Tropical Hurricane Chris Could Cause Catastrophic Chaos and Catastrophe

The 2006 Atlantic Tropical Hurricane Season is about to get underway and it will be a significant season although it got off to a late start. Perhaps, it will not be as bad as the 2005 Atlantic tropical hurricane season, but we will see some significant hurricanes. Next up to bat is Hurricane Chris and Hurricane Chris could be a catastrophic category hurricane causing severe chaos and catastrophe.

TB Outbreak on Aircraft Carrier

A Tuberculosis out break has happened on the USS Ronald Reagan Aircraft Carrier, but this should not surprise anyone because a small floating city of 4000 people is isolated from the rest of the world and this can easily happen. In prison populations tuberculosis is a common occurrence in something that prison officials always have to worry about.

Drug Legalization: The Beginning of the End

The hidden consequences of drug legalization.

Flowers in Purgatory: Today’s Prisons Going Green

It's not surprising that Tony Perez enjoys his time in the garden. “It’s wonderful … to watch it grow from nothing to something ... ,” said Perez. “It allows you to get your mind thinking about what’s next in life.” It is surprising where the garden is located -- in the Purgatory Correctional Facility in Utah, where Perez is an inmate...

Do Utilities Have An Obligation To Provide Clean Power?

We contract with an electrical utility to supply are homes and businesses with power. Is it reasonable for us to assume that the energy that is supplied and the method used to supply it, is clean and safe? Apparently not!

Mel Gibson Comments Expose the Obvious

Gibson's comments classic Hollywood overkill. If comments said about most groups no big deal would be made out of it. Distortions of Hollywood and media truly gross

Tropical Storm Chris Preparing to Pummel Puerto Rico

Tropical Storm Chris is whipping up after forming in less than 24-hours and going from a Tropical Depression to a Tropical Storm with 50 mph sustained winds and growing. In its path lie Puerto Rico, which is preparing for a pummeling. This is the Third named Storm of the 2006 Atlantic Tropical Hurricane Season.

Hunger and Poverty in America: The Myth Of Meritocracy

In respect to hunger & poverty in America, the U.S. people believe in a myth. The real myth is NOT that hunger and poverty don't exist within America. The real myth in America is the myth of meritocracy - the myth that the poor are just lazy and stupid.

Cape Verde Season; A Hurricane Season within a Season

What is the Cape Verde Season? What does it have to do with the Hurricanes in the United States if Cape Verde is in Africa? Well the Cape Verde Hurricane Season as far as we are concerned in the United States is actually a season within

Heat Wave - How to Protect Ourselves from It

To protect your health from increasing heat the U.S. Department of Health And Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued these guidelines

Protect Your Child from Sex Offenders—Practice Appropriate Suspicion

If you fail to heed your intuitive signals you will then accept its diabolic competitor, the denial process. Denial protects us from what we do not want to know. Denial eliminates the discomfort of accepting the horrific reality we do not want to acknowledge. As with intuition, denial prompts recognizable signals. If you detect these signals within yourself, you can stop and ask yourself an empowering and powerful question: “What am I stopping myself from knowing?”

How To Choose Fine Art Paintings By Realist Painters

Realism in art is defined in the same way as it would be in literature; it is the rendering of the subject matter as it really is without being embellished or putting one's personal influence on it.

Blood Lust

In the Torah or Old Testament books of law, a wise and knowing God provided public blood letting executions to satisfy the blood lust of a certain minority of mostly young male thugs. These public blood lettings served a higher purpose. They were family affairs. Parents brought their children and lovingly explained to them, this is what happens when you break the rules. Do you think this might empower parents and provide them great authority in the home?

How Sex Offenders Groom Their Victims

A mother revealed her husband played a tickling game with their three-year-old son. The rules of the game was to play with Daddy and have fun—the son was instructed to tickle his father’s nipples while sitting in a straddled position over his father’s nude body from the waist up. The object of this game was, ‘Make daddy laugh.’ Of course, the father could withhold laughing until he experienced the sexual stimulation he desired. When the mother objected to this game, the father admonished her for being jealous of his time with their son.