http://www.rited.com/blog The World According to James Tue, 05 May 2009 20:05:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_127" align="alignleft" width="116" caption="Columbus and his contemporaries knew the Earth was round."][/caption] Many believe that Christopher Columbus proved that the Earth was round. This is because everyone thought the Earth was flat at the time. This is absolutely false. People knew the Earth was round in ancient Egypt and Ancient ... http://www.rited.com/blog/general/myth-flat-earth-discrediting-christians/ [caption id="attachment_117" align="alignleft" width="193" caption="Illegal Immigrants and Wage Slavery"][/caption] After reading The Jungle, I thought about situations today where we have conditions some what similar to Packingtown. What occurred to me is that we do have this with illegal aliens. They live outside of our laws and are taken advantage of ... http://www.rited.com/blog/social-justice/wage-slavery-illegal-immigration/ [caption id="attachment_99" align="alignleft" width="148" caption="Upton Sinclair's The Jungle"][/caption] I recently finished the book the Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I wanted to read this book, first for the socialist agenda that it puts forth. Sinclair made no bones about it. He went to Chicago to make the mantra of the working class. ... http://www.rited.com/blog/social-justice/jungle-upton-sinclair/ [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="168" caption="I'm with stupid!"][/caption] http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/news/economy/obama_cabinet_costcutting/?postversion=2009042016 So the President is trying to cut 100 million dollars from the federal budget. Wow don't hurt yourself considering how small that is compared to the Federal Budget. The problem is that people actually think that matters. Well you got to start some where ... http://www.rited.com/blog/national-politics/obama-administration-thinks-stupid/ I am a dog lover. I think dogs have a very special relationship with humans. We are very blessed to have such loyal and helpful companions. Yesterday Glenn Beck had a story about Marcus Luttrell's Dog. Marcus Luttrell is a Navy Seal who wrote a book "Lone Survivor" about his ordeal ... http://www.rited.com/blog/general/marcus-luttrells-dog-murdered-texas-fun/ [caption id="attachment_77" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Brian Regan"][/caption] My family and I went to go see Brian Regan on Saturday at the Cobb Energy Center. We had great seats. We were on the center of the front row on the balcony. The show was fantastic and we could not catch our breath between ... http://www.rited.com/blog/general/brian-regan-cobb-energy-center/ There is gloom and doom all around these days. The economy is bad. Lets be honest here. Its really bad. Its worse than the media and the politicians want to admit. So it is truly is scary times. This is not the first time we have had bad economic times, but ... http://www.rited.com/blog/general/paying-debt/ I find it lately that I am having information overload. There is so much to process that I feel overwhelmed. From news, traffic, money, work, family, and everything else that we all deal with, I don't know what I can do to silence the cacophony. I have been playing a ... http://www.rited.com/blog/general/confusion/ From Dictionary.com: –adjective 1. appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason. 2. attacking an opponent's character rather than answering his argument. I guess it is a part of human nature to engage in ad hominem attacks. It seems to be so easy to argue a ... http://www.rited.com/blog/national-politics/ad-hominem-attacks/ [caption id="attachment_70" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="This girl was put into a box early."][/caption] I am tired of being put into a box. If you vote this way or agree with this policy you are then categorized and labeled. It has been really bad for the last 10 years. Are you liberal or ... http://www.rited.com/blog/national-politics/put-box/