Joe’s plane hit the building filled with IRS employees this morning. More insight.
If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy. Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse. (more…)
“He definitely saw America as the enemy.” Editor’s note: The B-Cast conducted an hour-long interview with John C. Drew last Friday. That extended interview can be found in the related links section below.
Homelessness in rural and suburban America is straining shelters this winter as the economy founders and joblessness hovers near double digits—a “perfect storm of foreclosures, unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing,” in one official’s eyes.
“We are seeing many families that never before sought government help,” said Greg Blass, commissioner of Social Services in Suffolk County on eastern Long Island.
“We see a spiral in food stamps, heating assistance applications; Medicaid is skyrocketing,” Blass added. “It is truly reaching a stage of being alarming.”
Can someone see a ripple effect? On April 18, the Bumble Bee Foods sardine cannery in Gouldsboro, Maine will close and 128 people will lose their jobs. Those jobs lost represent 6% of the town’s total population. That’s a big hit.
Workers were shocked Wednesday when they were told that the last remaining sardine cannery in the United States would close down for good on April 18, ending more than100 years of local history.
TDN has posted videos of the mirror that we could all be looking at in some form or another.
Sadie has become the first winner of the dog-show Triple Crown.
She already acquired top dog at the National Dog Show in Pennsylvania in November and the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship in California in December. You go Sadie!
My first female Scottie was a gorgeous little girl named Ceniza (Ashes), and she was the sweetest dog anyone could ever want. Not easy for the Scottish type. She also watched teevee. Good to know that Sadie watches Animal Planet.
