The Iditorod Starts today in Willow.

The Iditorod started when medicine had to be dog sled to Nome at the turn of the century.  It is a great story.  It is an amazing race.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130302/let-real-iditarod-begin-champs-rookies-young-and-old-competing

The USA has the cheapest, least nutritional food in the world. Is this what we want?

We are making an unhealthy nation with selling little kids on unhealthy products.  Cereal is a good example.  Cereals have vitamins added:

 I never really thought about it in much detail, as probably most people don’t. But it turns out that they’re—these vitamins are not coming from the foods that contain them. Like vitamin C does not come from an orange, and vitamin A does not come from a carrot. It’s very far from that. They come from things that really aren’t actually foods. Vitamin D, for instance, was probably the most shocking. It comes from sheep grease, so actually the grease that comes from sheep wool. You have giant barges and container ships that go from Australia and New Zealand over to China, where most of—a lot of our vitamins are produced. About 50 percent of global vitamin production comes from China inside these huge factories, very industrial processes. A lot of vitamins are actually chemical processes.


http://www.alternet.org/food/why-america-has-cheapest-most-addictive-and-most-nutritionally-inferior-food-world

How will Sequestration impact your state? Interactive map.

An interactive map explaining how Sequestration will impact every state.  Just click on the state.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/28/how-much-will-the-sequestration-affect-your-state-interactive-map/

Republicans are comparing the US to Greece WHILE DOING EXACTLY WHAT GREECE DID TO KILL THEIR ECONOMY!

AUSTERITY!  Cut, Cut, Cut and put people out of work so they no longer pay taxes ----- That is what Greece did and they have 30 % Unemployment with no prospect of improvement soon.  Other countries that primed their economies have slowly growing economies.  With the sequester nonsense, we are doing what Greece did.  Stop the economy from growing even marginally.

Let the shrinking economy begin now that Sequester is a reality.

http://www.nationofchange.org/while-republicans-warn-against-greece-exactly-where-austerity-budgeting-will-lead-us-1362327482

The Waltons (Walmart) are buying the LA School Board - Why?

The Walton Family and other Billionaires are spending hard to buy up the LA School Board so they can privatize it.  I am a teacher and am very offended. Studies show that Privatized Schools are doing no better and often worse than just your regular old non-privatized school.

 I taught in San Diego for a year and I saw the great teachers who worked their butts off to provide a quality education.  The biggest concern was the poverty of the students and parents.  Parents were working 60 hours a week just to maintain a minimal lifestyle.  Kids did not see their parents much because they were working at minimum wage jobs.

If Walmart heirs wanted to help people.  They would make their jobs livable wages so people could actually have time to spend with their children and help them with school work.

http://www.nationofchange.org/why-are-walmart-billionaires-bankrolling-phony-school-reform-la-1362317761

MONEY, MONEY - 8 Ways Corporations are poisoning our food and environment

Corporations are all about making money.  To hell with the people's health and environment is often an underlying theme.  As long as money is being made, distort data and ignore negative signs of danger to people, animals or our world.  Money, money, money.

http://www.nationofchange.org/8-ways-corporations-are-poisoning-our-food-water-earth-1362318238

BPA is harmful but the Govt ignored studies

BPA is in clear plastics and it causes various kind of health issues including cancers.  The Government relied on industry studies and ignored Government Studies which showed the ill health links.  This tells how the information was found out.

http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/videos/the-food-industry/bpa---what-is-it-how-it-has-been-hidden-in-our-food-supply.html

How the Republicans forget that we have been cut, cut, cutting all along.

We have had a lot of cutting during President Obama;s term in office but the Republicans like to ignore the cuts made already.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/03/01/1656731/video-gop-spending-memory-hole/

A Gun Law restricting clips to 10 Bullets or less just passed in Maryland

Slowly and steadily, Gun laws are being changed State by State.

A rundown of Gun law changes state by

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/03/maryland-assault-weapons-gun-laws state.

