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Is Hurricane Sandy God’s Punishment For Ignoring Global Warming In Debates?

by Dave Johnson | 1, Add your Comment | Nov 1, 2012

Conservatives and the Christian Right regularly blame hurricanes on abortion, liberals, government and “teh gay.” But Hurricane Sandy actually is an “unprecedented.” This “Frankenstorm,” with a gale-force wind diameter of 1040 miles, is the largest hurricane in Atlantic history, with the lowest barometric pressure. So we really should ask the question: is Hurricane Sandy actually God’s punishment for not bringing up climate change in the presidential debates?
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America's Future

Democracy V. Plutocracy, Unions V. Servitude

by Dave Johnson | 4, Add your Comment | Jan 28, 2012

Servitude: “a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one’s course of action or way of life.”
Democracy: “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.”
Plutocracy: government by the wealthy.
Labor union: an organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members’ interests in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions.
You may have seen the recent flurry of stories about how hi-tech products are made in China. The stories focus on Apple, but it isn’t just Apple…
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