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Another thing that I wish would become extinct in the entire world, and not just in the United States, it's an element that lives in human nature, and it's what brought our nation to its current economic crisis - GREED. If you think about it, greed will often end up causing every problem we see in the world today.
Very well said. I hear that good ol' Obama messed up big time on his swearing-in yesterday....wonder what thats going to lead to???
Another thing that I wish would become extinct in the entire world, and not just in the United States, it's an element that lives in human nature, and it's what brought our nation to its current economic crisis - GREED. If you think about it, greed will often end up causing every problem we see in the world today.
Now it has its buddy, *Instant Gratification* to compound and magnify it to beyond-epic proportions.
I remember the days of Fotomat. Drop off your film before 10am, it'll be ready tomorrow at 10am. I used to have some fun with some pictures when I worked there, and if I wanted to be as mischievious, oh, the many divorces I could have caused......
I remember the days of Fotomat. Drop off your film before 10am, it'll be ready tomorrow at 10am. I used to have some fun with some pictures when I worked there, and if I wanted to be as mischievious, oh, the many divorces I could have caused......
I remember Fotomat, I used to always drop off my film there, until those one-hour-photo places started showing up.... Funny, I don't remember any of the people there getting mischievous though.
24 Things About To Become Extinct In The USA
3. News Magazines and TV News While the TV evening newscasts haven't gone anywhere over the last several decades, their audiences have. In 1984, in a story about the diminishing returns of the evening news, the New York Times reported that all three network evening-news programs combined had only 40.9 million viewers. Fast forward to 2008, and what they have today is half that. !
And this one is certainly no wonder because another thing is already extinct:
TRUE NEWS Journalism.
You need the Internet to really get the story -- and unbiased truth on anything.
I attempted to bear with our local 11pm news tonight (extremely rare -- only to see Obama's highlights) and it led off with his First Day's goings-on (albeit briefer than I expected, couple minutes tops.)
Next, a short clip with Clinton Swearing-In
Next, very brief Kennedy update(Caroline, then Ted)
Next, the goofball who didn't pay his taxes
And next (this was NOT surprising in the least, still within the first 4 minutes of newscast):
FASHION (Mrs Obama related)
They had a bigger fuss over this fashion nonsense (with the stupid graphics backdrop)than the Clinton-Tax-evading guy combined!
Rant over, but true news journalism went the way of the Do-Do some time ago.
On March 10, 2009, the number of licensed Amateur Radio operators in the US reached it's highest number ever of 688,666. See Amateur Radio Station Statistics for the facts. That's an increase of 11,000 over the past five years!
Amateur Radio isn't dying , it's expanding and thriving!
Location: I never said I was perfect so no refunds here sorry!
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Just kinda makes you wonder how far down the list is the human race?
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