This thing in Syria is awful. They are killing children on live TV. Syria's leader, Bashar al-Asada is a cruel son-of-a bitch, just like his father. He is committing genocide by indiscriminately bombing the city of Homs along with other places. They bomb helter-skelter and death falls where it may. It's terrible and his father did the same thing. But what this nim-rod doesn't realize or refuses to take into account, a lot like Qaddafi, is that the Internet has changed the world. The slaughtering of innocents that his father got away with was not shown in real time. All this killing, just to keep his family in power. Sometimes..,
Everything about Whitney Huston has been written. I have only one thing to add. Sometimes.., people who do not have addictive personalities think "why don't they just stop?" I do not know how she died, but I hope it wasn't from drugs and I have my suspicions like millions of other people. But people with addictive personalities, and I am one, cannot just stop. Your world may be around your ankles, but in your mind it will get better if you take another hit or have another drink. Please, try and not judge her by her past, it doesn't help her or her family or us. Fuck TMZ.
What IS pissing me off is the high price of gas. A mullah in Iran threatens to close the Straight of Hormuz, but we have an abundance of gas. So why it is going up faster than at anytime in history? When Obama came into office, gas was about $3.50 a gal. Today, the cheapest gas around here is also about $3.50 a gal and there's a chance that the U.S. average tops $4 a gallon by June, with some parts of the country approaching $5 a gallon."Why? Because speculators stand in a room all day and every time they hear a mullah fart, they up the price? Sometimes..,
Iran will never close the Straight of Hormuz. A great deal of the world's oil is shipped through there everyday. These men, or monsters, aren't stupid and are just like Assad. They love their luxuries that power can bring. These murderers don't need money, power takes care of their every whim. I laugh every time I see the guy in the Members Only jacket, Ahmadinejad, making a speech. One word from the top mullah and he's plowing sandpits at the hind-end of a fucking camel. Sometimes..,
I can't for the life of me figure out this Greek, European bail-out that is taking place, again, as they seem to do every three months. People, mostly kids I see on TV, want all the entitlements their parents had, yet the government cannot pay them. They are broke from not producing anything, yet expect a 30-hour work week and free medical and early retirement. I think (I have not Googled this) that tourism is their biggest commodity. I'm as liberal as the next guy, but people have to work to pay taxes if they want help from the government. I'm not saying it's their fault they aren't working, but to riot and burn down small shops that do produce and pay taxes has to be counter-productive. Sometimes.., I just don't know anymore!


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D, they would be "King of the World", but still the conservatives would bitch, hah!
Whitney gets obsessional coverage with virtually no productive content. I don't mean any disrespect to her and I do like her music and her acting in the Bodyguard; but by focusing on causes of the problems that affect millions we could implement massive improvements.
We don't do this.
It might interfere with the profits of the corporations.
Its scary
HUGGGGGGGGGGGG
Or CNN.
They are asking how Romney can prove he is "dog's best friend".
Am i seeing this right ? yes i am..
A police chief in my state got pinched for 26,000 child porn images.
A teacher in town got nabbed for sexual fondling &
he had naked pictures on his computer
that his "victim" sent him..
Don't we have any rocket scientists here on OS
who could build us a , well, a rocket ship
so we sane folks could set out for Andromeda?
Get the hell away from this place?
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The world is indeed watching and until now many have not understood. I'm hopeful that eventually those who destroy others for power or profit will be disposed of in some efficient way. History has seen all this before but maybe this time it will be different. It will be a shame if it takes total collapse.
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The situation in Syria has been going on a long time, just more recently got worse and got our attention. It will have to fall, and sadly will take down a lot of people with it. If only we could get Iran to take them out. :) It's easier to justify killing and price gouging when we think there is scarcity. There isn't any scarcity, just a belief there is.
Think it's bad now? Wait 'til we run out of food and water.
Straits of Hormuz--so far Iran has always shown that they ain't stupid, but who knows. All it takes is one of those "kamikaze" boats to hit one tanker in the middle of the straits and that's all she wrote. And then what would we do? Piss and moan and shake our fingers at the naughty mullahs? Probably.
Like you I'm tired of it. And like you, I feel powerless to do anything about the insanity--I got my own crap to deal with.
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The media have changed, and the distortions have increased. And you didn't even include the GOPsters!
As for Iran, years ago when some maliciously spread a rumor that the Saudis were going to raise the price of oil, a Saudi official said this: "This is not true, we will keep selling our oil like we always did, we are not going to drink it!" This talk about Iran is all a just-in-case-we-have-to-bomb-them thing. Your heart is in the right place, ScanMan. R
The scenes from Syria are awful but at any time in the past few decades there's been ever worse that didn't get on TV. Global warming is the one I'd worry about, though I won't live long enough to see its worst effects. The young generation then will surely have a hate on for our doing nothing while we could.
Nice rant.
Nicely done.
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