2015 September 1

Blue Bell Ice Cream Returns to Some Stores 4 Months After Listeria Outbreak

The company should pay for all medical costs for all confirmed cases and death benefits of some sort to the families of the dead victims. Companies should all have insurance for situations such as these.

2015 September 2

Frazier Glenn Cross found guilty of murder in Jewish center shootings

The death penalty should definitely be applied in this case because there is absolutely no doubt that he did commit these murders.

2015 September 3

Murder Rates Rising Sharply in Many U.S. Cities

The widespread availability of guns. gang turf warfare, alcohol, the lack of love and caring among the public, etc. The number of variable that need to be properly controlled for crime to drop are numerous.

2015 September 4

China shows off rising power in marking WWII defeat of Japan

The 300,000 troop reduction in China is truly astounding, even though that amounts to only 15% of its total troop numbers. One way to encourage continued troop reduction is to back off from constant surveillance flights close to Chinese airspace. Just imagine what constant Chinese surveillance aircraft just off of our shores would do to our desire to reduce our military strength. We could gather the sufficient information in peacetime through more remote methods, as well as just opening up several channels of normal communications with various Chinese elements in and out of government.

2015 September 5

Get Ready For A Spectacular Sight On September 5 – These Multiple Moons Will Blow Your Mind

It is truly amazing how may people are ignorant enough to actually believe this stuff.

2015 September 6

2015 September 7

The Latest: Austria to resume border limits on migrants

The big emotional push to accept large numbers of Muslim refugees does have very real short term benefits to the receiving countries, and especially to the immigrants. However, with large numbers of refugees comes the large scale problems inherent in all multi racial societies where minorities constitute a significant share of the population–racial friction. Governments should have the right to discriminate refugees based on whatever criteria they choose. Ultimately, it is imperative for the world (acting, ideally, through a capable international military organization) to act to reduce and eliminate the primary causes motivating the movement of such people.

2015 September 8

Whole Foods Fires Security Firm After Armed Guard Allegedy Beats Customer

Even private security guards should probably be required to wear body cameras so that instances like this could be documents and all this talk about whether the use of force was or was not justified could be determined much more quickly.

2015 September 9

Pay varies widely for Washington state teachers

Teacher pay in Seattle is not that low, so using pay as part of the complaint should be considered invalid.

2015 September 10

The best way to deal with climate change is to engineer our environment to withstand the new frequency of different weather. Trying to fix the problem by eliminating CO2 from the air is both impractical and way too costly. It is far cheaper to deal with the problem than eliminate CO2 from the air.

2015 September 11

2015 September 12

Republican Todd Courser Resigns After Affair With Cindy Gamrat

It’s too bad that affairs have broken up so many planned lives. It is the emotional and social repercussions that cause most of the damage rather than the affairs themselves.

2015 September 13

Egyptian forces mistake Mexicans for militants, kill 12 in air raid

Of course, the proper compensation by Egypt would be full payment of all expenses related to this mistake as well as insurance payouts to the families to compensate for lost future earnings. Perhaps a little more money than the sum of all these costs should also be given for good measure.

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2015 September 17

FAA controllers reveal flaw that could cause collisions

The individual airlines and other users of the FAA regulatory infrastructures should be required to pay, in aggregate, for the entire cost of this agency as well as for all costs associated with the airline industry.  There should be no subsidies to the airline industry or infrastructures from any outside entity .

2015 September 18

Pushing the Limits: Traveling at near-supersonic speeds

This seems like a good idea, but any new long distance transportation system should be as environmentally benign as possible.  The best way to achieve this benign goal is to build the system underground. It would be expensive, but that is the cost of transportation.  I would prefer an above ground system, such as on a monorail so that the visual impact would be minimal and the ground foot print would also be minimal.  I suppose that these tubes could be mounted above ground to reduce construction costs and make it much easier to maintain and service. Perhaps they would design these tubes with windows so that passengers could look out and view the passing landscape.  I wonder if it would pass by too fast to be enjoyable, though.

2015 September 19

Handcuffed for Making Clock, Ahmed Mohamed, 14, Wins Time With Obama

This student should be compensated, at the very least, at the minimum wage rate for the amount of time that he was in custody, for the confiscation of his device and for ‘pain and suffering’ which would include the nationwide humiliation,

2015 September 20

2015 September 21

Ben Carson: Muslim Unfit to Be President Because Islam Is Inconsistent With Constitution

That may be true.  A muslim who believes that it is his duty to essentially force a conversion of non-believers to Islam would not be fit to be president, not just of the United States, but of any country anywhere. Absolutely nobody has the right to force anybody else to believe in any religious doctrine.

2015 September 22

2015 September 23

L.A. council proposes spending $100 million on homelessness crisis

Homelessness is a problem with a variety of cause, meaning that a variety of solutions need to be adopted to address these various causes. Most homeless people are single people and to address this population, there should be a series of small individual-sized shelter build into nooks and crannies within the urban environment.

2015 September 24

2015 September 25

Pope Francis urges compassion in historic address to Congress

It always tugged at the heart strings to call for compassion for a group of people who seem to be targeted for punishment. But a simple review of the evidence dictates that people who come here illegally from other countries need to understand that they are here illegally and subject to expulsion at any time.  Whenever the time comes, instead of complaining, they should thank the Immigration services for allowing them to stay for so long.

2015 September 26

2015 September 27

People need to understand that following a religious command to visit an object at least once in a lifetime is a form of idol worship. It’s amazing how drawing of the prophet Mohammad cannot be drawn by anyone because of the potential idol worship that it may entail, while the required to go physically to an inanimate object specifically to worship there is acceptable.

2015 September 28

U.S. economy grew at 3.9 percent rate in spring quarter

Any significant growth or contraction of an economy over a few years above or below the normal population growth rate and/or a representative index of a basket of goods and services, indicates a fault of the underlying principals governing the economy. Most of the problems can be traced to the legal practice of fractional reserve banking.

2015 September 29

2015 September 30

Spain: Tough talks loom for Catalonia pro-secession parties aiming to ally for Spain breakaway

It’s about time that the break-away seeking region showed strong support in the polls.  This area has its own language, culture and distinct history which clearly qualifies it for its own separate independent country.