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5-2-08: Pathfinder makes a comeback!

The rebirth of Pathfinder

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4-22-08: Fresh red meat for liberals

Republicans say the rest of us can't afford for the rich to pay higher taxes, because that would ruin the economy for everyone...

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4-15-08: Under the Bush Administration, America's increasingly been hanging out with the wrong crowd

The company we keep

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4-6-08: Something which only seems out of character for this web site: Notes on a movie concept about the games of sex and love in high school and/or college

The reason this new page isn't quite the misfit it appears is because it's an experiment in web traffic and keywords, which could help guide me and others in future writing for the web. My web sites have always been about experimentation and research and development, and this is no different. Hopefully I'll learn something worth sharing in my blog Low cost web site authoring and/or the page How to make money with your web site!

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3-20-08: Life as a zombie: the aftermath of my second cataract operation

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2-18-08: It's the great American mystery of our time: why times are getting harder instead of better

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1-21-08: Part two of Are we there yet? America's de facto domestic and foreign policies of artificial scarcity and institutionalized poverty

This is the follow up to Part one, first posted in July of 2007. I'm still working on part two's references, but quite a few are already listed.

Considering all the handicaps I'm currently working under, I feel pretty good about getting this far with the thing!

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1-6-08: What to do, what to do...!

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9-25-07: America's lack of universal health insurance even hurts old folks on Medicare

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9-3-07: America has a black hole where its heart should be

The cold, dead, bloody heart of America puts a sharp focus on the current state of affairs in the U.S. The military-corporate-media complex prods taxpayers to fund a supremely expensive, never-ending campaign of war around the globe, regularly greased with the lives of both US citizens (soldiers) and our foreign victims (perhaps largely innocent women and children). For apparently no other reason but to shovel more money into the pockets of a few at the top-- who then fill the coffers of their preferred political party and candidates, in order to maintain the control enabling the continuation of this barbarity.

The corporate titans actually profit two different ways from this never-ending war footing. One, they make obscene profits selling ever fancier weapons systems and related gear to the government. Two, they make bigger profits in the healthcare industry than is allowed or accepted in any other nation on Earth (but for possibly third world countries and banana republics), since only the US among otherwise modern nations offers no universal healthcare for its citizens.

And why doesn't America provide universal healthcare? The corporate-owned media and politicians tell us it's because we need to stay on a constant war footing, spending half a trillion dollars per year or more, to battle ever smaller and tinier and harder-to-find villains, who apparently now live in caves in the wilderness...

And enough Americans accept this argument to allow our government to continue pouring all our universal healthcare money (and other funds) down the military drain.

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8-19-07: Anime review: Naruto and Bleach

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7-25-07: Things only Americans worry about (compared to the citizenry of other modern democracies)

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7-23-07: Stephen King could have been God (if he’d been born 6,000 years earlier)

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7-18-07: In the very worst real-world calamities to ever strike mankind throughout history, only Clark Kent-- not Superman-- could have saved the day

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7-18-07: The state of America, mid-2007

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7-5-07: Cheap and easy summer home cooling ideas

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7-5-07: Are we there yet? Sometime soon humanity should be hitting a techno-economic tipping point, after which all the basics of life like food, shelter, transport, and medical care would logically become dramatically easier and cheaper to obtain

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7-1-07: Hysterical shrinking America the guilty

