Sunday, June 19, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
10 Years Later, How Bush-Era Tax Cuts Changed America [CHARTS]
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Monday, June 6, 2011
The Political Ick Factor
If you are a news junkie like me, you may have noticed the news was somewhat dire, a little frustrating and even raunchy this week. If you haven't been tuned in lately you haven't missed much but this week's news is an example of the political ick factor. Americans are worried about the economy, their educations, their jobs, their paychecks, the 2012 election is a dim idea for most people. Political pundits have been covering stories which only makes us grimace in disgust at Washington and makes us think our country is being run by spoiled children. It gives us all the icks...a look at the stories that makes us roll our eyes...
Donald Trump: I hate to even mention his name, his giant ego can be seen on almost any network and even his national foot-in-mouth moment has not stopped him from grabbing the spotlight. This week the news covered a meeting between him and fellow media whore Sarah Palin and the fact that he eats pizzas with a fork, despite the comedic value of Jon Stewart's rant we all know this is not newsworthy. Whenever his name is mentioned lately he gives me the political icks.
Anthony Weiner's Weener:
Another sex scandal has come to light regarding a prominent democrat who's twitter account got hacked. First let me just say that prominent politician and twitter shouldn't be in the same sentence. The picture is now all over the late night news, every channel! It's Monday and the first story on HuffPost is another giant picture of the Congressman and he's confessed to sending these pictures himself. For days the question was si this picture real? It doesn't matter...this is my point. Among the major problems hitting today's working class families, people are pinching pennies and settling for less, and for three days we are supposed to care about this picture.
Sarah Palin: You need to be hiding under a rock to not know about Sarah Palin's bus tour. We don't know why, how or even where she is going but everyone has to cover every single movement. This is a woman who knows how to take advantage of the spotlight and let's be honest here she's more of a political celeb then a real political contender. Her negatives, on any poll done since her failed VP run, far outweigh any positive message she may offer. Her meeting with Donald Trump in New York was covered for hours. Neither her or Donald are actually in the race but we focus on them like beacons that will save us. We don't care that you are reading the Bill of Rights for the first time or that you are visiting Boston, we just don't care. Now the story is whether or not she got the details of the Paul Revere ride correct, after watching the clip I wanted to slap her and it defiantly left me with the political icks.
Now it's Monday and I have caught up on all the political Sunday shows where the news was about the economy and jobs and Obama's failure to lead us out of a recession. Republicans have been telling us for months that we need to cut spending and this is the way out of our problems, and the democrats will tell you everything takes time and we are headed in the right direction but the truth is they are distracting you and telling you who to blame, no one and I repeat NO ONE is fixing the problem! The 2010 election was all about jobs and the economy we heard it from every side, it caused an upheaval in Congress, but neither side has a solution.
I hate reading these stories, I hate hearing these stories on the nightly news. I hate writing about these stories. Why isn't Afghanistan a bigger story? We killed Osama bin Laden and there is no national conversation about a war we can't win, instead we hear about Donald Trump's pizza eating. The unemployment number is 9% ! The Republican plan to increase jobs is all about cutting taxes and cutting spending this is not a jobs plan! The stories of this week belong in the Onion or tabloids, it's not real journalism to report opinions and tweets. I ask the people demand the answers among the fluff. This entire news cycle gives me and I'm sure most of America the political icks!
Donald Trump: I hate to even mention his name, his giant ego can be seen on almost any network and even his national foot-in-mouth moment has not stopped him from grabbing the spotlight. This week the news covered a meeting between him and fellow media whore Sarah Palin and the fact that he eats pizzas with a fork, despite the comedic value of Jon Stewart's rant we all know this is not newsworthy. Whenever his name is mentioned lately he gives me the political icks.
Anthony Weiner's Weener:
Another sex scandal has come to light regarding a prominent democrat who's twitter account got hacked. First let me just say that prominent politician and twitter shouldn't be in the same sentence. The picture is now all over the late night news, every channel! It's Monday and the first story on HuffPost is another giant picture of the Congressman and he's confessed to sending these pictures himself. For days the question was si this picture real? It doesn't matter...this is my point. Among the major problems hitting today's working class families, people are pinching pennies and settling for less, and for three days we are supposed to care about this picture.
Sarah Palin: You need to be hiding under a rock to not know about Sarah Palin's bus tour. We don't know why, how or even where she is going but everyone has to cover every single movement. This is a woman who knows how to take advantage of the spotlight and let's be honest here she's more of a political celeb then a real political contender. Her negatives, on any poll done since her failed VP run, far outweigh any positive message she may offer. Her meeting with Donald Trump in New York was covered for hours. Neither her or Donald are actually in the race but we focus on them like beacons that will save us. We don't care that you are reading the Bill of Rights for the first time or that you are visiting Boston, we just don't care. Now the story is whether or not she got the details of the Paul Revere ride correct, after watching the clip I wanted to slap her and it defiantly left me with the political icks.
Now it's Monday and I have caught up on all the political Sunday shows where the news was about the economy and jobs and Obama's failure to lead us out of a recession. Republicans have been telling us for months that we need to cut spending and this is the way out of our problems, and the democrats will tell you everything takes time and we are headed in the right direction but the truth is they are distracting you and telling you who to blame, no one and I repeat NO ONE is fixing the problem! The 2010 election was all about jobs and the economy we heard it from every side, it caused an upheaval in Congress, but neither side has a solution.
