Robert Siciliano is a well respected writer for Blogger News. More than that, he is a damn nice guy! It is with pleasure that I share this email – Simon This Monday April 21st I am running my 3rd Boston Marathon with 38,000 other people and I’m doing it in the spirit of Gratitude and [...]

Life insurance isn’t usually one of the topics people deem exciting enough to be newsworthy. Maybe because the thought of our potential demise doesn’t seem so appealing, or maybe because it reminds us of that long list of things we haven’t yet taken care of. Either way,  2014 has actually been an interesting and exciting [...]

An Amber Alert has been issued for 14 year old Elizabeth Rex from Magnolia Texas. Authorities say they have reason to believe that the girl could be in grave or immediate danger. Elizabeth has been diagnosed with Pre-Development Disorder, Down Syndrome, Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity (ADHD), Bipolar Disorder and Von Willerbrand Disease, all of which [...]

I can’t recall the exact circumstances surrounding how Denny Griffin and I connected, but somehow we did. Denny had retired and become an author, his schtick was crime novels. But as he openly admits they were not feeding his hunger. True crime stories were his real interest. With his home base being Las Vegas he [...]

The latest episode of the “Consider This!” podcast is out. Conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. This is a special edition of “Consider This!” I wrote an essay back in 1996, when the label “right-wing extremist” was being slapped on anyone who leaned conservative. With a few edits, this essay still has something to say to [...]

Anyone who has read the Lee Henry Oswald series by Harry Hunsicker knows that the author does not write the Dallas Chamber of Commerce ad copy type of books. The Dallas streets in his books are not of glitter and not necessarily always mean. Instead, these streets are broken dreams, cracked asphalt and the five [...]

This horror film is about three tales, all involving the Madam Raven’s Bordello, which is a place one could go to in order to fulfill their wildest fantasies. The Ripper Graham Johnson had a hobby that is not exactly one that was legal. He visited Brothel’s and would pick up dancers that he would become [...]

CHAPTER SIX Home Again The linebacker was one huge kid. “It’s funny how you grow closer to your parents as you get older and appreciate them so much more,” Emma said to Mitchell right before they went to bed during their first night together under the roof of Emma’s parent’s home. “Not for the children [...]

This one kind of hits me close to home. A 59 year old man in Abita Springs, which is about 50 miles or so north of New Orleans, was arrested for kidnapping, after the police that were looking for a 6 year old child whose mother reported missing. According to the reports, David Ledet told [...]

This is a guest article by Silvio Aladjem MD. I approach this topic with some trepidation.  Its magnitude is staggering and the discrepancies between countries and/or world areas, is painful. Worldwide, the latest WHO (World Health Organization) data estimates that 343000 women die every year as a result of pregnancy. To put it in context, [...]

As a security analyst for both off-line and online activity, which is personal protection and information security, I’m constantly analyzing my own security situation. This means paying attention to my surroundings, systems in place, the security of my hardware, software and data. One way to get a closer look at all of this and to [...]

It has been well over a month since the day little Myra Lewis just vanished from the front yard of her home after her mother left to go to the store. Her mother told the kids to go back inside and that was the last time she has seen her daughter. The father was inside [...]

I think it would be fair to say that the filming technique was somewhat similar to The Blair Witch Project. And much like Blair Witch it is steeped in mystery. From time to time I do get strange packages in the mail, books and DVD’s. I have no clue where they come from. I guess [...]

“November in the anti-April: gray and dreary, the beginning of the end of things rather than rebirth. It’s the month you hunker down- that is if you don’t give up entirely.” (Page 343)   The above comes from the introduction to the month that also happens to be the month of my birth. I looked [...]

One of the biggest data breaches of all time involved that of Sony Corp. The hackers stole confidential information from tens of millions of Sony PlayStation Network users. Despite this humongous breach, something surprising happened: New York Supreme Court Jeffrey Oing ruled that Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. and Zurich American Insurance Co. owed NO defense [...]

