Entries Tagged as 'Unfortunate Realities'

Why some western men commit suicide in Thailand Part 2

So when It comes to allowing a man dignity Thailand works to insure it with stinging laws and heavy jail time. Places where political correctness exist simply strip away a persons dignity one layer at a time, and a person without dignity is not a person at all. [Read more →]

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Why some western men commit suicide in Thailand Part 1

Thailand is a lot of different things to a lot of different people. To some people it is a retreat from the world they came from, and to others it allows them to find what was taken away. [Read more →]

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Controversy over controversy

Bad books

If you ever want to make a lot of money fast, write something controversial, wait for somebody who is riding their high horse of morals, ethics, and political correctness to complain about it, then charge people to read it. Once you do this, people will always come back to read more. [Read more →]

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Pushing back at China

Over the past several years China has slowly been pushing to extend it’s controls past it’s borders. But now it seems they have come to a point that enough is enough. [Read more →]

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Toyota caught in the middle

There is a saying that no good deed goes unpunished. The Toyota accelerator peddle problem seems to be proving that saying to be true. [Read more →]

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Global warming point of no return

In some disaster movies there is an ingenious idiot that seems to bypass or disable some safety feature or failsafe causing a horrendous catastrophe. As with all good movies, they have their basis in reality, and in Copenhagen during the last chance climate summit we may have just seen that happen. [Read more →]

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Thaksin’s red shirts depriving Thais in need

There is a point protest cease being protests and start harming the community by harming people. Thaksin’s red shirt have clearly passed that point and are now it the process of denying people any and all assistance from the government. [Read more →]

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Ripping off the sick

health-care-ripoffFrom time to time there is a story that pushes your buttons and just makes you angry. Ripping off people is bad enough, but when a reputable hospital starts ripping off sick patients, that just makes people angry. [Read more →]

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One size fits all doesn’t fit

When it comes to zero tolerance, the brainless one size fits all punishment most certainly has its flaws and then some. The number of cases that do not fit the punishment is significant enough to prove this policy to be an embarrassment. [Read more →]

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Religious revolt

Long have past the days when news was delivered by courier or a stranger who may be passing through the village. Long have past the days where religion was a tool of power less one religion. Seeing that news can now travel in an instant to anyplace and everyplace, eyes are being opened and conclusions are being drawn by people who still live under the punishment whip. [Read more →]

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US political carnage on horizon

With the scent of racism in the air in the United States, standing too close to the source of that scent may prove to be more contagious and more politically fatal than the H1N1 swine flu. With that said, the US has become a political minefield overnight. [Read more →]

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Whiffs of racism in US

It has been suggested by some that the political problems President Obama is facing may be tied to latent racism. The virtually unheard of outburst by Congressman Joe Wilson does have other flavors than just disagreement. [Read more →]

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Attacked blogs make antibodies

Blog antibodies

It is just the way things are today, when some government attacks a blog, other blogs respond talking about the attack and what was said on the blog. So unless it was out and out against a law on the books of a country, repercussions can make more waves than the original blog. [Read more →]

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Taught to hate

We hear about war and conflict all the time. In fact we hear about it so much we start to think we are incapable of having a peaceful planet. But when we see children of warring cultures playing together, we come to see that the desire for conflict and hate was something we were taught and not something we were born with. [Read more →]

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