Evangelicals/Dominionists are pursuing a dual strategy on public schools. They want to destroy them and turn education over to private religious schools and in the meantime, they want to control every aspect of public school curricula.

If you think the thinking and policies of the GOP are worse today than ever, imagine what bills Republicans in Congress might come up with in five or ten years.

The long-term implications of shattered young lives, lost jobs, and lost opportunities for so many people cannot be measured. As we find out more details of the story, the circle of victims grows wider.

A quick look into an Irish Presidential debate which I attended on the 20 October.

You start out in 1954 by saying, “N—-r, n—-r, n—-r.” By 1968 you can’t say “n—-r”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about [...]

Welcome to Tampa Liberty School, a Glenn Beck–inspired summer camp that teaches 8-year-olds how to fight The Man At the Tampa Liberty School camp kids ages 8 to 12 learn Tea Party principles along the lines of “America is good.     Americans have been sending their kids to summer [...]

I believe that socialism is the only system that we may subjugate ourselves to and still be able to call ourselves human and that society will slowly evolve into socialism, followed by the C-word, which I still have an unnatural reflex to.

In one sentence, the strategic narrative of the United States in
the 21st century is that we want to become the strongest competitor and most influential
player in a deeply inter-connected global system, which requires that we invest less in
defense and more in sustainable prosperity and the tools of effective global engagement.

Last Friday, there were State of Emergency rallies at most Los Angeles schools to protest the looming cuts to education in the city which will bring class sizes up to 29 for grades 1st-3rd and 38 children per classroom for 4th and 5th. I attended one of these rallies and [...]

Censorship? Surely there are few things more revealing of a reactionary mindset, some would hasten to assure me. Why, censorship can be identified with all the cruelest dictatorships, the most oppressive regimes, the most hardcore religious fundamentalists, etc. This is indeed true.

A few years ago, I made a proposal, on the Net, among some friends. I think it is time for us to consider the proposal again.

Yesterday my husband and I attended a spring training game – the Oakland A‘s vs the Chicago Cubs – down in Phoenix near the zoo. It is a tradition for us to attend a spring training game on St. Patrick’s Day, and since the rail has been developed in the [...]

(or How I Came to Prefer the Bomb)

With reports and hype currently abounding regarding Japanese nuclear plants endangered by recent (and continuing) earthquakes, perhaps it is time to take a look at the truth about the state of nuclear power in the world today.

Describing and enacting a rational and balanced Employee Incentive plan that will result in a self-running business.

BudgetPOV is a proposed series on making ends meet in these troubled times (especially since the “ends” seem to be hacked off and cauterized). This, the first article in the series, looks at ways to save on food costs. My main focus at this time is just making sure bellies [...]

Glossolalia 101 is a series of articles discussing how pseudo-cons, neo-cons, and theo-cons (among others) use language to disguise, dominate, and obfuscate the issues. This first article deals with how politicians and pundits can use math to disguise what is really going on.     For those of us who [...]

That word doesn’t mean what you think it means. But that’s okay, it can’t be offended by you, because it’s dead.

The Financial Plan as a crystal ball…

Overhead… Headache or a simple calculation?
Markup – Not getting what you think you are getting
Calculating the cost of overhead…
Pricing made simple… or is it?

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

Understanding the sales history
Normalizing G&A
Building a Financial Plan

I am the product of a California public school education, from the day I entered kindergarten in Los Angeles to the day I graduated high school in 1968. I received a very good education—not a spectacular one, but a really very good one. I wish I had been taught a [...]

More on Understanding the Past…

Costs of Goods Sold (COGS) as it relates to sales…

Sales, COGS and the time shift…

A Brief History of Sales – Understanding the past…

If you already have a business, it’s time to gather all the information you can before you start.

Chart of Accounts – A map of your business…

You have to take control of this very, very, very important part of your business.

Is anyone else sick and tired of the constant lies being told to the American people about our federal budgetary woes and our supposed deficit armageddon?
OH and let’s dispel another myth, there is no federal credit card. US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT debt does not work the same way as an individual or business debt works.