I hate reading these stories, I hate hearing these stories on the nightly news. I hate writing about these stories. Why isn't Afghanistan a bigger story? We killed Osama bin Laden and there is no national conversation about a war we can't win, instead we hear about Donald Trump's pizza eating. The unemployment number is 9% ! The Republican plan to increase jobs is all about cutting taxes and cutting spending this is not a jobs plan! The stories of this week belong in the Onion or tabloids, it's not real journalism to report opinions and tweets. I ask the people demand the answers among the fluff. This entire news cycle gives me and I'm sure most of America the political icks!
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
It's High Time for Real Alternative Energy!
Alternative fuels is a hot debate in America right now, we spend too much money on foreign oil, we panic at the prices when we fill up, and we blame every law maker we can find until those prices come down. The problem with alternative fuels is there isn't a solution! America buys gobs of oil every year from foreign governments, some of them hostile. The President has recently been running around the country investing in clean energy and technology to reverse a recession, if he were to invest in a hemp-based economy America could grow and maintain it's own fuel source. Hemp as bio-diesel is a solution!
Government should invest in hemp products and benefits by investing in growing and sustaining Cannabis plants. President Obama is calling for investment in clean energy, renewable resources and clean burning fuels and yet no one is talking about a step that can revolutionize the industry and create a healthier economy; Decriminalizing Marijuana.
Sugar beets, palm oil, corn are current bio fuels. Hemp does not need to have land cleared to grow it, it can grow very fast and leaves the ground in a better state when it is harvested. Food crops like soybeans, olives, peanuts are also used. Food crops are not a good long term solution and can lead to food shortages all over the world. These current methods of bio fuel production can't sustain America's energy use. 1 acre of hemp can produce five hundred gallons of bio fuel. Hemp fuels have shown a high efficiency of energy conversion and can be used at lower temperatures than any biodiesel currently on the market. Investment in production and long term use of Cannabis products is ignored because it's illegal.
The founding fathers, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were strong advocates for a hemp-based economy and laws were passed to enable that economy. In Jamestown in 1619 every farmer had to produce at least a quarter-acre of cannabis for the government. Hawaii and Vermont have passed measures promoting industrial hemp research. This is not just some underground notion, America has the potential to use this investment to promote hemp growing for its many industrial and health benefits. The University of Connecticut has been given a grant of $1.8 million dollars by the Department of Energy to build a refinery that will produce hemp bio-fuel, there are high expectations for production from this refinery.
Ethanol production is one of the stickiest political issues, corn growers all over the United States receive gobs of money to grow what they were growing already, and gas companies who use ethanol products receive massive tax breaks, those tax breaks manage to make it into every Presidential hopefuls' bank. This process goes around and around, and the dirty secret politicians rarely admit, is that ethanol production and investment haven't panned out, the impact is very little since it requires fossil fuels to cultivate. Too much money has been sunk into this lame solution. The Canadian Government and The National Bio-diesel Board have determined that Cannabis production would be more effective and less harmful then Ethanol based fuels.
The biggest obstacle to hemp based fuels is limited production, we just can't grow enough to make a dent, even in Canada where it's been legal for 6 years, only an investment from the government can make it high time we explored hemp based fuels.
Hemp Car Manifesto
Government should invest in hemp products and benefits by investing in growing and sustaining Cannabis plants. President Obama is calling for investment in clean energy, renewable resources and clean burning fuels and yet no one is talking about a step that can revolutionize the industry and create a healthier economy; Decriminalizing Marijuana.
Sugar beets, palm oil, corn are current bio fuels. Hemp does not need to have land cleared to grow it, it can grow very fast and leaves the ground in a better state when it is harvested. Food crops like soybeans, olives, peanuts are also used. Food crops are not a good long term solution and can lead to food shortages all over the world. These current methods of bio fuel production can't sustain America's energy use. 1 acre of hemp can produce five hundred gallons of bio fuel. Hemp fuels have shown a high efficiency of energy conversion and can be used at lower temperatures than any biodiesel currently on the market. Investment in production and long term use of Cannabis products is ignored because it's illegal.
The founding fathers, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were strong advocates for a hemp-based economy and laws were passed to enable that economy. In Jamestown in 1619 every farmer had to produce at least a quarter-acre of cannabis for the government. Hawaii and Vermont have passed measures promoting industrial hemp research. This is not just some underground notion, America has the potential to use this investment to promote hemp growing for its many industrial and health benefits. The University of Connecticut has been given a grant of $1.8 million dollars by the Department of Energy to build a refinery that will produce hemp bio-fuel, there are high expectations for production from this refinery.
Ethanol production is one of the stickiest political issues, corn growers all over the United States receive gobs of money to grow what they were growing already, and gas companies who use ethanol products receive massive tax breaks, those tax breaks manage to make it into every Presidential hopefuls' bank. This process goes around and around, and the dirty secret politicians rarely admit, is that ethanol production and investment haven't panned out, the impact is very little since it requires fossil fuels to cultivate. Too much money has been sunk into this lame solution. The Canadian Government and The National Bio-diesel Board have determined that Cannabis production would be more effective and less harmful then Ethanol based fuels.
The biggest obstacle to hemp based fuels is limited production, we just can't grow enough to make a dent, even in Canada where it's been legal for 6 years, only an investment from the government can make it high time we explored hemp based fuels.
Hemp Car Manifesto
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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