Imagine a simple rural farming community in which the people provide for their own and each other’s needs, trading among themselves and helping each other,…
Author: skepticalobserver
This is just an experiment, posting screen shots of a post in my abandoned Google Permanentfixes Blog. I have been slowly deleting or updating and…
Media typically reported enthusiastically about “creation” of 228,000 new jobs in November of 2017. For Example: Could we have a little context? I checked the…
Free the Doctors (9/2/2009)
Posted in Health Care
I found the quote below at a US Government Health and Human Services website about Medicare payments. Believe me, I didn’t make this up. “This…
Earl Blumenauer, D – Oregon, explains in an op-ed today where all the “Death Panel” uproar was born. He says that in his years in…
About ten days ago I was feeling really bad and started having chills. By the next morning I had a fever and obvious symptoms of…
Fishy Global Warming Story
Posted in Climate
When I was an irresponsible teenager, a couple of friends and I went fishing for native brook trout in the Smoky Mountains National Park. We…
Labeling and Limiting Ourselves and Others
Posted in National Debt, Politics, Responsibility, and Uncategorized
David Brooks is spending a lot of time thinking lately and coming up with some good points such as in the attached column. We are…