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I’m reading yet another article on Americans and their lack of vacation, or to put it another way, Europeans and their wealth of vaction time. As written it appears that all Europeans take off the month of August. Really? All of them? Or is it just the professional class? Cause otherwise, who’s minding the store……the store, the gas station, the hospitals…for that matter, whose working at the resorts they go to? Someone must be running those hotels and restaurants they visit.
Maybe George Romney could have saved a company. Maybe he could have made it, and the one he ran, stronger, bigger, a great competitor worldwide. But instead of bold, forward, thinking, George Romney let a company die… and the one he worked for flounder. Yes, George. Not Mitt. The true Romney legacy could have been a more vibrant car industry, a new competitor for GM, Ford, and also on the ropes at the time Chrysler. But he decided to let a company die, and lead an unremarkable company into more unremarkable-ness. Studebaker. American Motors. The mainstream news media has always been more than deferential to huge corporate execs and powerful pols. That’s why we never hear this story. Doesn’t reflect well on the Romney legacy. Doesn’t reflect well on GM or Ford. If Barack Obama bails out car companies then it’s in the news, negatively, 24 hours a day. And when it succeeds, and the money is paid back, you hear nothing. After all, the less corporate friendly candidate, at least according to the Corporate Party… um, the Republican Party… might look better if the mentioned all that as much as they spewed negativity when the bailouts came. When Mittens…
The simplicity of some talking points make me ponder. I was staying at a relative’s house when he blurted out, “Romney’s money doesn’t matter.” So I started to ponder the “suggestion.” Answer…
Written by Jim Hightower Pigheaded Republicans are so focused on repealing Obamacare that they’ve failed to offer an alternative. ere’s some useful advice from an old country saying: Never try to teach table manners to a pig – it doesn’t work, it’ll wear you out and it just annoys the pig. The same advice goes for anyone who thinks they can teach even a bit of common sense to the preening political ideologues who’ve taken over the Republican Party and the U.S. House of Representatives. As we’ve seen in their incessant, pigheaded attacks on the health-care reform law, their minds are not merely fogged up with extremist anti-government theories, they’re impervious to rational thought.
Karl Marlantes on What It’s Like to Go to War July 27, 2012 Bill talks to Karl Marlantes — a highly-decorated Vietnam veteran, Rhodes Scholar, author, and PTSD survivor — about what we on the insulated outside need to understand about the minds and hearts of our modern warriors. Marlantes shares with Bill intimate stories about how his battlefield experiences both shaped and nearly destroyed him, even after returning to civilian life. “‘Thou shalt not kill’ is a tenet you just do not violate, and so all your young life, that’s drilled into your head. And then suddenly, you’re 18 or 19 and they’re saying, ‘Go get ‘em and kill for your country.’ And then you come back and it’s like, ‘Well, thou shalt not kill’ again. Believe me, that’s a difficult thing to deal with,” Marlantes tells Bill. “You take a young man and put him in the role of God, where he is asked to take a life — that’s something no 19-year-old is able to handle.” Watch the entire interview here
Written by Harvey Wasserman Renewable “green” energy will be the biggest industry in the history of humankind. Jay Warmke’s “When the Biomass Hits the Wind Turbine” (BRS Media: Philo, Ohio) is a great way to learn all about it. Jay is blessed with an off-beat sense of humor and a wonderful way of narrating truly earth-shattering history with aplomb and a light, loving touch. “I don’t remember a time when the world wasn’t about to end,” he begins. Neither do I. But g
Bill Huston’s Blog (Binghamton NY) WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2012From a Windsor resident TERROR STORM: Living through the Fires of Hell You all heard about this, right? http://www.wbng.com/news/local/Lightning-Causes-Compressor-Explosion-163497506.html http://www.wicz.com/news2005/viewarticle.asp?a=24231 A Windsor resident wrote to me on Facebook to tell what it was like during the storm: QUOTE: I was sitting at the table eating dinner with my girls. I just got done telling them that everything will be okay it’s just storm we are safe inside….etc.The thunder was really loud so I knew the storm was close. I did not see the lighnting strike that compressor station but it did. Right after that sizzle of the lightning I heard a BOOM followed by that sound the gas wells make when they are burning off the gas you know the sound of a jet engine I ran to the window and there was a HUGE ball of flames 15-20 above the tree tops.
