Posts Tagged ‘Blogosphere’

I’ve been busy, I apologize

Posted: 16th March 2008 by John in General, Personal
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It’s true – I’ve been busy lately. I have a few projects I’ve been working on (some that are paying, some that are not) and haven’t had much time to update everyone here as to what’s going on. My latest website project that I’m working on (in conjunction with Major George Filer, USAF Ret.) is [...]

Scientology: The Plagiarized Religion

Posted: 27th February 2008 by John in Uncategorized
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I was reading my daily dose of news around the Internet this morning and came across an interesting post on Boing Boing regarding L. Ron Hubbard and his creation the Church of Scientology. It talked about a German book written in 1934 called “Scientologie” that not only bears the same name as the religion, but also contains a whole lot of the same stuff as the official doctrine of the “religion” ( and by “religion” I mean “cult” ).

Uzbek Billionaire Usmanov forces shutdown of former ambassadors blog

Posted: 28th September 2007 by John in Uncategorized
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I was reading Boing Boing a few days ago and came across this story about how Alisher Usmanov, an Uzbek billionaire,  forced a former UK ambassador’s website offline because he didn’t like what the fellow had to say.   That got me thinking over the past few days about the incident.    It seems pretty clear to [...]

One of my good friends from my days in military school offered a challenge to me after reading my last post. I guess I’ve complained enough about our government that my friends are now wanting to know exactly what *I* would do instead. I can’t say that I blame them, and at least in part [...]

To Congressman Tom Cole: QUIT LYING TO ME!

Posted: 30th July 2007 by John in Personal
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Back in January, I wrote this post, describing how Congressman Tom Cole’s National Republican Congressional Committee was offering to award me a leadership award for the business advisory council.   The catch was that I would be expected to donate a few hundred dollars to them, supposedly to fund a press release talking about it.  Nevermind [...]