SHIPWRECK POLITICS

                                        SHIP WRECK POLITICS
                                   “ Not a joke..I wish it was..”
 
     So…a cruise ship wrecks out at sea and only a few life boats make it away from the ship. This story is about 13 people from one life boat that survive. After 3 torturous days at sea they end up on a desert [...]

THE MARCH TOWARDS SOCIALISM

                                  THE MARCH TOWARDS SOCIALISM
 
  “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money”
                              Margaret Thatcher
 
  First of all, I want it to be clear that I am a dyed in the wool Capitalist. (What a surprise). I subscribe to this line of thinking because I think that most of the [...]

THE ERASER

                      THE ERASER
  “In times of war the truth is so precious that it must be attended by a          
      bodyguard of lies”    Sir Winston Churchill
Note:   The following is from a letter sent to my attention and that I plan to publish in the morning.    John Casik, Editor: The Washington Explorer.
     I should have figured [...]

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

 
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
   I’ve been traveling this week and couldn’t help but notice the sound of police sirens in the distance during most of the night. I know we all try to block out the thought of crime and violent crimes as we sleep in our nice homes and safe hotel rooms. The truth is, [...]

AMERICAN WAY

                                    AMERICAN WAY
 
  “We are still a country of immigrants, some of us have just been here a little longer than others”P,I,B.
 
 I feel qualified to address this subject because I am the son of a son, of an Italian Immigrant.
 
  Few things stir my heart like the stories of the American Immigrant, the architects [...]

KNOW IT ALL

                                                             KNOW IT ALL
 
                   “Only God is all knowing…..but man foolishly desires to compete” P.I.B.
 
  Man is a curious creature, and perhaps our thirst for knowledge is what sets us apart from the other creatures on this earth. There has been a concerted quest to accumulate knowledge by rich and powerful men, since the beginning [...]

WILL WE EVER LEARN ?

            WILL WE EVER LEARN                                                  
 
  There is no sense trying, I know I will never sleep tonight. I can’t stop playing thru a hundred different scenarios in my head. I keep looking around at my buddies to see if they are handling things any better than me, but each man has a blank, far off [...]

BREADLINES

                                              BREAD LINES
 
  I’ve never been known as an alarmist; however I am reaching for the alarm button now. Alright, let’s man up now and admit that we are in a depression. In fact some economist are predicting that this will be the worst economic down turn in 100 years. Now if my math is [...]

WRITERS BLOCK

                                          WRITERS BLOCK
 
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)
 
 
  There is an ailment or affliction that most writers seem to suffer from, know as “Writers Block”. (if you haven’t been introduced yet, don’t worry, your day will come) If I’m not mistaken [...]

SINS OF THE PAST

                                               SINS OF THE PAST
 
  They say you can’t run from your past, and I guess that’s true, but that didn’t stop me from trying for the last 20 years. I can’t tell you how many times I prayed that I could change that one day in my past, but it still haunts me. I’ve [...]