http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/real-csi/

1) It makes me wife treat shopping for travel like she shops for clothes. “Oh look honey, it’s a two for one deal. I have to buy it!”

2) You are forced to pre-plan your life. I am a spur of the moment kind of guy. The idea of pre-paying for something I might not want to do an hour from now bothers me a lot.

I rather just pay full price.

Thursday – sent check at noon
Friday – check arrived and cashed
Saturday – check clears bank

I am amazed at the speediness of this operation.

This is one area of government that is functioning like a well oiled machined. The USPS for delivering the mail in a speedy manner, and the IRS for processing the mail.

I am glad my tax payments cleared so quickly. It calms my nerves a bit knowing my obligations are taken cared of.

After watching an episode of “Cold Case”, it occurred to me that perhaps the reason that hate is still prevalent in our society is simply because many of the people who were taught hatred as a child, are still alive today.

People who grew up during, and before, the civil rights era, are still here living among us. Whatever hatred they were taught, or witnessed in their lifetime, still lingers with them, and eventually with all of us, to this day.

I see hope in our future though. Although there are still plenty of bigoted and racist people, I don’t believe that as much hatred is being taught today as before.

However, if there is one place swimming against the current of progress, it’s Fox News and the ultra-conservative mouth-pieces like Limbaugh.

1. Providing tax incentives for companies to move from one state to another = loss jobs at original site
2. Job growth is not guaranteed, and often inflated because it includes jobs that the company would have hired for regardless
3. Giving millions in tax breaks to random companies is ok by Republican standard, but giving loan guarantees to develop a new industry, and create high paying, American jobs, (ala Solyndra) is wrong.

If you think for-profit companies can do a better job, I can make you a long list of companies I have to deal with every day that I absolutely hate. Not just dislike — HATE: AT&T, Comcast, Southwest, and Best Buy just to name a few. The government does not have a monopoly on being terrible, so stop pretending like everything will be better without them.

It was the “YOUR BREAKTHROUGH HOUR”.

http://www.inspirationtoday.com/ministry/yourbreakthroug.aspx

http://yourbreakthroughhour.com

If you look at their website, you will notice that they are soliciting a donation, or whatever the heck it is, for absolutely nothing.

I saw a couple minutes of the video, and looked at their website, and I am completely confused what exactly they are selling. I think it’s something to do with a “seed”.

Why is this kind of programming allowed on TV?

Texas has more public employees than California
But has a smaller public budget than California
Because they pay their employees 30% less
They can afford to do this because housing prices are lower.

So the point here is, the key to getting more people employed is to lower housing cost.

Allowing home values to plumet is possibly good for improving employment rates.

Interesting. Must investigate this further.