Monthly Archives: November 2007

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

One Screen View of Global Incidents

This is really an interesting resource: a map showing all terrorist and suspicious incidents around the world updated every 360 seconds. Check it out : http://www.globalincidentmap.com/home.php tips to Marty Carter

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Soldier Dogs

from http://www.opinionjournal.com/ 11/13/07 There’s a new lease on life for the dogs of war: For Veteran’s day, SPCA International kicked off a program to repatriate the Iraqi pets that have become adored companions of American troops serving in Iraq. Inspiring

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The Founder of the Weather Channel Comments on Global Warming

John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel comments: “I do not oppose environmentalism. I do not oppose the political positions of either party. However, Global Warming, i.e. Climate Change, is not about environmentalism or politics. It is not a

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Dumb Laws

Another great site for eclectic isomniacs- Dumblaws at http://www.dumblaws.com/ a few samples: in Georgia: All sex toys are bannedIt is illegal to use profanity in front of a dead body which lies in a funeral home or in a coroners

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What’s In A Zip Code?

What can your zip code tell you? A lot- check it out at http://zipskinny.com/

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A Choice for Taxpayers

from the OpinionJournal.comGive Tax Filers the Freedom to Choose Voters want change, but Republicans seem bereft of new ideas. That’s why a tax restructuring proposal by Reps. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Jeb Hensarling of Texas suddenly seems to be

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These Writers Are Not On Strike

Staged on ABCNewswriter fill-in for the Hollywood strikers.By Michelle Malkin On Monday, the local Fox affiliate in Birmingham, Ala., blew the whistle on an ABC News sting operation intended to elicit bigoted responses from local residents. The national ABC News

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Palestinians Seek Israeli Citizenship

Last update – 16:20 07/11/2007Israel reports jump in Jerusalem Arabs seeking Israeli citizenshipBy The Associated Press The number of East Jerusalem residents seeking Israeli citizenship has risen sharply in recent months, an Israeli official said Wednesday, as talk of a

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DOG !

Didn’t I see Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman in a GEICO ad?

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Randoms Part I

A third of Tiawanese funeral processions include a stripper. The face of a penny can hold thirty drops of water. Edgar Allen Poe and Timothy Leary were both kicked out of West Point. Reindeer like to eat bananas. I must

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Fashion Confusion

My Wife (The Domestic Goddess) has relentlessly commented on the out-of-fashion state of my favorite jeans; the 10 year old Eddie Bauers that I am addicted to. So I went to Nordstroms at Phipps in Atlanta to update my jeans

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Small Business Theft

In the last week I must have heard three stories about small business people robbed by people who worked for them. Over the years I have heard this story a dozen times. I am not referring to stealing merchandise, this

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Strange Bedfellows

From OpinionJournal.com Move over, Bill Clinton. Ron Paul may be our first libertarian “black” presidential candidate (not counting Alan Keyes, who is black without the quotation marks). Recent polls show the Texas Congressman beating the entire GOP field in his

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Economic Incentive for Peace in Israel

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a special advisor to the CIA and other ogananizations, and is a noted accurate predictor of political trends, chairman of New York University’s Department of Poltics, and a recent author. In a recent article he

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Uninformed and Misinformed

Not the NewsThe elite media’s coverage of Iraq is a fiasco. By Clifford D. May Mark Twain famously said “if you don’t read the newspapers you are uninformed — if you do read the newspapers you are misinformed.” Today, those

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