Crime – Page 25 – Deep Sand

Screaming Profits for Big Oil

October 27, 2005October 27, 2005 John big companies, big oil, Congress, Corruption, gas, gas prices, giveaways, oil, profiteering, profits

While you and I are cringing with every stop at a filling station, the big oil companies are raking in the big bucks.

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V.P. Fights Against Outlawing Torture

October 25, 2005October 25, 2005 John cheney, Congress, Crime, criminal, government, torture, V.P., vice president

The Bush administration wasn’t happy when the Senate overwhelmingly voted to limit and define U.S. interrogation techniques against terrorism suspects. Vice President Cheney is now attempting to exempt the Central Intelligence Agency from this measure.

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Crash

October 7, 2005March 26, 2008 John Best Movie, Film, Oscar, Prejudice

Several characters of different racial backgrounds collide in one incident, The different stereotypes society has created for those backgrounds affect their judgment, beliefs and actions, This in turn causes problems for each of them.

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Religious Belief Increases Social Ills

September 28, 2005September 14, 2008 John abortion, blue state, God, illiteracy, murder rates, red state, Religion, Religious Belief, social ills, std, teen pregnancy

The London Times has an interesting story about an article published in an academic journal. According to the study, belief in and worship of God may actually contribute to social ills.

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Why Progressives Hate George Bush?

September 27, 2005 John

By any objective standard, this administration is a dismal failure and has made a mockery of all the things I love about America. Things like fair elections, habeus corpus, privacy, separation of church and state, care for the less fortunate, protecting our homeland, respecting the environment, curbing the power of corporations, standing for human rights, transparency in government, respect for our military, and so many many more. Bush is steering our country back to the pre-New Deal rich-man’s playground of the Robber Baron era, while simultaneously squandering any post-9/11 worldwide goodwill and alienating what few allies we have left.