Number of comments: 0 We must realize and that we are not in an energy crisis we're in an energy opportunity. We would be in an energy crisis if there were no alternatives for fossil fuels. Fortunately there are multiple opportunities to replace fossil fuels. As the technologies advance it will become much cheaper' [...]
Number of comments: 0 I believe one of the biggest and most profitable industries over the next few decades will be those incorporating nanotechnologies. Hopefully my country will get in on the leading edge with this. I believe a lot of the traditional manufacturing jobs are going to continue to be done elsewhere and [...]
Number of comments: 1 President Obama, bring our troops (citizens) home. What need -- or right -- does our nation have in having a military presence in over 100 countries around the globe? Iraq 140,000; Afghanistan 45,000; Germany 57,000; South Korea 27,000; Japan 32,000; Italy 10,000; Britain 9000; Bahrain 1500; and so on.
Number of comments: 0 Barack Obama has been in office now for about seven months. Not a bad start in my opinion. He came into office as we all know facing probably the most wide range of problems and mess that have ever been left over from a previous presidency.
Number of comments: 1 As President Obama pushes harder and harder to finally bring affordable health insurance to all Americans the fatcats who are making billions are pushing back equally as hard. Who will win the tug of war? I hope (and believe) that this time the winner will be health care that will [...]
Number of comments: 0 Physicians who test to see if a surgery is necessary and the physician who does the surgery must not continue to be the same person. There is TOO much conflict of interest in this situation.
Actually future health care will likely need to be a three step process with [...]
Number of comments: 0 The U.S. should invest $100 billion to provide 100Mbps wireless broadband internet access to ALL of our citizens. It would be the best investment since the Louisiana Purchase.
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Number of comments: 0 Health insurance companies must be eliminated. That alone will greatly decrease the cost of health care for Americans. Health care in America should be ran for the most part as a not-for-profit entity, a co-op if you will. A nationwide co-op that will be the single payer system that is [...]
Number of comments: 0 An international election verification organization should be formed. This organization, possibly a branch of the United Nations, would be comprised of citizens from nations all over the world. This organization would travel to the nations of the world when elections are held and would oversee and verify the voting process [...]
Number of comments: 0 A federal excise tax on candy water to help provide universal health care for America? That's a no brainer. Use the new revenue to pay for preventive care. The increase in the candy water price would also likely cause a decrease in obesity and diabetes.
Number of comments: 0 It's really hard to believe where some get the nerve to say some of the things about President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. This wonderful lady is obviously one of the most intelligent and inspiring persons in the history of the American justice system. I try not to be [...]
Number of comments: 0 Just saw an interesting documentary on PBS about Saudi Arabia. I couldn't help but wonder about what will happen to this nation when oil becomes $10 a barrel which I believe will happen within the next ten years.
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"Without Washington, Jefferson and Franklin perhaps America would have never been born, without Lincoln perhaps America would have disintegrated, without Roosevelt perhaps America would have been conquered, without Obama perhaps the greatness of America" [...]
Number of comments: 0 Never been a huge fan of this royal family thing the British do but I have to give a thumbs up to Prince Charles on this endeavor.
Number of comments: 0 Video clip from one of my favorite comedians, Bill Maher. And to my Republicans friends... it's just comedy. And by the way I don't consider myself a Democrat. When I cast my vote I'm voting for ideas, not for a particular party. The guy or lady with the ideas I' [...]
Number of comments: 0 It's time to end lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court. Twenty years should be plenty long enough. And while I'm on the Supreme Court it's also time to bring the court out of the dark and make all court cases available live online to the people who pay their salaries,' [...]
Number of comments: 0 A nation's greatness can't just be judged on how easy it is to become rich but also on how difficult it is to become poor. -- by Steve Everett on April 25th, 2009. [...]
Number of comments: 0 Within one or two generations breakthroughs in clean, renewable energy will make residential (and possibly commercial) electric bills obsolete.
The world now seems to be coming to its senses after the first 8 years of the 21st century filled with ignorant political leadership in the United States and many [...]
Number of comments: 0 The cars of the future are beginning to arrive... really arrive, as in legally allowable on American roads. The technology is just about there, price still needs to come down. This is a video of an electric version of the Mini Cooper, it's called the Mini E.
Number of comments: 0 The Mexican immigration problem for the United States will be best solved by helping Mexico build an economy rather than America building a wall on the border. -- by Steve Everett on April 16th, 2009.
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Number of comments: 0 The best way to avoid unwanted Middle East actions in America is for America to get out of the Middle East. If America can develop energy independence then there will no longer be any strategic reason for military bases anywhere in the Middle East.
