Category Archives: Liberty

Yet Another Facebook Hoax

November 26, 2012 – 2:44 pm

We are suckers for thinking that we are smart enough to fool the machine and this weekend thousands if not millions of facebook users posted the following warning in hopes of protecting their privacy. “In response to the new Facebook guidelines I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, [...]

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In Our Best Interests

September 6, 2012 – 5:56 pm

The Democratic convention platform in Charlotte left out any mention of Israel and God. The GOP bible-thumpers attacked the omission of their Almighty Deity and those farther to the right have been outraged without surprise, for as resistance.ning.com states; “For Democrats there is NO God because they believe in the merciless slaughter of America’s innocent, [...]

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NO SWIMMING ALLOWED by Peter Nolan Smith

September 2, 2012 – 2:54 pm

September 9 posted a sultry warm day for the lingering summer of 2001. My friend Alia had a Porsche Boxer waiting at the Newark Customs. The convertible had just made a trans-Atlantic voyage. The British diplomat asked me to accompany her to pick up the two-seater and I agreed on the stipulation that we drove [...]

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We Miss You Bobby

August 17, 2012 – 8:46 pm

It’s been 44 years since RFK was murdered in LA. The pain doesn’t go away. But neither does the dream RFK He was our hero. Don’t let anyone tell you different. We don’t know what we missed, but it wasn’t this. I always thought BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS accompanied this video, but it wasn’t released [...]

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Pussy Riot Freedom

August 9, 2012 – 12:15 pm

Show trial in the USSR were an integral instrument of Stalin’s oppressive regime and the practice has been revived in Vladimir Putin’s Russia to stifle any and all demonstrations against his rule. Last February three members of the punk group Pussy Riot entered Moscow’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Christ to perform PRAYER beseeching the Mother [...]

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