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More “Holiday Season” Greed and Selfishness Two Days Before Christmas(Comments Off)

December 23, 2011

You would think, two days before the nation pretends to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, much of the holiday insanity would have abated, and people around the United States would show compassion, charity, and basic human decency towards one another.  This, of course, is simply wishful thinking. In a show of mob mentallity that [...]

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Iranian Protesters Storm Embassy in Tehran

No, it is not November 4, 1979, and it wasn’t the US Embassy. Iranian protesters stormed British diplomatic compounds Tuesday, hauling down the British flag, torching an embassy vehicle and pelting buildings with Molotov cocktails in what began as an allegedly state-approved show of anger over the latest Western sanctions to punish Tehran for defiance [...]

Netflix Circles the Bowl

I contacted Netflix last night, after experiencing security issues on our home network involving Microsoft’s Silverlight, the application required to use Netflix’s streaming video services.  According to my security logs, Silverlight was the cause for our router experiencing issues which crashed our home network, a process that began the day before at 11:39 am CST.  [...]

‘Tis the Season to Wreak Havoc

As “Black Friday” begins on Thanksgiving this year, mobs endure gunfire and pepper spray, while retailers cash in on the violence. While there were no store managers ringing a cattle call bell reported this year atop retail outlets, herds of shoppers turned into violent mobs anyway, as retailers lured consumers with predatory pricing on the [...]


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