Paul Luvera Journal

The Sunday Seattle Times reports that the U.S. Interior Department lied for months in  claiming no analysis had been made by them of the effect of greenhouse-gas emissions causing global warming which impacted polar bears. As recently as late December Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and other officials were claiming that the Department had not made an examination of the connection between global warming and shrinking sea ice, when they in fact had made such studies. Not only that, it was…

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Helen Gurley Brown, the former editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine has written a number of books. The only one I’ve read was on this last trip, Wild Again, which I’m afraid I found frivolous. As a result I sort of "sped read" my way through it. However, aA couple of things she wrote about registered with me. One was her advice about travel. She said " When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money, then take…

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I could provide a long list of everyday frustrations. One of the most common involves sullen salespeople whose demeanor reflects how much they hate their job and who could not count change if their life depended upon it. Even with the cash register read out telling them the amount of change they have trouble doing it right. Each time one of these people sticks out their hand full of money and dumps the  change with a "here’s your change" I…

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