Does she speak Cherokee? Has she ever LIVED on a reservation? Does she advocate routinely for "her people"? What is her American opinion about the UN wanting to return Indian lands back to natives? Or is she just wanting to sound "exotic" in her bland white environment.....  View

"Leadership" is best when not intrusive. America needs a business friendly environment which is not the case with so many regulations, mandates and costs. I recently found out that costs for a product I'm selling required 80 pages of forms, 4 digits of costs and about 3 months of processing. China had 3 pages, a low 3 digit cost and can begin next week.... Government is the problem and underfoot....  View

Newsy, your reporting on this Medscape study is highly skewed towards making doctors look like greedy whiners. I think you've completely misrepresented the bigger picture here. Salaries have not changed much in the past 5-10 years, yet doctors are increasingly more unhappy. This has very little to do with salaries. The environment of medicine is more toxic than ever before, and the job just doesn't feel as rewarding as it used to.  View

Tim, I do not drink the whitemans poison. I do not soak in his lies, but I do speak with grandeur. See Tim I am a product of an environment few would know or understand, there is no relaxing drink and a pedicure at the end of the day in fact there is no end to the day. If we were to meet Tim, you would dislike me due to the amounts of stress I consume and regurgitate as commands that would keep you alive in my environment. You see Tim, your soft life has made you soft, and your comments are soft, you speak softly, and your footsteps are soft. All the better reason you should remain inside your cubical where the electricity is delivered to you and the restrooms stocked with manpons are close by.  View

What it boils down to is that as children we are told we matter and to express our feelings. When we grew up we realized that we didn't matter, to the point that if someone in a position of power even tried to talk to us it was so they could appear to be "hip" with forays youth. We also get bombarded with the message that no matter what we are going through literally everyone else has it tougher. Either it will be the future generation having to deal with the environment or third world countries that are poorer than us. No matter how valid our personal feelings about anything are they are swept aside as vapid or selfish because how can we know suffering? This has led to an almost complete disconnect to anything government (or just plain authority based) because we know that while they dismiss they completely rely on us and we are tired of it.  View

True enough, we are a product of our environment. (and genes) By removing ridicules superstitions from the environment and implementing rational thought, it will by harder for dishonesty to proliferate. I have experience with this "church", it is just as money oriented as scientology. Hit them where it hurts, not only by demonstrating how ridicules religion is, but by attacking there pocketbook.  View

Interesting that nothing was said about the destruction of the environment caused by nickel mining. Nickel being a major player in the batteries for these cars. Why not diversify? Steam powered cars are making a come-back and are fuel diverse. (if the fuel is olive oil or similar, emissions are virtually nothing, as olive oil burns smokelessly.) Kinetic flywheel engines look promising. Engines fueled by water electrolysis (yielding hydrogen and oxygen) have been around for ages. The reverse process yields power for engines, vehicles, etc., and the exhaust is oxygen or pure water (take your pick). The point I guess is we should not allow our societies to get forced into another dead-end. I think it's clear to most of us what is really going on. The adoption of "cleaner" or "better" engines is not always cleaner or better. Also, why is this so slow? (we adopted the Internet and smart phones overnight...) perhaps the real reason is control. Those who want to maintain control over things like the fuel, or the regulations. If they can't, or they feel it might move away from them too fast, they delay the adoption process. It's all about control, and most of us have none... There are some who have taken control and "checked out" of l this mess. They still drive (they're not riding horses). Not every car you pass on the road is a slave to the conglomerates... Some few are already using these truly cleaner and more efficient engines. They've just quietly converted and existing chassis. Gives a whole new meaning to stealth vehicle.  View

Seems like he's just proven he can go against big oil corps by cutting their benefits, lord knows we don't need more weapons to defend ourselves with and saving the environment is something every hunter can appreciate. So what if some richies have to pay more? If I had half a million dollars, paying government taxes would be the last of my worries. What I'm going to do with all of this money!?!  View

Teens have demons. Sometimes they kill themselves. The story shouldn't be "Oh look, another teen killed herself," it should be "Why are we fostering an environment that leads teens to think it's okay to off themselves?"  View

That's strange, twelve unconnected girls develop identical symptoms. I wonder if the private company researched their online environment? I think I understand where they're coming from though. It can be difficult to navigate the cultural climate we live in. Sometimes we tune into others "reality" more than our own dreams.  View