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Nad R wrote:
songbird wrote:
i think it likely we'll have some more
epidemics of some kind. population density
continues to increase as people move to
the cities.
Not in the US. More and More people are moving to the country. Carving up
the the land into smaller and small segments at a destructive pace. The
last census showed that most cities have fewer people. I am one of those
that fled the city for the safety of the country.
And increased transportation cost$ to go to the markets, stores, and
other business offices that are found in towns and cities. Do you get
all your culture from the small screen?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/..._ST_N.htm?csp=
34news
more people are raising
chickens and pigs in close proximity again.
these sorts of trends are asking for
trouble.
Does this mean I have to kick my chickens, dogs and bessy the cow out of my
bed room 
Nad, I don't think you have a firm grasp on the concept of animal
husbandry ;O)
Or are you advocating vegetarianism? Or against farm factories
from that last sentence?
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/na...next_aids.html
on top of the likelyhood of
food shortages, riots, wars, water
shortages, etc. it's going to be an
interesting period of time coming up.
There's that Chinese curse again.
Interesting only for those that can avoid the food and water shortages,
riots and wars. Shortages caused by humans breading like rats.
Breading humans? Is that anything like schnitzel?
Let us
support Family Planning and the Environmental Protection Agency
Sorry, both are being axed by Paul Ryan’s neo-liberal, bone-headed
budget cuts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...ive_government
/2011/04/01/AFQbjTXC_story.html?nav=emailpage
The end of progressive government?
By E.J. Dionne Jr., Sunday, AprilÂ*,Â*7:53 PM
So far, our nation’s budget debate has been a desultory affair focused
on whether a small slice of the federal government’s outlays should be
cut by $33 billion or $61 billion, or whatever.
But Americans are about to learn how much is at stake in our larger
budget fight, how radical the new conservatives in Washington are, and
the extent to which some politicians would transfer even more resources
from the have-nots and have-a-littles to the have-a-lots.
And you wonder: Will President Obama welcome the responsibility of
engaging the country in this big argument, or will he shrink from it?
Will his political advisers remain robotically obsessed with poll
results about the 2012 election, or will they embrace Obama’s historic
obligation — and opportunity — to win the most important struggle over
the role of government since the New Deal?
This week, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will announce the House Republicans’
budget plan, which is expected to include cuts in many programs for the
neediest Americans.
The Ryan budget’s central purpose will not be deficit reduction but the
gradual dismantling of key parts of government. Remember that Ryan wants
both to preserve the Bush tax cuts and, over the long run, to enact more
breaks for the wealthy, including the elimination of the capital gains
tax.
Ryan’s plan reportedly will include steep Medicaid cuts, disguised as a
proposal to turn the program into a “block grant” to the states. The net
effect would be to leave even more Americans to the mercies of the
private insurance market.
In deference to the GOP’s success in turning last year’s health-care law
into “Obamacare,” let’s call this proposal Ryancare — and let’s make
sure we look carefully at its impact on the elderly and the disabled,
the main beneficiaries of Medicaid.
Put the two parts of the Ryan design together — tax cuts for the rich,
program cuts for the poor — and its radically redistributionist purposes
become clear. Timid Democrats would never dare embark on class warfare
on this scale the other way around.
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They paid for it in blood.
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- Billy
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953
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