From Our Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent
The media has chosen for the most part to ignore the disastrous flooding in Louisiana because lower level, lacking in entertainment value, disasters don’t follow their news agenda guidelines. The current news coverage of the devastation pales in comparison to the 24-7 coverage of Katrina in 2005. Continue reading
Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent-Deforestation has been a practice in developing countries and the United States for some time, and it has impacted the environment in both positive and negative ways. Most of the ill effects of deforestation are caused by corporations, companies, and individuals wanting to extract as many valuable resources and other byproducts as they can from heavily forested areas. They quickly move on to other spaces while using unsafe and illegal practices, which not only perpetuate greed, unchecked deforestation, and inefficient agricultural procedures, but government neglect. Continue reading
Gastonia, NC Correspondent-I am a hardcore supporter of the Olympics, and I still believe that the Games allow us to showcase what is best in us and lets countries that might be nearly in states of active war compete on a level playing field. (Much more level now that the Russians have been busted for their doping ways.) Continue reading
Sheffield, Jamaica Correspondent-I’m a highly religious individual. In fact, I’m so devout that I’ve dedicated my entire life to a course of preaching, so that people can enjoy the hope and happiness I have. Getting to know God is wonderful! Since we received everything from God, I believe that we should give freely. That includes those so called religious leaders, of which the majority are spreading false doctrines to swindle people of the hard earned cash. In fact, some religious leaders profess that they are able to provide miraculous healing (for money), to rid individuals of their ailments. What garbage! If they had the power to heal, why are so many individuals dying from cancer? Continue reading
Owatonna, MN Correspondent-Video gamers are absolutely not athletes. A partial definition of the word athlete, from the Encarta Dictionary, is “somebody with the abilities to participate in physical exercise.” (emphasis is mine) Sitting on a sofa or at a desk, manipulating a joystick or computer keyboard, can in no way be construed as physical exercise. It’s unlikely one’s heart rate increases when playing a video game. A gamer’s respiration doesn’t increase. They likely do not break a sweat or experience oxygen-deprived muscle aches due to the buildup of excess lactic acid. Metabolism is certainly not elevated noticeably in those who play video games. Continue reading
Owatonna, MN Correspondent-Euthanizing many alligators in search of the alligator that snatched the child was necessary on one level, but unnecessary on another. The human desire to see justice done, to understand why, to place blame, and to right a wrong dictate that the offending alligator needed to be found. Since more than one alligator was in the vicinity and presumably hiding in the water, which made it nearly impossible to identify the culprit, multiple alligators had to be killed. Continue reading
Gastonia, NC Correspondent-“Sin” taxes are nothing new. Every time a municipal, state or federal government needs to raise some fast cash, it slaps new taxes on things we feel guilty for using anyway, such as alcohol or tobacco. The voices against such increases are muted because no one wants to be seen as championing an unhealthy lifestyle choice, even though most of us down a highball to calm our nerves after contemplating what the new taxes will cost us. Continue reading
Gastonia, NC Correspondent-We in this country spend entirely too much time looking for prejudice under every rock. Are there people in the world who are prejudiced? Yep! They’re called humans. Every single blessed one of us has prejudices. We are hardwired to have them. Humans are a tribal society, and as much as the granola-ridden do-gooders would love to have us believe it, we are NOT all one tribe. Continue reading
Myrtle Beach, SC, Orlando, FL June 13, 2016
Myrtle Beach Correspondent-Let me start by saying I’m not a parent so you can take my opinion with a grain of salt. That being said this is probably not a case of a “bad mother” more-so a case of “bad-judgment” or lack of common sense.
It is said that the small boy had expressed his desires to get close to the gorilla and even expressed his desires to enter the enclosure. So… why didn’t she place the child in a stroller and strap him in? Why didn’t she decide to leave? Why didn’t she decide to carry the boy? Well, I’m not her I can’t say why these things didn’t happen. All I can say is anyone with common sense would have done any of them. Continue reading
Owatonna, MN Correspondent-The knee-jerk reaction is to think, “Of course we should ban the use of pesticides. They are poisonous, sometimes carcinogenic, and often harm wildlife or beneficial plants.” One of the best-known examples of successfully banning a pesticide took place in the 1970s when the World Health Organization (WHO) banned the chemical DDT in response to a its strong link to causing cancer as well as having negative consequences on populations of such species as the American Bald Eagle and peregrine falcon. Continue reading
Thinking Outside The Boxe 