"Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of Our Day"
April 2011
Military-Industrial Complex
Submitted by ggluck on 26. April 2011 - 2:33
Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican libert
DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES--listen to the polls and listen to the most helpless among us!
Submitted by Caleb on 25. April 2011 - 21:16
The American people know what it is to slice the safety net that protects them. They vote overwhelmingly to support Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and raise taxes on the richest Americans, as well as cut taxes to support the military.
Ben Nelson and Blue Dogs -- this is aimed at you!
Reject the Republican plan to cut the safety net, as 70+ percent of Americans do. Have national health care plan, if this is what Americans want (and we do!) to reduce costs in the immediate and long run.
THE LOOMING DOUBLE DIP RECESSION
The right wing sociopath mantra is “starve the beast”.
Then on this country's carcass they plan to feast.
Civilization in not a sociopath's need.
In fact civilization is contrary to their plan to succeed.
Repeal Social Security Earnings Cap
Submitted by creeker on 25. April 2011 - 11:54
4-25-11
Dear Mr. Hartmann:
A Children’s Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, in the Land of Oz, people had believed for more than two hundred years that an accused should be considered innocent until proven guilty. “Oh, no” said the Grand Vizier,“ nothing of the sort, you have it all turned around. You must believe that the accused is guilty until proven innocent. Put your trust in the great re-writer of laws.”
Macro Economics is a science -- not a political ideology!
Submitted by moonshadow999@y... on 25. April 2011 - 10:39
Please write your US senator and US congressman. Here's a copy of my letters:
Dear US Senator Merkley
Dear US Congressman Wu
Atmospheric radiation leak underestimated
Submitted by RanniYang on 25. April 2011 - 9:50
One terabecquerel equals 1 trillion becquerels.
Radioactive material was being released into the atmosphere from the plant at an estimated rate of 154 terabecquerels per day as of April 5, according to data released by the Cabinet Office's Nuclear Safety Commission on Saturday.
The total amount of radioactive material discharged from the plant from March 11 to early April was estimated between 370,000 and 630,000 terabecquerels, according to government sources.