There are people in this country who spend a fair amount of time keeping themselves informed. They take this obligation seriously enough to seek out the truth, and listen to varying opinions analyzing the truth so that they can consider contexts they might have missed. Most of you dear readers would fit into that category.

Most people, however, are not quite as interested. They watch 30-60 minutes of news and take whatever is spoon fed to them as the truth, and go about their day believing whatever the TV machine tells them. They might be watching CNN or MSNBC, but more than likely they are watching FOX News. The sad reality is that they are not under-informed, they are actually misinformed.
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48 comments (Latest Comment: 12/16/2010 21:09:59 by BobR)

Well folks, like Brett Favre, my ironman streak is over.

For the first time ever, "Ask a Vet" is posting an open forum.

I've been battling computer issues all morning (on my 3rd reboot), and I finally typed something up in Firefox, but the browser ate it and I don't have the time to rebuild anything.

So there you have it. I am rather peeved this morning.
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24 comments (Latest Comment: 12/14/2010 20:55:26 by Raine)

Sometimes an idea comes along that changes life the way we know it. Sometimes two different ideas come along that are both smart in their own right, but when combined become brilliant. Sometimes that change is driven by the commercial sector. Here in America, that kind of revolutionary change is often propelled or buried, depending on who profits and who lobbies the government the hardest.

Electric cars are once again being considered by many Americans, with the greatest stumbling block being the time and difficulty required for charging them when away from home. Who wants to buy an electric car that can only be "safely" driven 50-100 miles? Most people don't want that kind of virtual leash. But what if you could drive an electric car from coast to coast without ever even stopping to recharge it?... and you knew that it was being charged with solar power the whole way? It's feasible, if you combine two separate ideas being proposed.
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27 comments (Latest Comment: 12/14/2010 04:36:10 by BobR)

Yep, it's true.

The fallout from the election, the way the President has been acting, even the snit that some of the members have been in the past few days. This has all rubbed me the wrong way.

In short, I just about stopped feeling that I belonged here and could make any kind of useful contribution anymore. I had posted earlier in the week something that Abraham Lincoln had said..."The world will little note nor long remember what we say here." Increasingly, it sure feels like there's an air of futility around here.

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2 comments (Latest Comment: 12/11/2010 17:22:10 by livingonli)

Hey folks. I can't see today's entry, so I thought I'd throw a stublet out there just to see what was going on.

If it's me, you may ignore this and I'll delete it an some point.

Otherwise....what just happened here?

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4 comments (Latest Comment: 12/10/2010 03:30:27 by BobR)