I have no lack of empathy for the people who suffered in any way during the Virginia Tech shootings, and I have no empathy on a personal level with the person who committed the actions (I know what it's like to feel alone, however I've never even come close to doing anything like that). However I do have an issue with the media ( Read more... )

a curfew won't fix what's going on in New Orleans ( Read more... )

WARNING : RANT COMINGhttp://www.epresso.com/shops/frame.php?shopId=8216Read more... )

nothing like insomnia. gives me all sorts of lovely thoughts that just run around chasing each other like nuclear fallout chasing down a gentle breeze ( Read more... )

"Allow me to be frank at the commencement. You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be repelled. You will not like me now and you will like me a good deal less as we go on."well it takes a coward to delete their posts from the middle of a flame war. A lying coward at that. So here for posterities sake I'm going to ( Read more... )

this is interesting, I went to news.yahoo.com and looked at the top stories there, then I went to news.google.com to see what the top stories were there. And while they both had the same news articles (or at least articles covering the same topics, I'm begining realise yahoo is more on par with fox news and google with cnn with their views) the ( Read more... )

ok, I've known this in the back of my head for quite some time now, but it just sunk in.

The Executive Branch cannot declare war on it's own. Thus, short of an executive action Unser Fuhrer cannot have his indefinate war on an unspecified enemy without the approval of Congress. Which I believe can be overwridden by the Senate but I can't ( Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/04/homeland.arrest/index.html - disgusting. The Spokesperson for the Department of Fatherland... er Homeland Security was arrested after trying to pick up kids on the net for sex. Now I'm not a saint in the least, and ( Read more... )

http://community.livejournal.com/adbusters/419969.html

that is VERY wrong and disturbing. Yes, I love cyberpunk fiction, yes I love technology, but I HATE Consumerism and the society we have which is inundated with advertising every where one turns. And now corporations are 'sponsering' ( Read more... )

This thought occoured to me while drinking a pint of PBR of all things. And I don't even like beer, perhaps it was my mind revolting at the taste that spurred it into action ( Read more... )