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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
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9/11, Columbine, the Virginia Tech Massacre... tragedies. All of them. Bomb threats to schools, false fire alarms and other 'terrorist' activity - stupidity. All of it. We are becoming a nation living in fear of the future and giving up everything now. What is the cost of our fear? Is it our freedom? Will we really have a safer tomorrow if the government - by the people, of the people, for the people - keeps track of our every move and controls every aspect of our lives to some degree? It's always hard for me to write anything about us as a nation. I believe that nations should disappear. I believe that the world is now too small to be burdened with the borders of people who at one time had no idea that half of the world even existed, let alone that if you just kept going around it, you would come back home. This OpEd, however, can be written for no one but us. We, the people of the United States of America - stand divided. Not by the upcoming elections or the color of our skin, not by our finances or our choice in lifestyles, but by fear. The impact of 9/11 was devastating. I worked in Manhattan at the time, but was lucky enough to be home in the Catskill Mountains at 8:47 on the morning of September 11th, 2001. My work schedule had actually just changed and I ordinarily would still have been at work on Centre Street, not too far from Ground Zero. Every day for 3 months, I would drive into work, peering at a cloud of smoke rising from Manhattan Island from the NJ entrance of the Lincoln Tunnel. Every day I did this, I would cry, thinking about thousands of people who died. Some jumping almost a thousand feet to their deaths. Recommend this article... |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 09 February 2008 )
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Written by entropy
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
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What does it mean when the news report comes on and says "Interest rates were lowered today by an nth of a percent..." Or that they were raised? If you're the average American, do you know who Ben Bernenke is or what he does? Who Al Greenspan was? What is the Central Bank's function in society today? For the past two decades, up until 2006, Al Greenspan was one of the most powerful men in the world. People who neither dealt with or cared to deal with market trading, banking and other financial ventures on a larger scale and even many of those who invested a great deal in things like real estate had no idea who he was. Dr. Greenspan took over the office of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve (The central bank of the United States) in 1987 under the office of Ronald Reagan. He was chosen in part because he was a "hawk" - a term meaning a person who keeps a steady eye on inflation and tries to keep it at a level that allows ordinary working class people to continue to subsist with a lower cost of living. Much of the working class of the United States has an income of less than $25,000.00. This according to the Census Beareau (http://www.census.gov). About 42%. All told, just more than 70% still fall short of making $50,000.00 each year. Recommend this article... |
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Written by entropy
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
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Judge: n. a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice - http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ In this day and age, it seems like things are just totally out of control at times. We have hundreds of courts backed up so far that the term "due process" is going to need to be redefined in terms of quick and speedy trial. But hey, time is relative, right? So once you get to trial, there's the judge. He sits on the bench and looks down on the procedings. Both sides have made their case, the jury (or judge) has decided that the person on trial is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Now what? The defendant is guilty of speeding. 89 miles an hour in a 55 mph speed zone. However, they had their 4 year old in the backseat of the car, bleeding profusely from an injury sustained at home. There was little traffic on the road and the priority in the parent's mind is to get the child to an emergency room ASAP. Should the court hold the parent to a mandatory sentence?
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