October 1, 2014

Meet Einstein

And she does all of this for pumpkin seeds!

October 1, 2014

Posted on facebook by Robert Reich

Fifty years ago, the Free Speech movement was born at the University of California at Berkeley, where I teach. 1964 was also the year the Civil Rights Act was enacted. The following year came the Voting Rights Act. America still had a long way to go, but seemed committed to enhancing the voices of people who for too long had been silenced by repression in all its forms.

Fast forward: The 400 richest Americans now have more wealth than the bottom half put together, and the Supreme Court has determined money is speech and corporations are people under the First Amendment. As a result, big money is now engulfing our democracy and drowning out the voices of average Americans. And the Court has also decided the Voting Rights Act no longer constrains many states with long histories of discrimination from erecting new barriers to voting, which they're busily doing. Have we advanced over the last half century?

https://www.facebook.com/RBReich

October 1, 2014

International Day of Older Persons article :)

Global AgeWatch Index: Norway best for older people



http://www.bbc.com/news/world-29426285

Happy October To You All!

October 1, 2014

Bring Back The Sunshine ~Florida~ vote Crist! :)

October 1, 2014

Cartoon: CATS

I feed my cats with dry and wet food. And how they love those temptation treats!




Happy October

October 1, 2014

Happy October to You!

October 1, 2014

Eric Holder: The Reason Robert Rubin Isn't Behind Bars

09/29/2014

By Dean Baker



The big news item in Washington last week was Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to resign. Undoubtedly there are positives to Holder's tenure as attorney general, but one really big minus is his decision not to prosecute any of the Wall Street crew whose actions helped to prop up the housing bubble. As a result of this failure, the main culprits walked away incredibly wealthy even as most of the country has yet to recover from the damage they caused.

Just to be clear, it is not against the law to be foolish and undoubtedly many of the Wall Streeters were foolish. They likely believed that house prices would just keep rising forever. But the fact that they were foolish doesn't mean that they didn't also break the law. It's likely that most of the Enron felons believed in Enron's business model. After all, they held millions of dollars of Enron stock. But they still did break the law to make the company appear profitable when it wasn't.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/eric-holder-the-reason-ro_b_5904330.html

October 1, 2014

New Case-Shiller numbers reflect broad housing market slowdown

By Tim Logan

http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-case-shiller-home-prices-20140930-story.html

October 1, 2014

Happy October Tansy_Gold! :)

and another

October 1, 2014

Photo of the Day

September 30, 2014

In for a Treat

Photograph by Florian Kuster, National Geographic Your Shot

“This beautiful, coppery-headed emerald hummingbird had been dancing with this amazing flower in the Costa Rican highlands,” writes Your Shot member Florian Kuster. “His attitude, colors, and plumage were just sublime. One can see all the details of even the smallest feather despite the fast movement of the bird’s wings.”