The flaw of the Democratic Representation is that politicians will ignore long term problems for short term gains. Everyone is familiar with politicians kicking cans down the road so they can get elected today. But, ironically, sometimes this happens in reverse. To my non-US readers, the U.S. Immigration Bill in Congress would effectively grant amnesty…
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Illegal Immigration: Serfs for Feminists
In politics, issues come and go. However, there comes a time when an issue does not sit squarely on a single political side, yet, the issue is huge. The issue is so big that, unless addressed, it gives rise to a third party candidate to disrupt the status quo. In American politics we have several each…
An email from Portugal…
Italics = Emailer Regular Text = o grande, espantar-se, e o Pook magnífico! Now, as you may be aware, Portugal was under the Salazarist dictatorship till ’74. Although there were many problems with this regime way of thinking and acting, such as extreme censorship, one of the things held in a high place by those…
RIP Eternal Bachelor
Eternal Bachelor blog is no more. All the archives are also gone. It is up to Duncan to whether he explains more on the complete shutting down of his blog. The removal of the archives strikes me a little suspicious. There were two problems with Eternal Bachelor blog: One, it was becoming very popular. Two, Duncan had…
American Women Suck forum taken down
Like Voltaire, I always believe in free speech. Words are just words. But it amazes me how people want to ban and delete websites/speech that goes against what they believe. Or, rather, they only interpret it as ‘hate speech’ and demand it go away. You might ask, “Pook, why do they have such a reaction…
Has Thailand fallen to Jihad?
It is beginning to look that way. BANGKOK, Thailand – Thailand’s army commander staged a coup Tuesday night and ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra while he was in New York, circling his offices with tanks, declaring martial law and revoking the constitution. Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin, who is known to be close to Thailand’s revered monarch…
No Compromise in Religious War
While I’m not sure what Daily Show’s intention of the below clip is, it has swerved into a huge truth. The conflicts of the Middle East and, perhaps, the World are political or financial. They are religious. There are diplomats who say one must compromise with Islam. This would be a funny thing to observe…
Teacher’s Gender Affects Learning
Dee found that having a female teacher instead of a male teacher raised the achievement of girls and lowered that of boys in science, social studies and English. Looked at the other way, when a man led the class, boys did better and girls did worse. The study found switching up teachers actually could narrow…
Too much oil
If you are a doomster, please do not read this article: “The world has only consumed about 18 percent of its conventional potential,” Jum’ah said, contending that should lay to rest fears that the world is in danger of being tapped out within a few decades. Oh no! This means even if we don’t discover…
The Path to 9-11
I just finished watching the show, “The Path to 9-11,” which was only interrupted in the middle by a speech by the President. If you missed it, I would see it. By documenting and re-creating the series of events up to the hi-jackings, the show finally put 9-11 into tragedy. Tragedy is a word so…