For an UPDATE on this issue, scroll down to the section heading that reads UPDATE: September 9, 2010. After an extended summer break, I’ve returned to the blogosphere with a story that has been burning up the airwaves … or whatever passes for them anymore. Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida, has fallen into the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘violence’
Kyrgyz Clashes
Posted in General Mischief, tagged ABC, action, ammunition, appointment, arm, automatic, Bahkiev, Bakiev, Bakiyev, Bishkek, capitol, change, cheat, clash, CNN, concussion grenade, conscience, corrupt, cost, coup, damage, dead, demonstration, depose, determination, excessive, fair, fight, fire, force, freedom, government, governor, guard, gun, handgun, hostage, hurt, injure, interim, justice, killed, Kurmanbek, Kyrgyz, Kyrgyzstan, leader, malfeasance, mass, media, moral, news, Nightline, non-lethal, opposition, Otunbayeva, oust, police, politics, populace, population, power, president, price, protest, rebel, republic, resign, resignation, resolution, retaliat, riot, Rosa, Roza, rubber bullet, Russia, sharpshooter, sub-machine, Talas, tear gas, unarm, United States, unjust, USSR, utility, vehicle, video, violence, water cannon, weapon, White House, witness, wound on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve watched the world news or read a bit online, you’ve probably seen something about the riots in Kyrgyzstan, a former USSR republic that borders China and just tried to oust its president. Protesting masses took to the streets demanding a change in government, the president fled, hundreds of police were summoned to quell [...]
Notes on George
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged abnormal, alone, anger, behavior, brain, Bridgeville, church, dangerous, death, decision, depressed, depression, disbelief, disturbing, emotion, frustration, George Sodini, God, gym, hell, homicidal, homicide, hope, hopeless, impulse, Institute of Psychiatry, irritation, joyless, killing, King's College, London, loneliness, lost, love, melancholy, misogynist, misogyny, murder, negative, out-of-control, pastor, Pennsylvania, personal, Pittsburgh, Plato, postive, psychopath, psychopathic, psychosis, psychotic, relationship, resent, sarcasm, self-defeat, shooting, spite, suicidal, suicide, unstable, violence, women on August 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am going away on business for a few weeks but wanted to post before I left. Now then, this is still a fresh and highly contentious subject so please navigate away from this page after the following paragraph if it is too sensitive a subject for you. My thoughts are often … unconventional … [...]
Harping On A Theme
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, Readings, tagged abortion, airport, American, and Political Climate, and Recruitment, assessment, attack, autonomy, bias, Christian, Chuck Baldwin, conservative, conspiracy, county, Crackers Beware, Current Economic, dangerous, Debra J. Saunders, Debra Saunders, Democrat, Department of Homeland Security, destruction, detain, DHS, dire motive, dissent, domestic, Everett, exception, extremism, Extremism report, facts, fearmonger, federal, free trade, Fueling Resurgence, government, Gulf War, gun control, harm, Herald, home-grown, Homeland insecurity, I&A, ideal, in Radicalization, knife, law, law enforcement, lone wolf, militant, militia, Missouri, Mt. Baker, NAFTA, national forest, nationwide, newspaper, non-violent, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Oklahoma City bomber, organization, paraphenalia, planning, political, report, rhetoric, Rightwing Extremism, same sex marriage, SanFrancisco Chronicle, Seattle, sensitive, sludge, Snohomish, Snoqualmie, state, supremacist, suspect, suspicious, terrorism, terrorist cell, threat, Tim McVeigh, veteran, violence, violent, Washington, Washington D.C., white on April 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Okay, I know I’ve posted nothing since coming back but I have to re-visit a recent topic before I can in good conscience move on to post anything new. In my travels I picked up a newspaper which had been discarded in a hotel lobby. You may ask why, when it would normally be more [...]