Pulled this gem off of yahoo! News: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070117/wl_csm/ohappiness According to the article, England's new aim is to make it's people happy. According to polls (I think "poll" is quickly becoming my most detested four letter word), only 36 percent of people are happy now, vs 57 percent in 1957. Say WHAT? OK, here's a clue for you, you crusty limey politicians. Happiness is not the government's responsibility, nor is it an attainable goal. Happiness is an int...
This morning, in a not unusually pensive mood, I was mulling over Barak Obama's impending presidential candidacy and what it would mean for the aspirations not only of his for presidency, but of Hillary Clinton's. As I considered the possibilities, it struck me as ironic that basically two different camps of political correctness would effectively be doing battle here: eg, the feminist movement vs. the Civil Rights movement. My mind started reaching for analogies that I could fit inside an artic...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243200,00.html In the 2008 GOP primaries, voters may have a name on the ballot that they recognize from 20 years ago. Ron Paul, a 9 term lawmaker from Texas, ran as the LP candidate for president in 1988 and received over 400,000 votes. Paul, who has stayed true to his Libertarian roots in his role as a US Congressman, never lost the attention or loyalty of the party he has served so faithfully as a member of the Republican Liberty Caucus in the year...
I am sick of liberals. I am sick of conservatives. I am sick of the people who play politics with the lives of others because of the innocents who get caught in the middle. The US base in Guantanamo Bay is just one example. Many conservatives would demand that everyone held there is guilty and should be held indefinitely without the benefit of legal counsel, without the benefit of a trial. Many liberals would demand that these people are necessarily innocent and should be released (and, ...
This is one of those articles where, to get to where we're going, we've got to go back to where we've been. So bear with me...I do have a point and I'll get to it posthaste. The year was 1988, and NHL hockey was a no show on American television sets. The Los Angeles Kings made a deal to bring Gretzky to the City of Angels that was then considered on the border of insane. But it worked. Gretzky became a superstar, and despite a recent strike that was met with an overwhelming amount of apathy, ...
As the debate goes on about how to deal with poverty, I am inclined to think that the US government bears a major share of the blame for its continuance. The most I have ever earned in a single year, as of December 2006 was $42,000. That was part of a three year stretch where I made over $100K. But I worked long hours for that (In the $42,000 year, for instance, I figured I put in about 350 working days), and I paid the price. The majority of my working career has been in the $20-30k range, u...
In the wake of Saddam Hussein and the villainization of myself and others on this blogsite by certain pseudoliberals (I cannot call them liberals; they are inconsistent in their belief and thought and real liberals do not deserve the stain these people who profess to be liberals put on the name. They are no more liberals than the KKK are Christians), it has been stated that my words, my opinions, are equivalent to the actions of one Mr. Saddam Hussein. The implication is clear: either I should h...
The move to make a folk hero out of Saddam Hussein has begun in earnest. And it's almost certain to divide the left, as most rational, reasonable liberals want nothing to do with the movement. But that doesn't change the fact that there are still those among the liberal camp who are making a hero out of a mass murderer. But they're not using the direct approach, but rather the indirect approach of demanding that those who would refuse Hussein all of the creature comforts of an innocent man ar...
Wilhelm Frick 3 sons 2 daughters from 2 marriages Minister of the Interior Third Reich Hans Frank 5 children Governor-General of the General Government for the Polish Territories. Oversaw the segregation of Jews into ghettos. Ernst Kaltenbrunner 1 son Leader of the Austrian SS. It is said that even Heinrich Himmler feared him. Alfred Rosenberg 2 children, 1 surviving. Head of the Reich Ministry for Occupied Eastern Territories. Fritz ...
I have been online pretty consistently for ten years now. Previously I had dabbled in computers, but only dabbled. Since March of 1997, and my 166 MhZ Acer Aspire, I have been online consistently and dealt with just about every operating system Windows has put out. Some years back I played with the idea of Linux, got a copy of Red Hat Linux and was not able to install it properly. I know what the problems were now, but with nobody to guide me I ditched the idea of Linux. Windows was easier, a...
My longtime readers will remember the birth of our only son (after four girls), back in 2004, right before things started to get a little hectic and lead us down a rather new and different path. Well, hard as it is to believe, two and a half years have passed since his birth, and I'm finding myself with a daughter a scant year and a half from being officially a teenager, and a son quickly transitioning from toddler to preschooler. Quinn is, as have been most of our children, quite a precociou...
You've seen it many times before: people who act like incredible asshats, and, when confronted with their behaviour, demand they were "only joking" and act as if the target of their venom owes THEM an apology for not laughing along with them. I've never had much use for such people, and take their defense for what it is: the attempts of angry, venomous people to rationalize their actions by passing incredible nastiness off as some misunderstood joke. Now, to be sure, there are some people ...
OK, it's been far too long since my last celebrity points whoring article. Time to pounce back on the bandwagon. Besides, it's 4:30 AM and I don't have a PC repair job in the queue. In a move that was as far from the wisdom of Solomon, Brittney Spears and her ex husband (OK, I hate abbreviating his name...but as few letters spent renaming this backup singer turned high profile gold digger as possible, the better) are going to share custody of their two children. I'm thinking having a...
Talk about flashbacks. In a flashback worthy of the most intense acid trip ever, I am reliving 1994. Remember then? The year of the Contract with America? The year when the GOP promised sweeping reforms that would lead to a balanced budget and reduced deficit? The year that would prompt Bill Clinton two years later in his reelection campaign to declare the era of big government to be over? Well, guess what? This year's the year the DNC is promising to reform government in new and innovativ...
I caught the yahoo news article on Oprah Winfrey's academy for girls in South Africa. The $40 million project is viewed by many critics as a personal vanity project for Ms. Winfrey. And it is quite definitely possible that it is just that. My question is, since when did that become a bad thing? One of the worst conditions that many people seem to attach to charity is the condition that it be anonymous, the condition that it be done solely out of the goodness of one's own heart with no thou...