Archive for July, 2010

Unemployment Blues

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

I’ve been on the planet for a pretty long time.  I’ve been a contributing to the workforce here in America for about 3/4 of my life (over 30 years).  In all that time I’ve only taken unemployment benefits once and that was when there were ample jobs to be had but you didn’t have to except something that was below your “lot” in life.  It was then I realized how flawed the system is.

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Where’s my conservation at?

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

The environment, it’s that thing we walk & drive around.  We breathe its air, drink its water and swim in its seas.  We eat the food it produces and enjoy the vitamin D the sun provides.  We take all of this in and yet we do very little to protect it.  It’s sort of strange when you stop and think about it.  It would be like be like scoring the winning goal and begging for it to be disallowed, it just doesn’t make sense.

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