I seem to remember reading, long ago, another organization of pirates attempted to blackmail nations by controlling passage through and around their territory. It led to armed conflict with many deaths.
What I most wonder, now, with all this technology, all these advances, all this ‘growth’, why are criminal thugs still such a threat in the [...]
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Why isn’t someone crushing the Somali pirates?
Posted in Policy-making, Pop Culture, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, politics, rant, tagged Piracy, Pirates, Somalia on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Home Depot fires employee for wearing religious patriotic pin.
Posted in Pop Culture, Religious Extremism, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, politics, rant, tagged Discrimination, Home Depot, Patriotism, religion, Trevor Keezor on October 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Home Depot has fired Florida employee Trevor Keezor for ‘violating the dress code’. Specifically, he wore a pin on his uniform that had “One nation under God, indivisible.” on it.
Keezor claims he was wearing the pin for over a year without incident. Home Depot chose to fire Keezor, suspiciously, after he began bringing his Bible [...]
The still-business-friendly truth behind Obama’s climate bill.
Posted in Policy-making, Pop Culture, Scams, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, politics, rant, tagged Climate reform, Obama on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Barack Obama wants people to believe he’s not a yes-man to big business. He’ll tout his words. He has to tout his words, because, in the big picture, he hasn’t *DONE* much. He’s claimed much, but the legwork, planning, and execution almost entirely falls on other people.
But, he can’t even talk his way out of [...]
Awards for nothing.
Posted in Humor, Pop Culture, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, politics, rant, tagged Awards on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Barack Obama, commander-in-chief during a multi-country war, wins a Nobel prize for “peace”, while making decisions that will ultimately bring our nation further into a war posture.
Now, the wife of Japan’s Prime Minister is given an award for looking good in a pair of jeans. Well, at least she actually wore the jeans, and apparently [...]
Voters display clear lack of support for health care reform.
Posted in Policy-making, Pop Culture, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, politics, rant, tagged Health Care Reform, Health Reform on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Cocoa, Florida, there was a public forum on health reform at the Cocoa BCC (Brevard Community College) campus. The opinions of many in attendance were against the bills making their way through Congress. And, unlike the Obama administration and bill authors and supporters would like us to believe, very little if any of that [...]
What is so wrong with reform school?
Posted in Policy-making, Pop Culture, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, politics, rant, tagged Delaware, Justice, Reform School, school board, Suspension, Weapons, Weapons In School, Zachary Christie on October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A Delaware boy, Zachary Christie (age 6), thought it would be “okay” to bring a weapon to school. It is *NOT* okay to bring a knife or any other weapon to school. He was given what some may call a “harsh” punishment. Suspended for 45 days, and ordered to spend those 45 days in a [...]