http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/blogs/ Latest from the online edition en-gb Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:32:59 +0000 Copyright (C) 2010 Clyde and Forth Press Ltd http://www.clydeandforthmedia.co.uk/feeds/ 12 http://www.clydeandforthmedia.co.uk/furniture/dp_logo_500x75.png http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/blogs/ President Obama gave a really mundane speech last night on the departure of combat troops in Iraq. Apparently we won. Exactly what did we win? Not a lot really. This wasn't a President Bush "Mission Accomplished" speech. No dancing in Times Square or patriotic speeches…. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/09/02/404703-goodbye-baghdad/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/09/02/404703-goodbye-baghdad/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:21:51 +0100 Opinion New York candidate for Governor Carl Paladino, has a unique campaign platform. Housing welfare recipients and the unemployed in former prisons and giving them lectures on 'personal hygiene'. Candidate Paladino would also have these poor people employed in State sponsored occupations. Not a very humanitarian platform to run on…. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/26/404044-welfare-prisons/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/26/404044-welfare-prisons/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:16:38 +0100 Opinion Rep. Louie Gohmert a Republican from Texas, announced from the floor of Congress that terrorists are importing pregnant women to give birth here, which of course gives them automatic American Citizenship. These baby Bin Ladens then return to their homeland, according to Rep. Gohmert and will be returning in twenty years or so to wreck havoc on The United States….. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/19/403803-terror-babies/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/19/403803-terror-babies/ Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:32:53 +0100 Opinion Are guns good or bad? Passing moral judgment on an inanimate object is a little silly. Guns are neither good nor bad, just us humans. Guns don't leap up and shoot people, it takes a human being to do that. Ready, Fire, Aim Pt. One did generate some response from what it would seem is a sensitive subject. Owning a firearm is acceptable as long as you are willing to take the consequences…. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/15/403604-ready-fire-aim-ii/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/15/403604-ready-fire-aim-ii/ Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:20:33 +0100 Opinion Buying a gun in most States is as easy as buying a pack of cigarettes. They both kill and are extremely cheap. I've heard the rhetoric that 'guns don't kill, people do'. Well this is true, they just do it with guns. Clutching a wad of cash and a drivers license I can make a trip to my local gun store and buy enough weapons to invade a small country….. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/12/403577-ready-fire-aim/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/12/403577-ready-fire-aim/ Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:19:01 +0100 Opinion Sometimes when you find yourself in a hole, the best thing to do is to stop digging. Arizona legislators and Republican Congressman seem to be digging a big hole for themselves regarding immigration reform and should stop. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/05/403298-biometric-blog/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/05/403298-biometric-blog/ Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:44:43 +0100 Opinion BP Executive Mr Tony Hayward will be soon tramping the frozen tundra of Siberia. Joining the ranks of the banished, following the results of six month earnings report and a request to reappear before Congress this week. BP is an International company and suffered a seventeen billion dollar loss this second quarter…. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/29/402967-siberian-tundra/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/29/402967-siberian-tundra/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:00:12 +0100 Opinion I start my day by glancing at the headlines for today's news. This week is unusual because absolutely nothing happened, at least anything really important. Washington and the East Coast are blanketed with an oppressive heat wave reaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37 C). This is really unusual and makes for a long hot summer. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/22/402769-viva-la-revolucion/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/22/402769-viva-la-revolucion/ Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:12:07 +0100 Opinion The Ten Russian Spies arrested here, fizzled out in a two-for-one exchange in Austria with the US getting four of 'our guys' out from behind the Iron Curtain in exchange. US spies it would seem are worth two and half times a Russian agent. Not very flattering to the Russian SVR Intelligence Service, but I think it is a fair trade…. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/15/402418-the-party-of-hope/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/15/402418-the-party-of-hope/ Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:33:08 +0100 Opinion Unless you are a Native American or Alaskan Inuit, everyone who lives here is an immigrant, or whose ancestors were. I don't include African-Americans, as they are the only minority who never wanted to come here. We now have a population who want to be here, but no one wants them…. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/08/402167-another-brick-in-the-wall/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/08/402167-another-brick-in-the-wall/ Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:04:39 +0100 Opinion Interesting week here across the pond. A covert team of ten Russian spies have been arrested, with the last suspect being arrested in Cyprus en-route to Budapest, which is probably where he is now, as he jumped bail. These agents aren't run-of-the-mill, low level agency clerks with access to sensitive information. They are reported to be highly trained, deep cover Russian moles…. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/02/401986-red-spy-ring/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/02/401986-red-spy-ring/ Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:11:39 +0100 Opinion Congressman Joe Barton's (R-Texas) humiliating apology to BP's CEO Tony Hayward on 'shaking down' his company for twenty billion dollars for reparations seems to have created a crisis within the Republican Party. Politicians rarely let a good crisis go to waste and Democrats have been enjoying this political freebie……. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/06/24/401769-were-sorry-tony/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/06/24/401769-were-sorry-tony/ Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:31:13 +0100 Opinion Mr Tony Hayward, CEO of BP has the full support of his Corporate Board members. Announcements like that usually are the kiss of death to a corporate CEO. Mr. Hayward is 'Dead Man Walking' and is sitting on corporate death row. Chairman of the Board Mr Carl-Henric Svanberg has now taken over the media spotlight. The oil continues to flow and so does the disinformation…. