Derek
Odessa Cops Get Busted with Hands in Illegality Jar…
Awesome. From an article at Reason Online.
Once again Derek would rather live in Thailand than almost anywhere else on earth
“Thailand’s constitutional court on Tuesday disbanded the ruling People Power Party (PPP) and two of its coalition partners for electoral fraud. The parties’ leaders, including Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, have been banned from politics for five years. The announcement came hours after an antigovernment protester was killed at a Bangkok airport.” http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1202/p99s01-duts.html Imagine if this [...]
Ron Paul might be second in Louisiana
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i2YCtBg15ovSmHo1y23Qc4oc_cdQ “WASHINGTON (AFP) — Senator John McCain has won the Republican party’s caucuses in Louisiana while longshot candidate Ron Paul took second place, the state party said Wednesday, citing preliminary results.”
Derek Questions Signing a Loyalty Oath – Part 1
After living in Austin, Texas for the last three years I’ve now returned to Los Angeles, a favorite city of mine, for work and higher education. I’m a big fan of the diversity and opportunities here as well as the pedestrian culture in my neighborhood. And having the beach breeze and mild weather doesn’t hurt [...]
A Little Light Reading While I’m Away…
“Thus Spoke Zarathustra” – Friedrich Nietzche Part I, Chapter 11 – The New Idol Somewhere there are still peoples and herds, but not with us, my brothers: here there are states. A state? What is that? Well! open now your ears to me, for now I will speak to you about the death of peoples. [...]
So what Exactly in this Article Indicates a Threat to that Bridge?
Men held in Michigan suspected of plan to attack Mackinac Bridge. Federal authorities helped with the investigation into a possible terror threat to the Mackinac Bridge. The FBI office in Detroit worked with local law enforcement authorities before the police arrested three men in Caro on Friday. Officers found about 1,000 pre-paid cell phones in [...]
George Galloway Takes Sky News to Task
Well, I had planned to embed the video for you to point and click, but WordPress apparently doesn’t like leaving my HTML alone… So anyway, here’s the link to this video. Hyperbolic? Sure. Entertaining? You bet’cha!
Biometric Devices in Airports to Measure Exactly How Pissed I Am About Living in Police State
From the pages of the WSJ… “Which Travelers Have ‘Hostile Intent’? Biometric Device May Have the AnswerAt airport security checkpoints in Knoxville, Tenn. this summer, scores of departing passengers were chosen to step behind a curtain, sit in a metallic oval booth and don headphones. With one hand inserted into a sensor that monitors physical [...]
Lebanon’s Descent into Hell
A friend in the Army passed me this post from MENAFN.com, which is an event in and of itself. There was a time he and I didn’t speak for over a year because he had yet to open his eyes past the blind patriotism he’d been taught. I am extremely proud of him for finally [...]
Not content with leaving all the children behind, the state eyes universities…
From The Raw Story and to be published in the NYT today: “Its report calls for standardized tests to measure student learning, along with federal monitoring of colleges’ quality.” “Several higher education groups have criticized it for focusing on workforce skills and employability to the exclusion of academic goals and the education of students as [...]
Beirut before and after…
War is just out and out sad.
Are we really at the point now that ‘govenment minders’ exist?
This makes me sick. Where do we live now? Friggin’ North Korea, Myanmar…? MORGAN CITY, La.
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