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6-14-07: A whopper of a net censorship and citizen assault plan by AT&T
5-29-07: They did WHAT!?! The dirty deeds of Republicans get little attention in the mainstream media-- partly because they're often so heinous and unbelievable
5-26-07: Some every day wonders you can expect from 2013 AD
5-20-07: America's long-time preference to big sticks over universal healthcare, free college, and peace and prosperity for all
4-28-07: Personal Singularities: One man's list of Herculean efforts and feats (or, why I'm so very tired! Ha, ha)
4-24-07: Site cameo and legend services have finally gone live!
4-11-07: Why should the rich want to help the less fortunate? Especially poor Americans, who are almost certainly already better off than the poor in developing countries.
10-23-06: I voted against Republicans across-the-board today
10-16-06: You can't confuse a vegetable
9-28-06: What happens if Bush goes to war with Iran, but Iran doesn't just sit in its box to take it like he expects?
9-22-06: Can anyone find a case of President Bush telling the truth which doesn't involve admitting previous lies...?
9-22-06: The dire fate of Israel
9-19-06: The hard truth: American citizens face more risk of being killed by their own government than by all the official terrorist organizations worldwide combined
9-19-06: An astounding compilation of historical events showing why many hate America today
9-6-06: My personal view regarding abortion
7-3-06: A new page on the death of liberty in America: how we surrendered without a fight
2-25-06: A clear example of how humanity itself might end?
2-13-06: Anime review: Read or Die the TV series
2-12-06: Anime review: Neon Genesis Evangelion
2-9-06: How bad is it really?
1-28-06: Anime film review: Only Yesterday
1-22-06: Anime film reviews: My Neighbor Totoro and Porco Rosso
1-17-06: The dismal state of Machinima today
1-16-06: Review: Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex
1-9-06: An amazing view of the present and future of technology, politics, and economics, by Jaron Lanier
1-6-06: The anime films Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke
10-2-05: The world's top ten biggest reasons for optimism
9-27-05: The world's top ten biggest secrets and surprises
9-27-05: Speculation regarding ABC's TV show LOST
9-10-05: The awful truth about the American dream
6-29-05: A fellow blogger recently did me the honor of some constructive criticism
4-20-05: Recent US TV: The good, the bad, the ugly
4-19-05: I once had a car...
10-29-04: Have we killed enough innocent Muslims yet? UPDATED
10-14-04: In the past I'd usually (but not always) voted Republican. Because I'm basically an Independent with possibly somewhat more conservative elements than liberal. Today I voted a straight Democratic ticket (absentee). Because the US Republican party seems to have put the inmates in control of the asylum
10-13-04: The biggest announcement in the history of this site: The novel which started it all is now coming online
10-12-04: NEW PAGE ON SITE: The astonishing decline of America
10-7-04: Recommended TV shows
9-20-04: Site visitors can now trigger particular page updates and sponser particular pages on-site
7-5-04: The new WebFLUX Store and Alerts log
4-29-04: Through a fortuitous combination of American incompetence, corruption, and apathy, bin Laden is succeeding beyond his wildest dreams UPDATED
4-27-04: Why the dire forecasts for America in the timeline? UPDATED
3-21-04: If the Bush Administration is trying to prove America would be just as well off with no government at all than its present one, I'd say they're doing a great job UPDATED
2-27-04: Little-known fact: Jesus Christ was an also-ran in the crucifixion pain and suffering department
2-12-04: US mainstream media circa early 2004: Largely violent, blood-thirsty, greedy, manipulative, malevolent, boring, NON-informative, misleading, propagandistic, and hysterical UPDATED
1-10-04: Stunning, horrifying information about Mad Cow Disease in America-- that's virtually unknown to Americans UPDATED
12-10-03: My email response to a student's questions about the Atlantis myth
11-24-03: Massive web site revamp underway: I apologize for any inconvenience
11-8-03: The dark matter clump barrier to galactic exploration: Is this why the galaxy hasn't already been colonized?
11-7-03: The trials and tribulations of an author wannabe
9-27-03: A personal milestone: Version 1.0 of this site has been achieved
9-10-03: Abuse of new government powers could easily smear innocent dissenters and destroy the credibility of high profile opposition to those in power
9-2-03: Some relatively new pages and/or updates
9-2-03 UPDATE of original 8-16-03 item: A reader challenges my recent practice of supporting liberal or progressive ideas on my web site, as well as my general accountability
8-9-03: Good and bad news on the computer front, as well as the exercise machine experience
8-7-03 UPDATE of original 7-17-03 item: How might a poorer, less developed group successfully make themselves more expensive and riskier for a vastly stronger organization to arbitrarily attack or invade militarily? Leapfrog your more advanced potential foes conceptually, strategically, economically, and technologically wherever possible
8-7-03 UPDATE of original 7-17-03 item: How might a poorer, less developed group successfully make themselves more expensive and riskier for a vastly stronger organization to arbitrarily attack or invade militarily? Minimize the use of proprietary, closed source code in your information systems
8-7-03 UPDATE of original 7-16-03 item: How might a poorer, less developed group successfully make themselves more expensive and riskier for a vastly stronger organization to arbitrarily attack or invade militarily? Avoid the development or build up of your own nuclear or (deadly or permanently crippling) biochemical weapons
8-16-03 UPDATE of original 7-13-03 item: How might a poorer, less developed group successfully make themselves more expensive and riskier for a vastly stronger organization to arbitrarily attack or invade militarily? Playfully but consistently interfere with the gathering of intelligence on your country
