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Friday, September 12, 2008

Going to the Library, Newspapers and Googling ECONOMICS

Sorry, nothing to add here today as I started with Reaganomics and that took all day and night.... then, it's on to each successive president to see what their ecnomic policies were and what they did to our nation. I start with Reagan because he gave us a lot of our economic vocabulary used today... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Pay attention to the Economy and not lipstick on pigs, people.

Read my lipsticked lips you silly misogynistic men, you. I see the big messed up world that we are living in today. Just yesterday or the day before, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were put into financial conservatorship because of their, can I say this, male CEOs, un-lipsticked shenanigans. While the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Don’t Panic. We are not in the Great Depression again!

Or are we?? Naw, couldn’t be. But, deja’ vu all over again, the government is taking over the American housing mortgage business that it created during the Great Depression to save the housing market back then. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. So, banks crashed and crashed and President FDR, in 1938, made the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 8, 2008

Governor Napolitano and Governor Palin

I’m from Arizona, a state that has had more than one female governor, so we know about and like our women leaders and how they get things done. This got me thinking about state governors, specifically about Governor Janet Napolitano and about Governor Sarah Palin. I watched them on an old Charlie... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 7, 2008

Old White Men and Their Old Ideas and Methods

I don't know how many people who were not Republicans watched the RNC on t.v., but I watched the major speeches on my computer. I threw out my t.v. about six months ago when I just couldn't take the NOTHING that it had become even one more minute. I saw, at the Republican National Convention, old... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 6, 2008

Flashing back to the Republican 80s and its crashes.

Am I the only one who remembers the 80s as a sad and a tortuous time for Americans? The sharks changed all sorts of economic policies and then ran rampant using and abusing banking, lending, savings and loan institutions, until their financial houses of cards fell under their new and greedier... Sign in to see full entry.

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Isn’t America interesting and Fun right now??!?!??

I remember as a child helping my father to put flyers on cars at the grocery store, papers that asked Arizonans to get to know and to vote for Jack Kennedy. Our particular group, and I was only twelve or thirteen at the time, our group was on fire. We wanted to hand Kennedy our Republican state on a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Every old generation bemoans the passing of something. I celebrate the

continuing fairly stable political process of my nation. When I look at other nations and the chaos that their citizens endure, I thank the forefathers for doing an excellent job of defining us, controlling us, soliciting co-operation from us, allowing us a somewhat fair means of seeking justice for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Personal news flash, lightning strikes twice in a lifetime.

So, thirty-four years ago when lightning struck my first little home, I was sure that I had done something to anger the gods. And though there was just a tiny chink in the corner of one brick in the facade outside, the bedroom wall had been totally blown open inside the house. I had just taken the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 3, 2008

One man's desire to save my grandchildren's planet...Cradle to Cradle

This three minute video speaks volumes and also feeds you, food for thought. Click on the link if you have a minute.... McDonough talks about Earth and people Sign in to see full entry.

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I wondered if anyone was reporting from the frontlines of American Society, embedded with the poverty stricken and reporting on what happens each day when you live in the greatest country on earth and earn enough to survive and not much else. I wondered if anyone was explaining America to others and thought that, since I was already embedded in this ongoing cultural experiment, I might tell what it's like.

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