Posts Tagged ‘famine’

Long stick go BOOM!

January 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Pat Robertson blamed the Haiti earthquake on their pact with the devil.  That seemed kinda crazy to me. Danny Glover one-upped Robertson by claiming it’s because we didn’t do enough at the COP15 meetings.  You know, mother nature’s pissed and she’s not going to take it any more.  That seemed kinda crazy to me as [...]

Bailout promises, Mao’s famine and bad incentives

November 10th, 2009 | No Comments

I’ve stolen that title from Classically Liberal.  It’s not really the point I’m shooting for, but it’s close enough and the article is a riot.  A lot of people have been claiming Obama’s socialist.  I have for that matter.  However, people supporting Obama have dismissed those claims as rhetoric.  However, Obama’s White House PR person [...]

Myanmar and the United Nations disaster

May 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment

A big storm blew into Myanmar last week.  An even bigger storm is brewing.  So far, 62,000 people are either dead or missing.  Nearly 1,000,000 are homeless.  The United Nations, along with the United States, rushed to provide food for the homeless.  The Myanmar ruling junta confiscated it. Now, this is where I get pissy.  [...]

The Day The Earth Stood Still, again

April 11th, 2008 | No Comments

Remember the 1951 flick The Day the Earth Stood Still?  I’ll put it another way, anyone over the age of forty NOT know what The Day the Earth Stood Still is?  The skinny is it was a very political movie set to a science fiction theme.  Because man was so violent, an alien, Klaatu, came to [...]

New World Order?

July 17th, 2007 | 8 Comments

I have often heard people say so-and-so is part of the New World Order. Now, up until now I always just came to the conclusion whenever I heard that whoever was saying it was slightly askew in their thinking. However, I came to the conclusion that wasn’t a nice thing to do since I was [...]