Number of comments: 0 An economy without an effective regulatory system will function no better than a society without an effective legal system.
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Number of comments: 0 The first half of the 21st century should bring about a worldwide advancement in the way autos and homes are built. Cars should begin to be universally built to last decades instead of years and residential housing should begin to be universally built to last centuries instead of decades. Much [...]
Number of comments: 0 The American economy cannot get healthy and stay healthy if the global economy is sick... and vice versa. Like it or not, the national economies of the world are now and forever intertwined and that interconnection will only continue to grow.
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Number of comments: 0 I believe I'm correct in saying that America is the only nation in the world that allows its citizens to be forced in to bankruptcy due to an illness. How much longer are we as a nation going to allow this?
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Number of comments: 0 A Fiat, Chrysler merger... I like it. These are the kind of deals that MUST be made to lead to an American and world economic recovery.
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Number of comments: 1 A couple of weeks back the Dow Jones Industrial average fell to 6440.08. Since then it has had a double digit rise and is now over 7400. Was 6440 the all so often referred to bottom? I think it could have been.
Number of comments: 2 The following is a reply written to an area newspaper (Clarksville Leaf Chronicle) to a column they ran in yesterday's paper. ---------------------
The Leaf Chronicle published a feature column yesterday about a lady down in Franklin who was brewing teabags in some type of protest of President' [...]
Number of comments: 0 Wall Street and the Republican party, both entities sinking like a lead pipe. The dramatic fall of both has surprised a lot of people in America.
So just what went wrong? I think the dust is beginning to clear on how the economy got to where it is. Weak [...]
Number of comments: 0 If the Republican party wants to ever recover they will need to get rid of the McConnells and Boehners and find leadership who are independent thinkers such as Arnold Schwarzenegger to lead the party. I was hoping Obama was going to pick Arnold as his Secretary of State. I've got' [...]
Number of comments: 0 If Obama had of been the president the past 8 years I don't think we would be in the mess we're in now. Can he lead the way out of this mess the next 8 years? I don't know. Like a lot of problems, it would have been much easier' [...]
Number of comments: 0 As much as I believe Obama may prove to be one of America's most accomplished politicians I also believe that Reid and Pelosi are probably in the bottom 20% of majority leaders.
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Number of comments: 0 Just as I had suspected all along with all these diets fads... they're a bunch of bunk. Bottom line from the latest research is we will gain weight if we put more calories in than we burn up (link) or if you're like me and prefer just to watch [...]
Number of comments: 0 Within two years the American and global economy will begin a recovery and long lasting prosperity. However unless a global concerted effort is made to rid the world of dependence on oil then within 3 years the price of a barrel of oil could go over $200 and Americans will [...]
Number of comments: 0 Lobbying in Washington should not, and can not, be eliminated. It should however be updated. Anyone being paid to promote, or lobby, a position on behalf of someone else should be allowed to do so but their contact and discussions with any member of Congress or their staff should be [...]
Number of comments: 0 Obama perhaps has the potential to be as good as any politician in American history. But can he repair the damage done in the past 8 years? I'm not sure he can. I hope he can but at this time I believe that perhaps America's greatest days are behind us. [...]
Number of comments: 0 In what could be a day that will live in economic infamy in American history, President Obama encourages the Senate to pass the economic stimulus package. The stimulus, if passed, will be the largest and most comprehensive in American and world history. Senate Leader Harry Reid was quoted today saying [...]
Number of comments: 4 Bill disappointed me with some of his statements during the Democratic primary but I still believe he has one of the best and most needed minds on the planet. I hope Obama gets two terms in America and I also hope Barack and Bill can let bygones be bygones and [...]
Number of comments: 0 Nice to have a president that one actually sees from time to time. And as far as the stimulus. I say, if Bush can spend a TRILLION on Iraq then Obama can spend a trillion on AMERICA!
Number of comments: 0 Whoo, did I ever need a break. Last blog was a couple of days before November election. I had just spent literally 40 to 50 hours a week for about 14 months before that in support of Barack Obama to be the 44th president of the United States, most of [...]
Number of comments: 0 John McCain, there're two weeks to go in your campaign. Most don't think it likely that you have initiated the hate speech toward Senator Obama. Most don't think you have created the smears coming out of your party toward Senator Obama. But John, most also have been disappointed in your' [...]
Number of comments: 1 The biggest daily point gain in Dow Jones history was 936 points on October 13th, 2008 which was the first one day double digit percentage gain since 1933. Could a Barack Obama victory in the U.S. presidential election on November 4th lead to the first 1000 point daily gain in [...]
