Archive for August, 2005
Posted in August 31st, 2005
There’s two kinds of looting going on in New Orleans. Anyone stealing food and water and supples to stay alive is totally understandable. But there’s just a lot of stealing property that is just pure theivery.
I don’t know if it was just not in the news but I don’t remember hearing reports of this kind […]
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Posted in August 31st, 2005
Letter to the Editor
Normally we would have a national guard to come in and deal with natural disasters like the hurricane in New Orleans. Thousands of people are likely to die for lack of resources to evacuate people and bring in emergency aid. But we don’t have a national guard in our own country […]
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Posted in August 31st, 2005
Letter to the Editor
A few months ago I was driving behind a very large SUV that had a bumper sticker that said, “I’m changing your environment.” From what I see with all the hurricanes I know exactly what that person is talking about.
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Posted in August 28th, 2005
Better fill up now because in a few days gas is going to be a lot higher than it is now - if you can get it.
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Posted in August 28th, 2005
New Orleans is a disaster waiting to happen and this hurricane is probably going to demonstrate why that is. New Orleans is 15 feet below sea level, on the coast surrounded by water on 3 sides. With the right storm surge conditions it could instantly fill with water in a way that the dikes that […]
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Posted in August 28th, 2005
Letter to the Editor
Whether or not you agree with the Iraq conflict Cindy Sheehan is asking an important question that should be answered. She is asking what the noble cause is that her son died for.
If Americans are being asked to give the lives of their sons and daughters, their wives and husbands, and their […]
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Posted in August 23rd, 2005
Letter to the Editor
After listening to Pat Robertson openly advocating assassination I’m not sure who scares me more, him, or the one million Christian followers he has that think the way he does. This is why we Realists find Christians scary. We are watching to see if the Christian community comes out against this or […]
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Posted in August 23rd, 2005
Letter to the Editor
TV evangelist Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition and the 700 Club, is calling for Bush to assassinate democratically elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stating, “You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to […]
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Posted in August 22nd, 2005
Here’s an exchange between President Clinton and Peter Jennings From November of 2004 at the opening of the Clinton presidential library. A little something I found amusing.
JENNINGS (Discussing rankings by presidential historians]: They gave you a forty-first in terms of moral authority - after Nixon.
CLINTON: They’re wrong about that. You know why they’re wrong about […]
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Posted in August 17th, 2005
Letter to the Editor
There are a lot of headlines like “Bot Attacks U.S. Media Giants” as if the computer worm were targeted at them. But my question is - where were their system administrators? The news agencies reported the vulnerability a week ago. Then they reported that a worm was in development. Then they reported […]
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Posted in August 6th, 2005
Letter to the Editor
Sixty years ago was one of the darkest days in the history of the human race. It was then that America exploded an atomic weapon over Hiroshima and a few days later Nagasaki killing 300,000 civilians. At the time some scientists worried that exploding an atomic weapon might ignite the atmosphere turning […]
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Posted in August 4th, 2005
Open Letter to the Muslim Community,
We, the People of the United States ask that you not vent your anger on us citizens for the acts George Bush. Our ballots are rigged and our elections are fixed. We no longer have a free press. We used to be a democracy but like you, we are […]
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Posted in August 3rd, 2005
Letter to the Editor
Rafael Palmeiro is now suspended from Baseball because he tested positive for steroids use after swearing that he never, never. never takes steroids. Even after steroids were found in his body he still denies taking steroids. President Bush says Palmeiro is “a friend” and said, “He’s testified in public, and I believe […]
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Posted in August 3rd, 2005
Letter to the Editor
Bush said that schools should teach the so called Intelligent Design theory in schools. Intelligent Design merely states that life is complex and had to be designed by “someone”, and stops there. But when you ask who the designer is, they don’t want to talk about that, because all of a sudden […]
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