I’m rarely prone to chicken-little type sky-is-falling hysteria, but these are the types of afternoons where you really feel like the world is self destructing. Between the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the deteriorating situation on the Korean peninsula, I’m just sorely disappointed that I do not have a massive amount [...]
There is nothing in politics quite like the epic drama of an American presidential election. Now stretching over two years, when one election ends the next one begins. But our British brothers and sisters prefer the action packed thirty minute television episode to our 3 hour long movie. That action packed drama of three weeks [...]
Jon Stewart throughly cuts holes in the current al-Qaeda Seven garbage and most of the spurious straw men that the right often use to scare up votes. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
From time to time I like to update you on the situation with Sunshine Empire in Singapore. At the same time I decided to name my blog The Sunshine Empire in 2006 due to my being a Floridian, a group formed what by all accounts is a Ponzi scheme in Singapore called Sunshine Empire. After [...]
After reading the trend of Indianans renouncing their United States citizenship and declaring themselves “sovereign citizens,” I have decided to declare The Sunshine Empire an actual sovereign nation. We are now exempt from all laws and taxes because that’s what you do when your candidates in elections fail to win. Once politicians that we approve [...]
I’ve been derelict in my duties to this blog the last couple of days for a variety of reasons. On Saturday I nearly froze to death, in Florida, as my dad and I worked to build the walls of a house for Habitat for Humanity in St. Augustine. During the Sunday political shows the big [...]
The news coming out of the disaster zone in Haiti continues to be grim, and the earthquake seems to have caused untold devastation and death. Yet as much as it is fashionable to mock and criticize the United States for its foreign policy, our altruistic tradition of assistance in times of tragedy is on display [...]
I wrote at the close of the aughts that it seemed the decade was filled with disaster movie type cataclysms. We’ve all found that the topsy-turvy nature of things has continued into this decade. Earlier this week it was snowing and sleeting south of me, and I live in Florida. But in much more tragic [...]
As we reach the end of the first decade of the 21st century the news is filled with not only year end reviews but also decade end reviews. I began this decade in a simple and unglamorous fashion. In late 1999 my girlfriend’s parents at the time were paranoid Trilateral Commission types convinced that the [...]
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