorist stated that you can be quirky, and not intelligent.  But then they went on to reiterate that ...

Senility

Monday, September 14th, 2009 Posted in Randomness | 1 Comment »

It must be the onset of senility.  I could not remember which way I put the toilet paper on the roller. Do I put in on so it comes over the top, or do I pull from the bottom? In ...

U.S. expands H-1B fraud case against IT services firm

Monday, September 7th, 2009 Posted in Immigration, Politics | No Comments »

Gee whiz, what a surprise! "The indictment charges that the methods used by Vision Systems "have substantially deprived U.S. citizens of employment." Link to article below: U.S. expands H-1B fraud case against IT services firm I was working at a Fortune 500 financial company.  ...