Guru's Corner - MarketWatch
“Uncle Sam says the official inflation rate is...in the vicinity of 3%-3.5% per year. We don't buy it... Silver is at a 22-year high... Orange juice costs about 70% more... Crude oil has more than doubled... The 10-year Treasury note...is only a hair or two away from 5%. If these are not inflationary signals, then we don't know inflationary signals."
-- E-Money Digest From BARRON'S Market Watch
This quote sums up what I have been telling my friends for the past 2 years or more. The U.S. has seen energy prices more than double in less than 48 months. The average family has seen grocery bills double in the same amount of time. In addition, housing costs and practically every other family expense has risen faster than incomes. The effect is that the average family is poorer than it was 3 years ago. Bush's economic mafia can lie all they want to about the numbers, but people know the truth. Bush's approval rating shows that we know the truth. His mafia can cut oil and gas prices in half for the election (and they will), but it won't put his cronies back in office.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
No Such Thing As "Liberal Media"
Fox Host to Be Named White House Spokesman
Anyone who claims that there is a liberal media bias is either stupid or a blatant liar. When a conservative pundit working for a large television network is hired by the most right-wing administration of the past 100 years, there is certainly no liberal bias. Of course, Fox has never hidden its conservative bias, but even CNN and MSNBC are now showing their conservative bent by hiring NeoCon commentators and refusing to fully cover stories that are damaging to the G.W. Bush Whitehouse. Just watch the Sunday news commentaries, and you will quickly learn which direction the major networks lean politically.
Anyone who claims that there is a liberal media bias is either stupid or a blatant liar. When a conservative pundit working for a large television network is hired by the most right-wing administration of the past 100 years, there is certainly no liberal bias. Of course, Fox has never hidden its conservative bias, but even CNN and MSNBC are now showing their conservative bent by hiring NeoCon commentators and refusing to fully cover stories that are damaging to the G.W. Bush Whitehouse. Just watch the Sunday news commentaries, and you will quickly learn which direction the major networks lean politically.
Monday, April 17, 2006
AboveTheInfluencecom
AboveTheInfluence.com Thinks It Is Above The Truth
I just visited a site that on first glance looks like it is designed to help young people become self-assured individuals who are not affected by the social pressures to have sex, smoke, drink, abuse prescription drugs, or use marijuana. In fact, the site is primarily an anti-marijuana site. It has a section called “Mythbusters” that contains some questionable material of its own. For example, there are the following “myths”:
“Pot is harmless.”
“Marijuana cures cancer.”
“Everyone’s smoking pot.”
Ok, let’s address each of these.
I just visited a site that on first glance looks like it is designed to help young people become self-assured individuals who are not affected by the social pressures to have sex, smoke, drink, abuse prescription drugs, or use marijuana. In fact, the site is primarily an anti-marijuana site. It has a section called “Mythbusters” that contains some questionable material of its own. For example, there are the following “myths”:
“Pot is harmless.”
“Marijuana cures cancer.”
“Everyone’s smoking pot.”
Ok, let’s address each of these.
- “Pot is harmless.” Is there anyone who actually believes this? I don’t believe that this is a valid “myth.” I think just about everyone knows that if you inhale unfiltered plant smoke, there are going to be health risks. However, despite the site’s lies, there ARE benefits to smoking marijuana that very well might outweigh those risks.
- “Marijuana cures cancer.” What?? Again, I do not believe this is a valid “myth.” I have never heard any person or organization make this claim. In fact, the groups who are fighting to have marijuana legalized for terminally ill patients do not make this claim. The claim is, and I have witnessed the proof, that marijuana helps greatly reduce the negative effects of radiation and chemotherapy treatments. The benefits include the reduction of nausea and increase of appetite in these patients. There are also benefits for patients with chronic illnesses like MS, Crohn’s, epilepsy, spinal cord injury and migraine headaches by reducing muscle spasms, seizures and pain. Reduction of pressure within the eyes of glaucoma patients is another reported benefit. For more on the science behind medical marijuana use, please visit MedmjScience.org.
- “Everyone’s smoking pot.” This one is just ridiculous. Everyone knows that a minority of people are smoking pot. This just gives groups like the Office of National Drug Control Policy (the agency responsible for the “abovetheinfluence” site) a reason to spout statistics.
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Cindy Sheehan: A Markerless Grave in Vacaville
Cindy Sheehan: A Markerless Grave in Vacaville
I strongly urge you to read this article by Ms. Sheehan. It is important if you have a cynical view of her campaign to end the war in Iraq. She continues to follow her heart dispite the voracious, interminable attacks by the warmongers of the current administration and the rest of the military/industrial complex. Here is a short excerpt from her article.
"I will tell the world why Casey has no marker yet. In the first place, does anyone who is attacking me know how Casey was brought home from Iraq? We picked him up in the United loading dock in a cardboard box and he was off-loaded into a hearse without one honor guard. We had to wait for about a half hour on a curb near the United freight area for his one escort, who rode from Dover Air Force Base in a seat, while Casey was treated as an over-sized piece of luggage. Has anybody held her other sobbing children who are sitting on a curb in San Francisco, waiting for the remains of their big brother to be carried over to the dock by a forklift?
Our so-called, illegitimate president has never attended a funeral, nor can families see the pictures of their loved ones as they are hauled like freight with flags on them from an immoral war zone. WE don't see them because Mama Bush doesn't want to 'bother her pretty mind' with the images. America doesn't want to be bothered, either. We had a Casualty Officer who abandoned us when our mortuary refused to pay the cemetery and told us that the 'government sent the money to the mortuary, so now it is your problem. You may have to sue the mortuary.' Our government discards and dishonors its own."
Does that make you proud to be an American? Knowing what little regard this administration has for the men and women dying to protect and increase their profits? Not me. I am disgusted with the outrageous actions of Bush and his gang.
I strongly urge you to read this article by Ms. Sheehan. It is important if you have a cynical view of her campaign to end the war in Iraq. She continues to follow her heart dispite the voracious, interminable attacks by the warmongers of the current administration and the rest of the military/industrial complex. Here is a short excerpt from her article.
"I will tell the world why Casey has no marker yet. In the first place, does anyone who is attacking me know how Casey was brought home from Iraq? We picked him up in the United loading dock in a cardboard box and he was off-loaded into a hearse without one honor guard. We had to wait for about a half hour on a curb near the United freight area for his one escort, who rode from Dover Air Force Base in a seat, while Casey was treated as an over-sized piece of luggage. Has anybody held her other sobbing children who are sitting on a curb in San Francisco, waiting for the remains of their big brother to be carried over to the dock by a forklift?
Our so-called, illegitimate president has never attended a funeral, nor can families see the pictures of their loved ones as they are hauled like freight with flags on them from an immoral war zone. WE don't see them because Mama Bush doesn't want to 'bother her pretty mind' with the images. America doesn't want to be bothered, either. We had a Casualty Officer who abandoned us when our mortuary refused to pay the cemetery and told us that the 'government sent the money to the mortuary, so now it is your problem. You may have to sue the mortuary.' Our government discards and dishonors its own."
Does that make you proud to be an American? Knowing what little regard this administration has for the men and women dying to protect and increase their profits? Not me. I am disgusted with the outrageous actions of Bush and his gang.
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