Archive for the 'General' Category

Vote for Freedom

The War on, well, Everything, is a bust.
The War on Terror incites terrorism and, by it’s very existence and the politics behinds it, makes people afraid. I would say the Department of Homeland Security with it’s ridiculous color coded alert system has fomented more terror than Osama Bin Laden. Osama and his band of Al […]

The Candy Cane Story

The story goes that the candy cane was created as a symbol of Jesus. It’s a really nice story but it isn’t true.
I find no fault in the spread of the story among well meaning people but I wonder who made this up and spread it around?
How much of actual, real, history will be lost […]

Romney - Flipping or Flopping

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/122086.html
Synopsis: Romney runs a radio ad condemning cities for giving sanctuary to illegal immigrants. He says if he’s President that he will stop it. It turns out that when he was Gov. of Massachusetts he applied no pressure to sanctuary cities in his own state.

I’m sure he has steadfast […]

Xeriscaping and Saint George

The Spectrum has a poll up asking if Xeriscaping should be required by law.  The obvious answer to that question is no.
If water is so scarce in southern Utah then why is it so cheap?  When I lived in Wisconsin, not 30 miles from a Great Lake,  I paid @$30 a month for water and […]