There was a status hearing today for the man that officials suspects to have killed a 20 year old Tennessee nursing student, Holly Bobo, after he kidnapped her in 2011 although her body has yet to be found. She was last seen in 2011 by her brother. He said he saw her being led into [...]

The story behind Aleister Crowley has always been of interest to me. He is best remembered as a writer and supporter of the dark arts. Certainly he deserves the title, but how did he get there? What drove Aleister Crowley to find solace in the world of Black Magic? The chances are that we may [...]

I am the first to admit that I love a great mystery. Loch Ness is without doubt one of the most enduring. The story has its beginnings in the 7th century, it took until the 1930’s that Loch Ness really captured peoples attention. Nessie was born. I have watched many documentaries about Nessie. One thing [...]

“The Ring” means more than just a dead girl crawling out of a well; it can also mean the one ring that you get on your cell phone that’s designed to get you to call back to find out who the caller was—only you’ll end up getting a charge on your next bill instead. The [...]

The lowest-risk shorting opportunity in the market right now appears to be in the payday lending stocks: Cash America International (NYSE: CSH), DFC Global (NASDAQ: DLLR), EZCorp (NASDAQ: EZPW), First Cash Financial Services (NASDAQ: FCFS) and QC Holdings (NASDAQ: QCCO). The Department of Justice, as part of the covert Operation Choke Point, has launched a [...]

Teddy Maxwell had been the best criminal defense lawyer in town though he certainly wasn’t the most ethical. A gunshot to the head took him down and pretty much stopped his legal career. These days while he does show up at the office, he has a hard time with memory issues and various cognitive problems. [...]

I made a deal with myself, I will not talk about stupid people. But I do have to make an exception, the Westboro Baptist Church have transcended stupidity. Who are they? They are the nutcases that picketed the funerals of brave young people that lost their lives fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan for the US. [...]

I have never been a traditional book reviewer, I leave that task to those that wallow in Grade 6 Book Reports. I like to include the story behind the story. I am always leery of ‘Self Help’ books. For a couple of years they just seemed to keep arriving in my mail box. I grew [...]

There is a recall made on more than 1.3 million child safety seat buckles due to the fact that there is a risk that the children can not be removed in the case of an emergency fast enough. The National Highway Transportation said Friday that the recall includes the buckles used in a number of [...]

Well, as of tomorrow, unless you are the UK government Microsoft is stopping support for Windows XP. XP has been around for 13 years and I agree that at some point the plug must be pulled. The problem however is that most major companies do not like to change software that works great for their [...]

An Amber Alert was issued one week ago for 14 year old Lacey Dewent, from Albuquerque, New Mexico after she left home for school but never showed up for class. Authorities believe that she could have been taken by a 26 year old man that she met on the internet, Robert Butler. It has been [...]

Climate change skeptics these days find themselves in an ever-shrinking minority. A report (below) recently released by the United Nations has once more renewed public interest in the global warming debate by illustrating the devastating effects that increasing temperatures could have on water supplies, crop yields, and sea levels. A Long Time Coming In 2007, [...]

Yes, burglars do use video surveillance to case homes. Sometimes burglars aren’t not so dumb, like the ones who use video to case homes. A video camera the size of a matchstick has been discovered in the yards of several homes in North Texas’s upscale Dalworthington Gardens, where there have been break-ins. According to the [...]

The U.S. is no Superpower when it comes to card payments: the card hacking headquarters of the world. Don’t count on credit card fraud going away too soon. After all, Americans practically sleep, eat and breathe credit card use. And it’s those doggone magnetic strips on the cards that keep getting consumers, retailers, banks and [...]

To be fair about things, I had no clue what houzz.com was about. Social Media is the force today in communication, but this particular site has remained unknown to me until now, the floodgate has opened. The shear number of professionals who belong there, and the infinitesimally smaller portion that have been awarded this special [...]