Category Archives: Ethics

Another Merry Christmas Video – Kinda

Ah, but it’s a familiar tune. I’m sure you’ll know it.
My only hope is, for you travellers, you are at your desired destination in time for tomorrow morning.

Merry Christmas for Fans of 24 TV Series

Not your usual Christmas Story. In fact, take Jack Bauer’s attitude here with a dozen grains of salt.

Funny, though. Hope you get a kick out of it.

UPDATE: Our Security Awareness Needs Help

Why aren’t we getting it?

Apparently there are egos that are too big to get through a door, unless their feelings are hurt when flaws in such security systems are exposed.

Gee, I always am grateful when people I work with can point out things that I can improve upon or correct. It makes for a better product and helps our customers.

What’s the problem with that DHS? Can’t you help us instead of trying to herd us?

See this news article (with video) about an airline pilot, in California. He is letting us know – the flying public – what is important for all of us to know. All this pilot wants is the job to be done right, done well.

You know what? So do the rest of us.

UPDATE: I am not the only one that thinks like this, apparently.

Crude Prices Rise Early 2011

At least, that’s according to Joe Petrowski, CEO of Gulf Oil and the Cumberland Gulf Group.

And this is all it takes folks. One person to start the ball rolling by mentioning it first. Watch others follow suit, which then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Who to thank for this? Oh, I’d say – the moratorium on oil exploration and drilling for our own country instituted by our own government.

A World Without Sanity

Judge Rules Illegal Immigrants Can Sue ICE For Rights Violations
Last Updated: Wed, 12/22/2010 – 4:17pm

A Clinton-appointed judge has given a group of illegal immigrants the green light to sue the U.S. government for violating their constitutional rights during the operation that led to their apprehension.
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Idiocy running rampant. Psst, Congress #112 – here’s a judge that definitely, most assuredly, needs replacement.

Rhode Island Atty Gen = Grinch

The Rhode Island state government, in the person of the Attorney General, who’s behind this program to destroy kids toy guns.

Feel safer now? Feel powerful now that you are manipulating kids, AG?

Can you just wrap yourself in the pathetic lapse of idiocy? Or, you did that already, yes? Yes. Looks like.

Sheesh. For Christmas yet. Tell me, AG, how much of taxpayer money did you waste on this effort to mess up children’s minds?
Come on, the voting taxpayers want to know.

More Idiocy

Christmas trees ‘make non-Christians feel excluded’
Christmas trees should be removed from public places to avoid making non-Christians feel “excluded”, scientists have suggested.

Un-freaking-incredible. What baloney, bull, shinola.

UPDATEx3: Freedom to Communicate At Risk?

Otherwise referred to as “Net Neutrality.” Tell me, what is wrong with the internet now?
I mean, other than those areas that one could restrict (if you felt necesssary AND if you would purchase software to protect your kids from) ………

Well, tomorrow the FCC will attempt to regulate the internet. I suspect they didn’t care to read the letter from the U.S. Senate.

UPDATE: Here’s how the FCC decision to implement this “net neutrality” may cost us. Yeah, this definitely needs to be challenged in court. This administration’s goal is clearly intended to drain us of most, if not all, of our discretionary income.

UPDATEx2: Another look at additional problems with this forthcoming regulation and its side-effects by the Washington Post.
Here’s one paragraph that explains the intrusiveness:

Discouragingly, the FCC is intervening to regulate the Internet because it wants to, not because it needs to. Preserving the openness and freedom of the Internet is non-negotiable; it is a bedrock principle shared by all in the Internet economy. No government action is necessary to preserve it. Acting only on speculative concerns about network operators and contrary to a decade of industry practice, the FCC is moving forward aggressively without real evidence of systemic competitive harms to cure, markets to fix or consumers to help.

UPDATEx3: Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) explained on Hannity and her website how the FCC Internet Grab will be put right by the incoming GOP.
It can’t happen soon enough. What’s more, she did an excellent job in explaining the consequences of the FCC’s actions.

And an opinion at the Denver Post:

January 2011 Cannot Come Soon Enough

And the reason? (Or, reasons – but here is just one.)

Watch out: More Obama union pay-offs in the works
By Michelle Malkin • December 20, 2010 12:18 PM

They want our money, all of it – it looks like.

Also, as of 1:00pm news today, it appears there may be enough votes to pass the START bill.

UPDATEx2: Idiocy Knows No Bounds

DHS Head Jammit Napolitano now claims a burning need to battle climate change as a security issue.

Who told her to jump out of the frying pan? Or, into it? What does temperature have to do with Homeland Security?
I mean, other than raising the heat under our collars????

Hint: Try collaring the bad guys and illegal aliens, Jammit.

UPDATE: What a load of crapola. I call BULL.

UPDATEx2: Apparently, Jammit just doesn’t get it. Her job that is. Here’s why – the family of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry slammed DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano during the funeral of their son who was murdered while protecting the Arizona border, Tuesday evening Dec. 14, 2010. And Jammit’s response? Utterly despicable.