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By now you’ve certainly seen the television ad from “Pure Michigan” encouraging people to buy from Michigan companies. No question, a laudable goal. However, if you were to type in “PureMichigan.org/BuyMichigan” into your web browser your request would be routed to servers hosted by IBM in Denver, Colorado. The irony and hypocrisy is awesome.
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When we are growing up descriptions of events and people are always simplified into a neat story that is memorable and clear. Any fine details that deviate from the simple message we are trying to deliver are ignored in an effort to keep the story simple and easy to understand for the child.
We tell our […]

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This issue is very important to our country so I wanted to try to make it as simple as possible - a lot of facts are glossed over. Here is my best shot at the Valerie Plame incident in plain English.
President Bush and Vice President Cheney wanted to go to war with Iraq. Their […]

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I spoke at the East Lansing Rotary meeting this week. Subject: New Marketing, New World. This was an extemporaneous talk that included a 8 minute video called “Did you know 2.0″ and a Question and Answer session. The talk was 40 minutes and completely free form, so please excuse the many mistakes.
I removed […]

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Here is the transcript of my speech today. Video is processing now and will be online soon.
Update: Video up

“Thank you very much for the honor of speaking to you, the future leaders of our community. Congratulations to all the graduates. Whether you realize now or not, your successful graduation today is a cumulative […]

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On March 2, 2009 I went to see Richard Dawkins give a lecture at Michigan State University’s Wharton Center. I have watched hundreds of Dawkins videos on Youtube and I think that his speech at MSU was very, very, tame. The question and answer section was pretty good though. It was moderated, so the questions […]

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I thought I would try to make this as simple as possible: Here is my take on understanding the current financial crisis. All you need to understand is the history (and eventual repeal) of the Glass-Steagall and Bank Holding Company Acts.
Following the 1929 stock market crash, historic legislation called the Glass-Steagall Act was signed […]

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This is something I thought you should be aware of…
The Posse Comitatus Act is intended to prevent the government from being able to use the federal army for domestic security. The Posse Comitatus Act is why you don’t see tanks rolling down Main Street.
Constitutionally, and through legislation, state and local governments are responsible […]

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“Americans will remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday.” - George Carlin

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I am voting for Barack Obama.

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Less than a week to election. I’m deciding who I will be voting for. Will my McCain friends, please provide me some reasons to vote for him?via Ping.fm - 12:41am - 21 Comments
Jim at 12:56am October 29 - He’s only slightly less liberal that Barack.
Don at 1:04am October 29 - Pity vote?
Jim […]

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As a follow up to my post on Not In Our Name I put together a short video that I shot at the peace protest in Lansing on February 15, 2003.
I decided to post this because many people, including one of my college professors, wrongly think that everyone believed the lie’s that lead to […]

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On March 23, 2002 an organization was founded called Not In Our Name (NION) to make a statement of conscious against the United States governments actions following the attack on September 11th. NION’s statement of conscious included:
We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government,
in […]

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From the time that the “bailout” was originally proposed to the time it was actually ratified, a lot of non-bailout items were added to pork-it-up. Here are some of them:
“Sec. 503. Exemption from excise tax for certain wooden arrows designed for use by children.”
“Sec. 317. Seven-year cost recovery period for motorsports racing track […]

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Eric Schmidt solves the energy crisis in 1 hour with detailed math calculations to justify his case. Long story short, Nuclear is too costly to justify any additional plants, off-shore drilling is a loser, solar thermal is extremely viable and wind is as reliable as coal.
Some other key points from Eric and the […]

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I absolutely agree with the McCain supporters that say increasing taxes is a horrible idea. I agree that increasing the income tax on people (and many businesses/S-corporations) earning more than $250k/year is a bad idea and will hurt many businesses at a time when many are already hurting.
Increasing taxation is wrong. Increasing taxes on […]

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Old, Grizzled Third-Party Candidate May Steal Support From McCain

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Warren Buffett, the richest man in the world, talks with Charlie Rose for almost an hour about the current financial crisis. This is a must watch for anyone who really wants to cut through the rhetoric and figure out what is going on. Long story short, Warren warned about this looming problem for years, however, […]

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Michiganders please vote “YES” on Proposal 1 - “A LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE TO PERMIT THE USE AND CULTIVATION OF MARIJUANA FOR SPECIFIED MEDICAL CONDITIONS” (Bill Text) As many of you know, my mother has multiple sclerosis.

I hope that you will also consider supporting Proposal 2 - “A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO ADDRESS […]

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