Number of comments: 0 Politico columnist Ben Smith wrote a column on Saturday titled "Racists for Obama?"
Allow me to start this from the beginning. What is a racist? The Oxford English dictionary description is (1)the belief that there are characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to each race. (2)discrimination against or antagonism [...]
Number of comments: 0 The Bush administration is winding down with about 100 days remaining. It's been one mistake after another for these guys. Seems just about every decision they made turned into a disaster. Seems as though just about anyone involved with them came across as failures. From the Brownie, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales,' [...]
Number of comments: 0 Most non-partisan political pundits now agree that the Bush administration is the worst in modern American history, some say ever. Many were saying that even before the financial meltdown in recent weeks.
Could the meltdown have been prevented? Many economists say if action had of been taken as recently [...]
Number of comments: 1 Election day is nearing. A new American president will soon be unpacking at 1600 Pennsylvania. Will a new American administration be enough for the global community to forgive America?
Forgive America for starting a war that the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan says is illegal?
Number of comments: 0 October 15th, 2007 the Dow Jones industrial average rose to 14,118.52. October 10th, 2008 the Dow Jones dropped to 7882.51. For the sake of simplicity lets just say it went from 14,000 to 8,000 in a year. By October 2009 could the DJI once again rise back to 14,000?
Number of comments: 0 Thanks to all subscribers and your donations. I'm moving my blog once more and hopefully this will be THE site for a LONG, long time. Started blogging a couple or so years ago at JustAThoughtThatsAll.com, then moved to SteveEverettRandomThoughts.com. The new site is SteveEverettBlog.com. Simple and to the [...]
Number of comments: 4 The latest Gallop Poll shows the current president of the United States, George W. Bush, has the worst approval/disapproval margin since polling began in the 1930's and his current approval rating is 25%.
Astonishing isn't it. But when I say astonishing for me it is [...]
Number of comments: 1 (Disclaimer. Blog writer supports Obama.)
For Illinois Senator Barack Obama, and those endorsing and supporting him to be the next president of the United States, it's been a long and winding road to paraphrase a great song by a great band.
Number of comments: 0 Has the John McCain VP gamble just lost its last chip? McCain's poll numbers have been dropping daily for almost two weeks. He's appeared angry in many recent interviews. He's pulling his campaign operations out of Michigan. His seemingly one last hope was the vice presidential debate.
Are the bin Laden attacks on America now reaching their summit as our nation's economy plummets?
It's been more than 7 years since Osama bin Laden sent his crew to fly a few planes into American landmarks murdering thousands. Was that bin Laden's primary goal? To knock down a [...]
My oh my, so much to be gloomy about in America these days. A Wall Street bailout that THEY tell us is to protect the little guys. A war in Iraq over 5 years old that has cost the American taxpayers about $700 billion so far and some say could [...]
I wasn't blogging at the time so I have no proof but when George Bush was inaugurated in January 2001 after listening to his defiant and threatening inauguration speech the first thought that popped in my head was, oh no, another Bush, another war.
Number of comments: 1 Following the Republican convention Senator John McCain enjoyed as much as a 10 point lead in national presidential polls. On Wednesday the latest 4 presidential polls had the race for the White House back to dead even. Why has the momentum now seemingly gone back to the Obama campaign?
Number of comments: 0 Alaska governor Sarah Palin appeared to have a blissful and romantic political honeymoon last week with the base of the Republican party. But the week has now ended -- and the honeymoon is over. Now what?
She seemed to have made it through the honeymoon without any major fights [...]
Number of comments: 0 Let's play "Find the Quote!" Here are a few quotes that are in today's videos. Did you hear them in the video? If not you didn't listen closely :-)
Number of comments: 0 Oh my. The adrenalin has slowed. The dust has settled. And just what was the result of Alaska governor Sarah Palin's speech last night at the Republican convention. The numbers are in. $10 MILLION IN DONATIONS!!! Yippi, the Republican base came through right. They must be ecstatic at what Scandal-a-day-Sarah [...]
Number of comments: 0 Political pundits from the left AND THE RIGHT across the nation continue to be befuddled by the choice of an unknown Alaskan governor being John McCain's pick as his vice presidential candidate. Republican pundit Peggy Noonan said yesterday "it's over".
Many reports initially stated that it was apparent [...]
Number of comments: 0 This blog doesn't really need a lot of commentary. The video really says it all. But I won't be too lazy with it.
Joe Lieberman lost his Senate Democratic primary in 2006. Did Joe bow out gracefully? No. He started his own party called Connecticut for Lieberman and finagled [...]
Number of comments: 0 Why, why Senator McCain must you entangle the fact that you were a P.O.W. into almost every question that is asked to you?
