by Robert in Everyday Nonsense | 2,770 views | Reading Time 3:11
What do you consider headline news? Personally, I think headline news is reserved for stories or live reports from events which have direct and immediate impact in our lives. The rest is news yes, but headline news? Today, while catching up on the latest world news, I hopped on CNN’s website and I was treated […]
by Robert in Political Beefs | 3,374 views | Reading Time 3:00
You might think I’m writing about Campbell’s Soup based upon the article title, but you would be jumping to conclusions. Today’s topic is about an article posted by CNN’s Campbell Brown. Yes, the former Today Show weekend anchor and weekday fill in who has since joined forces with CNN’s decidedly leftish approach to news reporting […]
by Robert in Television Ramblings | 2,392 views | Reading Time 2:48
I admit I regularly watch “The Today Show” on NBC each morning because when compared to its competition, it is a better avenue for “entertainment news.” Quite a while back, I wrote a story explaining my loathsome view of their additional “fourth hour” which included bringing back Kathie Lee Gifford to the television screen on […]
by Robert in Everyday Nonsense | 1,996 views | Reading Time 2:48
Following up on my promise I made in yesterday’s article, I am faithfully writing about another misuse (in my opinion) of our judicial and law enforcement time. To be honest, I truly believed my promise would not be fulfilled for at least a couple of days. Little did I know that it would be less […]
by Robert in Everyday Nonsense | 2,190 views | Reading Time 2:57
Once again, I have been rendered speechless by our justice system. In several past articles, I have stated my position on some of the distinct failings of our criminal justice system regarding consequences and punishments. However, I have run across an article detailing an absurd situation which has left me in absolute wonderment. Let me […]
by Robert in Everyday Nonsense | 2,816 views | Reading Time 2:41
While experiencing our current economic downturn, a rising tide of alarmist reporting has been unleashed upon our society. While I have written several articles describing a potentially dreary and disastrous outcome if our society and government did not act rationally and quickly to avert an even greater crisis, I have intentionally not written about the […]
by Robert in Everyday Nonsense | 2,605 views | Reading Time 3:15
Over the last month, our financial markets have been crumbling before our eyes. Stock market losses have decimated retirement accounts, bank failures have completely seized our credit markets, and our housing decline has incinerated the equity of millions of American families. The adjectives used to describe these occurrences – crumbling, decimated, seized, incinerated – pale […]
by Robert in Everyday Nonsense | 1,956 views | Reading Time 3:23
Given our current economic downturn and with little hope for a quick fix to our financial market issues, let’s spend some time thinking completely outside the box. Now, this is all hypothetical and includes some political underpinnings of some “not so great” ideologies, but go with me on this short journey and let’s hear what […]
by Robert in Everyday Nonsense | 2,604 views | Reading Time 2:49
As our government continues to try and rescue our nation’s financial markets in an effort to prevent a horrific economic freefall, we hear about one of the most outrageous and heinous uses of taxpayer money yet. AIG, a company our government deemed necessary of bailing out with federal funds, received an $85 Billion loan recently […]
by Robert in Everyday Nonsense | 2,093 views | Reading Time 3:20
Ford has announced several of their 2010 vehicle models will include technology which can “govern” the vehicle’s top speed by setting a limit of 80 miles per hour (mph). The technology comes in the form of a computer chip which resides in the key utilized for ignition. Along with capping the speed limit, warning tones […]