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    11th

    Thanks for the Miles Mazda

    Mazda North American Operations
    P.O. Box 19734
    Irvine, CA 92623-9734
    Attn: Customer Assistance Center 
     
    January 10, 2011
    Dear Mazda-
    My 1995 Mazda 626 (DX) just hit 300,000 miles and all I can say is, “Thank you for such a fantastic car!”
    When I originally purchased this car in Lincoln, Nebraska, I had no idea what a dependable vehicle I was getting. At [...]


    Aug
    13th

    The Reunion-20 Years Later

    Freedom, in the modern American teenager vernacular, came to me 20 years ago. By freedom I mean, of course, high school graduation. Finally, my own man…FOR REAL! Well, at least sort of. I can almost recall the elation at the prospects which lay before me. I had plans…and alternate plans too…one way or another, things [...]


    Apr
    16th

    Economic Sleight of Hand

    So here we are, 6 months after the brink of “financial armageddon,” upwards of $7.5 Trillion-yes trillion with a “T”- promised, printed, and perq-ed away, and what have we gained?
    After being told that our major financial institutions and banks were so nearly insolvent that only massive amounts of taxpayer funded infusions could save life as [...]

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    Nov
    4th

    An Election To Remember

    It’s not often that we actually can feel the sense of being a part of an historic moment. Today is that day.
    I’ve voted at the same location for over five years. In those five years, I can not ever remember seeing more than about ten people at the poll at the same time as I [...]


    Oct
    16th

    Jesus Says NO to Prop. 8

    If you use religion to deny equality, how does that NOT make yours a religion of HATE?

    (original video by Ken Grandlund- cross posted at Bring It On!)


    Sep
    19th

    Financial Crisis: What Should You Do?

    It’s no longer an open discussion-we are in the midst of the worst financial storm since the Great Depression. And it’s not even close to being over, despite the exuberance on Wall Street following the announcement of a federal bail-out for the flimsy mortgage market and other financial institutions. Make no mistake about it kids…this [...]

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    Jul
    8th

    A Fiddle For Everyone

    It is a well known myth that while fires destroyed the great city of Rome, the emporer Nero sat on his rooftop playing his lyre and watching the flames engulf the heart of his empire. Whether true or not, the image persists and the popular saying “Nero fiddled while Rome burned” is readily applied to [...]


    Jul
    2nd

    An Answer To The High Costs Of Energy: Just Go Freegan

    (photo from freegan.info, courtesy of falcophoto.com)
     They eat from dumpsters. The shun regular employment. They live in abandoned dwellings. You might think of them as “bums.” They prefer to be known as Freegans. And their ranks may well be growing.
     Dubbed “strategies for a sustainable life beyond capitalism,” the Freegans may well be on to something. In [...]


    Jun
    27th

    Personal Incomes Soar Thanks To Tax Rebates-Or Do They?

    Boy oh boy, George W. Bush must be doing the happy dance in the Oval Office this morning as newspapers and media outlets are all chanting the same verse: personal incomes in May rose to the highest levels in 33 years! 
    What? I thought we were in some kind of recession. And rising gas prices are [...]


    Jun
    23rd

    Apparently, Jesus Isn’t The Only Path To Eternal Life After All

    Despite the ravings of American televangelists, most religious Americans dispute the idea that the only way to eternal life after death is through Jesus. This will be news to the Pat Robertson’s of the airwaves…
    According to a survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, fully 70% of Americans who have some [...]