All Posts Tagged With: "Commentary"

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Are you one of George W. Bush’s Canaries in the Coal Mine?

I felt the hair go up on the back of my neck reading one of my earlier April posts called Sparks Fly Between White House and EPA Over Recent Smog Standard Reduction.
The gist of the article is that, instead of reducing the EPA mandated acceptable smog levels from the what was then 80 ppm to […]

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2Jul2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
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Global Warming: Fact or Fiction = Democrat or Republican

Forget that scientific research totally supports it, and the rest of the world is trying to find ways to combat it: In the United States, global warming is debatable.
We’ve thrown science out the window, and especially at government levels, it’s become purely a political issue. The “fact” vote is avidly democrat supported, while […]

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27Jun2008 | Lisa | 17 comments | Continued
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Happy Hour

 
I love late Friday afternoons. It’s Weekendus Maximus Time. Raspberry Vodka Gimlet in hand, I contemplate the week.
Here’s a few short news bites on - what else? - gasoline prices and inflation, that caught my eye this week.
 
 
 
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The US recently told China they have to start selling […]

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21Jun2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
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How Politics Can Mess Up a Perfectly Good Environment

Here’s just one example. If you breath air, you might want to take a look.
The Bush administration and EPA have developed a reputation for interfering with resultant policy based on scientific research.
The latest-
March 11th, 2008 - The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proudly announces that it has reduced ground level ozone ( smog […]

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17May2008 | Lisa | 5 comments | Continued
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Support the United States Post Office With Your Own Junk Mail

A Tip From Uncle Mike:
I am sure that you are inundated with continual mail for you to switch credit cards. This and others. Here is what you do.

And, as you know, I always want more than one advantage from what I do.

a. When you receive a junk mail solicitation do […]

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13May2008 | Lisa | 2 comments | Continued
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Gas Tank Envy: The Death of the Chevy Suburban

Hot off the CNN press: “The $100 dollar fill-up has arrived.” If your vehicle has a 25 gallon plus gas tank, and you live in San Francisco, you just broke the gas ceiling. And don’t stop short, the rest of the country is right behind you.
Driving a larger SUV, Pick-up, or of course, […]

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24Apr2008 | Lisa | 1 comment | Continued
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Remember the Tomatoes? Heirloom Seeds

In between discussions of high blood pressure, and the upcoming dreaded first colonoscopy, those of us of the “I owned an 8-track once” generation, will sometimes sit around reminiscing about the good old days. One sunny spring afternoon recently, amidst the usual memories of the firsts- first communion, first part time job, first […]

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22Apr2008 | Lisa | 3 comments | Continued
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Shall I Take the Hummer or the Bicycle?

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (AS) directly challenged Rajendra K. Pachauri, the head of the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC), and it wasn’t pretty.
“Going Green Can be Fun” said the governor, at a recently held climate change conference at Yale University. Stating that he “isn’t about to give up his jacuzzi, […]

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21Apr2008 | Lisa | 1 comment | Continued
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When People Go Bad: A History of the Subprime Mess

I’ll sum it all up in four words - deregulation, unscrupulous, predatory, greed.
There you have it. And now, here we are, in up to our necks, even atheists helplessly praying, watching as our 401ks shrink from ripe plump grapes into shriveling raisins, hoping we still have our homes and some retirement money left when the […]

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14Apr2008 | Lisa | 12 comments | Continued
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Is Fair Trade Coffee About Profit, Politics or People?

[[[After reading Trent’s recent post, Saving Money Versus Saving the World, at The Simple Dollar, I thought it was worth revisiting Fair Trade. (See my post from last January on Fair Trade Organic Coffee.)]]]
At first it was part of a grassroots movement to change the world. But now it’s big business. […]

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12Apr2008 | Lisa | 5 comments | Continued
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Sparks Fly Between White House and EPA Over Recent Smog Standard Reduction

I hate to wish the summer away, but the November presidential elections can’t come fast enough for me.
The recent lowering of the smog standard sounded good initially (see my recent article.) The EPA lowered ground level ozone (smog) standards from 80 ppb to 75 ppb. 4000 lives per year would be saved, […]

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11Apr2008 | Lisa | 4 comments | Continued
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A Scammer’s Heaven: On-Line Fraud

A reminder to, while in search of that on-line frugal deal of a lifetime, beware of pesky scammers. I just received this latest “business proposal” (in blue below) today. I can make a quick $2 million with this one.
“E-mail continues to be the preferred method to initiate on-line fraud,” States the IBD […]

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4Apr2008 | Lisa | 2 comments | Continued
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ExxonMobil: Part of a $123 Billion Dollar Embarassment

(This post has been corrected based on input in a comment from “Billy”)
With the “top five” leading the way($117 billion) , oil companies posted a record $123 billion dollars in profit last year. ExxonMobil recently announced its highest profit ever- $40.6 billion dollars. The other four companies are Shell Oil($27.5 billion), BP […]

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4Apr2008 | Lisa | 16 comments | Continued
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Meet The Greens

Have your kids checked out WGBH’s new kid website, Meet the Greens? The kid in me is enjoying it. And for the older kid in me: I’ve been on LiveScience. Well, I guess for the geeky older kid in me, I’ve been on it.
By the way, not to toot my own horn, […]

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3Apr2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
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The Easter Bunny Conundrum

The excitement was comparable to Christmas morning or Halloween night. It made a seven year old’s loathing of fancy outfits and church tolerable.
It was Easter Bunny magic. The Easter Basket of chocolate rabbits, jelly beans and, oh, mmmm, those yellow peeps. Solid sugar, with a touch of tasty artificial color. And […]

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26Mar2008 | Lisa | 1 comment | Continued
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