Bill Maher: Monologue Dennis Rodman and Kim Jung Il

Bill Maher - Monologue  Dennis Rodman in North Korea

http://rackjite.com/bill-maher-monologue-rodman-un-couple-up-march-1-2013/

Horse Meat in Food: NEW RULES

Bill Maher talking about GMO food and Horse Meat as hamburger after California turned down GMO labeling.  People voting that they are fine with whatever is in their food.

http://rackjite.com/new-rules-with-bill-maher-horse-meat-other-bad-food-march-1-2013/


http://rackjite.com/new-rules-with-bill-maher-horse-meat-other-bad-food-march-1-2013/

Do Hammers kill more people than guns?

The answer is no!

 http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2013/02/paul_broun_says_hammers_and_baseball_bats_kill_more_people_than_guns_is.html?wpsrc=upworthy

Tea Party and the Sequester

The Tea Party are fools and idiots.  They have an idea which is to blow up the economy.  FOX is where they get their information.  This is a good article about the Tea Party and how it impacted the Sequester.

http://www.nationofchange.org/sequester-and-tea-party-plot-1362231367

THE MOST IMPORTANT VIDEO YOU WILL SEE IN A WEEK!

This is 6 minutes about income inequality in the United Stated.  It is so very well done, everyone should see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM&feature=player_embedded#!

Hot Dog Shooter

Stupid and Amazing.  Don't try this at home.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/02/26/1638861/why-everything-republicans-are-saying-about-the-sequester-is-wrong/

Everything the Republicans are saying about the Sequester is wrong!

If you say a lie often enough, it can become the truth.  The Republicans are good at lying about the Sequester and the Austerity Budget which has failed where attempted.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/02/26/1638861/why-everything-republicans-are-saying-about-the-sequester-is-wrong/

Why isn't Wall Street paying back the US for the money they took?

Elizabeth Warren is asking some great questions like;  "Why isn't Wall Street Paying the US back for the money they took?"  The reality is that the Too Big To Fail banks are getting another 830 Billion over 10 years while the Sequester is taking 830 Billion or so from us average folks.  The Big Banks don't have to pay the money back.  We, the people, pay the bill again.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/02/26/1640871/warren-pay-taxpayers/

Here is another good article along the same lines.  Quite good.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/14884-lords-of-disorder-billions-for-wall-street-sacrifice-for-everyone-else

32 Dumb Cuts due to the Sequester

32 Cuts which are going to impact a lot of people and important programs.  These programs could have been saved by taking away a few of the INSANE TAX BREAKS given to the wealthiest among us.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/03/02/1662271/the-dumbest-and-most-devastating-sequester-cuts/

Colbert talking Sequester - quite good

Stephen Colbert talks about the Sequester

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/01/colbert-nails-the-sequester-why-its-bad-for-both-parties_n_2789379.html

Today is National Pig Day

Here is a Pig Song because it is National Pig Day.  Kiss your pig if you got one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZLcwR3KmZ_w#!

Ms A takes a gift from her student

I teach these kids as well.  I could tell many stories of need, growth, frustration and progress.

This teacher in the video tells a story of what I see day to day.  Cutting school budgets because of the Sequester has a bigger price than people realize.  We are taking away the leaders of our future.

http://educationvotes.nea.org/2013/02/22/florida-teacher-students-like-mine-will-suffer-most-from-budget-cuts/

10 Insane Tax Breaks the wealthiest get which the middle class end up paying higher taxes for

The wealthy get tax breaks which you and I do not get.  The money for those tax breaks must come form some where.  It comes from you and I.  We pay higher taxes so the richest get a better life and in some taxes PAY NO TAXES at all.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/private-jet-security-write-10-most-insane-tax-loopholes?akid=10129.294211.0ce407&rd=1&src=newsletter802922&t=3

Foods that fight depression

Food that increase Seratonin levels in the human body to help fight off depression.

http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/videos/depression-and-anxiety/how-to-increase-serotonin.html

The Alternative budget never voted on! Republicans said No to voting on it.

This budget was proposed and it is believed that it would have passed if it were allowed to go to a vote.  It is a combination of cutting tax breaks and loopholes for billionaires and corporations along with cuts to programs.  The Republican leadership would not allow a vote to be taken.

