Gender: male Date of Birth: April 17, 1948 Member Since: March 10, 2008 Last Signed In: January 07, 2009 Profile Views: 265 Blog Views: 3143 Texans One; Governor Goodhair Zero Just when you thought red light cameras were intrusive... Preching on the editorial page? What do people expect? Another chance for BO fans to cheer What happened to the Secret Service? World Government??? Bush will live in Dallas Twenty thousand soldiers for domestic defense Pirates -- and not from Pittsburgh March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 
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Somali pirates have captured another ship, this time a chemical tanker, in the Gulf of Aden/Indian Ocean area southwest of the Persian Gulf. It is reported that there were there British security people on board and they jumped into the sea and were rescued by a French vessel. The security people jumped overboard when the pirates took the ship???? Well, yeah. You see, they were not armed. Now, I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I know that there are few things more useless than an UNARMED security guard. If the ships carried automatic small arms and 20mm cannon mounted on the bridge wings, the pirates with their speedboats won't get within a quarter of a mile of a ship thus armed. The AP reports that 40 ships have been hijcked this year out of 97 attacked. Fifteen ships with about 300 crew members are still being held hostage including a 300 thousand ton oil tanker. The question I have never seen answered is HOW THE HELL can the pirates board a ship under way on the high seas from a speedboat. The decks of ships are from 30 to almost a hundred feet above the water. How do the thugs get on board to take over the ship?
I see that "researchers" are calling for bans on fast food advertising on television to in order to make fat kids thin again. This, like the ban on tobacco advertising, is in direct contradiction of the First Amendment. "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." It seems pretty clear to me. Unlike the Second, there is no qualifying clause to muddy the meaning. If parents don't want their kids eating fast food, it should be the parents who put a stop to it. If there was a group of "researchers" who wanted to prohibit people from going to church, you would see Baptists, Catholics, Jews, and Muslims standing shoulder to shoulder, each holding up the Constitution and protesting that their First Amendment rights were being threatened. Why don't we see people standing up for the freedom of speech and press the way they would for freedom of religion? ... on the airport control tower and its impact on local operations. I contend that the money spent to put the tower into operation and staff it was wasted. For a half-century VCT was controlled out of Houston Center and there were no accidents due to a lack of local controllers. Therefore, safety wasn't the reason to open the tower. It doesn't open until after the first commercial flight of the day departs and it closes prior to the last commercial arrival, leaving it available for only one commercial turn a day. I'd be willing to wager a Whopper to a Big Mac that there are seldom more than 40 private/corporate flight operations a day. For this we need a multi-million dollar control tower and the people to man it? The emplanements are down from last year, so it doesn't seem that people are more willing to travel from VCT now that the tower is in operation. I like the fact that the manager is cleaning up the airport property to make it more appealing to people wanting to locate a business there. That's a good thing. I would hate to see Victoria lose commercial air service, but Continental cannot afford to send a half-dozen flights a day down here if there's not going to be anyone on them. Times are hard for all airlines and money losing routes are very much in jeopardy. http://www.dcexaminer.com/l... Looks to me like day one of the new regime is gonna be expensive. I can't wait to see what else is coming.
Okay, I read the proposed comics this morning. With the exception of Luann, I had never heard of any of them. Were these actually the most recomended strips by your readers in the poll? About the best that I can say for most of them is that they make Mutts look good. I didn't think THAT was possible. Sigh...Oh, well, I can still read the Chronicle comics on-line.
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