Today I ran across a post in an Australian newspaper about a Protestant real estate developer in Indonesia erecting the largest statue of Jesus in Asia…well, maybe not the largest, but it is 30 meters high, and shows Jesus almost flying with outstretched arms, as if he’s trying to welcome us into his arms…or waving [...]

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Cast your mind back to Susette Kelo. She and her neighbors in the waterfront neighborhood of Fort Trumbull in New London, Connecticut, had their homes and investment properties taken from them by local government and the quasi-public New London Development Corporation. Poodle to Connecticut’s Department of Economic and Community Development. Residents of Fort Trumbull were [...]

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Joe Horn: Good Neighbor or Cold-Blooded Killer?  Police Detective Present When Horn Shot Burglars  “Pasadena Police Department Stinks” When we first wrote about Joe Horn on November 27 the debate was whether Horn’s actions in killing two men who had just broken into his neighbor’s house in broad daylight was being either the good neighbor, [...]

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The world of entertainment is in a world of hurt. With the massive diversification of entertainment offerings these days, older forms of media — like movies, TV and newspapers — are finding a dwindling number of customers as NBC is finding out this month. NBC has found itself in the lamentable position of giving their [...]

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For those of you who feel that the conservative movement has lost its soul, the New Centurion Program has begun. I quote from their webpage: Typically, programs focus on either intellectual cultivation or communication skills. Our program seeks to synthesize both the wisdom of our conservative heritage as well as the most up to date [...]

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Our pal Billy Ritter, Governor of Colorado, was not so “august” enough as to allow either the legislature nor the people of his fair state to have a chance to vote on whether they wanted a union to gain a huge amount of power over the state’s public workers there. Instead of allowing the democratic [...]

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Fans Will Rally in Show of Support for Duane “Dog” Chapman A & E Studio Building Site of Rally Organizers Call to Fans for Show of Support Dog the Bounty Hunter fans will rally outside the A&E studios building in New York City this Thursday in a show of support for their favorite TV show [...]

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Boys Come Prepared with “Rape Kit”  Two Others Act as Lookouts  What is Juvenile Crime? Armed with a “rape kit,” two boys, ages 11 and 14, broke into a 60-year-old woman’s house. They wore gloves and bandanas to cover their faces. Two accomplices, a 15 year-old girl and 16 year-old boy stood outside as lookouts. [...]

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Nick and Phyllis talk about Jack’s resignation. He tells her that Jack asked for this mostly. He feels sorry for Jack in a way though. Phyllis remembers that Jack was once Nick’s step father. Nick says more like a real father. Sharon and Jack talk about how all this is going to effect Noah. Jack [...]

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Lily asks the front desk guy if Dusty is in his suite. He tells her he doesn’t think he is there. Lucinda walks up asking sarcastically what is wrong, can’t she find her boyfriend. Lily tells her this isn’t the best of times to do this. Lucinda sits down and tells her she didn’t come [...]

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Shawn approaches Belle and asks her if she is sleeping with Phillip just as they announce Belle and Shawn as the high school sweethearts that made it to the altar. They are called on stage before Belle can answer him. They give them the cake top of the man and woman as an award and [...]

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There’s a lot of buzz on the internet about a court decision that says you can’t rip MP3′s to your computer. The reports are believable, since a couple years back CD’s came with an “anti piracy” code to stop you from ripping them off. At the time, I thought this was a bummer, since I [...]

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Keifer Sutherland started his 48 day jail sentence for his third drunk driving conviction on Dec. 5th. Sutherland is known as the character, Jack Bauer, in the television series, ’24′. But Canadians know who he really is. Keifer Sutherland is the grandson of Tommy Douglas, father of Canada’s universal medicare system. Sutherland’s grandfather was also [...]

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No we are not talking about a boring treatise on the subject of unwanted E-mail, we are talking about that delightful brand of canned meat. I grew up in England, and lived through 6 horrendous years of the Grammar School system, more specifically 6 years of partaking in school dinners. There were many items of [...]

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For the past two weeks, the media has been full of Mugabe and Zimbabwe because the old dictator was invited to attend the European Union (EU) Summit with Africa.  The invitation was issued despite Mugabe being banned from travel to the EU way back in 2002 for his disgraceful record on Human Rights.  In a [...]

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An American documentary about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq will be among four world premiers to take part in the competition at Berlin’s upcoming 58th annual Berlinale Film Festival. “S.O.P.” (Standard Operating Procedures) by director Errol Morris will of course be a purely objective and even-handed look at the examination techniques used by [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Cruising the Web one day looking for material, I ran across a post at the Daily Pundit which got me thinking. The blogger there doesn’t pull any punches and says it like it is about appeasing Muslims. As we proceed further down the road of appeasing [Muslims], I fear we [...]

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The FTC has released a training tool designed to help businesses protect sensitive information, which might be stolen to commit identity theft or fraud. After taking a look at it, I found it to be simple, straight forward and effective way for a business to evaluate how well they are protecting information. From the FTC [...]

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Clinton Too Crass for Cash? White House Rewards What Assets Can a First Lady Rightfully Use?  Of all the scandals that swirled around the two terms served by President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary none was so crass as the revelation that Bill and Hillary had been allowing “sleepovers” in Lincoln’s Bedroom in exchange [...]

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With former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton and other critics complaining that the National Intelligent Assessment (NIE) of Iran’s nuclear capabilities is tantamount to policy-making by “refugees from the State Department brought into the new central bureaucracy of the director of national intelligence” who have been hostile to the Bush administration’s foreign [...]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog We are not aware whether or not there exists any legal firm charged with the protection of the Adolf Hitler estate and its assets.  One is apt to conclude not.  Nonetheless, were such a firm to exist, they would surely today be awash in revenues resulting from countless suits filed on [...]

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