I moved to the Gulf Coast from Kansas City, MO in May of 2008. The effects of Katrina were still everywhere economically and somewhat physically. Places like Waveland, MS were nearly wiped off the map. While there has been some rebuilding, there are still entire neighborhoods near the coastline where it looks like a nuclear disaster. Lot after lot with dead trees just waiting to fall over and slabs of concrete where houses once stood are overgrown with weeds. Biloxi, where I live, has rebuilt ...
"Space, the final frontier... these are the voyages of the star ship Enterprise, it's continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To Boldly Go... where no one has gone before." Immortal words. Spoken by immortal actors and characters, Jean Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and James T. Kirk (William Shatner). I often wonder what people must have felt when they first saw Star Trek in the 60's? The idea that man could put aside ...
Having attended more than one Tea Party gathering, I can assure everyone that the amount of disinformation regarding the Tea Parties is astounding. The amount of fear mongering and lies being told by the liberal media is quite sad, almost to the point of laughable. Instead of focusing on what the movement stands for and who the people are that are involved in the movement, it seems to be much more popular to highlight the extremely small fringe (I would say less than 1% of those involved) and ...
Link to story in Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2010060701502 In this blog I do not seek to defend Helen Thomas. What I am seeking are comments on her having Freedom of Speech as guaranteed by the American Constitution. IMHO I believe that she has been denied that right. Over the years she has undoubtedly been a Journalist who sought to get answers to the ...
Snippet from Mike Barone's article in the Washington Examiner, June 18th Originally Posted by Mike Barone Democrats must face the fact that much of the legislation that seems both necessary and proper to them looks quite different to the portion of the electorate that holds the balance of political power. ... It reminds me of the old story about the advertising agency and the dog food. The best ads in the world failed to increase sales of the dog food. So they sent a market researcher ...