The World Around Us

I was thinking about war recently, and about how war affects the economy. When people go to war, the whole country starts to work hard (if the people want to win). For example, in World War II, women went to work in the factories, many of the men went to war, and even the kids got in on the act, collecting things to recycle and use as war materials. People are also willing to sacrifice luxuries and save their money during times of war. If the wartime economy booms when we are at war because...

I’m a little concerned. I’m not a big fan of Obama’s, but I think that there is the possibility of an assassination attempt on his life this week. My concern comes from this video of Louis Farrakhan, taken two days ago: From the video, Farrakhan said “people tomorrow — maybe in a few days — are going to kill their leaders who have been selling them out”. This is not a conditional statement – this is a threat. He says that people ARE going to kill their leaders, maybe in a few days. A few days...

Several years ago, I wrote a web page called The Fall of Ancient Greece. I was reading America Alone Today I was adding Pinterest buttons to my Squidoo pages, and I noticed that my Fall of Ancient Greece pages were among my most popular. For a while, I was a little confused, but then I thought about the world situation, and how Greece is falling apart. I hadn’t thought about that page in months, but all of a sudden it is popular. You never know when a page will become trendy. Sure, capitalize...

As the economic situation of this country seems to go down the toilet, more and more people seem to want to voice their opinion on “the poor”. The definition of “poor” is usually defined by the government as someone that makes under a certain income. Stuart Varney seems to have his own conception about how “poor” people get that way: In the last week, the AP published a series of sob stories about poor people who were having trouble making it in today’s economy. It received a lot of criticism...

The SOPA act (Stop Online Piracy Act, methinks (arrr…)) that is currently going through Congress is looming huge in the minds of people that produce content, such as myself. This bill could be an income killer… say… SOPA decides to shut down Yahoo! Voices or Squidoo because some idiot on the sight decided to upload something that was copyrighted. I think that these fears are legitimate, but we never know how things will work out in reality. I’m glad that I have material up on several differen...

Those of you who think that Coca-Cola is being really generous by helping out the polar bears might want to take a look at their bottle of Coke. According to the 2-liter bottle of Coke that my husband picked up for me, they only want to save the home of ONE polar bear. That’s right, they only want to save ONE polar bear. If you notice, my Coke bottle says “Protect the Polar Bear’s Home”. Anybody who has taken a third grade English class knows that if you want to indicate the homes of PLURAL...

The East Coast of the United States was hit with a snowstorm this weekend, including New York City, home of Occupy Wall Street. They’re allowing tents there now though. I have poor tolerance for cold, which is why I have a cold weather sleeping bag, but I think that this would be pretty cold. Still, it looks like people are still hanging on. Interestingly enough, the last time that the entire East Coast was pummeled with snow this early on in the year was during the Civil War. We were also in the Little Ice Age back then. So we’re repeating weather conditions that haven’t been ...

If you have a subscription to GBTV, I recommend that you watch Thursday’s show. The information that he is giving out is SO important. I learned more than 16 years ago that the end times were upon us, and I’ve been learning and preparing for the times ever since. I’d do more if I had the means and if I could. The information that he gave out today is vital for your survival, if you haven’t been in the preparation mindset.That being said, I think that tomorrow’s project that I need to accomplish is to write a free eBook about preparation. If you can’t get GBTV, then ...

Last week, the world lost a great innovator: Steve Jobs. People on Wall Street are trying to change the world through protest. People from Mother Theresa to Ghandi have been changing the world for centuries. Here are some things to keep in mind if you want to change the world:1. Start with yourself. It won’t do you any good to change the world, even to gain the whole world, if you lose your soul. Evidently, Steve Jobs didn’t do this, as he claimed to be a Buddhist, but if you don’t repent of your sins and develop a relationship with Jesus Christ, you will find out that everything ...

Work at Home Mom by traci_designs View more Sahm Mousepads A couple of days ago, I made a post asking “are you a producer or a consumer?” These days, there are some people who would like to be doing something but just can’t seem to find a job. I do know how hard that can be; I had a difficult time getting a job out of high school (so I joined the military). If things are bad on the job front, you don’t need to sit around and wait for things to get better. While you are looking for a more...

I’ve been reading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged over the last few days and it’s been hard to put down. I don’t know why, but it seems like I often read the right books at the right time. Rand is almost prophetic in some of the things that she says. Right now, her book seems to fit in nicely with the whole Occupy Wall Street crowd.In Atlas Shrugged, there are two kinds of people: the looters and the producers. I’d have to guess that most of the people occupying Wall Street, Los Angeles, Seattle, and wherever they’re occupying, are looters. They think that they have the ...

I’m sitting here without power, but miraculously, I have Internet for a bit. This I guess will be a miscellaneous post.Hillary Clinton rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange today. The Dow Jones fell several hundred points. Is she bad luck? Gold and silver didn’t go up either.Mexico, Southern California and part of Arizona had their power knocked out last night. Does that have anything to do with the solar flares that I wrote about the other day?Speaking of power, my power is out. My dh has a phone with mobile wi-fi broadcast capability. I normally hate the amount of money ...

I’ve written before about how much I love Amazon.com’s Prime program. My husband was able to get it because he’s in law school, and they offer free shipping to students. I order from Amazon all the time as a result. I love knowing that whatever I order from them will come in two days, for free (the shipping part at least). Anyway, Zazzle has it’s new Black program. You can get a year of free standard shipping for $10, or a year of free 2 day shipping (similar to Amazon’s Prime program) for...

I think that most of us care at least a little bit about what kind of impact that we’ll have on the world around us. Most of us don’t get to see what the world would be like if they had never been born, like George Bailey on It’s a Wonderful Life, but sometimes we do find out, years after the fact, that something small that we did really did affect someone else (and hopefully in a good way). When I was a kid, I was a little too mean to my brother, so it’s nice to know that I did have something of a good effect on people.The closest thing that I could ever think about that happened ...

I keep seeing this ad pop up on my Facebook sidebar:“ARIZONA: HUGE companies are giving out free baby stuff to moms with baby’s aged 0-4 years. E-mail required. Limited supplies. Act now!”Seriously? Baby’s? Baby’s what? Which baby?I realize that this ad is probably just someone writing this out of their home, or at least I hope so. The horrendous grammar really annoys me. I’m okay with really bad grammar or spelling mistakes in a message board post, but I know that someone is paying money to send me this ad day after day. You would think that if the author knew that ...