Tag: future vision
member name: Bert B.
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August 01, 2008 12:30 AM EDT --
Blaise Pascal, the famous 17 th century French Philosopher and mathematician had some advice for those who were undecided about the existence of God. In what has become known as “Pascal’s Wager,” . . .
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January 05, 2008 12:17 AM EST --
This would have been my mother's 110 th year if she were still alive. She was born in 1898. She lived a long, and for the most part, healthy life, dying in 1990 at the age of 91. Even though she . . .
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May 30, 2008 02:54 AM EDT --
I recently had a lengthy discussion with a friend about income tax rates. I stated that the first thing President Obama should do is abolish the "tax cuts for the rich" that Bush pushed . . .
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July 06, 2008 11:47 PM EDT --
A number of people are predicting the end of the world on December 21, 2012. That date is fairly significant to me. It happens to be my 76 th birthday. I suppose I should feel . . .
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March 07, 2008 11:44 PM EST --
I was talking today with an old friend...someone I have known for many years. He's a very intelligent guy, but his interests in life are somewhat...constrained. Travel, politics and . . .
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June 02, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
If you read the first essay with this title, you probably realized that there was a lot more to say on the subject. The first essay argued that unrestrained Capitalism was increasingly unsuited . . .
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August 16, 2008 03:34 PM EDT --
Everybody suffers from it…except me, of course. Well, I sometimes get up on my high horse about gas-guzzling SUV’s, but that’s different. I’m right, and I am just trying to help out all . . .
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June 01, 2008 09:15 PM EDT --
This is the first of two articles addressing the subject of Capitalism, and how it has powered our nation from obscurity to the pinnacle of superpower status, but how it now threatens not only the future . . .
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June 17, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
The Tragedy of the Commons (TOC) is not widely known or understood, except among people who have studied environmental science. The depletion of fishery stocks and whale populations are graphic . . .
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June 18, 2008 10:53 PM EDT --
Today, June 18 th , President Bush said that the Democrats are to blame for high oil prices. When I read this, I laughed out loud…and then I got mad.
This is truly the era . . .
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June 23, 2008 01:26 AM EDT --
In a few months, I will attend my 54 th high school reunion. I graduated from high school in 1954, barely past the midpoint of the 20 th Century. The Second World War had concluded only . . .
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June 25, 2008 03:26 AM EDT --
President Bush recently tried to blame Democrats in Congress for the current runup in gasoline prices because they have blocked drilling off the coasts and in the ANWR. He failed to mention in . . .
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July 24, 2006 02:45 PM EDT --
I just read a disturbing article about a "catastrophic loss of species" that is approaching. Here is the link.
Current loss of species is 100 to 1000 times the "normal" rate. . . .
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March 12, 2008 01:46 AM EDT --
I have been watching the recent escalation in crude oil and gasoline prices, plus the worsening economic conditions, with a combination of horror and "I told you so."
Back in 2005, I wrote . . .
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May 11, 2008 02:04 AM EDT --
It is looking increasingly likely that Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for president, and according to recent LA Times polls, he would beat John McCain by 8 percentage points if the election . . .
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May 24, 2008 12:25 AM EDT --
It might be a bit premature, but I am already looking ahead to Obama's second term, and it occurs to me that there is a very good chance that there won't be one.
Why? The . . .
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June 26, 2008 03:46 AM EDT --
Think electric car. That's a good idea. It's also the name of a new battery-powered pure electric vehicle that is in the initial production stages in Norway. Aurskog, . . .
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