By OcJim There are many apt nicknames for Donald Rumsfeld. Of course, the media affectionately calls him Rummy, seeing a practiced smile like the photo on the bottom, an image of mirth at press conferences. Others find him malevolent, as characterized by the top two photos. They compare him…
By: Thomas Vyncent The Zeitgeist Movement is like communism, democracy, and every science fiction movie and book you've ever seen, read, or heard about. In essence, it proposes that we, as a modern society, are steadily moving towards an apocalyptic world due to a lack of sustainability. This is…
By Jim Hoover In the last ranking in 2000, The World Health Organization (WHO) has named the French health care system the best in the world. Who ranked the U.S. 37th, close behind Costa Rica, Dominica, and Chile. Statistics supporting this ranking seem to persist today. If you remove…
http://www.examiner.com/this-day-history-in-national/cuyahoga-river-on-fire By Jim Hoover As if the Republicans haven’t done enough already to trash the American people, indeed our country, considering attacks on women and Planned Parenthood, attacks on regulating Wall Street, cuts to spending for the vulnerable, voting to end Medicare, starving education, trying to kill voting in…
By Jim Hoover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGXQ1Xwn4ws&feature=player_detailpage#t=63s Unlike traditional coal mining, dynamiting the tops of pristine mountains to extract coal, permanently alters the beauty of the landscape. The Appalachian Mountain System, running 2000 miles from Newfoundland to central Alabama, has graced the landscape of what is the eastern US today, originally formed…
By: Jeremy Mydril Historically, Edwin Abbott is perhaps best known as one the premiere 19th-century theologians of his time, writing multiple novels and texts about religion and grammar (exclusively). But he did also venture into fiction, if only briefly—actually only once—with Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, which is…
By Jim Hoover There has always been a giggle-factor for those who claim they have seen Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). Someday, I believe, the laugh will be on the doubters. At least two of the UFO photos above came from a pre-digital-effects period when photos were more difficult to…
By Jim Hoover For those who are buying potassium iodide tablets, there is another reason to panic. The Cascadia megaquake is long overdue. Run for your lives!! Well, wait a minute. This is only if you live in the coastal region of northern California, Oregon, Washington, or Western Canada.…
By: Jim Hoover I am an amateur student of cosmology, and I see parallels between the universe and the everyday world in which we live. Let the associated graph be your guide. The material world, at least what we can see, is composed of four percent of the universe; yet…
...throughout history we have been using drugs to treat a number of ailments from anxiety, depression, and obsession to colds, pneumonia and mal health. Yet, in contemporary culture we have developed a bias towards drugs, in fact even the name “drug” has carried with it a negative connotation. We have lost the connection with ancient, natural remedies and resorted entirely to new medications,: chemicals which are not only dangerous but possibly the downfall of our species