8-7-03 UPDATE of original 7-13-03 item: How might a poorer, less developed group successfully make themselves more expensive and riskier for a vastly stronger organization to arbitrarily attack or invade militarily? The importance of becoming and staying a free, peaceful, prosperous, and open country
7-10-03: jrmooneyham.com is back!
7-4-03: New pages and updates on jmooneyham.com and kurellian.tripod.com
6-17-03: My domain drops out of Google due to the extended outage
6-16-03: Exercise machine update: Boosts in optimism (and noise)
5-31-03: Black holes of information, time, and effort
5-23-03: MAJOR SITE ACCESSIBILITY ANNOUNCEMENT
5-22-03: A new exercise machine
5-7-03: If the USA is effectively ruling the world, shouldn't the world get a chance to help choose the US President? UPDATED
4-4-03: True American patriotism UPDATED
3-7-03: Yes, jrmooneyham.com was off-line for almost a week (plus updates)
2-25-03: Are war mongers worse than terrorists? YES
2-20-03: Possible downsides to American hubris: the tables could turn on the US literally overnight
2-17-03: Site updates
2-11-03: Site updates
1-30-03: Rushing towards our endgame
1-24-03: The Bush Administration expects Iraq to be a pushover-- but they're warming up some all new super-weapons to test in the field, just in case
"We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation."
-- US President George W. Bush, 2002
1-16-03: Site updates
12-23-02: Bush's potentially terrifying faith-based Iraq initiative (and what is to follow) UPDATED
12-12-02: Site updates
12-5-02: The vulnerability of commercial airliners to terrorism
11-22-02: The possible (if unlikely) Iraq surprise
11-1-02: Just for fun
11-1-02: The danger to our kids
10-31-02: Something no one wants to hear
10-25-02: Roundup of recent site additions or updates
10-17-02: Weird or unusual news items of late
10-16-02: The benefits of low blood pressure
10-11-02: New worlds, anti-surveillance self-defense, reverse email searches, history re-writes, and more
10-7-02: Yep, the $200 PCs forecast in the timeline are arriving right on schedule
9-30-02: An unexpected political force in the making? Or just one more US hope for liberation from the Republican/Democrat stranglehold to be dashed?
9-27-02 Rant: Wow. The world's getting harsher and more dangerous by the day now
9-24-02: Folks, Harry and Helen Highwater could use our help
9-21-02: We should all keep in mind that some present-day 'crimes' are almost undoubtedly tomorrow's virtues attempting to bust out today
9-4-02: Recent site updates
8-21-02: How small-time web sites can make it financially on the web
8-21-02: Bootstrapping the singularity (or how to maybe baby-step our way to triggering a full-blown Vinge singularity)
8-21-02: The best way for Old Geezers (and Geezerettes) to find interesting reading material?
8-8-02: Once mythical creatures which turned out to be real
8-5-02: Latest estimates and speculations regarding star faring races in the Milky Way
8-3-02: Why is it easier for many to find things to die for than to live for?
7-28-02: Who declared war, against who, and why?
7-27-02: America's political trap
7-27-02: Apple's currently running a promotional campaign trying to persuade PC users to switch to Macs. But this long term Mac user is switching to PCs
7-20-02: The glaring bioterror hole in US Homeland security plans
7-20-02: Increasing the vitality, accessibility, profile, and convenience of this site for myself and others (for minimal extra cost and effort)
7-19-02: Are those dark clouds on the horizon a gathering economic and political 'perfect storm'?
7-17-02: Timeline fiction getting more plausible all the time
7-17-02: I personally don't hold out much hope that we can reverse the USA's current slide into a Nazi-style police state anytime soon, but a few brave folks are trying
7-14-02: A possible tally of star-faring civilizations alive at this moment in our galaxy
7-12-02: Dirty bombs: Made with loving care in America
7-11-02: Healthcare and wholistic accounting
7-8-02: Some quotes that should have lots of Americans squirming in their seats
7-6-02: Mounting pressures for acceleration in the timeline-- and not in a good way
7-6-02: New pages on site
7-5-02: Scientists can create 'electronic' black holes. Real black holes may actually be gravastars. Are electronic gravastars possible? What about electronic Q-balls?
7-5-02: Could diamonds become an important future fuel for starships?
7-2-02: Unconditional love: I'm against it. Especially for big business and super wealthy folks who (unlike most of us) pay little or no income taxes
7-2-02: It's not right to run our government like Enron or Worldcom, where a few folks at the top steal huge gobs of money and masses of innocents pay for their misdeeds for years and decades to come. If you think it's unpatriotic for me to say that, sorry. But somebody has to
6-27-02: Circa 2002 USA telecommunications contemplation
6-22-02: How to squeeze maximum functionality, power, and convenience out of the personal computing experience for minimal cost
6-16-02: Some tips on preventing job burnout and/or depression-- and about 'true love'
6-14-02: The chickens are coming home to roost
6-13-02: Want to read something scary?
6-12-02: The effect of disease on the rise of civilization
6-11-02: In search of a decent health insurance deal, and the spin off of new pages
5-24-02: The viruses just keep coming
5-14-02: The USA rules the world-- but should it?
5-14-02: I'm attacked by virus-writer(s)
5-5-02: A new page is born
4-1-02: I started a new user's log today
3-26-02: I finally realize a long-held goal
3-19-02: The US health insurance crisis
3-19-02: Footnote hell
3-17-02: A big idea so scary I dare not post it
3-8-02: Recent updates and additions to the site
3-7-02: The focus of Newz&Viewz, and expected update schedule
3-6-02: It's been a while, but Newz&Viewz is back!

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