The Knoxville Sentinel ran a piece that offloaded some stats on job listings. Acc. to that article...healthcare and social assistance looking to fill 1324 positions; retail, 1132; admin support, waste mngmnt, and remediation services, 1223; professional, scientific, and technical services: 947; data according to Knoxville Chamber of Commerce; accomodation and food services, 679; manufacturing 571; educational services, 346; finance and insurance, 304; construction, 296; wholesale trade, 249. The article said the Knoxville economy is strong right now, job postings up 12.4%, low unemployment rates, growing population, many new businesses!
Okay, hmmmmm, I guess an example might be
How about, how someone started a saying that stuck around, not all who wander are lost.
He didn't say much. According to him, "My butthole smells like a mausoleum." That was it. I'm re-reading Perry's "World War I: The West in Despair".
Why. Ok. While there may be some hysteria in regards eclipses, there are differences between Europe and the United States. People seem to want to blame war and such on political party and other group names. So I was reading a Brittanica and realizing there's a big diff between countries with royalty making decisions about territories, and, the United States being separate and united.
I think if we don't maintain awareness of how America is different, even amongst allies, we might assume that our Europee-an-us is our inheritance and so we, too, might be doomed to the same problems.
Cha, happily reading, then work.
"Committed to enhancing national power, statesmen lost sight of Europe as a community of nations sharing a common civilization." --Marvin Perry
This is a cool social studies book! It's about asking questions, like:. Why do nations go to war? And gathering evidence to answer such "essential questions". And I found a definition for belligerent as one party of war.
In Perry's book a young German writer, writing in 1912, wrote:
"If only there were a war, even an unjust one. This piece is so rotten" (474).
What could be rotten about peace?
Could he maybe be referring to the economy? Is the economy only a war?
Perry himself at one point in one paragraph blames WWI on "blundering statesmen" who "allowed" the Continent to stumble into war. But he also points out some other factors that influenced all the people getting into a war.
I remember the "swine flu" and people receiving stimulus money and then people fighting about how the aid was spent. One morning a quiet lady sternly scrumpled up her folded table napkin. Down the table the conversation had turned to how people had spent whatever money they'd had. It just fell into taking turns speaking. All the lady said, was "sensibly".
We were young and learning was gleaning and not getting bits and pieces of the world.
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