Just a little comment: I was watching the show last night on the discovery channel that was about Pompeii. The first half was the really cool part, but the second half was the more practical and scary part. In that part, they talked about how abuot 3.5 million people live in the area that was destroyed in the eruption of 79 A.D. This means that if the Vesuvius erupted and 1/3 of those people died we are talking about 10 times the number of dead of the recent tsunami. All of this made...

I was just reading a little of the Detroit News Link today when I came across an interesting article. It seems that the Gov. here in Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, has come up with a pretty good idea when it comes to taxes. For a little background, let me tel you about Michigans Single Business Tax. This is basically a flat fee tax that asseses a 1.9% tax on payrolls of company. This idea has never really made sense to me, and a lot of people, me included think that this tax has a net negativ...

The other day I was at work, having a good political debate with one of my coworkers that shall remain nameless, when the topic of poverty came up. The guy that I was talking with told me that there are lots of jobs out there and that people, especially those in the inner city (Detroit), should just go get jobs. He backed up his argument by saying that he is confident that if he lost his job that he would be reemployed within 2 weeks. I agreed with him in the sense that of course he could...

I was just thinking that it was a good idea for me to write a little about me. One of my history professors once told me that everyone should know who the source of their information is so that they can accertain with what bias it comes from. So here is a little history about me. I was born in 1980, on July 4th, which some say is the reason that I have made politics and all things political one of my hobbies. Being born on the 4th of July is great, at first. My loving mother told me that ...

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