If you look at the proposal, you will see a very good proposal.  This budget proposal would have gotten our economy to move forward and create jobs.

http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/the-peoples-budget/

Austerity and Europe: The economies are stagnant.

The European countries have flat economies and high unemployment.  The Republicans decided we need the same so we have taken the Austerity route with the sequester.  Republicans are following the lead of failing Eurpoean Countries.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/austerity-continues-its-disastrous.html

Sequester: The wrong conversation: Jobs is the issue

Paul Krugman tells us we should be concerned about people without work and Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.  We are taking the wrong approach.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/krugman-sequester-and-deficit-obsession

From Russia with Love - Jon Stewart

Some crazy things happen in Russia - check this out.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-february-19-2013/how-i-meteored-your-motherland

Rachel Maddow on Jon Stewart;s show last night.

Rachel and Jon Stewart on the Daily Show.  Such Brilliance.

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2013/03/hey-guess-who-was-on-with-jon-stewart.html

NRA making the United States Dangerous

The NRA is behind the scenes denying reasonable gun laws and preventing gun laws on the books from being enforced.  This is a good 5 min video explaining the details.

http://crooksandliars.com/cliff-schecter/ruthlessly-stupid-people#sthash.MjasHFE3.dpbs

THE RIGHT TO VOTE IS NOT AN ENTITLEMENT!

A US Citizen has the right to vote, no if ands or butts.  It is not an entitlement like food stamps.
VOTING IS A BASIC RIGHT OF OUR COUNTRY not to be bought and paid for by the wealthiest among us.  A person should not have to be in line for 6 or 8 hours in poor areas to vote either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUFLiMo6mow&feature=player_embedded

Sarah Palin: Juanita Jean has a letter for you

Sarah found her twitter machine and the crazy keeps coming.  Juanita Jean has a response.


After spouting this crapola, here’s how you concluded –

Palin wrote that she wants lawmakers to “stop the hysterics.”

Girl, do you even know what hysterics means?  It means going around claiming the feds are stockpiling ammo to kill you. That’s what it means.  Look it up.
Girl, sneeze – your brain is all dusty.


http://juanitajean.com/2013/03/01/dear-sarah-palin/

A Father of a Sandy Hook Baby talked to a Senate committee yesterday

I think everyone should spend the time listening to this father speak about his loss.  I have 3 children and helped raise others as well and I would be devastated if these children had been killed by a crazy person with an assault weapon.  (The AK 15 is similar to the WEAPON OF WAR which I was trained in during my time in the US Army)

Around the 5:50 mark Mr. Heslin makes a very important point about the 2nd Amendment:  

"They warn you about the 2nd Amendment. Well the 2nd Amendment says a well regulated militia. Bear arms, freedom of state...It HASN'T been well regulated. It's not being well regulated."

That is a very important observation. The 2nd Amendment may provide the right to "keep and bear arms" but it does NOT afford that right free of government regulation.

And that is all anybody is asking for here. The right to protect our babies from the fanatics who stockpile weapons and may someday use them on their fellow citizens, or worse yet, a classroom full of innocent children.

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2013/02/father-of-newtown-victim-gives.html

An athlete talks about eating well and performance

This fellow kept track of diet and compared how it impacted his performance in sporting events.

http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/videos/inspiration/find-your-athletic-edge.html

Mark Kelley calls out the NRA for making it easier for mentally unfit people to get guns

...the leadership of the National Rifle Association — describing this proposed legislation in terms that are misleading at best. They’re calling on legislators to make it easier, instead of harder, for criminals and the dangerously mentally ill to get guns. 

...Making the system of background checks fair and consistent isn’t hard to understand. If you don’t think there should be two different sets of rules, leveling the playing field and expanding the effective National Instant Criminal Background Check System is the way to go. For the same reasons we don’t make getting screened for bombs or weapons at the airport optional, or registering your car something you only have to do if you want to, having a giant loophole in the background check system just doesn’t make sense. 

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2013/02/mark-kelly-calls-out-nra-for-working-to.html

Sequester info: History and how it will work this time

The Sequester starts tonight.  Austerity budgeting which failed in Europe has now been imposed on the United States.  Thank You Republicans for doing the opposite of what works.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/03/the-sequester-explained