Life & Liberty
Friday, August 22nd, 2008“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” Thomas Jefferson
Archive for August, 2008
Do Corporations Really Pay No Taxes?
Thursday, August 21st, 2008After recent sensationalized reports that something like half of US corporations pay no taxes RealClearMarkets sets the record straight.
68 Million Acres?
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008If you’re following the drill here, drill now debate you’re likely heard of those 68 million acres of leases “Big Oil” has that are “non-producing” and how those evil Republicans blocked a Democrat bill that would have forced the oil companies to produce or give up the leases. These acres are being used specifically by [...]
Why Corporates Hate Perl
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008An interesting blog entry on O’Reilly, Why Corporates Hate Perl touches on the knowledge barrier between technology and non-technology in corporations and how a lack of understanding technology at the business level can contribute to the silo mentality so prevalent today. The biggest point to take from the article is that programming languages are only [...]
Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008I don’t “hate” Flash but I frown on it for casual use such as site navigation, headers and especially advertising. And here comes another malicious use of Flash through advertising which steals what ever you copy to your clipboard. Advertising presents a larger problem to police mainly because the content is sometimes a couple of [...]
Manners
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.” Samuel Adams
The god of the Democrats?
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Considering Democrats almost total animosity toward God, the Christian faith and especially the name Jesus Christ…. Obama was introduced at the dinner by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called him ‘‘a leader God has blessed us with at this time.’’ .. whom is she referring to as the ‘god’ that sent them Obama? They believe [...]
College Presidents: Lower Drinking Age
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008The last 100 people I’d expect to encourage lawmakers to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18 would the the top 100 college presidents. Considering drinking causes more visible problems on campuses than almost anywhere the request seems illogical. First let me say I’m not necessarily in agreement on lowering it. BUT… I understand [...]
Mini Ice Age?
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008I’m not going out for the dire predictions of the global warming crowd any more or less than the global cooling crowd (though NASA and NOLA acknowledge we’re in a cooling trend since 1998) but articles such as this one out of Mexico on the coming mini ice age certainly shows there is a lack [...]
House, Senate Sweat the Small Stuff
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Given their unprecedented low approval ratings, ratings that should make Nancy Pelosi envious of George Bush’s approval rating… you’d think the Congress would knuckle down and get to work. But are they? No, they’re earning their low approval rating as well as the contempt of the American people as they pass meaningless resolutions and ignore [...]