Yes, you served your country honorably. Yes, you went through a horrible situation and endured unthinkable suffering. But you didn't do that in order to help [...]
It's been almost 7 years ago that Osama Bin Laden gave the signal to his troops to hijack and pilot planes into American landmarks killing thousands of innocent people.
Has Bin Laden been arrested? No. Will he be apprehended before the Cheney and Bush folks leave office? Doesn't seem likely. [...]
With the state of the nation today one can't help but look back and reflect from time to time how things could have been different. How things would be today if the Federal Supreme Court had not overruled the Florida Supreme Court and Al Gore had of been the presiding' [...]
More professionals in the health care field. More doctors, more nurses, more hospitals, just more people trained and working in the field of health care. This will provide more Americans with quality jobs and also will bring down the cost of health care due to the oldest law in economics, [...]
Number of comments: 1 I believe withing the next decade or so a strong push will occur for a much stronger international justice system and a much more comprehensive creation of international laws.
Technology is connecting the world, bringing us all much closer together, if not geographically we are closer together as far [...]
Number of comments: 1 The Walter Reed disgrace shown a spotlight on the facts that the current administration is much more gung-ho on sending young Americans in to battle than they are about caring for them when they return home wounded.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has a different view. He says " [...]
Number of comments: 0 Most of us in America really can't comprehend what the everyday citizens in Iraq have gone through since 2003 when draft dodgers King George and Prince Cheney ordered the beginning of Operation Iraqi Destruction and Operation Iraqi Free Money.
Number of comments: 0 Concerning the ongoing investigation of the Office of the Inspector General McKay was quoted yesterday in the Spokane Spokesman Review as saying, “My best guess is it will be released sometime next month,’’ and likely will include recommendations for criminal prosecutions of Gonzales and maybe others." McKay was interviewed [...]
Number of comments: 0 Ran across another Dean Martin video on youtube, 1956, That's Amore. They just don't writer 'em or sing 'em like this anymore, and that's sad.
I think Carter is almost certainly right on this one but I do disagree with a statement he made later in the interview in which he said charges probably shouldn't be brought. Was he just being politically correct or is that how he really felt? I'm not sure [...]
Number of comments: 0 New York City will never again be quite the same with the recent passing of who many called the first lady of the city, 105 year old Brooke Astor. Astor spent the last several decades of her life dedicated to philanthropy giving away tens of millions of dollars throughout the [...]
Number of comments: 0 Do you want to know why this Dick Cheney-George Bush/Iraq war was started. Just take a look at who has benefited the most financially and you will get your answer. I'll give you a few clues to get your research started, Exxon Mobile and other oil companies, Haliburton and their [...]
Number of comments: 0 I know, I know, hindsight is 20-20 but wouldn't it have been a much better idea instead of the Iraq war to have just put George Bush and Saddam Hussein in a boxing ring and let them go head to head in a pay-per-view match?
I'm pulling for Chicago but I'm predicting Rio. The Olympics have never been hosted in South America. It's time.
The U.S. should invest $100 billion to provide 100Mbps wireless broadband internet access to ALL of our citizens. It would be the best investment since the Louisiana Purchase.
Just saw an interesting 
Never been a huge fan of this royal family thing the British do but I have to give a thumbs up to Prince Charles on this endeavor.
A nation's greatness can't just be judged on how easy it is to become rich but also on how difficult it is to become poor. -- by Steve Everett on April 25th, 2009.
The Mexican immigration problem for the United States will be best solved by helping Mexico build an economy rather than America building a wall on the border. -- by Steve Everett on April 16th, 2009.
I've got to give this a try someday.
Officially there are only about 5 ballerinas in the world.
An economy without an effective regulatory system will function no better than a society without an effective legal system.
The American economy cannot get healthy and stay healthy if the global economy is sick... and vice versa. Like it or not, the national economies of the world are now and forever intertwined and that interconnection will only continue to grow.
The way the health insurance industry in America is ran now would make any mafia boss very proud... very proud indeed.
I believe I'm correct in saying that America is the only nation in the world that allows its citizens to be forced in to bankruptcy due to an illness. How much longer are we as a nation going to allow this?
Obama isn't doing as well as I thought he would... he's doing BETTER.
A Fiat, Chrysler merger... I like it. These are the kind of deals that MUST be made to lead to an American and world economic recovery.
The auto industry doesn't need a bailout they need a makeover.
After that previous post I thought I should get something on here a bit on the lighter side.
The latest Gallop Poll shows the current president of the United States, George W. Bush, has the worst approval/disapproval margin since polling began in the 1930's and his current approval rating is 25%.
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