Ideas to Clean up the Gulf and Make a Profit.
Ideas to clean up the Gulf and make a profit There are a lot of deep sea oil drilling platforms off the Gulf Coast some of them have been abandoned so why not take the abandoned oil platforms that...
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A Wonderful Mother's Day Weekend
I've just come back from spending a wonderful weekend with my mother, who gave life to me nearly thirty years ago, and my grandmother who raised ten children in a small Texas border town. The weekend...
View ArticleCan America Spiritually Celebrate Bin Laden Death?
So how can a nation, proudly steeped in religion and religious freedom with a sometimes overbearing degree of piety, conservatism and moralism boldly justify publicly cheering and waving American...
View ArticleMaybe this is why Republicans pulled their Medicare Plan.
So, as the story goes, "senior Republicans" are saying that the Ryan Budget plan - already passed by the House Republicans, marching in goosestep - is not going to work out. Of course, they blame...
View ArticleThe Real Reason behind High Gas Prices and 3 Things Pres. Obama, Congress Can Do
Contrary to mainstream beliefs, the escalating prices at the gas pump aren’t being driven solely by supply and demand or unrest in the Middle East. Additionally, both Pres. Obama and the US Congress...
View ArticleThe 3 Problems with the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)
Last week Christina Norman, was dismissed from her duties as CEO of Oprah Winfrey-Discovery Channel Communications reportedly for managing the four month OWN network with ratings weaker than the...
View ArticleArizona 3R-2D-4
There have been some awesome Arizona maps drawn by users here. I've been tinkering with Arizona redistricting for a few months now, but I wanted to try something different. Much of Arizona's growth...
View ArticleShould we give Peace a Chance do we really Trust our fellow Man? Is our faith...
Should we give Peace a Chance do we really Trust our fellow Man? Is our faith in Man worth risking a War? Lady and the Tiger time http://en.wikipedia.org/...
View ArticleThe Ocean of Light: Ad Astra, Ad Infinitum
For every problem, there are specific solutions that address the immediate obstacle, and meta-solutions that incorporate the very nature of the problem into future approaches. At the furthest...
View ArticleRAPE: the personal acquaintance with pain.
I have been raped. More than once. I have friends that have been raped, some of them, more than once. My mother who loves me and is a wonderful person says that if I truly didn't want to be raped,...
View ArticleThis World and the World Without War
The New York Times published an op-ed on May 7th by a professor here in Charlottesville, Va., arguing that celebrating the killing of Osama bin Laden is actually a good thing, because in so...
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Oregon by Riding
Well, now that borodino23 has started us off with the idea of subdividing each state into Canadian-style ridings with a target population size of as close to 110,000 as possible, I figured I'd take a...
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DK Elections: MN-08: Tarryl Clark to run for Congress again, in a different...
Via the Duluth News Tribune: Tarryl Clark, who tried to unseat Michele Bachmann from Congress in 2010, wants to take on Chip Cravaack in 2012. Clark told the News Tribune on Saturday that she is...
View ArticleHigh Impact Diaries: May 8, 2011
Welcome to Devine (user_id 310392) who registered at 2011-05-09 04:35:33 EDT, the most recent of 66 in the preceding 24 hours. Yesterday 161 Kogs posted 173 diaries of which 167 were recommended at...
View ArticleMilitary Noticing Congressional Snub of SEALs
Last week I gave the following comment to a diary that noticed how the House refused to honor the Navy SEALs bin Laden mission. My father is a lobbyist for the Military Officers Association. This...
View ArticleLuke Becomes Katie - Transgender Article in the Tulsa World!
This weekend the Tulsa World published a two part series titled “Becoming Katie” It is a very sensitive and informative article about Luke being transformed into Katie. Katie is now graduating from...
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The Banality of Evildoers
With apologies to Hannah Arendt; crossposted at SamPratt.com... This diary starts out tongue-in-cheek, but moves to a broader and more philosophical point. Though it was initially called a mansion,...
View ArticleBin Laden Shmaden
Bin Laden Shmaden - Who Cares anymore!? Kadafi's son was in a Command and Control Center - Oh, that sounds good. So Bin Laden's compound becomes a Command and Control center. I like that - very...
View ArticleWith Friends Like These...
Remember, back in those dark days before Osama bit the dust, back when the law firm of King and Spalding announced they would be defending the Defense of Marriage Act? Remember how some people pointed...
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