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December 25, 2015 - We saw the movie The Big Short today; I highly recommend it.  It's surpassingly sad that we, i.e. American society, have allowed the compilation of lies accumulated during the Bush/Cheney years to go so long unaddressed.  This movie takes an important step in the direction of redressing these omissions.  I readily confess I didn't understand all parts of the movie, though the delightful "asides" provided throughout did help.  Though I wouldn't characterize the movie in general with the word delightful, it has its moments. To what degree were the actions of our government, the banks, real estate companies, and investors set in motion the day Bush/Cheney were permitted to steal the 2000 election?  Permitted by an apathetic and confused electorate, aided and abetted by the Supreme Court of the United States, the patently nefarious intentions of the Republican candidates proceeded as planned.  Speaking for myself, I argued silently that my...

July 12, 2013 – I won’t be writing about climate change today.   Worse yet, I will be writing about 9/11.   I believe in letting the truth be known, and the lie that’s been told to the American people is so corrupting and corroding, it has to be discussed.   Feel free to stay and read.   If not, I’ll see you Monday. Richard Gage is a brave, smart guy.   He’s an architect, and when he watched the twin towers fall, he knew he wasn’t watching what so many of us believed we were watching.   It turned out a whole lot of architects and civil engineers experienced that same sense of horrified disbelief that horrible day.   They knew what the rest of us did not: the three buildings that came down had been wired for demolition.   They could tell by the way they came down – very neatly.   To a large extent, they came down within their own footprints (although there was too much refuse resulting from the demolition of the two main towers to stay co...