Everyone’s demanding President Obama to take greater action to stop the BP oil leak. The real reason everyone’s upset is… this can not be fixed.
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April 29, 2010, at 9:16 am — Uncategorized —
A few weeks ago I got an email from an old friend, actor and philanthropist Lukas Behnken. He wanted to get a group of his friends together to hang out. But Lukas wanted to do something more substantive than just grabbing some drinks and more permanent than say seeing a movie. He wanted to build a house – well a habitat for humanity. And how could I say no? April 10, 2010, at 10:00 pm — Arts and Culture | Music | Music In Our House | music video | video interview | Videos — alternative rock / Dan Rickabus / Music / Music In Our House / rock / rock'n'roll / singer / ukelele
March 24, 2010, at 6:13 pm — Blogs — banks / chase / economy / J. P. Morgan / jobless / recession / recovery / senate / unemployment
It was reported today that JP Morgan Chase has concluded that unemployment insurance has not only increased the time someone stays unemployed but also has caused the unemployment rate to go up. The amount of misinformation and just downright callous, unfeeling, un-American behavior in this economic crisis is appalling. March 10, 2010, at 1:57 am — Blogs — debate / ethics / health care / morals / profit / THEME: Profit
We’re having a lively debate here at the Avocado Jungle on the limits, if any, to profit. Is it okay to profit off of the poor and sick? Is there a need to regulate such ideas? Are there things we should just do for one another so that everyone benefits equally? March 5, 2010, at 11:35 pm — Blogs — 97.1 / allman / allman in the morning / bunning / career / cnn / consitution / founding fathers / govern / government / ireport / kronmiller / kyl / morning / obama / senator / st. louis / unemployment
This Friday I stayed up until 5:30 AM Pacific in order to do a call-in interview with conservative talk show host Jamie Allman on St. Louis’ 97.1 FM. Instead of discussing the real consequences of the economic crisis and instead of focusing on the realities that it has brought – Allman chose to focus on me and my year of unemployment. *Warning – this is not going to be gentle but it will be fair. Divorce in this country has become acceptable. That’s the truth. We, as Americans, love our right to divorce. We love the ability to bail. To leave. To quit. We love quitting. Love it. We love giving up more than we love admitting our own faults, more than we well…love love itself. February 25, 2010, at 7:15 pm — Blogs — amendment / boehner / cnn / congress / Constitution / debate / government / health care / ireport / obama / politics / truth / truth amendment / white house
Too often our elected officials use their official positions to spin, stretch and sometimes out right lie about any given issue that may be in debate in government. On CNN’s iReport today I proposed the idea of a Truth Amendment to the Constitution that would require any and all elected officials to swear to tell the truth in the same manner anyone in a court of law may be required. |
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