Category: World Gone Wild

Memorial Day Tribute to a Wounded Soldier

A good friend of mine, Theresa Hong did a great tribute to her father who is a veteran disabled in service to our country. Read story HERE

Sunday May 24th, 2009 in Family Safety, World Gone Wild | 1 Comment »

Article: America’s Poor are the most generous givers.

When Jody Richards saw a homeless man begging outside a downtown McDonald’s recently, he bought the man a cheeseburger. There’s nothing unusual about that, except that Richards is homeless, too, and the 99-cent cheeseburger was an outsized chunk of the $9.50 he’d earned that day from panhandling. The generosity of poor people isn’t so much […]

Sunday May 24th, 2009 in World Gone Wild | No Comments »

Will whole body imaging lead to “TSA Porn”?

So you’re at the airport, you’ve gone through the inevitable check-in and security line, when you walk through a machine you think is a metal detector, just like you probably have a number of times before. However, if you’re at one of nineteen airports across the country testing new “whole body imaging” scanners, you might […]

Thursday May 21st, 2009 in Family Safety, Technology, World Gone Wild | No Comments »

Road Warriors bare all for TSA – Millimeter Wave X-Ray

CNN.com posted a GREAT article about the TSA’s plan to roll out millimeter X-Ray to more and more airports. I hope someone releases the scans of our top politicians. The option of walking through a whole-body scanner or taking a pat-down shouldn’t be the final answer, said Chris Calabrese, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union. […]

Monday May 18th, 2009 in Family Safety, Technology, World Gone Wild | 3 Comments »

From the Big Brother Files – Wisconsin Police can use GPS tracking without warrant.

Another scary story to followup my Patriot Act story from last week. Chicago Sun Times reports…. As the law currently stands, the court said police can mount GPS on cars to track people without violating their constitutional rights — even if the drivers aren’t suspects. Officers do not need to get warrants beforehand because GPS […]

Sunday May 10th, 2009 in Family Safety, Technology, World Gone Wild | No Comments »

Follow me on TWITTER

I would like to get my Twitter count up! Follow me at: www.twitter.com/PhilipNelson

Thursday May 7th, 2009 in Interview, NewTek, Technology, World Gone Wild | No Comments »

16 Year old Arrested and held under Patriot Act

This is VERY scary.. It’s soooo easy to hack into someone’s wireless router these days that anyone could be a victim of something like this. “We have no rights under the Patriot Act to even defend them, because the Patriot Act basically supersedes the Constitution,” she said. “It wasn’t intended to drag your barely 16-year-old, […]

Wednesday May 6th, 2009 in World Gone Wild | No Comments »

US Bomber Crashes into Empire State Building

Did you know that on July 28, 1945, a B-25 Bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 people? Read the story HERE On the foggy morning of Saturday, July 28, 1945, Lt. Colonel William Smith was piloting a U.S. Army B-25 bomber through New York City. He was on […]

Tuesday May 5th, 2009 in Technology, World Gone Wild | 1 Comment »

Swine Flu – What should you do to prepare?

Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the past week, you are well aware of the potential risk of a swine flu pandemic. Being in South Texas, where there are already reported cases, I must admit that I’ve been closely watching this story. Here are some facts: 50 confirmed cases here in the […]

Tuesday April 28th, 2009 in Family Safety, World Gone Wild | No Comments »

Freddie Mac CFO Commits Suicide

A sad development in a mad time, CFO of Freddie Mac commits suicide. Read the story HERE

Wednesday April 22nd, 2009 in World Gone Wild | No Comments »