I hope you find this list food for thought … but then again, maybe not … anyway, have fun with reading any of these articles and as usual, you are welcome to tell me how wayward I am and why … I really am interested in the whys, so you can add your comments here or on my Facebook page
Note: Each block of text actually is a link to a story or a web page that I am commenting on. Click on that text and it will take to the page being referred to.
Beautiful ... but I didn't leave my wallet poolside, so I ain't going.
This story is disturbing ... in the sense Stanley Kubrick's 1971 movie "A Clockwork Orange" is disturbing. And it may be a sign of the telecommunications revolution blurring things into one world view, but it just seems this is happening all too often.
This is one perceived reality ... and in our world today, perception often is the only reality certain people will entertain. Still, it makes a point that I find extremely worrisome ... and that is the official slicing and dicing Americans along racial lines by our government. If nothing else, the government should be the most colorblind.
On this issue, I disagree with Sen. Cruz rather vehemently ... I realize that the Supreme Court has taken to injecting itself into disputes political more often than it should and seems to have based its decisions of late less on what the Constitution actually says (especially when it is mute) and injecting what various justices think it should say, but that does not mean the Court itself should become politicized by elections.
Iran Deal: Interesting analysis on how the Senate has changed over the years ... and just touches on the differences between 2010 and 2015.
New Planet - When you think about it, it seems like: Well, what else would you expect in a galaxy and universe that is large as the one we live in. And then again, it is amazing the amount of information astronomers and astrophysicists infer from from minute changes in light from light years away from us.
Interesting question: Should you work for free? Think about it, and ponder its implications. Personally, my view is that you can choose to work for free - this list being an example for which I get no remuneration - but absolutely no one should be compelled to work for free. That is known as slavery. Every individual "owns" his or her own labor and how they sell that labor is up to them, not others; and in all instances they deserve recompense for their labor (unless they choose not to take it).
Oopsie. CNN stepped on it. Now, Kenya wants an apology.
And you thought the US was harsh with its limited use of capital punishment ... try going to Iran ... and use and sell drugs ... I guess it is all in how you want to look at the world.
Fair Tax - I have followed this proposal for a number of years, since I was back in Georgia. It has many merits, but I still am of mixed feelings about it. However, I will say that it would be a vast improvement over the current obscene tax code.
Wisconsin Joe Does - If this is not an abuse of prosecutorial conduct and an abuse of power, I am not sure what is. Which begs the question, what rights to recompense for their rights being so violated do these people have?
Arming military in US - I am of two opinions on this. I definitely understand the position of the military leadership on the advisability of having every troop carry their weapon at all times ... that would be a nightmare for many reasons ... but I do think that someone probably always should have a weapon available for defense in all situations ... how you reconcile those, I am not smart enough to tell you.
Dr. Sowell on minimum wages. Food for thought. Now, I have made my views clear on and off the internet in forums here and in papers I wrote commentary for. Minimum wage levels are feel good legislation, and rarely reflect economic realities. Increases in the minimum wage, especially large ones, are cruel hoaxes at best as they throw those who have worked their way up the pay ladder back to the bottom. Some incentive there to work hard.
Excellent piece of commentary on the current identity divide being promoted in the US (and apparently the UK as this is a Brit speaking) and where it is going to go in the next 10 years. Long ago I invented my own victim group, that was allowed to be denegrated and persecuted without any danger of being called a bad person: A WASPASHCEVMAMP - you can work out the acronym for yourself ... and when you do, post it either here or on my Facebook page .
Rich Browne on Facebook.
Guns, Sanctuary Cities and Nancy Pelosi - leave it to Pelosi to show how far her head is up her derriere
Naturalization oath: BEEP, wrong answer ... BCIS sends the wrong message out here. Every citizen has an obligation to help defend their nation/community, even if it as a non-combatant stretcher bearer.
Interesting analysis of the Iran Deal - food for thought and a perspective one should always consider when viewing events in the Middle East.
Another view on the Iran Deal, from a person who definitely does not have an high opinion of the West ... and probably western values.
Iran Deal sidebar deals - Raises questions about the whole deal, itself, if definitions made in secret in side agreements don't coincide with the public definitions that people understand. Really throws the credibility of the whole agreement - however you want to justify it - into question, doesn't it?