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/06/18/401566-dead-man-walking/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/06/18/401566-dead-man-walking/ Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:25:49 +0100 Opinion Former President Bush's public frank admission that he not only approved torture on Guantanamo prisoners, specifically on a man called Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but that he would do it again. I don't know this prisoner, and from what I have heard, not a very amiable individual…. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/06/10/401325-lets-be-frank/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/06/10/401325-lets-be-frank/ Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:06:58 +0100 Opinion BP remains in deep water over the continuing spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP recently lamented how stressful this has been on him. Hard to feel sorry for a man who's last crisis was running out of martini olives for his cocktail onboard his private jet. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/06/04/401103-bp-sinking-fast/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/06/04/401103-bp-sinking-fast/ Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:23:40 +0100 Opinion We have some really mundane issues dominating the news over here. Gays in the military is a perennial issue which has sprouted up again. 'Don't ask, Don't Tell' is a policy in the US Military for discretely allowing gay citizens to serve, albeit in secret. After having served over twenty five years combined US and British Military I've joined the 'Don't ask, Don't Care' group…. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/06/02/401036-dont-ask-dont-care/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/06/02/401036-dont-ask-dont-care/ Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:25:07 +0100 Opinion The People's Republic of Arizona are back at it, the State Corporate Commission in Arizona threatened to cut-off electricity to the Southern California region, Los Angeles in particular. The boycott, which is being promoted by multiple States, is in response to the 'Papers Please' legislation in Arizona. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/05/27/400838-lights-out/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/05/27/400838-lights-out/ Thu, 27 May 2010 22:17:57 +0100 Opinion Politics is the business of Washington DC, and politicians are working overtime. This year we have had heated debates on Wall Street Reform, Immigration Reform, Healthcare Reform and now the major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, leading to of course, Off-Shore Drilling Reform. Reform seems to be a popular word in the US Capital. The solution to any crisis seems to be to 'reform something'…. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/05/20/400572-political-reform/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/05/20/400572-political-reform/ Thu, 20 May 2010 23:57:49 +0100 Opinion The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico couldn't have come at a worse time. Not that there is a good time for a major environmental disaster spill, but President Obama's plans on opening up the eastern sea coast to off-shore drilling is starting to look very bleak. In hindsight, building something you can't fix doesn't seem to be a good idea….. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/05/14/400383-leaking-oil/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/05/14/400383-leaking-oil/ Fri, 14 May 2010 23:57:42 +0100 Opinion There's a company in Wisconsin which manufactures barber shop poles. The red/white striped type. They are the last company in the US who still make them. That picqued my interest in how many other companies still make products which were common place years ago. Many of my young friends have never seen, or used many of the things I grew up with, and I was interested to see if they still exist. Here is my list…. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/05/09/400135-blast-from-the-past/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/05/09/400135-blast-from-the-past/ Sun, 09 May 2010 12:05:28 +0100 Opinion I should write more about life here in the Metro DC area. This is the Nation's Capital after all. Politics is the business of Washington and business is booming. Health Care reform panic seems to have died an early death although it is now the law. Poor people can now get healthcare, which is a good thing. Wall Street reform legislation is the flavor of the month in Congress with Democrats and Republicans furiously slinging mud at each other….. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/04/30/399840-papers-please/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/04/30/399840-papers-please/ Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:38:47 +0100 Opinion No more alien stuff this week. I have decided to focus on our Universe and alternate dimensions, which is a subject I find fascinating. I do believe in other dimensions, although I don't understand String or Membrane Theory. The thought of another one of me sitting in a parallel alternate universe. a mirror image of myself is fascinating. I wonder if my mirror image is happy. Hope he's rich.….. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/04/25/399590-cosmic-blog--/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/04/25/399590-cosmic-blog--/ Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:45:28 +0100 Opinion We're winning the War in Afghanistan. At least that's the good news from the Generals commanding the coalition and US Forces in that part of the world. The bad news being of course, it may take the next fifty years. Mission Accomplished title is from George Bush's premature speech after the Gulf debacle. What exactly did we accomplish.…. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/04/23/399589-mission-accomplished/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/04/23/399589-mission-accomplished/ Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:31:21 +0100 Opinion I never thought I would be writing another 'Anyone Out There', Part II Blog, but here it is. I've watched the UFO footage shot over Tescos' in Dunfermline and it is easily explained... Aliens have to eat too you know. After travelling thousands of light years, a quick trip to Tesco for some gourmet burgers or frozen shepherds pie. Travelling at light speed for a millennia can make you a little hungry……. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/04/14/399142-aliens-target-tesco/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/04/14/399142-aliens-target-tesco/ Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:58:21 +0100 Opinion I don't gamble. I probably have every other bad habit in life except gambling. I've never met a poor bookie, and if I ever do meet one, then I will start gambling. I lost five dollars in Atlantic City in 1977 and I have never forgotten it. In addition to being a non-gambler I am incredibly cheap, or frugal as I like to call it. It is a National trait after all….. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/04/08/399042-wizard-of-odds/ http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/04/08/399042-wizard-of-odds/ Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:06:14 +0100 Opinion