I got into a heated discussion with a co-worker of mine concerning the upcoming movie United 93 that chronicles what happened on Flight 93 on September 11th. To be honest, he was much more heated than I but I digress. My co-worker’s main point was that Hollywood’s “sickenly liberal bias and lack of morality” is why they would “exploit the heroes of Flight 93 with a bullshit movie so soon”. I replied that there were movies made about World War II during and soon after World War II like Gung Ho! (1943), The Way Ahead (1944), and Go for Broke! (1951). I emphasized...

Being a dictator, I was overly happy with the bashing of freed journalist Jill Carroll by assorted right wackaroon blogs. Cause I knew the left was going to retiliate and a cyber chaos war would start! YIPPEE! We dictators love chaos because it opens up gaping holes for us to slide through and take over. And the icing on the cake is Jill Carroll actually telling what really happened after arriving at Ramstein Air Base. I particularly shiver with delight at this statement she made: “At any rate, fearing retribution from my captors, I did not speak freely. Out of fear I said I wasn’t...

The Confederate Flag never affects me emotionally. I see it and it’s just there. Oh I’m well aware of the symbolism of the Confederate Flag. Succeeding from the union, the African slave trade, the Civil War; I’m fully briefed. Yet I feel absolute nothing when I see it. Being the child of two former Black Panthers, you would probably think that I was ready to kick some serious ass when that flag is raised. Nope. All that false outrage is bad for the stomach. Yes I call it false outrage when people react negatively to the Confederate Flag. Why, pray tell, would a black...

I wrote a piece back on 06/27/2005 called “Damn! I’m made in China“. A very inspired piece if I say so. For those that don’t want to go to the article, here are my money words: Those damn pesky Iraq insurgents/terrorists/facists/Islamo-facists/evil-do’ers can’t shake a stick at those running The People’s Republic of China Corporation. The China execs just say the hell with all that annoying blood, bombshells, and bullets with ol’ America. They’ll rather buy 115-year old U.S. energy stalwarts and make a grab for all our “consume it all...

My phone was jumping off the hook today as family members in New York City called me to vent about the NYC transit workers’ (TWU) strike. Two uncles, four aunts, and ten cousins all called me today. Being the type of guy I am, I was very entertained by my family. They are so animated and funny. But I felt for them. I’ve been to NYC numerous times and mass transportation is the transportation. Wish we had similar here in the Detroit Metro area but that’s an entirely different issue. Donkey Stomp basically sums up how I’m starting to feel about the strike: $55,000 a...

Sometimes when I look at the stock market, I get awed and repulsed at the same time. Awed sometimes by the fact of pure capitalism at work. Tremendous amounts of money literally flowing between financial and corporate entities. Deals, trades, etc. The business of America is business, indeed. Repulsed sometimes by the fact of pure capitalism at work. Tremendous amounts of money literally flowing between financial and corporate entities. Deals, trades, etc. The business of America is business, indeed yet knowing that if you aren’t a player, your just a unit of value being shuffled to...

The Christmas season is just a lovely time of year. Just driving through the neighborhood seeing the Christmas trees in the windows of homes. I love that more than the lights. Something about the Christmas tree that just hits me. Then I get nostalgic. Thinking about my mother and father carrying my siblings and I out to the various stores just to soak in the Christmas atmosphere. We would go by Montgomery Ward, Sears, Best Products, Service Merchandise, JCPenny, and Hudson’s for starters. Everyone of those stores had beautiful Christmas displays. My siblings and I would be just enraptured...

*crickets chirping* Damn I make good S’mores… Hey baby, you really need to try these S’mores. *brief time period elapses* Told ya they were good.

If you look at it from a honest angle, doesn’t the whole argument about how much oil there is, refinery capacity, and alternative fuels just a waste of good oxygen? Why? Well many of us in the United States believe either: 1. That oil will not run our in our lifetimes so why worry. 2. That people that talk about oil running out are fear-mongers. 3. The market always correctly deals with issues like this. 4. That I have more pressing life issues than oil running out. So why even talk about this issue? The hardest mind to change is a American in pure market belief mode. And with our...

Francis Porrento muses about the wonders of the day known as Black Friday. For those not in the United States, this is day after the Thanksgiving holiday (today) where shoppers rush to retailers to buy gifts for the lovely upcoming Christmas holiday. As Francis points out, people are rarely civil on Black Friday: …Black Friday seems to bring out the very worst of shoppers’ behavior — and in tandem with it, the most appalling, universal sense of unmet entitlement, as if someone had guaranteed each and every one of those folks that he’d find what he was looking for in the...