This is alarming and could be helpful to consider these protective measures for you and your family.

It looks like two or three of the reactors at Fukushima are in the 

process of melting down. In case you haven’t heard, reactor 1 

literally blew up. I flew within several hundred miles of Tokyo last 

nite when we left Seoul, South Korea. It was all over Seoul TV. 

American television is covering it up, but that won't last for long. 

It is bad. Probably the…

My new love is economics.  It's one of my weakest areas when it comes to teaching Humanities so I learn when and where I can in order to have a decent-enough depth of knowledge around it.

As it so happens, the Academy Award winner for best documentary, Inside Job, is about the U.S.'s current…

Personal Finances: Overview

In some ways, lawmakers' finances look a lot like those of many Americans. They include diverse portfolios of stocks, bonds, mutual funds and real estate. They have bank accounts, credit cards and mortgages. The difference: Politicians generally have more money and — unlike most people they represent — they must make their investments public.…

Michael Moore speaks at rally.

Devastating appropriation cut advanced for Penn State

Penn State and other Pennsylvania public universities are slated for the most dramatic appropriation cut in the history of American higher education, based on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's budget proposal released today (March 8) by Gov. Tom Corbett.

The budget cuts Penn State's appropriation by 52.4 percent, a devastating reduction of $182 million. This includes a 50…

ever feel like your lost without a cause

as if your living on this earth rather then walking through it

without words lost for meaning and a purpose

trying to create something out of nothing and failing at every turn

with no one to look up to and not a soul to hear your words

sometimes what you have to say may not sit well others

but unspoken words are far more poisonous

then speaking what what needs to be heard

wrote this…

I haven't been here in so long, I don't know why but I thought the ARK had sunk...

so here is whats funny....I just read a blog post from last year...and nothing has changed... 

that is not entirely true, I have another granddaughter, Mia Jade, she is 2 months old today, but other than that, everything is the same.

I am emotionally still stuck, in fact, that is not true either, I am not quite stuck, I have slipped further back.…

High Court Rules in Favor of Westboro Church

 

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S.…

Clips from this Billy Joel Q&A in 1996 have been popping up on FB lately. I was

a photojournalist at the time and took stills at the event. A favorite memory ;)

<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/20438977">Billy Joel Q&A</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/photo2010">photo2010</a> on <a…

This video gives you a good sense of how BIG Wisconsin's demonstrations are.

Today, despite the freezing snow, 100,000 people stood for worker's rights.

The last four seconds made me…

My Husband found this for me. Apparently he doesn't think I'm screaming out in my sleep enough.

 …

"There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." -Ludwig Von Mises

A…

The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center is advising that a powerful X-class solar flare is on its way to Earth. Charged plasma particles are expected to reach earth today. 

A wave of charged plasma particles from a huge solar eruption has glanced off the Earth’s northern pole, lighting up auroras and disrupting some radio communications, a NASA scientist said.

But the Earth appears to have escaped a widespread geomagnetic storm, with the effects confined to the northern…

Louisville Sluggers,

Jelly Bellys

and the armaments that killed somebody's loved ones in Bahrain today.

logged on in after like ages of not..

how is everyone in here?

ah..Syd's birthday..

happy birthday captain.

hello Blanche. wish you well.

and ofcourse Chig, Willie, Pyper, Photo2010, Annelidafilms,  NatureJunkie, Jinboy, Dan

and everyone else here, hope all is good.

wait, have you seen Sara around?

she's not here too anymore? ugh

anyways..

rock on everyone. Il see ya around.

:-)

It's 19 degrees outside.  I am standing in the shadow of this building.  I knelt to extinguish candle after candle in this place where 5 people's lives where extinguished less than a month ago.   It was not exactly what I had signed up for, but I guess it brought me to this place I had avoided now for weeks despite its close proximity to home.   We discussed how things were to be separated, cleaned, dried, and placed in boxes.   Like some sort of dreadful assembly line we each took to a task…