I'm declaring it here and now on Thursday, November 19, 2009, that Sarah Palin will be the next president of the United States of America. Whether or not she's elected, the Right Wing, that is, the fundamentalist "Christians", Republicans, conservatives, Fascists, etc., is going to do whatever is nec… Read full post »

Human beings are basically decent, at least most of the time, as exemplified by those who get involved in Walks, Runs, Marathons, etc. to raise money for "the cure" or for other causes and charities. On the other hand, said decent human beings are most likely wasting their time. I speak… Read full post »

I've never understood why men work so hard to keep women down. If men are so superior, then why wouldn't they want to see women in positions of power, authority, and decision making so that women could prove their inferiority?  Wouldn't men want second class citizens to prove their unw… Read full post »

NOTE: I'm sorry to have been away for awhile. Family matters needed attention. I really missed OS and hopefully will be able to catch up with everyone soon!

 According to what I've read concerning human sexuality, most men wish for sex, fantasize about it, hope for it, crave it, t… Read full post »

On August 4, 2009, a man in Pittsburgh opened fire in a fitness club, killing several women and wounding a number of others in yet another story of male violence with the usual victims: women. He felt rejected by women, that women didn't like him. According to his co-workers he never said m… Read full post »

Animals are great.....in the wild where they belong. Zoos, like Indian reservations, make me very uncomfortable. I don't mind trained horses or dogs too much, but other animal circus acts make me sad. I would never want to see an animal in pain or hungry or mistreated, neglected, or abused, but… Read full post »

I was raised a Southern Baptist, or Fundamentalist Protestant, and at age nine was "saved" and experienced a full immersion baptism as practiced by Southern Baptists. I fervently wanted to be a missionary when I grew up and "save the poor heathen" of the world. Being a missionary sound… Read full post »

In light of Father's Day, I write this in honor of the father of my daughters, keeping in mind that a father is the first man in a woman's life. Let me add that my daughters' newest project is their web site, devoted to all things green in the Philadelphia-south Jersey-Delaware Valley … Read full post »

In the 1970s, I read the most informative and amazing book called The Sovereign State of ITT.  Remember ITT, one of the original multi-national communications companies? The one for whom the CIA murdered the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, in the 1970s? Allende… Read full post »

First of all, abortion and infanticide are as old as the human race. Almost every society that has existed on this planet has used an herb or other means of producing abortion. The practice of killing female newborns in China and India (infanticide) in recent decades has resulted… Read full post »

If an alien landed in the USA, it would very soon assume that actors were the most important people in the nation! Surely, the alien would think, they must do miraculous things such as  purify contaminated air and water with a wave of the hand, or eliminate disease and poverty whe… Read full post »

My days as a daycare center director are over, at least in terms of my current job. I won't go into all the reasons why, but suffice it to say that I soon found out the owner was running the center according to her personal and rather extreme religious beliefs, without informing… Read full post »

I wrote a biographical novel a few years ago. After dealing with potential agents, publishers, etc., I am discouraged and thinking about publishing it, at least excerpts, in my blog, either on OS or elsewhere online.

 Any advice or suggestions? What happens to my rights as an author? Any h… Read full post »

Look at a map of the USA detailing red and blue states, and then consider the winter of 2008-2009 which consisted of one sweeping, damaging storm after another, starting in the Pacific and moving across the nation to the East Coast. In fact, now that "Spring" is here, nothing has changed.… Read full post »

Children, especially younger ones, are always "just children". That's what I like about them. No matter the state of the world or politics or what adults are doing to themselves and the planet with their "so cool" technology such as cell phones, microwaves, and fossil fuel-burning cars, (all of which… Read full post »

I started a new job as Director of a day care center here in Philadelphia last week. The salary is depressingly, insultingly low, but I'm just glad to have a job in this economy! With a background in education and psychology, I have the opportunity to put into practice all I know… Read full post »

An economist somewhere in history said that a nation's economy comes down to guns or butter. In other words, a nation places value on either "guns", the military, war, etc. or it places value on "butter", that is, healthy food, clean air and water, children, education, quality of life, etc.  For… Read full post »

The facts of human biology and psychology indicate there is far more to human sexuality than only heterosexuality. Using religion, as does Christianity and Islam, to claim homosexuality is wrong is like using religion to claim blue eyes or being short are wrong! It makes no sense, espe… Read full post »

Under the Bush-Cheney Regime, as Texas columnist and radio personality, Jim Hightower, calls it, it now appears that 90 % of this nation's wealth has been transferred to 10% of the population, particularly the top 1%, with the number of billionaires skyrocketing in the last eight years… Read full post »

It appalls me to this day that the civil rights movement took place in my lifetime, in the second half of the twentieth century in the United States of America, and that people had to die for rights guaranteed by the Constitution. This still just flabbergasts me, especially because it occurred H… Read full post »

The "American Way", that is, the "conservative" way of doing things, of "fixing" our society has predominated too long and has always been more police armed with bigger guns and harsher laws, more control, and a military costing billions, if not trillions over the last century, to insure that America… Read full post »

My title is a question I ask frequently in the current economic climate. I understand why the wealthy are Republicans. The GOP works feverishly to protect the money and investments of the rich, their corporations, businesses and banks. But why would middle class Americans be Republicans?

I've asked a… Read full post »

On to the Meat Con, meat eating having emerged as a sign of an affluent nation, or at least is sold to Americans as such. As Third World nations make "progress", they often adopt a more Western-type diet, which mainly means more meat, especially hamburger meat. Of course, health is neg… Read full post »

Continuing with my point that Americans are probably the most controlled population in the history of the planet, yet believe they're free, I want to look at further cons perpetrated against the American public. After devoting my last three blogs to the American Medical Establishment Con, today&… Read full post »

Continuing my discussion of the American Medical Establishment, let's look at Big Pharma, the REAL drug pushers of our nation. How ironic that drug tests are for marijuana, an inocuous drug in human use for thousands of years that never killed anyone, and heroin and cocaine, users being a tiny p… Read full post »