It is time to wave goodbye to the year 2008 and welcome in the New Year of 2009! They say time waits for no one but it seems like just yesterday we were welcoming 2008. Sigh! So whether you plan on celebrating by gazing at tonight’s New Years celestial wonder celebration, then taking a long [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Happy New Year
Posted in Current Events, Life, News, Quad Cities, tagged Culture, New Year, personal, thoughts on December 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Israel on the Gaza Conflict – War to the Bitter End
Posted in Culture, Current Events, Fleecing the Sheep, Life, News, Politics, Scalawags, Scoundrels, Stupid is as Stupid Does, Wheres the Beef!, government, tagged Israel, Middle East, opinion, thoughts on December 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Israel is claiming the current Gaza assault is – “War to the Bitter End.” I suppose “the bitter end” is adaptable to whatever the two sides eventually determine what those words define. And despite the facts that this battle is just a reflection of a much longer and larger never-ending conflict for the whole region, [...]
Just Saying No to More Passwords
Posted in Current Events, Fleecing the Sheep, Life, News, Quad Cities, Wheres the Beef!, tagged blogging, media, opinion, personal, thoughts on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I suppose I am like a lot of Internet users in that I read a lot of my news from one or more of my local new services. I generally spend my news reading time at Quad City Online’s or over at the Quad City Time’s website. Like many others I enjoy reading and exchanging [...]
Post Christmas – Pre New Years Thoughts
Posted in Baseball, Culture, Current Events, Fleecing the Sheep, Good Samaritans, Illinois, Life, MLB, NFL, News, Politics, Quad Cities, Scalawags, Scoundrels, Sports, Wheres the Beef!, government, tagged Chicago Bears, Chicago Cubs, Christmas, Democrats, New Year, thoughts, USA on December 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I took the last few days off from the blogging world. I hope everyone had the best Christmas they could. My Christmas was not an oil gusher but it was better and more fun than past Christmas’s since my mothers death a few years ago. The only downside was one person did not make it [...]
Merry Christmas
Posted in Culture, Current Events, Illinois, Life, Quad Cities, Wheres the Beef!, tagged Christmas, family, thoughts, USA on December 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Merry Christmas
from theScoundrel
Human Cloning -Immortality-Investment–Incest- A Brave New World Production
Posted in Current Events, Life, Politics, Scoundrels, Wheres the Beef!, tagged children, cloning, family, health, opinion, sex, thoughts, USA on December 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
What do infertile couples, homosexuals, grieving families and financial investors all have in common? Well they are the advertising targets of a company started in 1997 with connected with a UFO group called the Raëlian movement. The group advocates cloning as the path to immortality. That company is called Clonaid. The company specializes in animal [...]
California – Sue the Hero for Saving Your Life
Posted in Current Events, Fleecing the Sheep, Good Samaritans, News, Wheres the Beef!, government, tagged California, Culture, hollywood, Law and Order, thoughts, USA on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have lost track of the times I have seen Arnold Schwarzenegger and other Hollyweird celebrities sweet-talking TV viewers/potential tourists to come to California and fall in love with the State. I have never been there but it must be a great place since their dairy advertisements keep telling me happy cows and great cheese- [...]