By Jim Hoover For those who are buying potassium iodide tablets, there is another reason to panic. The Cascadia megaquake is long overdue. Run for your lives!! Well, wait a minute. This is only if you live in the coastal region of northern California, Oregon, Washington, or Western Canada.…
By: Mary-Margaret McSweene I woke up this morning and began my usual routine of coffee and reading. I started with the Chicago Tribune and was jolted out of my pre-caffeine coma by the headline “11 Hurt in Shooting, Bus Crash.” On the south side of my city, two men…
By: Ray Rife – raysbbr@gmail.com Welcome to Ray’s “Boom-Boom” Room. Okay, so I’m a big Dallas Cowboys fan and this stuff with Dez Bryant just tickles me to death. I mean, c’mon son, you can’t go to the mall with your pants saggin’. Well, wait, I think…
By Jim Hoover Why are these men smiling? Well, they have reason to smile. They conned voters into electing them governor. From left to right, it is Rick Snyder, governor of Michigan, Rick Scott, governor of Florida, and Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin. There are other Republican governors, candidates…
This is a Video report from a German station shedding light on Bradley Manning story. Find the written story below... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7AmFl92Xgc
By: James Daniels The involvement of the United States’ military in the Middle East is well known. In recent years, the mainstream media has covered the events in Afghanistan and Iraq on a daily basis. However, these are not the only places with US forces, not by a long…
By: Jim Hoover I am an amateur student of cosmology, and I see parallels between the universe and the everyday world in which we live. Let the associated graph be your guide. The material world, at least what we can see, is composed of four percent of the universe; yet…
By: Stephen Ghouner There truly cannot be enough said about the events playing out over in Uganda and the role that Americans have in it. For those of you who don’t know, a national crisis is happening within Uganda in regards to homophobia (among other things). It got so…
By: Stilettos and a Stiletto Bullshit Alert: Georgia State Representative Bobby Franklin continues to promote a bill that not only makes abortion prenatal murder but includes miscarriages as well if it is determined that there was any human intervention whatsoever. Consider the potential implications of this bill. If a…
By: Meconstrue We are not at the top of the food chain. Grizzlies, some would say, are at the top of the food chain for land animals. In the sea it's octopuses, the elusive giant ones that eat sharks. We've conquered them though. We can best a bear or…