While down with the flu in January, I read a lot of Richard Stark. Aka Donald Westlake. A pile of volumes from Stark/Westlake’s Parker series towered on my nightstand. The adventures and misadventures of Parker, an ultra cold hearted professional thief, were the perfect antidote to fever.
The late Donald Westlake grew up in Albany, New […]

This week on the program the team will be looking at three particular cases and asking the question, is the system broken?
The Powell family is merely the latest in a long series of cases where the outcome may have been avoidable had the authorities acted on available information. Why would a 911 operator appear to […]

The undersigned has been in the forefront of a crusade to make E Banking systems safer for the Bank Customers. Here is a suggestion that the RBI can implement in this direction. This could be a temporary or a permanent measure that can ensure safety of the funds of […]

The article excerpted below is a useful summary of the discussion about solar influences on climate. Climate skeptics will know the first part of it well. It is the second part — putting the Warmist case — that seems of some interest. So that is the section I excerpt below and […]

Sugar is going to kill us! And this time it’s not the fructose demonized by the obsessive Lustig but ordinary table sugar.
But not to worry. It’s a nonsense study supported by a Danish milk supplier. But that does not bias the report of course. Oh no!
Ad homs aside, however, the experimental […]

This case is yet another case that proves you should never give up hope until your child is found if they disappear with no trace. When times feel like you are at your wits end, remember there is always that small chance that your child too, could be found one day and when they are […]

It all started with Rick Santorum, his anti gay comments provoked the Gay community to put up a website SpreadingSantorum.com that has caused a good deal of embarrassment to the Santorum camp. Rather than quietly deal with the problem by creating ‘Santorum’ rich articles that Google would place higher in the search rankings, there by […]

Bill Travis first saw the beautiful woman while he was driving in heavy traffic on the loop near downtown Austin. The beautiful reddish blonde in the red roadster didn’t seem to mind that Bill Travis was staring at her. For a few minutes they played a cat and mouse game passing each other in the […]

It is written in oh so politically correct language, but it should set off alarm bells. A US government appointed ethicist at the National Institutes of Health just wrote an article in the British Medical Journal proposing the handicapped should be killed for organ donations.

Abstract
What makes an act of killing morally wrong is not […]

It has been a couple of months since I last took a look at what is happening in the world of GMO food’s. I am pleased to report that it might seem that the Frankenfood manufacturers are not having it exactly their own way.
Lets kick off with the world of fish. The Huf Po has […]

It would appear that presidential wannabe Mitt Romney is fighting a similar battle as Rick Santorum on the internet search giants Google and Bing.
Santorum’s anti gay comments led to the web site SpreadingSantorum.com being created. To say the least the site is not very flattering. To make matters worse a Google search on ‘Santorum’ places […]

In the 9/20/11 issues of Sojourners magazine is an advertisement for the 2012 Gladdening Light Symposium featuring Jesus Seminar scholar John Dominic Crossan.  Part of the ad copy reads, “Feed the soul, savor the beauty, and experience the communion love of Agape in the Gladdening Light of God.”
However, if Crossan is being heralded as what […]

During the 30 years war of the 17th century Gustav Adolf den store (Gustavus Adophus) led his Swedish troops to many great victories in Europe. Without him the Protestant cause may well have lost out to the Catholic South. His armies were at the time simply referred to as “Der Schwed” […]

The typical Leftist belief that money grows on trees at work again. Does he really think that health insurers will be able to provide cover without charging for it? The companies will still charge Catholic organizations the same as before, even if contraception is not written down in the agreement between […]

As is often the case, a piece of legislation, or initiative, sounds good on paper, but is a disaster in practice. The poster child (excuse the pun), was the awful No Child Left Behind act. The basic concept was great, who could possibly argue with the concept that every child be afforded the same educational […]

