I occasionally need a reminder about how great it is to live in America.
In Dubai this past summer, Alexandre Robert, a French 15-year-old, was kidnapped and raped by four men, three of which were Emirati and two of those were former convicts. After being threatened with knives he was driven to a dark area [...]
Here is an example of why we will never be able to work out peaceful resolutions in the Middle East. We just don’t think the same way about things.
Take the case of Gillian Gibbons, an English teacher working in Sudan. She was working on a project with her 7-year-old students that focused on animals. [...]
A small company based in Brooklyn, of all places, has teamed with some production partners in China and has introduced the Linux based miShare. Designed to copy files (songs) from one iPod to another in as little as 10 seconds per song, the miShare works at the push of its single button.
The miShare has been [...]
The common man has know for almost two terms just how contemptible the White House and its denizens really are. But it appears as if the Senate might be poised to make it official.
The Senate Judiciary Committee and it’s chairman Patrick Leahy declared that certain members (both past and present) must begin to comply [...]
It looks like the RIAA is losing favor with at least one of its corporate sponsors. Recently EMI was purchased by the private equity firm Terra Firma and the new owners are finalizing plans to reduce its financial help to both the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the International Federation of the [...]
Google has introduced a new feature on its mobile versions of Google Maps. It’s called My Location and it uses triangulation between cell towers to ‘pinpoint’ your location within 2200 meters.
I downloaded the beta version this morning and can verify that although it’s not really that accurate, it does work. My Location puts me [...]
One of the biggest issues in the Blackwater case has to do with accountability. Can Blackwater and it’s homicidal employees be held accountable for the atrocities committed in Iraq.
There is a large debate going on right now as the U.S. Justice Department tussles with the basic issue of if and how we [...]
Many, many years ago I used a fantabulous site called The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software, much better known as TUCOWS. It was a repository of software that was at first Internet-centric, then slowly it became the destination for shareware, freeware and demo software. At it’s height of popularity it hosted in [...]
A Federal grand Jury has started taking testimony this week in a civil suit against Blackwater. The suit has been filed by family members of some of the 17 civilians brutally murdered in Nisoor Square this past September 16th.
Kenneth Kohl and Stephen Ponticiello, Justice Department national security prosecutors, both of whom are handling the [...]
The Blackwater issue keeps getting more and more convoluted. They seem to be involved in more than one controversy in Washington. Let’s see if I can remember all of the individual issues.
Illegally smuggling silencers into Iraq.
The murder of three state-funded Iraqi Media Network guards by Blackwater sniper fire.
The death of 14 civilians in Nisoor [...]
I’m sorry that I haven’t posted this past week. We spent most of our time in Conway, S.C. and I didn’t have easy Internet access most of the time. But I’m back now and will post a couple of pics from the trip in the next day or so.
I hope everyone had a safe and [...]
While appearing at a speaking engagement at the University of Florida, Alberto “I Don’t Recall” Gonzales was warmly welcomes by almost 730 students and community members. Chanting the words “criminal” and “liar” during his speech, the members of the audience let ‘Berto know just how close he was to their hearts.
Former AG Gonzales Speaks at [...]
With the Iowa Primary Election only 54 some odd days away the leading Democratic candidates have started taking pot-shots at each other regarding the issue of experience. If you want my opinion, neither one of them should be criticizing the other on that particular count. Neither of them has any more ’real’ experience than the [...]
I enjoy checking out some of the deal-a-day sites each morning and aggregating some of the better deals in my Daily Internet Bargains segment. For the most part (but not in every case) I have purchased at least one thing from the sites that I list and have been happy with the experience.
Today I’m posting [...]
2 months and 2 days after Alberto “I Don’t Recall” Gonzales escaped from the train wreck that is the Bush administration, another top level adviser is quitting. Fran Townsend, terrorist adviser, is stepping down after 4 1/2 years in the role.
Continuing the exodus, Townsend joins Karl Rove, Tony Snow and Dan Bartlett in [...]
