Leave it to average panicky investors to play into the hands of the professional Wall Street schemers and traders to pounce on the financial crisis to encourage selling low so the the bad guys can buy low. Successful investors have always looked to the bottom before throwing in their megabucks and then relying on the market's slightest hic-cup to sell high in order to set the race to the bottom again. The ostensibly free market is in in fact anarchic roulette. 

Records attest that the hottest days occurred before WWII! Perhaps it just seemed that way since the only relief other than fire escapes was in the better movie theaters having air-conditioning? Can you imagine going on a vacation trip w/o air-conditioned cars—oh, well, at least in those days there were rumble seats.

On the internet is a two part novel about the Depression and World War II, Titled A Tale of Love& War , Volumes I & II by Richard R. Kennedy[stevendedalus]. The subtitle of the first book is “An Odyssey of Childhood & Early Youth,” the second is subtitled “War & The Home Front.” Both are available on the web sites of Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the publisher Publish America. [ www.publishamerica.com ] Forgive me for the sales pitch. &n...

Though many loved ones are gone from this world  — Our hearts forlorn and knurled — Faith ushers in the comfort of the undying soul That, as Bethlehem’s Star, emits control Over the dark imbalance of anxious moments Conjuring dread and hope’s ambivalence. Yea, to the Child’s unabated spirit of hope As we trudge condition’s skittish slope. Yea, to the departed whose eternal light Guides us through timorous twilight Toward the final home ...

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Pardon the presumptuousness, but why not consider purchasing my book--both volumes--from   w ww.publishamerica.com  and search for Tale of Love & War ?    

In light of yesterday's Mosul tragedy, isn't it about time we send in crack special forces to avenge the cruel deaths of our troops?

Global problems abound and can no longer go unaddressed. There are still five million people who are suffering owing to nations that have effected torture on political opponents. North Korea systematically uses famine as a weapon to control its own people. Iran uses religion to suppress its citizens. Many African nations need massive humanitarian aid and education to erase its label of dark continent. The world needs to be assured that nations with nuclear weapons are under strict observation...

“Four More Years of Bush” means unlimited corporate power and the end of a woman’s right to choose. … In light of the Republican Convention's convenient love affair with moderates Giuliani and Schwarzenegger, the campaign managers were spared having to ask Olympia Snowe to speak inasmuch as she’s been dubbed a “Daschle Republican” because of her fight to limit tax cuts. … I omitted John McCain from the “moderate” list because he is deeply conservative — he just doesn’t like to be told to foll...

Last night on Chris Matthews there was a poll that showed the religious — I suppose that means those that go to a place of worship frequently — overwhelmingly were for Bush; and the non-religious — I suppose that throws in atheists, secular agnostics and humanists, as well as infrequent worshipers — overwhelmingly for Kerry. This doesn’t leave much room for reflection on how to vote if there are those who consider themselves religious but not necessarily riveted to abortion, g...

As expressed earlier in my blog “They Belong to All,” that proper ceremony is due our ward dead when they arrive a Dover Air Base, but what about the wounded — where is the recognition? In a stunning and heart-tugging story in last week’s Washington Post , its foreign service writer Karl Vick indicates that of the 3,684 wounded in combat one-fourth came from April’s bloody count. Fortunately half of these were light and the wounded troops sent back into action; the other half or about 900, hal...

Ronald Reagan’s finest moment was his solemn meeting at Dover Airforce base of the nearly 250 flag-draped coffins of Marines who lost their lives at the Embassy bombing in Beirut. This honorable moment in history was televised as an expression of national grief. War heroes who make the ultimate sacrifice for the nation belong to all of us, not just the families, until they are given private honors at their final resting place. Untold tens of thousands of our war heroes are buried round the w...

Let me at the outset make it clear that Rosie O’Donnell and the mayor of San Fran are definitely not liberal; they are defiant radicals, coming neither from the left nor the right but simply dredged from dark illusions of the ego, and in the Shakespearean definition meaning gross or licentious. The term liberal as political, originated in 19 th Century England and ironically by Tory opponents and used as a pejorative — sound familiar? — that suggested “un-English.” Later the term foun...

While all of us blog on crudely, quaintly, coldly concerning affairs of state and culture, Uganda’s northern section continues since ‘88 to engage in rebellion and to prey on village children near the city of Gulu, according to Emily Wax of the Washington Post Foreign News Service. While we quibble over taxes, welfare and a presidential election, parents in villages have to line up their children at dusk and send them off to Gulu, heavily fortified, to spend the night in relatively saf...