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Margaret Tong May 1, 2013 at 11:30 am
the posties have to carry all this stuff as well as their postbags? An in aa o 21 eers, it disna…Read More seem that hunger is been stampit oot
Brian Jeffries May 7, 2013 at 03:40 pm
I agree - there is racism everywhere. The question should be "what we wiling to do about…Read More it"
As for Gladwell's comments, you do know that he is a person of color, right? The greater context is his book Blink which shows that people make very quick decisions based on on rational data, but on "feel." This is not really a bad thing or a god thing, it's just a fact. His point is that if you want to make sure that you are making race neutral decisions, then you have to have feelings that are race neutral. And the way to do that is to make sure that you put yourself in a position to have positive feelings about people of all races. Make sense?
Sanchez May 4, 2013 at 11:33 am
All that babble is telling me is that Gladwell feels minorities are somehow so much different people…Read More than his own race. It sounds to me to be a superiority thing on his part. The premise that "white person who would like to treat black people as equals "
is absurd. If you feel you must treat any particular race any different way than another you are a supremacist.
Treat all people the same with no concern for color of skin, height, hair color etc.
I know what and who to stay away from in my life after a short time of knowing them.
That is indeed profiling. Without our minds profiling hundreds of times a day we would not be long for this planet. We all profile for survival.
Kia May 1, 2013 at 02:49 pm
Hi Paul - it is great to avoid goitrogenic foods (especially soy), but almonds aren't high on that…Read More list. Peanuts are, however. Here is a site with a good list of foods to keep to a minimum in your menu planning http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/goitrogens/
Best of health to you! :-) Kia
Paul May 1, 2013 at 01:53 pm
I have thyroid nodules and I discovered soy and almonds are Goitrogenic foods. They can prevent the…Read More body's absorption of iodine, which is essential for a healthy thyroid. I've been looking at rice milk, coconut milk and hemp milk, but I think I will just go back to organic cow milk.
Nicole Mooradian April 22, 2013 at 01:43 am
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Carl Petersen III April 21, 2013 at 11:34 pm
Robert Livesay
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"Herr Carl Petrersen III I have some concerns about your…Read More postings."
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Sounds like someone is a little bit upset over getting proven wrong about his allegations about the cause of our economic crash.
Carl Petersen III April 21, 2013 at 10:03 pm
Carl Petersen III
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Robert Livesay
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'ou folks that voted for Liberals need…Read More some lessons in economics.'
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Is lesson one how the Conservative economic policy of the Bush administration crashed the economy?
Ken Briggs May 20, 2013 at 02:59 pm
so if you can not get the man power you need , you dom the next thing that you can .
Stephen Carbonaro May 1, 2013 at 09:52 pm
You wouldn't be thinking of giving it any "flack", would you?
James Nelson April 27, 2013 at 08:31 pm
Bryan,
Do you realize that the people behind NOMBY are also the same people who forcefully stormed…Read More other peoples Property in Oakland an elsewhere, essentially taking them over leading police to confront them?
Alameda County Against Drones is a Spin off from Occupy Oakland, the same idiots whom go out of their way to ruin everyone else day. As far as I'm concerned, they may have some Legitimate points, but they can't be trusted. It's similar to trusting the guy who just carjacked you at gunpoint and promises to not kill you if you be his chauffeur.
It would be in the best Interest of Occupy Oakland AND NOMBY if Alameda County Law Enforcement Agencies don't get Drones. Because if they did, those Drones would more than likely be used to keep tabs on Occupies every move.
These individuals think it's wrong for our Police to have Drones, yet they have no problem calling the police "Pigs", Protesting, wrecking havoc on neighborhoods and trespassing on another persons Property all in the name of Free Speech. You gotta see the irony!
Rich Buckley April 29, 2013 at 12:04 pm
Is It Possible to Predict the Next False ?
