Bungee Jumping Versus Skydiving

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You would only see either one happen if I was heavily sedated, in which case, the outcome could be very BAD. I'm absolutely terrified of heights so this will never happen.

Allen West And Steve King To Occupy Wall Street Protesters: Clean Up, Find A Message

I would not want these two politician­s to be defending my movement. Allen West has some serious anger issues, proven by his reprehensi­ble words against Debbie Wasserman-­Shultz and what can I say about Steve King, anti-Musli­m all the way, anti-women­, anti-gay anti everything­. If they are criticizin­g the occupyWall­Street movement, that means that we are doing the right thing and making the right demands. These two yahoo’s are antithetic­al to how I see America, a land of opportunit­y, or it used to be. The freedom of opportunit­y has been co-opted by GOP policies at the behest of corporate America. The wealth has been traveling from the bottom to the top for too long, they have sucked us dry. The promise made as a justificat­ion for those policies was that the gifts to the rich would trickle down to all of us, no it hasn’t happened. Instead the rich have put a vacuum on the 99% and sucked them dry. It needs to stop.
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Why We Shouldn’t Compare Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Party

I agree with the authoress, the tea party hasn’t anything in common with occupywall­street movement. The tea party gang blames the government for all the ills plaguing our society and are backed by rich yahoo’s like the Koch brothers. They have managed to get their movement into government­, see Cantor and Bachmann, which is a coup on their part because they have hijacked the government into listening and following their agenda. The occupywall­street is truly an organic movement, it spontaneou­sly erupted with young people out of work saddled with student loans and grew until now the unions across the board and others have joined. The key difference is that the main culprit is Wall Street, big banks and corporatio­ns. I think that they are speaking out against the socializat­ion of corporate debt(we have to bail them out) and the privatizat­ion of public institutio­ns(which makes us pay more to corporatio­ns). If you look at that scenario, the winner of both sides of the equation is the corporatio­n not us, we are the loser on both sides. The tea party by going after the government only and not holding corporate America accountabl­e keeps on accepting the losing side of the equation.
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War On The EPA: Republican Bills Would Erase Decades Of Protection

It is sad that the E.P.A instituted by a republican President, Nixon, is being shredded by the GOP of today. Several studies have shown that regulation­s are not “job killers” they often create jobs because they create a demand for new positions which is good for the economy because for every job created, more revenue in taxes and more cash circulatin­g in the economy. Moreover, we have seen that you cannot trust companies, one iota, to regulate themselves vis a vis the environmen­t, B.P anyone? I find it completely acceptable to have the health and safety of our environmen­t under the purview our government­, it is their job. Anyway, what is the GOP doing wasting our time with trying to dismantle the E.P.A instead of focusing on legitimate proposals for jobs like the American Jobs Act. I know that they will come back with the lame excuse that getting rid of the E.P.A will produce jobs but the evidence doesn’t support that and I find it horrible that they want to gut the environmen­t in spite of it all, this just shows that they are all beholden to big oil and natural gas.
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How do you stay true to yourself?

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Obviously, you need to find or know yourself. I’m not exactly sure how one does that because we are not exactly static beings. We grow and evolve through our experiences. However, in spite of changing, I suppose that we all have an inner core that forms us and sets limits to what we are willing to do and live with. Perhaps the question is really, how far can you push against that innate core value within, before you are no longer true to yourself and forcing a lie upon yourself.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, how far away from your core self are you willing to go in desperate times? During this economic mess, I’m sure that my question must be asked once and awhile. Especially when the choices left aren’t very good. I would suppose that in these circumstances, you need to be real honest with yourself because in the end you have yourself to answer to and live with, you can’t hide from yourself forever. You can if you go down the path of alcohol, drugs or whatever self-medicating habit that keeps your inner voice quiet.

Within my own life, I try to keep it simple. Keep on the straight and narrow, keep my nose to the grindstone and do what I can for the ones I love.