Wi-Fi: freedom to connect wherever and whenever. And there is no better Wi-Fi than free Wi-Fi, unless we are talking “secure Wi-Fi” which usually isn’t free. Wi-Fi is great for bringing in customers and it’s a great promotional tool that creates customer loyalty. Merchants such as hotels, coffee shops, burger joints and just about anyplace […]

Three years ago today 5 year old HaLeigh Cummings from Putnam County, Florida disappeared. It was as though she just disappeared into thin air. No one has seen or heard of her since.
The last person known to have seen her was her Dad’s then girlfriend, Misty Croslin. Misty had a lot of holes in her […]

A 9 month old baby is in the hospital in critical condition after Camden County, Missouri authorities found the baby girl covered in blood with a deep wound to her neck. When they first spotted the child they thought she was dead but she lifted her head so they knew she was still hanging on. […]

There are generally 2 types of financial identity theft. New account fraud and account takeover.
New account fraud Identity theft can occur when someone opens a new credit card in your name, maxes it out, and doesn’t pay the bill.
Account takeover Identity theft can also occur when a bad guy gets your information, uses it to […]

I was talking to my good friend, retired Western Stuntman Jack Young and he shared a long kept secret with me.
Jack calls Tucson, Arizona home these days. Although he was based in Hollywood during his years as a stuntman he spent a good deal of time in Tucson on location. He fell in love with […]

Hey, lets face it, vacations are boring today. Where is the challenge in being pampered in a 5 star resort with golden beaches, calm blue seas, free booze and as much lobster as you keep down?
Back in the day there were much finer ways so shorten your lifespan than high cholesterol Lobster.
 How about a trip […]

In a Washington Times Op-Ed, a Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting member Ted Lipien warned about a pro-Putin bias in the Voice of America Russian programs. Lipien reported that a highly respected independent journalist in Russia hired by the Broadcasting Board of Governors to evaluate the VOA Russian website concluded last year that it has […]

In yet another disturbing news, MidDay reported that three more phishing complaints have been registered yesterday in  Pune in which a total of Rs 17.50 lakhs have been lost by three customers of the banks.
Irrespective of the cause, it is to be recognized that this news reflects yet another nail being driven down  the coffin signifying […]

In this modern world of Political Correctness every news reporter and commenter has to observe some rules. Could it be the Ten Commandments of big media?
Thou shalt not say anything even remotely to do with the Gay lifestyle unless your name is Ellen Degeneress.
Thou shalt not piss off any company that is paying for adds.
Thou […]

For some, Valentines means they might be lonely. I’ve been there, and I know many who are there now. That loneliness can distort your perspective in a way that trumps common sense. This leads people to make badly considered decisions that only worsen their circumstances. Unfortunately, scammers use this raw emotion as leverage on online […]

In Part one I looked at the album Antiques and Curios, it was a very fine album, but it was obvious that the band were still  trying to find their feet. From The Witchwood fixed that problem, but created many others.
I was lucky to have had the opportunity to have interviewed both Dave Cousins and […]

You would think it would be a good thing to walk your children to school to keep them safe, but you never expect something to happen to you on the way back home. Yesterday morning, Loisisnett Garcia-Rengel left her home to walk her children to the Lake Nona Middle School but she never returned home […]

An Amber Alert in Fort Worth Texas has been issued for 11 year old Jessica Smith who police believe was taken by her mother, Kimberly Smith. Although they decline to say why, the police are reporting the girl could be in danger.
According to Jessica’s older sister, 16 year old Caitlin Fields, there has been some […]

It’s hard to follow American politics from ten thousand miles away (I live in the rural Philippines, and we get the news a day late), but as a Democrat, I was bemused to read in today’s papers that Rick Santorum just won in the Republican primaries of Minnesota and Missouri.
Santorum? I wasn’t aware he […]

I did not immediately comment on this because I thought it would be obvious to everyone — but apparently not. When Breivik last faced court over his massacre he gave a salute as he came into the courtroom. His lawyer, Geir Lippestad, said was ’some kind of Right-wing extremist greeting.’
It was not, of […]