How many "Bizarre Coincidences" can our…Read More government fabricate before even the most steadfast stalwarts of big government righteousness realizes there is a secret group in our midst running, planning, directing, and then at vital junctures executing "go Live" terrorism? The answer is 22. That's how many we've participated in at the cost of thousands of lives and Trillions of dollars. Now, when something horrible happens, the first obvious pattern to be seen by the majority of us is our government's own involvement. This suspicion of a rogue element inside the FBI, the CIA, NSA, NASA and our Armed Forces doesn't have to be large, but it does need to be senior enough to have it's imprimatur of authority on the "go live" element of each operation. At some level of operation therefore the evidence can always be traced back to the "when" and the "where" this dark authority is exercised.
Predicting terrorism is making sense out of chaos, "Ordo Ab Chao" making order from chaos. At the very least, law enforcement needs to include in their research, occult symbolism, from numerology to birthdays and high celebration days of even the old WWII Nazi regimes....like Hitler's birthday. "Occult" does not mean evil. It means secret, hidden. There is good occult, referred to often as powers of the light, white magic, in service to others, and bad occult, referred to often as powers of the darkness, black magic, in service to self.
Rich Buckley April 27, 2013 at 10:21 pm
I agree with Judge Napolitano that the FBI's Fake Terror Plot History is not the way we should be…Read More using our law enforcement assets, it is leading us down the most dangerous of roads.
When these operations "go live" people die, sometimes by the thousands.
As evidence continues to mount that the Boston Bombers suspects were being "handled by the FBI" the United States government should be investigated for the role it is suspected in playing in the Boston Bombings.
Rich Buckley April 26, 2013 at 10:28 am
Right on schedule along the hyperbolic curve of increasing human enlightenment : …Read More
http://tinyurl.com/c38dh9h
Global awakening to false-flag terrorism, Copernican revolution
...." my Taurean body just couldn’t stomach such blatant Scorpionic nonsense, hiding secret after secret after secret, a never-ending rabbit-hole of lies our military/industrial government makes up, spouts, and repeats, ad nauseam, over and over, all in the name of “national security.”
"This is a welcome article. I hope Barrett is right, that “at this point, the false-flag meme is just starting to enter the mainstream media.” "....Exopermaculture
Analisa Harangozo (Editor) April 5, 2013 at 12:44 pm
I'm so excited for this and I look forward to reading all the stories TPH posts!
Julie Snyder March 28, 2013 at 12:50 am
OK, once again Mikedue and for that matter Fred, you obviously don't know what's going on. I don't…Read More know what reports you're reading but they are not accurate at all. Most of the distributors don't manufacturer the product. If you think a distributor is going to buy a $400 wheelchair from a high end manufacturer when they can buy it from an FDA china manufacturer for far less then they will. Both chairs are FDA approved so why not buy the cheaper model. Will it hold up as well no probably not but it's approved and Medicare can do nothing about shutting it down. They can't even keep themselves from giving crooks contracts in your precious competitive bidding. We'll see if you get the quality equipment when you need it and heaven forbid you don't like the service you get from the company that has to service you because you won't have a choice so the person on the phone can be as mean and nasty to you as they want to be because patient choice is over. Also if you know so much about reimbursement do you know what it is on a K0823 power wheelchair or a K0001 manual wheelchair because I do. I also know the cost and the profit doesn't even come close to covering overhead, repairs, billing and delivery. Keep in mind these items are 13 month rentals with all repairs, adjustments, phone calls, justification and collections all up to the supplier. Medicare doesn't even educate the MD's on the documentation needed, that is up to the suppliers too.
mikedude March 28, 2013 at 12:03 am
Richard, these are the very same products other insurance companies are paying the very same…Read More suppliers significantly less for. Why are you of the opinion that Medicare *should* be paying up to 3 or 4 times more than retail price or what private insurance pays for the very same product? Again, you clearly have no idea how this program works or are willfully ignorant.
mikedude March 27, 2013 at 11:57 pm
You're delusional, Julie. If a company cannot make a quality product at an affordable price, they…Read More will go out of business and *deserve* to go out of business. If the quality is not up to par, the company will lose their Medicare accreditation. You clearly have no idea how this program even works.
