In light of this summers extensive heat waves that have devastated so much of America's heartland one thing is perfectly clear food prices are expected to go through the roof. Whether it is corn, wheat, or soy the main sources of food that goes into just about everything that...
"People Won't believe me. They think I'm just bragging, the way I feel the way I do I should be on the wagon. All I need is one of your smiles. Oh me! Oh my! Baby do I feel high." That was such a catchy song by the Kingston Trio. It is too bad today's music doesn't reflect...
" It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." Charles Dickens opening to the Tale of Two Cities. A story of the French Revolution. How apropos for today! And yet strange as it may seem the complexity of living now compared to then. Who would have thought we'd...
The harsh reality of this summers heat waves where under the scorching sun what was supposed to be bumper crops of corn and soy are now withering. This was supposed to be a banner year in the harvest of major food crops which by the way would have led to lower costs...
With the world teetering on the edge of chaos where at any moment impending doom will sweep down over nations like the Grim Reaper laying waste to the masses all humanity is poised to await the inevitable, or is it? That opening to the movie 2012 shows that a catastrophic...
To infinity and beyond, Good old Buzz Lightyear or this one to go where no man has gone before sums it up nicely. As it turns out whether mankind continues to reach out into space especially with all the limitations that currently hamper further space exploration we are...
When the mayor of Scranton, Pa.took drastic measures for trying in salvaging the cities budget by slashing all municipal workers salaries to minimum wage at $7.25 per hour has set off a firestorm of resentment and even put the city in more economic and financial peril...
According to the latest medical journal the United States has more than doubled in the number of obese adults since the 1980's. Over 150 billion dollars this per year alone was spent combating obesity related aliments. This, while over 30% of adults today are on kind of...
It is too bad in United States with this country stuck in a quagmire of hopelessness when it comes to job creation we have two Presidential candidates who are spending more time campaigning than they are in trying to resolve the most important crisis since the Great...
On this our most sacred of national holiday's this July 4th we all should spend time in reflection of what made this country so great. Though some might not feel that the government is doing such a wonderful job. For that matter I tend to agree. But compared to say living...
In the reality of today's economy there continues to those who show case the ruthlessness of employers. Wal-Mart again, rises to the occasion where profits exceeds humility, benevolence, and compassion toward their employees. This time in the Tampa Bay area of Florida...
It was the summer of '72 I had just finished training for another marathon in between my work as a search and recovery diver for a salvage company out of Boston Harbor. Many of these dives were actually in the Charles River. Water so black you couldn't see your hand in...
"Once upon a time a midnite dreary I ponder weak and weary" just like the macabre writings of Edger Allen Poe. It kinda reminds me of those monster movies we used to watch when we were kids. You know the Boris Karloff or Bela Lugosi flicks that always came on TV mostly on...
To paint an accurate picture of the state of the union today we have to come to terms that the United States is far cry from being fiscally and economically stable.That being said, America is and has been in a free fall of instability for too long. Our core values have...
The American educational experience from the late 1960's thru today has been a total disaster. Instead of securing our place in educational standards when the educational experience of the post World War II period up till around 1970 we have succumbed to the lowest common...
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The Heat Is On