Excellent piece of commentary assessing the social compact of Americans and how "conservatives" and "liberals/progressives" seem to view it differently. Please read and ponder its implications. Question your assumptions. Examine the basis for your perspective ... and then consider: Which view really is a more accurate portrayal of what a human society should be like.
Abortion ruling: It all goes back to when does a "human" life begin. Granted the SCOTUS has said at the end of the first trimester of a woman's pregnancy, but given that science has "evolved" since the 1970s, is not the presence of a heart-beat an earlier indicator that the lifeform in the womb is human? Anyway, this is a difficult question for me (especially since I can't carry babies inside of me), but it bothers me a lot.
Arctic smoke: Given that wildfires pretty much are a natural occurrence, and smoke tends to reflect sunlight and cool the planet, does this not throw a kink in the global warming problem? Note: I am not saying the climate is not changing ... I just question just how much of it really is attributable to us humans ... and yes, we do have some impact, but how much is a different question.
Craft Root BEER - Hey, this stuff sounds interesting ... and it really goes back to colonial times.
Marines die protecting others: This is what Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Coast Guardsmen do. It is part of their training ... get the innocent out of the way, and then take the battle to the enemy ... it is the American way. We really should be proud of these Marines for upholding that Code of Conduct. I recently read a book that said there are three types of people in the world: Wolves, Sheep and Sheepdogs ... these guys were the sheepdogs.
Assuming these statistics are correct, then the picture is very disturbing.
An excellent warning, in this commentary, to the denizens of Silicon Valley
China being China ... I remember being told once that Communism would not change China, but China would change Communism. I look back on that sentiment some 50 years ago, and find it so true. The point being that many isms have tried to conquer China, but China always returns to its roots and conquers the prevailing ism.
Unfortunately, too few members of the judicial branch are unwilling to put up with the stonewalling and obfuscations of the executive branch. I mean the DOJ can move with astonishing alacrity when it already has indicted the Charleston shooter on a variety of counts, but the DOS can't provide either the court or Congress with documents requested years ago. Anyone have a problem with that?
My apologies ... but is this doing everything to protect Planned Parenthood from what probably is warranted public scrutiny. This is criminalizing something the government (DOJ) often does on its own.
What was it George Santyana said? Historian Victor Hansen points out the relevancy of Santyana's observation in re: the Iran Deal. It truly is sad, but Hansen probably is correct.
A very depressing view of "all lives matter." Has our politics fallen to such a low level that such pandering is now required? (Don't answer that, it is rhetorical) The left seems so oblivious to the damage it is doing to the UNITED States by its pandering to all the victim identity politicization of just about everything. It truly is sad.
Look at your record progressives, own it and weep. No excuses, no scapegoats, this is your record. I hope you are proud of yourselves.
Burke? Santyana? No matter who said it, the shoe fits on the Iran Deal.
Actually, the VA funding bill is a bad vehicle for this argument, but I understand the anger and the frustration the congressman who offered this rider feels. Unfortunately, HuffPo sees no evil in Planned Parenthood.
Shapiro V. Tur - Shapiro definitely has a case for assault, at least how it was defined to me back in college, and possibly even battery. Assault, as I remember, is the tort of the threat, while battery is the tort of actually making contact with a person with intent to do harm. All you legal beagles out there can correct this old journalist if I have labored under a misapprehension all these many years.
Good grief. Pray tell me where Boston, the seat of so much learning in the US, finds these people and promotes them into teaching the next generation of Americans. Oh, maybe that is my mistake ... maybe there isn't supposed to be a next generation of Americans.
Heck, in my day it was the M-577 Command Post Carrier ... but I guess at 13-tons it was a bit heavy, but at least it protected you from small pieces of flying metal better than just a tent (besides, it had a tent you could put up on the back)
Interesting piece on the history of the big-gun battleship ... but it strikes me odd that it doesn't mention the Battle of Suriago Strait in 1944 which was the other BB v BB surface action in the Pacific
This is an example of political correctness run amok ... plus a very serious effort to disavow history. First, Jefferson founded what became the Democrat party (they called themselves the Democratic Republicans back in 1800), and Andrew Jackson essentially was the founder of what is now called the Democratic party (he dropped the Republican part). And the lineage of the Democratic party then is a straight line to today (and don't forget that the Democrats were the authors of the Fugitive Slave Act, Jim Crow laws and fought the Civil Rights acts of the 1960s. Oopsie, we need to ignore that part don't we). And just look at all the successes the Democrats have racked up: Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore ...
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