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Cope with the Noise! July 4, 2015. In Politics and Philosophy. Stuff I Want My Kids to Know. Six months ago, Military Times reported that morale in the military is waning. The article sums up the reasons thusly: Today’s service members say they feel underpaid, under-equipped and under-appreciated. Of course, feeling underpaid and overworked would sap anyone’s morale, but that last bit, feeling underappreciated, is key. Service men and women joined to protect those freedoms, not to watch them erode. On to...
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Cope with the Noise! When Everything is a Crisis, Nothing is a Crisis. December 12, 2015. December 11, 2015. In News and Entertainment Media. Dear politicians, intellectuals, pressure-group leaders, and media mouths,. If you are one of the public figures I opened this letter to, and you genuinely want your problem solved, dial down the urgency settings on your rhetoric or you will defeat yourself! If you are a tyrant in waiting: know that your tactic is exposed. You are not fooling anyone. March 4, 2015.
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Cope with the Noise! An Open (and Polite) Letter to the Gun Control Faction. June 25, 2016. June 24, 2016. In Politics and Philosophy. Here’s my take on the bitter firearms dispute vitiating our country. I offer my commentary without vitriol. No contempt. No condescension. No name-calling, baiting, or inflammatory rhetoric; just exposition. Does that mean I think private individuals should be able to go down to Booms-R-Us and buy guided missiles and tanks and chemical weapons? May 14, 2016. May 14, 2016.
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Cope with the Noise! The Desecration of Independence. July 2, 2016. July 1, 2016. Is this what you want? IN SHAME, July 4, 2016. The Desecration of the Independence once valued by the united States of America,. Scared of dealing with an opinion you don’t like? Run to your safe space and call the whaaambulance. Then get the offending sentiment labeled as hate speech. Can’t be bothered to earn a living for your family? Use SNAP for groceries, then spend your cash on booze, tobacco, tattoos, and bling.
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Cope with the Noise! March 4, 2015. March 3, 2015. In News and Entertainment Media. How can we filter this constant stream of misinformation and disinformation and get to something resembling the truth? We could do worse than to try using reasoned thought. Here are a two examples:. The controversy: Climate Change. I have remarked on this in previous posts, so I will not go into it deeply here other than to sum up: The climate may be changing, and human activity, especially carbon emissions, may be th...
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Mental Health – Like a Lamb to the slaughter – The Speaker
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Turning difficult issues from black and white into colour. June 6, 2016. Mental Health Like a Lamb to the slaughter. Former minister responsible for mental health, Norman Lamb. He also hit out at an NHS England’s decision to water down financial incentives for local health authorities to improve mental health services, and criticised scandalously low levels of funding for research into mental health conditions. It is said that ‘creatives’ such as writers suffer the worse kind of depression, writing and d...
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Let’s do porridge! – The Speaker
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Turning difficult issues from black and white into colour. March 2, 2016. March 2, 2016. Crass steel prison bars in reality have been substituted with the wisp of a revolving door as inmates come and go unable to reintegrate into society. There were 85,681 people in jail on the 27. March 2015 and it is said that one in every two criminals will commit another crime within one year of being out on the streets. That’s over 40,000 criminals who will repeat offend! Recently there has been real concern that pr...
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The Sinking Ship of Corporate Responsibility – The Speaker
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Turning difficult issues from black and white into colour. August 3, 2016. August 3, 2016. The Sinking Ship of Corporate Responsibility. Big business has gradually changed the parameters of the social contract due to external factors related to the fragile state of global economics, reducing employee’s opportunities for advancement and showing reluctance to provide a real ‘living’ wage. Sir Philip ‘Greed’ spotted on-board his luxury yacht amidst the pension crisis at BHS. These policies plus advocating t...
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Turning difficult issues from black and white into colour. The Big Tax Fiasco. Should big companies pay more tax? The glaringly obvious answer to most is yes. Almighty roars of discontent from the backbenches shook the House of Commons during Prime… Read more “The Big Tax Fiasco”. January 28, 2016. January 28, 2016. January 28, 2016. January 28, 2016. The New Political Age Cometh! January 25, 2016. January 25, 2016. January 20, 2016. January 20, 2016. January 7, 2016. January 7, 2016. Dudley Council are ...
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Out Or In, Is The Proposed EU Deal Piecemeal? – The Speaker
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Turning difficult issues from black and white into colour. February 8, 2016. Out Or In, Is The Proposed EU Deal Piecemeal? Out Or In, Is The Proposed EU Deal Piecemeal? Theresa May are you IN or OUT? It’s important to acknowledge what David Cameron has managed to achieve ‘in principle’ while he’s been swanning off to negotiate with the other 28 member states. A watered down emergency brake on in-work benefits that would commence straight after the referendum had concluded. Still Eurosceptics refute histo...
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