Al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed claims he was mistreated

Khalid Sheik Mohammed was an Al-Qaeda leader and has been responsible for over 30 terrorism plots including Sept 11, 2001. He's now claiming that he has been mistreated and abused during the three years he was in CIA custody. - Washington Post First things first, if we didn't mistreat him, we should have. This is not the same kind of war that the Geneva Treaty was drawn up for. This is a thugs war with no laws. After all, having laws to guide the boundaries of war and prisoners only works if both sides play by the same rules. And when you have their side decapitating our reporters, I don't think we should be holding the hands of the prisoners we take in until they decide to freely give us the information they know.

Someone so sick in the head to be responsible for even half of the acts that Khalid says he has planned should have to endure unending pain until their last breath. America has become soft, we've decided that because we are free and have rights, that everybody else deserves them too. People are forgetting that we had to earn our rights through bloodshed and tears. They were not simply given to us, and shouldn't be given to anyone else without their earning them either. Without the sacrifices, the rights and freedoms lose their meaning. They simply become laws to hide behind. Which is probably why so few Americans appreciate what we have anymore. They've all forgotten the sacrifices made, and how we earned our rights to begin with. War is not always bad, the results of war are not always bad, its the people that don't understand the need for war that cause the majority of the problems rooted around wars. The war we face is one we must win at all costs, play fair or don't, we will risk all the freedoms we have gained in our reactions to the challenges we will face in the years to come.

RIAA is the 21st Century's Mafia

According to historian Paolo Pezzino: "The mafia is a kind of organized crime being active not only in several illegal fields, but also tending to exercise sovereignty functions – normally belonging to public authorities – over a specific territory."- Wikipedia The RIAA spends a good portion of its time harassing U.S. citizens and businesses alike. It makes numerous false accusations and then proclaims them publicly. Both harassment and slander are against the law, so that takes care of the first part of the statement. So when harassment and slander aren't enough, the next step the RIAA tries is "to make them an offer they can't refuse". This is usually a one time offer to pay a inflated price per song, and in exchange the RIAA will not press criminal charges. You may have noticed my reference to "The Godfather" but don't let that distract you from the RIAA's own version of the Mafia's "Insurance Policy".

So, is that it? No, I'll stick to three points today. The first similarity was that both the Mafia and the RIAA preform acts outside the law. The second is that both have a bully attitude with a better not refuse our "Insurance Policy" offer. And the third point finishes up the quote from Paolo Pezzino with the RIAA taking the law into their own hands and trying to do the prosecution job of law enforcement. All of these similarities could be elaborated on, and many more brought up, but I think my point has been made. My question is how long will this behavior be tolerated? I'm sure someone somewhere in the RIAA intended well, but their entire battle plan failed when they adopted the shoot first ask questions later method. This has led to numerous false accusations, and thousands of ISP's, universities, businesses, and citizens that have to take time and resources to either assist with or repute RIAA accusations with little or no compensation in nearly all cases. Why should anyone other than the RIAA have to foot their bills as they go on their Mafia like crusade?

I am nowhere near the first to make these accusations of the RIAA's similarties to the Mafia, for further info please look up MAFIAA.

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid

In what will be a continuing theme with my rants on how stupid people are getting, I present to you this article http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703130391 as evidence. To sum up the article, Melanie McGuire performed Google and MSN searches on how to commit murder. She did this research on multiple computers and just days leading up to the methodical murder of her husband. Where it seems he was drugged, shot, dismembered, stuffed into several suitcases, and then threw into the Chesapeake Bay.

America its time we pause for a moment and quit worrying about declining test score averages across the nation. I won't argue the need for proper education, but I believe its time we take a step back and teach our society about "Common Sense" again. Its no long common, which is the problem to begin with. Until we take a step back and relearn as a society the basics of how to function in this world, I don't think we will have much progress trying to press forward with more advanced education. I want you to understand that I in no way condone murder, I simply am using this news headline to show how an "educated" person living in society still fails to show any signs of what I like to call intelligence.

Reality TV Kills Good TV Shows

It wasn't long ago when comedy TV ruled the evening hours. You'd come home from work/school and flip on your favorite show and be in a better mood within minutes. Then came survivor, the show that started it all. There is nothing particularly bad about Survivor, it's the never ending horror of new reality show copy cats being puked out by the dozens that Survivor represents that makes me hate it. After all, it created the genre anew. Sure these things had been done in the past, but back then society wasn't very accepting. They saw the shows as more unbelievable than anything else they already watched.

Society overall was more wholesome back then, and things like talk shows where nothing happens except the guests fight and curse the entire time never would have even touched the airwaves. Today our morals have been compromised, and our attention spans shortened. When a good wholesome show that's actually funny comes on, no one knows how to react. A large portion of people that watch them get lost because they simply can no longer follow 30min-1hr of a continuing thought. And if the show picks up each week where the last one left off its hopeless. So the results end up in lots of really good shows getting canceled and replaced with really bad shows. Are there exceptions to the rule, yes of course, aren't there always. But most of those shows are written with kids in mind so that even they can follow the story and plot lines. I guess those are just simple enough for the masses that complain about how bad TV is, but continually make it worse by getting all the good shows canceled.

The Information Needle in the Internet Haystack

The longer the Internet has been around the harder it is to find what your looking for. Search engines such as Google have gone a long way in simplifying our quest to find a particular tidbit of information. However, as more and more web pages are created, the percentage of pages that actually contain our gold nugget of info gets smaller and smaller. If you search for something abstract or unpopular you have much higher chances of finding what your looking for, but if you search for something common you are returned with thousands of results. Most of these results are useless pages that only mention your search topic in passing. Even more annoying are the pages that simply include those words on their page to generate traffic to their website that is nothing more than a page full of web ads.

Personally I find this a waste of my time. As the masses have finally caught on to what a great resource the Internet could be, its value as a resource becomes more inefficient and bloated. With that frustration as another example of how today's Lemmings have messed up something else great, I wanted to bring your attention to this article about the upcoming Wiki Search. At this point there is not a lot known about its plans. But if its founders hold to similar ideas that made their Wikipedia website so popular this will have the potential to be the solution to our growing problem of useless information bloat. Users could possibly have the ability to edit out all of the useless website entries, and correctly label other pages that mention topics in passing that don't actually contain information on those topics. Keep an eye open for this product and help fight the Internet Lemmings.