Posted By:  jimmiles Posted On:  Aug 4, 2008	USS Hamul
I was so tickled today to receive an email from my sister Sherry.  Sherry was second born of us five, an occupational therapist living in Colorado with her husband, Gary.  They love hiking and taking pictures of their adventures.  She often sends me pictures and albums.  But today she pointed...... [view]

Posted By:  jimmiles Posted On:  Jul 30, 2008	Smile - Big Brother Is Watching
Thanks to tomdispatch.com for this: On November 14, 2002, the New York Times published a column by William Safire entitled “You Are a Suspect” in which he revealed that DARPA had been given a $200 million budget to compile dossiers on 300 million Americans. He wrote, “Every...... [view]

Posted By:  jimmiles Posted On:  Jul 20, 2008	Disappointing Summer Movies
It’s been a disappointing summer for blockbusters, for me. I had so many sure-fire hits lined up on my Gotta-See list: Wanted, Hancock, Hellboy II. How can you go wrong when you’ve got A-list stars like Angelina, Morgan Freeman, Will Smith, Ron Perlman? Directors like Guillermo Del...... [view]

Posted By:  cjneil Posted On:  Oct 21, 2007	been a while
hardly posting much here these days - putting everything as a note or a posted item on my facebook! ah facebook ... i live with you. anyway, going to post some stuff now :) hope you are all amazing. ... [view]

Posted By:  cjneil Posted On:  Jun 19, 2007	Greed is Good? Wall Street
remember gordon gecko, in the movie wall street? 'greed is good' is the mantra ... Greed no longer so good on Wall Street http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/greed-no-longer-so-good/2007/06/19/1182019079427.html June 19, 2007 - 12:05PM Wall Street's push for record profits is ruining...... [view]

Posted By:  cjneil Posted On:  Apr 26, 2007	Escaping the Matrix
http://www.precaution.org/lib/07/prn_the_matrix.070208.htm ESCAPING THE MATRIX By Tim Montague In the movie, The Matrix, a computer hacker named Neo (played by Keanu Reeves) is living an ordinary life in what he thinks is 1999. However, when he is contacted by the enigmatic character,...... [view]

Posted By:  cjneil Posted On:  Apr 23, 2007	and they wonder why we laugh at them for being stupid
oh sweet baby jesus, here is another gem from the land of the raving lunatics with guns! gun advocates on the offensive to say the virginia tech massacre was BECAUSE EVERYONE DIDN'T HAVE A GUN rather than lax gun control. my lord. this just made me laugh far too much. +++++ More...... [view]

Posted By:  cjneil Posted On:  Feb 18, 2007	Beware the Evil Hat!!!
An insightful quote from George Bush Jr on who is behind all the evil in the world ... "Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against those hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat." - Sept 17 2004 i'm wondering why the US and its...... [view]

Posted By:  cjneil Posted On:  Jan 28, 2007	a collection of monday morning stories ...
first up, the situation in sudan ... i hadn't heard of this before. man its scary. must take some courage to go and work there!!! i'm not sure i would be up to it. what should be done? part of me says that they should have armed peacekeepers stationed with the aid agencies and enact the kind of...... [view]

Posted By:  patriciak Posted On:  Dec 4, 2006	Fiji Coup Crisis
Once again, 4th time in less than 20 years, Fiji is in a state of Coup. They have promised that this will be a bloodless coup…lets hope so. There wasn’t any deaths in the 2000 coup…but the atrocities that occurred were just plain old stupid. Jobs were lost, the economy was going...... [view]

Posted By:  patriciak Posted On:  Nov 29, 2006	Hotel Rwanda
Yes, I finally found time to watch the movie.....and wow! It is incredible. Human insanity. Hatred. Compassion. How do stuff like that happen in our world? How does these types of hatred breed in todays world? And how did we just turn our backs? and things like this are still...... [view]