Content Published on Jan 01, 2008 - Opinion and Editorial
- What Would You Do with $100,000 a Year for Life?I was one number away from winning $100,000 a year for life. Here is a mythical look at what my life would be like had I actually won.
- Vindication!Wassup471's top 10 list of teams/people in sports who really, really want that feeling of vindication. I promise you won't have thought of a few on this list!
- Vindiaction- College Football Edition!Looking over the bowl season, some of the naysayers about Hawaii, the Rose Bowl, and Missouri being left out of the BCS are being made to look smart. And that's just the beginning!
- Free Thought Isn't FreeMy response to perhaps the most offenesive term used by atheists.
- Women Writers to Watch on the AC in 2008The Associated Content boasts hundreds of prolific, professional writers, male and female. Yet, our culture, as liberated as we are, still many women feel it unladylike to promote their own work, as deserved as it may be.
- Finding Christian Writers on ACGod Bless You All! I am glad I found you!
- Should Children Be Exposed to People with Special Needs?Exposing children to people with special needs ought to be part of their earliest social development. It builds caring, compassionate and sensitive human beings and is mutually enriching.
- BECOMING a LESSER GODBecoming a paramedic opened up a whole world to me I had no idea existed.
- New York City: The Crowdsanger with crowds
- In and Outs of Prison LifeLife in prison incorporates a little bit of television
- Prisons and Personal Freedomfreedom in Prison is non existant.
- Members of the Indianapolis Colts Give Back to Their Community Through a Variety of CharitiesThe Indianapolis Colts are known for their football success, as the team won the most recent world Super Bowl. Players and coaches are also actively involved in giving back to the community through a variety of charities.
- Reasons Why the United States Should Adopt the Metric System95% of the people in the world live in countries with the metric system. Here are some reasons the United States should become one of those countries...
- America the Free..... Yeah Right!!!! it is Time to Take a Stand!!Do you know where your hard earned tax dollars go? What you are paying for? Americans are being screwed in so many ways. timae to take a stand!
- December 2007 Oklahoma Ice StormThe December Oklahoma 2007 ice storm put nearly 1/2 million homes without power for days.
- The Camel - African, Arabian or Amercian?Herlded as the 'ships of the desert' the Camel now symbolises the nomadic ways of the Arabian and North African deserts. But the nomads have America to thank for their hardy and reliable transportation.
- First Round NFL Playoff PredictionsFirst round of the NFL playoffs.
- The Jury's Still Out: Ravens Fire BillickThe Baltimore Ravens decided to part with long-time coach Brian Billick on Monday after nine seasons.
- Icy Road, Bad Weather, Lack of Plowing Sends Denver AC Producer into Snow BankFor the past two weeks leading up to and even on Christmas day (an unusual treat for the mile high city) we in Denver have had snow. It was the White Christmas snow that affected me.
- NFL (Wacky) Wild Card Playoff PredictionsMark my words: a team from one of these games will make it to the Super Bowl, bruised and severely battle-tested. Teams like Seattle and New England, in recent memory, have accomplished this feat.
- NFL Wild Card Weekend PredictionsA breakdown of the opening week of the playoffs
- Baltimore Ravens Look Ahead after Firing Brian BillickWhy Billick was fired, where he may go and who will possibly replace him as head coach of the Ravems.
- Ravens Fire Brian BillickThe coaching change is justified with such a poor season after such a successful season a year ago and with such high expectations going into this season.
- Predictions for the NFL Wild Card Match-upsWith the play-off brackets now set, it is time to look at the match-ups for the first round of the 2008 NFL Play-offs.
- What's the Baltimore Ravens Next Move After the Firing of Brian Billick?Names are already floating around about who the next coach in Baltimore needs to be, but who winds up there is anyone's guess.
- Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana Photos Are Completely InnocentWhile some sources have described photos of Cyrus with a friend as racy, the singer/actress insists the situation was completely innocent.
- Where Are the Miami Dolphins Headed in 2008?As Bill Parcells sends a hurricane through the front office its only a matter of time before the players are backed into a corner.
- Bush Exercises Pocket Veto of Defense Appropriations BillPresident George W. Bush refuses to authorize the Defense Authorization Act of 2008, citing the inclusion of a section that could freeze tens of billions of dollars in Iraqi assets
- Michael Bloomberg : is He Buying His Way to the White House? Should He?Rumblings of Michael Bloomberg getting into the run for the White House have surfaced. He's a billionaire, yes billionaire. Does he have the credentials to be president? Or is he going to buy his way to the White House?
- Asia News: Tuesday, January 1, 2008 - 16 or More Taliban Killed in AfghanistanWe often hear of death of our American troops. While tragic, and certainly newsworthy, death of the U.S. troops is only part of the story.
- Belrad Universe #3This is a transcript of Belrad Universe, show #3, from December 31st, 2007, with a link to an unedited recording of the broadcast.
- Belrad Universe #2This is a transcript of The Belrad Universe Show, #2, from December 24th, 2007, with a link to an unedited recording of the broadcast.
- Facts on Where We Were One Hundred Years Ago!Browsing through some old pictures of my family around the year 1910 and saying goodbye to 2007, I began to think how far we have come in one hundred years.
- Book Review: Flags of Our Fathers -- James Bradley with Ron PowersJames Bradley has written (with Ron Powers) an extremely revealing and entertaining biography about his father and the other five men that raised the American flag on Iwo Jima.
- Book Review: Hammered -- Elizabeth BearHammered delivers a train of well-wriiten plot on the rails of a dark futuristic society that is all-too believable, and where computers, virtual reality, and nanotechnology are changing the face of what it is to be human...
- Book Review: the Unknown Soldier -- Gerald SeymourI'm not even going to beat around the bush, give a synopsis, or laud this book before I say this: This is the best thriller I have read since Day of the Jackal.
- Are You Ready for 2008It's a new year. We face war, presidential elections, an questionable economy and world scene, but the real question is are you ready for what God wants to do in YOUR life?