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The problem of "homeless people with full-time jobs" is most definitely not a small problem or only located in certain areas. Cite 1 (extremely informative and well-researched investigative series) Cite 2 Cite 3 Cite 4

I suspect you're just reciting truisms. Unfortunately, this problem has been growing massively in the past two decades. The scale and visibility is such now that some journalists, investigators and generally insightful people are taking long hard looks at it.

About 40 to 60% of homeless work sometimes but do not hold a regular job. I would surmise it's not because they are physically unable to hold a job, but a strong chance that addiction or simple lack of motivation interferes. That would slash homelessness in half right there.

If this is not a UN goal then it has no legitimacy, as if it ever had any to begin with.

1 down(Mubarak), 1 in progress(Qaddafi)
http://www.parade.com/dictators/

I've never seen a stores sale insert contain manufacturer's coupons before...??

No, for that you go here. I figured you'd be a big enough boy to have found Coupons.com yourself.

Just about anything you get in the Sunday paper can be found on the web itself for free.

News? Check.
Comics? Check.
Inserts and coupons - we already covered that.

Hell, you can even read PARADE Magazine online, free. That's how little the Sunday Paper Experience® really costs you in the online world.

Of course, there's always the classic feel of reading off a piece of paper, but lately even that doesn't earn me spending $1.50.

I read it and I didn't see anything answering the GP's questions. Did you paste the wrong link or something?

I also read some of the references cited in your link. Check this out: Wikipedia says, "The production of child pornography has become very profitable and is no longer limited to pedophiles.[43]"

Sounds pretty damning, and it's even sourced! Okay let's read (the reference.

Uh oh, the reference doesn't support the claim being made! The only argument in it that child porn is no longer limited to pedophiles has to do with the distribution of child porn, not the production.

It's filled with nice little contradictions and conflations. Look at this: "That is why we must begin to treat so-called âoesimple possessionâ of child pornography as the heinous crime it is. Every purchase of child pornography encourages further growth of this evil business: from âoecustomâ child pornographyâ"the sale of images of child rape created to order for the consumerâ"to âoereal-timeâ child pornography, where subscribers pay to watch the streamed online rape of children as it occurs."

Oops, the author just confused "simple possession" of child porn with the purchase of child porn. What a trustworthy source.

Its interesting to think of how much money Research in Motion would spend developing a unit specifically for him, that met all of the security criteria, just so he would be seen with it. I imagine some type of self destruct feature would be necessary, in addition to insane encryption.

Considering what they do to the presidential limo http://www.parade.com/news/2009/01/they-would-give-their-lives-for-the-president.html I just can't see the Blackberry ever being approved.

America's smartest columnist in Parade magazine, Marilyn vos Savant, answered this sort of question in today's issue (see the "cruise ships" questions halfway down the page):

http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edition_03-09-2008/Ask_Marilyn

She seems to think that cruise ships dumping crap in the ocean is not a big deal (not that her opinion carries any weight...)

WTF? If supply for something is less than the demand, of course prices will go up.

Unfortunately, in the IT world, a shortage of talent does not drive salaries higher.

Currently in the US there is a dramatic shortage of IT workers. This shortage is soo great that Bill Gates even lobbied Congress to get the ability to import more workers using H1-B visas.

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Mar07/0,4670,CongressBillGates,00.html/

One might think that Microsoft would simply raise salaries until it manages to get the number of IT workers its needs. But there are not enough graduating from US schools, and as the Secretary of Labor Chou has said, they have hygiene problems - http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_07-01-2007/Intelligence_Report/

So until American college students learn how to bath properly, the laws of supply and demand will be transcended.

Clyde Lewis is currently without a talk show on the radio, but he still gives local talks and for the past couple weeks he has been talking about an Avian Flu Pandemic this winter, and the Flu Pandemic of 1918. (I posted a journal entry yesterday, without explanation, just as a history lession. I might follow up with an explanation soon for the Journal circuit.)

OK, he is a conspiracy nut, but dispite the entertainment value, he also does provide a lot of interesting insights.

Other stuff that is going on right now is a steady increase in the cost of natural gas and heating oil, and post-Katrina, people are more accepting of Martial Law, or at least we are being told we would now accept it.

I need to research some more stuff, like the claim that only 6% of FEMA's budget is spent on Emergency Managment, but here is Clyde Lewis' new article on Katrina. And some might also dismiss Alex Jones as a conspiracy nut, but here is what he had to say about Avian Flu and Martial Law.

Take it with a grain of salt but this could prove to be useful information.

I just read an interview with Michael Crichton about the chicken little behaviors. it was a promo for his book, State of Fear.

The article started off with an ominous warning about climate change from the 1970s about...global cooling. The article title was "Let's stop scaring ourselves."

The link below doesn't work yet.

http://archive.parade.com/2004/1205/1205_stop_scar ing.html

Another amusing article by him is "Aliens Cause Global Warming"

http://www.ccfassociation.org/crichton2.htm

I'm sure scientists today have learned lots of lessons from the mistakes of scientists of yesteryear. Right.

(1) For some reason, this site put a space in the first URL (in the word "Scaring").

(2) Here's an excerpt from the second article about "consensus science":

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I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.

In addition, let me remind you that the track record of the consensus is nothing to be proud of. Let's review a few cases.

In past centuries, the greatest killer of women was fever following childbirth . One woman in six died of this fever. In 1795, Alexander Gordon of Aberdeen suggested that the fevers were infectious processes, and he was able to cure them. The consensus said no. In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed puerperal fever was contagious, and presented compellng evidence. The consensus said no. In 1849, Semmelweiss demonstrated that sanitary techniques virtually eliminated puerperal fever in hospitals under his management. The consensus said he was a Jew, ignored him, and dismissed him from his post. There was in fact no agreement on puerperal fever until the start of the twentieth century. Thus the consensus took one hundred and twenty five years to arrive at the right conclusion despite the efforts of the prominent "skeptics" around the world, skeptics who were demeaned and ignored. And despite the constant ongoing deaths of women.

There is no shortage of other examples. In the 1920s in America, tens of thousands of people, mostly poor, were dying of a disease called pellagra. The consensus of scientists said it was infectious, and what was necessary was to find the "pellagra germ." The US government asked a brilliant young investigator, Dr. Joseph Goldberger, to find the cause. Goldberger concluded that diet was the crucial factor. The consensus remained wedded to the germ theory. Goldberger demonstrated that he could induce the disease through diet. He demonstrated that the disease was not infectious by injecting the blood of a pellagra patient into himself, and his assistant. They

Yes, but the guy who wrote the book the movie was based on has written a new book, to be released this week, suggesting that such fears are overblown.

In advance of the book's publication, Crichton has written the cover story in today's Parade (Sunday magazine supplement in many US newspapers) giving several examples of such exaggerated predictions.