Chronic pain and depression perpetuate one another, good article from Harvard Mental Health Letter

(This article was first printed in the September 2004 issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter. [...]

“If at first you don’t succeed,” a poem on failure by Unknown….

Failure doesn’t mean – “You are a failure,”
It means – You have not succeeded.
Failure [...]

Quote of the Day: “Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.” –Lilly Calandrello

“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.”
–Lilly Calandrello

Donnell Century Farm in Spring Creek, Madison County, Tennessee has local, hormone-free beef in West Tennessee

If you live in West Tennessee and would like to try locally raised, hormone-free angus beef, I suggest you contact the Donnell Century Farm, located in the Spring Creek Community of Madison County, near Jackson, Tennessee by clicking or calling the numbers below, or visit their booth at the Jackson, TN West Tennessee Farmers Market:
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Register to Vote by October 6!!! You Can Register to vote here! It’s easy, try it, you’ll be glad you did.

PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK TO GET REGISTERED TO VOTE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION :
http://www.vote411.org/bystate.php
click here for Tennessee-specific voter registration and election info.
FIND YOUR POLLING PLACE, click here!!!!!!!!!

OCTOBER 6 is the TN Deadline for registering to vote in the upcoming Presidential Election!!!!!!
THANK YOU FOR CARING ABOUT YOUR COUNTRY.

At the poll, voters can show any ID with [...]

Federal Reserve and Treasury ask Congress for permission to buy $700 BILLION in bad loans to “avoid recession…”

Great idea, increase the American taxpayer’s already daunting burden with the purchase of $700 BILLION in bad debt….I gues that will somehow save some companies, but I don’t see how it can possibly help joe public keep his house form being foreclosed on or get a raise.  Scary.  Read Washington Post article about this here.

Read world-renowned Harvard economist, Greg Mankiw’s take on the AIG bailout, here.

World-renowned Harvard Economist, Greg Mankiw, had the following to say about US Taxpayers bailing out international banks and insurance companies on Monday: (see his post in its original format by clicking here.)
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More Capital for the Financial System
Doug Elmendorf and Paul Krugman seem to agree that the government should be putting capital into banks and other [...]

Securities and Exchange Commission list of Non-short-sellable stocks grew to nearly 900 Friday, including Ford and Chevrolet…the crisis is already worse than anyone is admitting.

The following is from the 23 September New York Times, written by Michael J. De La Merced:
“….The list of companies that regulators are protecting from short-sellers keeps growing, as do the questions surrounding it.
By Monday evening, the number of companies on the list rose to nearly 900, from 799 on Friday, when the Securities and [...]

Re-reading the Gettysburg Address with today’s world in mind…

The Gettysburg Address, by Abraham Lincoln
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, [...]

U.S. Central Bank commits US taxpayers to foot 100% of $85 billion AIG bailout, despite the company’s INTERNATIONAL existance and importance (read-bailed out at behest of foreign central banks with only US tax payer money!!??)

Click here to read a Great Opinion Piece  (‘The fleecing of America’) concerning America’s new, diminished role as a pauper nation amongst the world’s new “wealth centers” in China, India, Brazil and the Persian Gulf States and about the lack of foreign investment support in helping to save the international conglomerate AIG (billions in U.S. [...]