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Is Sarah Palin guilty of murder? PDF Print E-mail
Political Insanity - The Radical Right
Written by Administrator   
Monday, 10 January 2011 11:44


On Saturday, January 8th, 2011, Jared Lee Loughner walked into a Tucson, Arizona Safeway and opened fire with a 9mm Glock killing 6 people and wounding 12 others (some are still in the hospital and not out of danger yet, so there may be more casulties). The apparent main target of the attack was Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was holding a town-hall type meeting with some constituents. She was shot in the head, is currently in critical condition in the hospital; is expected to live, and her long term prognosis is uncertain at this point.


Killed at the scene were federal judge John Roll, Christina Greene (only 9 years old), Gabe Zimmerman (who worked with the congresswoman), Dorwin Stroddard, Dorothy Morris, and Phyllis Scheck.


The suspect in the shooting Jared Loughner has apparently posted against government mind control and has made threats in the past. He's only called a suspect because he hasn't been convicted. He was tackled at the scene by two people when he tried to reload. Apparently, he hadn't killed enough people to satisfy himself yet. He was suspended from Aztec Middle College after several “classroom and library disruptions” and in at least some cases the police were involved. Apparently a follow-up letter from the College stated that in order to return he would need to present a note from a doctor stating that his presence at the school would not present a danger to himself or others. There's not much doubt that there were warning signs that this was a troubled 22 year old who could become violent. Of course, under current U.S. Gun laws he would have had no problem obtaining any guns he wanted.


Lawmakers have put on hold other important legislation until they can figure out how to protect themselves.


And Sarah Palin issued this comment: “There is no place in our society or discourse for such senseless and unconscionable acts of violence”. Really Sarah... even when you promoted it? Sarah Palin posted a map of 20 Congressional districts being targeted by her political action committee. And how did she depict it? With crosshairs! The victim herself, Gabrielle Giffords commented at the time: “When people do that, they've got to realize there are consequences to that action”.

 
Common Sense Ideas for the 21st Century PDF Print E-mail
Common Sense - General Common Sense
Written by Brian Nielsen   
Friday, 19 November 2010 13:42


A New World Order

Common Sense ideas for the 21st Century


We are now 10 years (almost 11) into the 21st century and the truth is that so far, it's hard to tell the difference between the way we live now and how we were living before the change of the century. If our political process was working properly shouldn't there be very clear differences after 10 years?


What are the problems we should have solved? How about hunger? How about education for everyone? There are others, but these have been supposedly top priorities by hundreds, thousands and even tens of thousands of our politicians for at least 100 years. How is it possible that we haven't solved them? And why? I don't think it's that tough a problem for any country that is in the Top 25 richest countries in the world. And the truth is that if the Top 25 richest countries all got together they could solve the problem for the entire world.


But let's look at just North America. Canada and the U.S. have comparable standards of living, both of them are in the Top 10 richest countries list. So... how do these two countries solve the hunger problem? It's actually fairly simple... and how do we pay for it? That's not hard either.

 
Why men won't talk and women won't shut up PDF Print E-mail
Men and Women - Differences
Written by Brian Nielsen   
Monday, 27 September 2010 09:49


Yeah.... it's a stereotype, but most stereotypes have at least some basis in fact, and this one is firmly rooted in fact.


The simple fact is that the average woman talks considerably more than the average man. Studies have shown that the average woman will speak roughly from 6,000 words a day to 20,000 words a day, while the average man only speaks only from 3,000 words a day to 6,000 words a day. Ever wonder why? And even more importantly, ever wonder what that does to our relationships and marriages? It's a BIG difference and it's important.


The differences, as is true with almost everything about human nature comes down to genetics, the difference in how we evolved and the difference between a woman's brain and a man's brain.

 
Free Enterprise Doesn't Work on the 21st Century PDF Print E-mail
Government - Political Systems
Written by Brian Nielsen   
Monday, 18 October 2010 10:24


Despite the title, I want to start off by assuring you that I am a Free Enterprise enthusiast. I've been self employed almost my entire life. In reality, all my life except for a couple of very brief periods. I started several companies from an idea and have been mostly quite successful. I have raised venture capital to start a much larger company than I ever could have done on my own, so have benefited greatly from the financial markets and I appreciate what Free Enterprise does for the economy and the people who know how it works.


Notwithstanding all it's benefits however, there is a terrible downside to Free Enterprise, and total, unregulated Free Enterprise would be a disaster for most people. Most of the civilized world has thrown off the chains of Hereditary rule (Kings, Queens, Emperors etc.), and allowing the large, multinational companies who have gained a virtual monopoly on their area of products or services to dictate the terms of those products or services would have horrible consequences for average people. As an example, just think what AT & T would have been able to charge if it had not been broken up many years ago. Or... imagine how much banks would gouge their customers for credit card interest and fees of all kinds if there weren't a few laws in place (personal note – we still need more laws here, but imagine how bad it would be without any at all). We just can't allow people or companies who have beaten the Free Enterprise system to rule over us and become the new Kings, Queens and Emperors of the 21st Century.


So, it's fairly obvious that some regulation is needed to keep the worst side effects of Free Enterprise under control, at least to any truly thinking person who doesn't let blind greed rule their thoughts.

 
A Light Hearted Look at Politcal Systems PDF Print E-mail
Written by Brian Nielsen   
Thursday, 16 September 2010 15:58


Most people know the various forms of government the world has produced so far, but how many of you have really thought about them? Here's some food for thought.


The major forms of government tried so far are: Democracy, Communism, Social Democracy, Dictatorship, Feudal (kings, queens, and emperors), and Anarchy (no government). It has been said that “Democracy is the worst form of government there is, except for all the other ones ever tried”, and it is SO true. Every one of the other forms of government would work better than our present form of Democracy IF people were better than they are. Of course, Democracy would also work a whole lot better than it does if people were better.


In the last century (and even up to today), Communism was experimented with in several countries. Unfortunately, it failed miserably in almost every case, but most capitalists (and that includes almost every America) think it's a fundamental problem with Communism when, in fact, the problem is NOT the system, the problem is the people. Let me explain that a little: Communism is an ideal espoused by Karl Marx and the very short explanation of it is that all people would have the same income and would contribute to society by doing whatever it is that they do best. Sounds great, and if every person under a Communist system would put aside their personal greed and go to work every day with the notion that they will work as hard as they can for the betterment of society, then Communism would be a fantastic system.

 
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