Nelson Mandela explained Ubuntu as follows:[10]A traveller through a country would stop at a village and he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food and attend him. That is one aspect of Ubuntu, but it will have various aspects. Ubuntu does not mean that people should not enrich themselves. The question therefore is: Are ...

Writing for World Nut Daily, Ted Nugent thinks his compromise is "mighty presidential." My recommended Grand Compromise is this: Yours truly, the humble MotorCity Madman, NRA Board of Directors member, leading gun-rights spokesman and prospective presidential candidate in 2016, will support and champion closing the so-called gun-show loophole if the anti-gun left wing will support closing the federal voting loophole. Left-wing anti-gun adherents believe ...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday strongly defended the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, telling attendees of the group's policy summit that they can't let criticism get them down. "I first came to ALEC over a decade ago. When I was serving in the Bush administration, I'd been privileged to work with ALEC in the federal government," Cruz said. "I've been privileged ...

If you're gay, its looking more and more like the Republican Party is not for you. Just imagine the outrage if a Democrat did something like this. Virginia Congressman Randy Forbes is back in the news. We last wrote about Forbes in October when he was set to fundraise for an anti-gay hate group, the American Family Association (AFA). Now he's pushing to deny ...

I've posted before about the opening of new sea transport routes. All the while, Whackos are denying global warming exists. Some are looking to profit and beat the competition. Do they really think we are that stupid? Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) on Thursday encouraged people to look on the bright side of global warming. At the 64rd annual Maine Transportation Conference, the governor ...

This is great news! Now I wonder how long it will be until homophobic wingnuts here in the states, start angrily yelling about how Israel will "incur the wrath of God" for tolerating homosexuality? Israeli President Shimon Peres on Sunday publicly backed marriage rights for same-sex couples. "Even a person who is a homosexual is a human being, and he has rights," he told ...

The House of Representatives used one of its few remaining legislative days in 2013 to pass a measure Wednesday that would exempt private equity firms like Mitt Romney's Bain Capital from disclosure rules in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. The Dodd-Frank law requires financial advisers who manage more than $150 million in private funds to disclose detailed information to the Securities and Exchange Commission ...

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Frank Zappa's untimely passing, a sobering and solemn milestone in my mind. A sad fact of life; Frank Zappa has been dead for 20 years. I really miss him, he wielded an effective sword against apathy and ignorance. — Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) December 5, 2013 Thanks in part to the lizards of LGF and the ever-changing "Frank Says" ...

The anti-vaccination movement has long since become a public menace. It's responsible for the resurgence of numerous serious diseases that were on the decline, including measles, mumps, and whooping cough. Now the movement has been given a big booster shot by Katie Couric, who devoted a large portion of her daily talk show Wednesday to some highly emotional and scientifically dubious claims by critics ...

So, anyway, this happened. Be advised. The United States House of Representatives -- one-half of the national legislature, which is one third-of the national government, if you're keeping score in civics class -- exists now solely to gin up enthusiasm in, and to raise money from, the increasingly demented political base of the Republican party. It is a campaign mechanism, not a governing institution. ...

WASHINGTON -- If atheists want their country to be free and safe, they should encourage people to worship God, Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert argued Thursday during a House floor speech. Gohmert, who has a penchant for tweaking people who do not believe in God, was delivering a speech about the lack of attention given to Christians who are persecuted around the world. Although ...

I am just not sure if this is a serious concern or trivial. But the more ISP's and companies like adobe that get hacked, well I am considering doing much more to keep my data, computer and net traffic private. If Wired is right, and I see no reason to doubt this point-Emails, credit card data, passwords to online banking are all at risk. ...

There are indeed things we don't talk about and it's long past time we do talk about it, share it and stop feeling it's our fault. Mental, emotional and financial abuse is widespread. It may not leave bruises, but the injuries run deep. Women from all walks of life can be subject to it. It happens to people of all races, all faiths, all ...

Posting this as a San Diegan and why I haven't bought that fish rag called the Union Tribune in years. I've literally turned down free copies of it, its that worthless a paper: Recently Papa Doug has taken time out from cheerleading for a new football stadium that will cost the local taxpayers upwards of around $300 to 500 million (the same taxpayers who ...

Just found out about this, even through the video is about two years old, I just had to show you guys this. I hope no one posted anything on this here before. Youtube Video From the youtube video description, At CES 2011, Fujitsu's Paul Moore talks about their concept teddy bear, which includes a webcam in its nose and has a bunch of sensors ...

More power to them. Anyone working full time should not also need welfare in order to survive. Workers walked off their jobs at fast-food restaurants across the country as part of a national protest against low wages, a day after President Barack Obama renewed his call for a minimum wage hike in a speech Wednesday. The action is part of a growing movement against ...

Driving into work this morning, I noticed like a half-dozen Tea Party license plates on SUVs and sports cars. That was an extra large number today; I only usually see one or two. I wondered what the average member of the Tea Party movement would think/feel about if they were transported back in time to the Eisenhower era. Of course I picked November 5, ...

Dylan's quotes came in response to a question about whether he sees parallels between Civil War-era America and the US of today. "It's like . . . the United States burned and destroyed itself for the sake of slavery. The USA wouldn't give it up. It had to be grinded out. The whole system had to be ripped out with force. A lot of ...

Courtesy of Slate: Park rangers set up a tiny camera in Western Australia last May to film fresh-water crocodiles in the Margaret River. When it disappeared, they figured it had fallen into the water. They were wrong. The camera was later recovered and returned to the rangers, who then strung together the delightful footage above. A misguided young sea eagle snatched up the device ...

Susan Tompor reports: Susan Tompor: Bankruptcy Ruling Shocks, Disappoints Detroit Retirees Darwina Wallace, 69, first heard that her city pension was a step closer to being cut when a friend who also retired from the city called her "up in arms" and demanded that she turn on the TV. Wallace, who lives in Detroit, discovered that U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes ruled Tuesday morning ...