Californicated1 March 26, 2013 at 05:12 pm
And that is exactly my point.
Not everybody is going to "find their bliss" or even their…Read More career even in college.
And one of the biggest problems the last 70 years or so was that a college education and even a college degree out there has been sold as the panacea to everybody's problems from job frustration, lack of education, and even self-actualization and self-fulfillment and that both the teachings of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers have even been applied towards selling the public on a college education.
And there are plenty of examples out there we can all quote chapter and verse about the merits and values of a University education and that there are always exceptions out there about who succeeded despite not finishing their education, like the Jeff Zuckerbergs and Bill Gates out there, who wound up dropping out of Harvard and being successful despite that.
Meanwhile, I know a lot of Speech Communications majors out there who went to places like UC-Davis and even Southern Illinois University who were hoping to be the next major talk-radio hosts out there who wound up managing fast food joints after working their way up from the bottom during and after school, including an Engineering Student from CU-Boulder who after graduating eventually wound up as a regional supervisor over several restaurants in a fast-food chain.
And then there are that guy's co-workers, even his peers, who wound up doing the same thing with nothing more than a diploma.
Dalamar March 26, 2013 at 04:13 pm
To summarize CA1, you have advocated anyone who is born into a particular class should not bother…Read More making any attempt to improve themselves. Such persons should just accept their fate as being born into a poor family which can't afford a university education and stay poor?
I agree there should be some options for vocational skills be taught during high school, but not as substitution for college prep, but in ADDITION to. We've all been programmed into believing that college education has always been a luxury since Ronald Reagan destroyed free education when he was Governor in 1967. (http://www.newfoundations.com/Clabaugh/CuttingEdge/Reagan.html)
Controlling the cost of education is the correct action to take.
Add the fact many college degree jobs are outsourced overseas and the appeal for a college education diminishes. Napoleon does correctly point out regardless of what occupation a person acquires after attending a college, there are many other facets of the experience and education which enrichens all students, not the least of which is the exposure to diversity of culture, religion and beliefs in a conducive environment.
Our nation is a union of all citizens regardless of class, creed, race or religion. When a significant percentage of our citizens are below the poverty line and undereducated, by default our nation is. Investment in education is in an investment in our citizens and ergo our nation. Bringing jobs back through tax codes is the next logical step.
Napoleon Solo March 26, 2013 at 03:56 pm
We probably are reading different things. The specifics have been done and I think it was in the…Read More Wall Street Journal and/or Business Week magazine in the last year. I'm too lazy to look for it. Bottom line was that from a money standpoint, some degrees are a net loss. Getting back to my brother, he went four years and hated every minute of it, and finally went into sales. He said ever since that he wish he could have been earning money in those four years instead of spending it on college. College is not for everyone. However, it was a good choice for me. I've done work I could have not done without it, and earned a large multiple of what it cost me.
Steve Berl March 23, 2013 at 03:32 pm
The cameras seem like a good idea. My main concern is who gets access to the information collected…Read More by them. It's fine if the Piedmont Police get to use it to help solve crimes, but what controls are there around other uses of the data.
Perhaps the costs could be offset by selling it to advertisers, or perhaps your employeer would like to know if you were driving around on a day you called in sick? Or your car insurance company wants to keep track of how often you really drive your car around.
We need to make sure that if a system like this is installed, that the information collected is used only for its intended purpose.
David Cohen March 21, 2013 at 06:29 pm
Couple comments:
1. This is all very interesting and heartfelt. And it’s well infused with…Read More local spin. But, this is an advertisement for the writer’s business, not a letter.
2. I’m not sure why the writer is so excited by his product’s purported libertarian style, or exactly what’s so libertarian about it.
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