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Do as we say…
Good Grief. As someone posted in the comments, the reason they think voter fraud is going on is because they think everyone is as corrupt as they are–a too common theme with corrupt people…
Protected: You’re either with us…
The rule of law
A plea from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. I find it real hard to believe Israel feels threatened by Palestinians when they have nuclear capabilities. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe Hamas has those same capabilities. They just want to feed their families. To live their lives and be let alone. This means not starving them.
And how would Hillary Clinton help smooth tensions? Since she threatened to obliterate Iran if it starts a war with Israel, I’m not real confident that she would be seen as neutral by Palestinians. Just a guess.
Petition protecting Maya Lands
Turtle Talk also has this up on a petition to protect Maya Lands from oil drilling. Just look at that beautiful picture of the land…
Taking the profit out of pollution
…this has been my question all along–why not make polluting the environment a costly affair–so costly that it wouldn’t make sense to continue to pollute? Because the current myopic view is not to include the healthcare costs caused by the toxic environment.
The same goes for plastic crap–why not make using plastic so freaking expensive that glass would be the better and cheaper alternative? Nobody mentions the ocean full of not only mercury but plastic bottles….
Native American Petroglyphs stolen…
(hat tip to Turtle Talk)
Ancient Native American Petroglyphs were stolen. The pictures show so much more of the devastation of the sacred site than the article can express. I just wonder who would do that and what do they hope to gain?
Silkwood
My apologies, I meant to blog on this last week, at the anniversary of Karen Silkwood’s death, November 13th, 1976~
So now it’s been thirty-six years since her mysterious death after she had raised too many questions about the safety of the plutonium processing plant that employed her. The TV movie “Silkwood” raised a stir when it was aired. I remember watching it. For some reason, my memory had Cher as the lead role…apologies to Meryl Streep.
The only complaint I have about the movie is the emphasis on Karen’s personal life…perhaps they didn’t want to leave stuff out to make an accurate portrayal, but it seems that whenever a woman makes noise about something, her morals are always questioned and if she is not a freaking saint, then she is not to be believed.
And I wonder if anything has changed…whether plutonium is still going missing–and where it’s going to…
Correction
…okay, okay, I should have waited until I finished (at lunch) the last of The Birth House before saying that none of the men main characters was a good man…because Ami McKay left it to the end to unveil Hart as a good guy–he being the brother of the late husband of the main character, Dora. Now, he helped her with some chores before the ending, but that was it–nothing even hinted that things were going to go beyond courtesy of a brother-in-law. Yes, well, things developed, as they say, but there again, the reader is left to wonder about much of the relationship. I think it would have been wonderful to develop that character out. By Dora’s choosing, they never marry, which is a great ending. This writer has seen too many they-married-and-lived-happily-ever-after stories…real life just doesn’t echo that sentiment.
Pay us enough…
…so we can raise our own families….
It’s now too common that workers in stores are paid so little that they can’t even afford to shop in the store they work for…
I’ve had a friend who shopped at Walmart and when I raised concerns about how they treated their employees, she was upset because she couldn’t afford to shop anywhere else. I avoid it like the plague–only going there if no other option is available (i.e., I’m in another town or the item I want is not in what few independent stores are left).
Another person remarked about how a national chain grocery store that paid its employees a decent wage was “gouging them with high prices” when Walmart had so much lower prices…the national chain store eventually went out of business, naturally, so now they’re stuck with only Walmart to shop for groceries in their small town. Wanna take bets on how long that lasts–either they’ll raise prices with no competition or the folks in town will find yet another mega-store in a nearby town that has even lower prices so they’ll shop there, driving miles out of the way…buying more crap made out of China in sweatshops…God, this depresses me even writing it…
When is Congress going to raise the minimum wage to a living wage of $11.00 an hour? Oh, wait, we can’t do that…because that will…what are the excuses again…?
Eagle 
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