Stacy Webber
Are You Calling Me a Pirate, Pirate? How a Treaty You’ve Never Heard of Could Steal Your Free Speech and Internet Access Forever
The movie “The Pirates of the Caribbean” is the perfect application of the phrase “It takes one to know one”. Two pirate captains, Barbossa and Jack Sparrow, battle against each other to gain power by the use of dirty tricks. Even the Royal Navy, who you would think to be the good guys, sink to the use of treachery. Moreover, the highest ranking officer, Lord Cutler Beckett, is in cahoots with the East India Trading Company and turns out to be the biggest rat aboard ship.
The message, if there is one, seems to be: Trust no one- least of all government bureaucrats.
Our government is hunting pirates in way that mirrors this movie. The Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), is a treaty between the U.S., the E.U, Australia, Canada and other countries, that tries to clampdown on Internet piracy by using pirate tactics. The ACTA is an outlaw treaty that seeks to steal one of our most precious possessions- our right to free speech. read more…
If the junk science of Global Warming aka Climate Change were a monster, it would be Dracula. Global Warming is difficult to kill. It is a seductive term that can make the wildest dreams of any Socialist come true. There is no tax or power grab that could not be mandated by the invisible threat of Global Warming. Until a few months ago, western society resembled a beautiful woman with her neck bare and ready to be sucked dry by the Global Warming vampire.
For years, there have been numerous questions surrounding the data that sustained Global Warming. However, it was the ClimateGate memos, leaked shortly before the December Global Warming Summit in Copenhagen, that provided the first glimmer of hope that this monster could be defeated. Politicians and their Igor, the media, have been pushing ahead with the Global Warming agenda despite proof that the data they use is false and manufactured. read more…
I started listening to The Glenn Beck Program in 2003. One of the things that attracted me to the show was the opening music. It went something like “Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck. Yeah, he likes the sound of his name being rung..” or something like that. It was light-hearted and self deprecating- just like Glenn. read more…
Thoughts From the Treadmill: The Future of Haiti Looks Green If We Are Willing to Go Into the Red
It has been three months since I joined the ranks of the treadmill army. I want to make sure that I’m in shape when I’m forced to walk through the new body scanner at the airport. My routine consists of 45 minutes of pure torture and utter boredom. The machine that I use has a display that counts down the minutes for you. Its square, red text tries to cheer you on with…”Only blank more minutes to go!”
I’ll never get used to the concept of walking and running for miles but never getting anywhere. I am always haunted by the image of George Jetson screaming “Jane! Get me off this crazy thing!” The upside to my daily visit to the health club is that I have the opportunity to watch to watch twelve T.V. screens at the same time. It is during these workouts that I analyze the world from the picture drawn by these 12 screens. read more…
