Archive for September 6th, 2007
Posted on September 6th, 2007
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TCS Daily has an article that points out how a lot of Americans already belong to a socialized medical system. Their article points out that a lot of people get Medicaid, or Medicare, and that even “private” insurance is subsidized by the government, which allows companies a tax write off for helping employees get medical [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007
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Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh is reported to have asked the country’s Vice President Isatou Njie Saidy to represent him at the Taiwan/Africa Summit scheduled for September 9Th to the 11 according to official sources at the President office in Banjul. The President who is increasingly worried about the loyalty of the army was reported to [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007
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For those of you that don’t know, Friday Sept 7, 2007 will be the last day that Passions will be aired on NBC. If you have Direct TV you will be able to pick up the show where it left off on NBC, beginning September 17, 2007. It will air twice a day at 2:00 pm [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007
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— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. — The subject of today’s Offstumped post is not the high decibel battle in Parliament over the 123 Indo-US Nuclear Deal nor is [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007
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Last night’s Republican debate in New Hampshire had several surprises, but the biggest was the return of John McCain. The Senator from Arizona has physically attended the other debates, but by most accounts did little else. His campaign has been mired in problem after problem in recent months causing him to fire almost his entire [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007
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Blue Elephants Vol. 1 The Alpha Edition by M.P Johnston This short graphic novel is quite astonishing really. Its rare that I have come across something so fundamentally bad on so many levels. The story line is appalling in its clichéd and trite. The art looks as if were taken from Second Life; as in [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007
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When you want to buy something, especially a high-ticket item — let’s say a car — you want to do your research first. You have certain things that are important to you, as well as those things you think would be nifty to have, and balance that with how much your needs and wants are [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007
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These Islamic terrorist types in Germany are getting trickier all the time. Now they are even giving themselves real German names to better evade German security experts who end up catching them anyway, of course. But still. Hey, wait a minute. Two of these three guys have real German names and are “real†Germans themselves. Huh? [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007
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Could one find a clearer example of gender bias and the female sentencing discount than this? Brenda Nesselroad-Slaby is not being charged with any crime. Let’s review: 1) Brenda Nesselroad-Slaby left her toddler daughter in her car (in heat which reached 100 degrees) for eight hours while she worked. 2) According to police, the dead [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007
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From The Gathering Storm Blog The liberal mind can’t seem to prioritize reality. Their attempts at seeing everything as being relative prevents them from seeing one threat being worse than another. It explains why to liberals, global warming, free healthcare, and poverty are equal or worse than the threat from Islamo-fascism. So what IS the [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007
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With the high cost of an education these days, dishonest people are using the lure of a scholarship to cheat students and their parents of their hard earned money. The FTC has a informative page on this trend: According to the Federal Trade Commission, unscrupulous companies guarantee or promise scholarships, grants or fantastic financial aid [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007
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Outrageously, a new live-action movie based on the G.I. Joe toy line might see Joe’s American soldier identity scrubbed to be replaced by membership in an “international force based in Brussels.” The news site, IGN Entertainment, a site that reports on the gaming, comics and movie industries, has the scoop on the upcoming live-action G.I. [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007
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[One of the horrors for both students and their families has been the escalating costs of a college education which through the shift over to funding by personal loans has left both students and their families heavily indebted. Hopefully the Democrats can begin to reduce the trend of lowering public support for higher education and [...]
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