Brian Baldowski
Pull the plug on Lake Lynn, suit demands
Here is an example of insanity and proof, in my opinion, that we live in a law suit crazed world. A woman bought land on the bottom of a lake now wants the lake drained to develop the land. The Lake has been there since 1976. The quote by her lawyer regarding the city is rather enlightening. What do you think?
I think it would be like me buying land on the moon then suing the government because they didn’t have a shuttle to get me there
I was some what disgusted yesterday when I logged on to a local TV station’s website and, of the five lead stories, three of them involved the death of someone, or multiple people. I know the old news motto “If it bleeds, it leads.” but this is rideculous. Are there no other stories they could feature? This is the Christmas season (don’t be upset I used the C word) there are many stories of good deeds that could have replaced one or all of those stories. A friend of mine used to work at a TV station in the area. She told me there were several mornings the anchors would gather around the wire machines waiting for stories. If there was not a death the would be upset.
I guess though we should also examine the fact they would not be showing these stories if we were not watching them.
What do all revolutions need? A person that the majority of revolutionaries are willing to follow. If you look at all the revolutions in the past, those that succeeded and those that failed, you will see the need for a leader. In Cuba there was Castro, in Russia there was Lenin, in China there was Ze Dong, in England there was Cromwell, in France there was Napoleon, in America there was Washington, in Rome there was Caesar, in South America there was Bolivar. The theme continues through the ages, strong, unifying leaders help bring about revolution. Many of these revolutions started with a ground swell of support from the people, led by their charismatic leader against a government they viewed as being against their interests. It didn’t hurt that many of the people were able to get support for their fight from an outside source that opposed some aspect of the government the revolutionaries were fighting.
Failed revolutions are marked by little or weak unification. The American Civil War is an example of a weak unification, little cooperation happened between the seceding states. This lead to an inability to coordinate an offensive or defense to drive the Northerners to surrender. The French revolution against Louis XVI had too many competing groups with no unified vision of the future to last. The revolution that occurred in Cuba, with the help of the Americans at the Bay of Pigs, failed because there was no figure that could ralley the support of the common people against Castro. If a revolution has no strong leader, then it is doomed to failure.
Tomorrow, what this has to do with Iraq and Afghanistan.
I was going to write about Jo Durden-Smith some more but then I discovered this on another blog called Neatorama.
Meet the women who won’t have babies – because they’re not eco friendly
Oh my, I can completely support a person that doesn’t want children, but to view children as a parasite to the planet? I am some what speechless.
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