Snipped from Newsweek.com.

Similar to 9/11, we are getting more news about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction. Because of our governments negligence and biased politics toward blacks and the poor, we are now looking at children that are suffering from more illness and disease than any other demographic.

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Today is not too early to think about gift-giving for this Christmas. Why? Because if you have your list of what gifts to give resolved early, that, and its money problems, are off your mind and, hence, less stress for you.

But, what if you don’t have any money for Ma’s xmas gift? And nothing for Pa’s? For brother’s? For sister’s? Or anything for uncles and aunts?

And, what about your girl/boy friend? Oh, what to give? What to give? I can only count pocket change this year, you say. Hey, no problem. Give an IOU Christmas gift. IOU gifts cost nothing in dollars and cents. What is an IOU gift?

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I remember when I was a little kid that my Dad, along with all the other fathers in the neighborhood, would buy live fowl and would do the slaughtering themselves. Chicken, turkeys, ducks.

There was this one Thanksgiving approaching when one of my Uncle Alex’s sons was bitten by what we would call today, the intrapreneurial spirit. He bought and brought home from a farmer about a hundred live turkeys. He put them in his father’s backyard, and the yard didn’t need to be fence up; it already had a wire mesh fence all around. It really became a big backyard turkey coop. My cousin must have spent his calculated and imagined fortune from the coming sale of those turkeys many times over and over in his head.

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Snipped from LiveScience.com.

Okay, I am posting this, so I do not have to repeat myself ever again! Yes, antibiotic medication, antibiotic soap, antibiotic laundry detergent, antibiotic toy cleaner, antibiotic hand wipes, antibiotic hand lotion and antibiotic antibiotics … let me make this very clear … are ruining you, and our environment! Stop trying to sterilize everything, just stop it!

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Snipped from Wired.com.

Scientists are getting closer and closer to whatever is on the “other side”. We have learned from all kinds of things from mathematical anomalies — string theory, dark matter, dark energy, extra dimensions, Higgs bosons … But, unfortunately, we have no actual proof of any of this. Well, we are now getting closer to peering “through the looking glass”.

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The dying American SUV, hopefully a thing of the past.

All it takes is a little out of the box thinking, real leadership and some pro-citizen, anti-corporate, conglomerate ideals. Bail them out on one condition — all conglomerates get divided up into smaller subunits.

GM, the one massive corporation, gets divided into 5 separate corporations: Buick and Cadillac; Chevrolet; GMC, Daewoo and Hummer; Pontiac and Saab; and, last but not least, Saturn. The US government should oversee the large corporate divisions and appoint a government official, that is not elected or influenced by any lobbying, to each division for regulation and supervision of the public’s investment. This appointee should be able to override any final decisions that could take the company away from the original intention — to reinvent itself into a viable 21st century company.

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Some history first:

“St. Nicholas is by far the most easily recognized source of Christmas presents around the world. Parents would leave small gifts of candy or fruits for their children in the honor of St. Nicholas. Eventually the date of this exchange of gifts became associated with the December 25th festivities.

“Christmas presents became even more of a focal point of the holiday experience in the mid-19th century when Americans began to shift from exchanging small, simple gifts and instead began taking a more consume-driven approach to Christmas presents and gift exchanges.”

–Source: Gail Leino at EzineArticles.com

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A Blackwater recruiter screams
at recruits preparing for more missions.
Photo: Chris Curry/The Virginian-Pilot/ZUMA Press

Is that what’s going to happen by 2012? Why’s that? Read on:

“Iraq’s foreign minister and U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker signed a security pact on Monday requiring U.S. forces to leave Iraq by the end of 2011.

“Iraq’s parliament could vote as early as this week on a security pact with the United States that would allow American forces to remain for three more years. The Iraqi Cabinet overwhelmingly approved the deal Sunday.”
–NPR “Morning Edition, November 17, 2008

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Snipped from LLNL.gov.

The New NIF Laser at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — the nuts and bolts information on how the laser actually works and how it will provide ignition to accomplish the Fuson feat of turning Nuclear Waste Into Energy — can be found in this overall, in-depth, performance status report with its complete text and 43 figures and in-color illustrations.

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There’s a black hole in your re’sume’ just like there’s one in outer space. The company hirers always notice that black hole and ask you about it. “Please explain this three-month gap here from last year. What did you do during that time?”

Well…

Yes, well… Well, Blog4Brains.com has concocted ten top ways for you to get out of that black hole. The things you can say to cover over your gaps are:

1) I loved my job so much, and I wanted my job to continue being done the right way, I volunteered at no cost to my former employer to stay over for three months to train my replacement.

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