Deep Thoughts-Better to Bend Than Break
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. –H.G. Wells
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Rambling Daily – June 8, 2009
Why is every business now yelling at me when I walk in? It seems like every restaurant you walk into has decided they have to have everyone working yell out a welcome to you when you walk in. Give it a rest…PLEASE!
Read moreSingle Payer Health Care-The Only Option
Leave it to Bill Moyers to be the voice of sanity in an otherwise insane discussion about healthcare reform. A recent report showing the majority of bankruptcies in America are healthcare related (and most of those people have healthcare insurance) should be causing Americans to demand that our Congress Critters take a serious look at single payer as the only real way to reform healthcare.
Read moreDeep Thoughts-The Highest Reward for Toil
Back to the Deep Thoughts Series. The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes of it. –John Ruskin
Read moreDays of Our Lives – June 6, 2009
The start of a new series trying to better observe the humor in each days happenings.
Read moreUnderworld-Rise of the Lycans – A Movie Review
We had read some good reviews of this film, and although Lay and I have not been into this series, we decided to rent the DVD and watch this movie. It was something of a disappointment.
Read moreThe Difference Between a State and a Commonwealth
Don’t ask me why, but I got interested in determining what, if any, difference there is a between a State and a Commonwealth in the United States. (I guess it might have something to do with working a project for the Commonwealth of Virginia.) The short answer is that there isn’t much of a difference.
Read moreHappy 5th Anniversary to Deep Sand
I’m a bit late, but we made the first posting to Deep Sand on May 24th, 2004. So here we are five years and 1,370 posts later.
Read moreEverything I Needed to Know I learned at a 5th Grade Graduation
This morning I went to a nephew’s 5th grade graduation ceremony over in St. Petersburg. I found it telling that the speakers two main points were about responsibility: taking responsibility for yourself and your own actions; and being responsible in the friends we choose.
Read moreGOP Hypocrisy and The Sotomayor Nomination
I pointed out in a post on May 8 that the GOP was already gearing up for a smear campaign on Obama’s SCOTUS nominee, whoever it turned out to be. Well, the hypocrites have certainly rolled out of the woodwork to condemn Judge Sotomayor. Let’s take a look, shall we?
Read more2009 Hurricane Season-Off to A Rollicking Start
Well, the 2009 hurricane season is still a couple of days away, but we already have the first tropical depression out in the Atlantic. Let’s just hope this is not a sign of things to come.
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