Lunar
Eclipse 2010
Next:
June 15,
2011, 100 minute Lunar Eclipse, longest in 11 years, visible
everywhere but North America
Solar
Flare (NASA)
2013:
NASA
anticipates large solar flares, possibly as large as the 1859
flares that fried telegraph lines throughout the U.S. and Europe
Letter to Conservatives: The
Party of Wealth – Theirs
Sam Broussard -
Writer, Songwriter, Musician, member of Steve Reilly and the Mamou
Playboys
www.sambroussard.com
Three of the front
runners for the Republican nomination are now just memories, pundit
fodder: Huckabee and Trump, and Palin recedes into political tinnitus.
But the retiring of all three has one thing in common, and it’s money.
Huckabee just bought a huge house in Florida and is enjoying his status
and salary at Fox News. Trump is more at home on his reality show. And
Palin is enjoying both Fox money and reality TV and will probably be the
next Oprah Winfrey, although she’ll never get more than twenty percent
of the viewers because only that percentage of Americans can identify
with her spunky pride in her ignorance. And yes, she’s pretty.
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Trumpenstein Created by Karl
Rove
Karl Rove is
bemoaning the presence of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate –
odd, since Rove created him. In fact, Rove dumbed down the entire
Republican Party so much that a clown like Trump now makes perfect sense
to the majority of his Party.
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We
Need A New Party!
Kenny Lee
Lewis - Member of The Steve Miller Band,
Guitarist/singer/songwriter, Novelist/screenwriter'
www.kennyleelewis.com,
www.stevemillerband.com
I am a rock
star. Ok, ok, I am in a band with a rock star. I am also a
husband, father of three daughters, and a small business owner who pays
his taxes like anyone else. I never got into politics until the last
election and wrote and produced a non-partisan PSA video for Comcast
called “Get Out and Vote” to help assuage voter apathy throughout this
ailing nation. I didn’t vote for either one of the major candidates in
2008. I am all about trying to rally everyone to start voting again so
we can possibly support a third political party that makes sense. If we
can educate and get people out to the polls again, I believe that there
could be a groundswell of voters who could turn the tides in future
elections.
We need a party “by the people and for the people”. As corny as that
sounds, it is a precept that our nation was founded upon and if we are
to lift up and resuscitate this
suffocating political system, we are going to need a leader who actually
leads rather than folds like a cheap stroller just to please his
parties’ special interests.
(Use the link
below to read Kenny's entire post (© Kenny Lee Lewis, 2011 - All Rights
Reserved).
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The RCJ Posts Issues
Questionnaire on Obama -
Obama 2012 – Where Do You
Stand?
Rick Alan Rice -
Publisher of RARWRITER.com and the
Revolution Culture Journal. He is also proprietor of A&E/IT Consulting
firm Rick A Rice Consulting.
The Revolution
Culture Journal (RCJ) invites you to participate in a little experiment
to help us understand public perception of President Barack Obama,
particularly as it relates to enthusiasm for his re-election in 2012.
We have identified
34 issues in U.S. foreign and domestic policy and devised a scale to
determine how well respondents feel President Obama is doing with each.
Use this link to go to the questionnaire.
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Bechtel’s Long-Term Commitment
to Nuclear Disaster
Rick Alan Rice -
Publisher of RARWRITER.com and the
Revolution Culture Journal. He is also proprietor of A&E/IT Consulting
firm Rick A Rice Consulting.
Somehow the idea of
using nuclear fission, and eventually nuclear fusion, to boil water,
produce steam, drive turbines and produce direct current electricity has
found its way back into the list of acceptable alternatives as an
environmentally friendly solution. This bit of Houdini depends entirely
on comparison to power generation through the burning of coal, which
produces carbon emissions and is a primary contributor to rising levels
of greenhouse gas (GHG) in our choking environment.
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Applying Grover Norquist to
Corporation Intellectual Starvation
Rick Alan Rice -
Publisher of RARWRITER.com and the
Revolution Culture Journal. He is also proprietor of A&E/IT Consulting
firm Rick A Rice Consulting.
In my career as a
consultant, I have all kinds of opportunities to interact with different
personality types at different levels of organizations. Some of these
are of the kind that might make others feel that life is not worth
living, but the advantage of consultancy is that my involvements are
focused, short, and generally sweet, and then I leave the office dramas
behind for a quick dip into the next kiln of opportunity. I am like a
merry mercenary in that way, unexposed to the daily grind of the
organizations with which I work.
Staff people, on
the other hand, are subject to hierarchical structures and personality
profiles, and their critical path issue is: a) whether or not to stay in
the roles they are in, given the odds of rising up to a more satisfying
position within the organization; or b) to cast their fates to wind,
which is the job market.
So much of life
happens at the initial sell-in.
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Appointment with Disaster -
Republican Domestic Policy
Rick Alan Rice
-
Publisher of RARWRITER.com and the Revolution Culture Journal.
While the rich
are enjoying tax breaks they have no need for and U.S. corporations are
holding on to record profits, padding their accounts to ensure that this
is not their rainy day, but doing little to further the
employment and domestic security needs of United States citizens, word
comes that we are running out of money to provide help for a growing
population of homeless (see the Huffington
Post on this date).
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Welcoming the Arab Street to
U.S. Foreign Policy
Rick Alan Rice -
Publisher of RARWRITER.com and the
Revolution Culture Journal.
I was all set
to thank the progressive Arab world, or at least the 25 percent of it
that is situated in Egypt, for taking charge of U.S. foreign policy and
forcing it to make sense. Then those pro-Mubarak thugs showed up and
shocked the global community back to reality.
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Why Your College Student Can't
Read, Write or Even Think
Rick Alan Rice -
Publisher, Writer, A&E / IT
Consultant
Back a hundred
years ago, when I was in college, all the guys who were doing the best
in the classes I took all seemed to be Viet Nam veterans going to school
on government grants. They tended to stand out because they were older
and far more experienced than their classmates. It seems unlikely that
they were brighter, but they were fundamentally different in terms of
focus and perspective in ways that seemed obviously helpful to them.
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CONSTITUTION
CORNER:
The RCJ Prefers Seth
Meyers' SNL "WEEKEND UPDATE" Take on the Firepower Referenced by our
Founding Fathers - see his Constitution Corner video on the Front Page
(middle column).
Early Blogging for Gun Rights
James
Madison - Author of the Federalist Papers
"Besides the
advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the
people of almost every other nation, the existence of
subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and
by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier
against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than
any which a simple government of any form can admit of."
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George
Mason - Ratifying Member of the Constitutional Congress
"I ask, sir,
what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few
public officials." |
Sam
Adams -
Ratifying Member of the Constitutional Congress
"That the
said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress
to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of
conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who
are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms" |
Alexander
Hamilton - Author of the Federalist Papers
"The best we
can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be
properly armed."
"If the
representatives of the people betray their constituents, there
is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original
right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms
of government, and which against the usurpations of the national
rulers may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success
than against those of the rulers of an individual State. In a
single State, if the persons entrusted with supreme power become
usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of
which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can
take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush
tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without
resource; except in their courage and despair." |
Richard
Henry Lee - Member, Continental Congress
"To preserve
liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people
always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young,
how to use them." |
Thomas
Jefferson -
Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd U.S. President
"What country
can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from
time to time that their people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms."
"No Free
man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." |
John
Adams - Constitutional Congress Member, 2nd President
"To suppose
arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual
discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders
of towns, countries or districts of a state, is to demolish
every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty
can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government.
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created,
directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of
the laws." |
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