http://michaelgd.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by Michael D. en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:46:31 GMT 2009-12-28T20:46:31Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977846420 On the evening of March 24, 2004, one year into the war in Iraq, Bush arrived at the Washington Hilton to attend the Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner, an annual black-tie event, . . . Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:28:14 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977846420 Michael D. 2009-10-09T20:28:14Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977807190 I found it thoroughly amusing when I woke this morning to a news story about a secnator who called President Obama a liar to his face! Well, good for the senator! If he lied about providing health care . . . Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:42:31 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977807190 Michael D. 2009-09-10T14:42:31Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977804375 Any new fiction writing contests going on lately? I finally finished a novel and have been getting very good reviews on Authonomy.com. Wondering if anything is going on here at Gather. Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:37:52 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977804375 Michael D. 2009-09-08T16:37:52Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977498227 Since 2000 I cannot remember having experienced such emotion during a presidential election. Eight years ago I felt fear, despair, and mistrust; tonight I sensed security, joy, and confidence. Eight years . . . Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:11:08 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977498227 Michael D. 2008-11-05T06:11:08Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977479864 Hey folks. I have finally put aside my non-fiction writing for a while in order to pen a novel. I have attempted to write several novels in the past but could never find an intriguing story line. Well, . . . Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:16:46 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977479864 Michael D. 2008-10-16T22:16:46Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977466425 For all of you fight fans, I do not have to introduce Michael Buffer. For those of you who do not partake of watching grown men beat the crap out of each other, Michael Buffer is the announcer who introduces . . . Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:41:40 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977466425 Michael D. 2008-10-03T04:41:40Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977454217 From his birth into affluence to his success as an oil businessman despite drilling dry holes and bankrupting three companies, George W. Bush is the new poster boy for entitlement. Although he failed . . . Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:58:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977454217 Michael D. 2008-09-20T16:58:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977450473   On the morning of August 7, 1995, 24‑year old Tyra Hunter was critically injured in a car accident at a Washington, D.C., intersection. When emergency personnel arrived on the scene they . . . Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:37:53 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977450473 Michael D. 2008-09-16T15:37:53Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977450466   In the early morning hours of June 7, 1998, three white men picked up a disabled black man who was walking alongside a road in rural Jasper, Texas, beat him, stripped him naked, chained him . . . Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:34:58 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977450466 Michael D. 2008-09-16T15:34:58Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977450463   Our wonderful lawmakers have voted themselves salary increases in nine of the last fourteen years, bringing their salary from $129,500 per year in 1992, to $165,200 in 2006. 1 Amazingly, they . . . Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:31:59 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977450463 Michael D. 2008-09-16T15:31:59Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977450457   At the start of the Reagan administration, Douglas Feith joined the National Security Council as an expert on Middle East policy; three years later, he was handpicked by Richard Perle, then . . . Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:26:32 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977450457 Michael D. 2008-09-16T15:26:32Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977449794 Is there anything that George W. Bush hasn't trashed? First it was the Kyoto Protocol, then the ABMT, then the environment. He cut taxes to the very wealthy and corporations, including a ten-year . . . Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:19:23 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977449794 Michael D. 2008-09-15T21:19:23Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977442865 Has anyone heard the song "Dear Mr. President," by Pink? If not you should. It is available on YouTube or by visiting my MySpace page here . No one has said it better than Pink. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:31:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977442865 Michael D. 2008-09-08T00:31:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977442862 See? This is exactly what I am talking about when I say that Republicans are clueless. Vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, recently told her the members of her church that the war . . . Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:27:42 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977442862 Michael D. 2008-09-08T00:27:42Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977442734 As a registered democrat, I am appalled at the democratic party. We the people managed to do the impossible and help the dems win both houses in the 2006 mid-term elections. Yet, the democrats have done . . . Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:32:58 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977442734 Michael D. 2008-09-07T21:32:58Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977442049 I am just stunned that I am finding people who still support Bush. With all that has happened in the last eight years, we are now at the tipping point. The housing market is approaching near Great Depression-era . . . Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:00:31 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977442049 Michael D. 2008-09-06T22:00:31Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977435063   Karyn Bosnak went from being the poster girl of irresponsibility to the World Wide Web queen of scam in the click of a mouse. Bosnak had it all: a television producer with an annual six‑figure . . . Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:56:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977435063 Michael D. 2008-08-31T12:56:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977407480 It would have been nice had Gather.com informed everyone through an e-mail of the changes made to the website. I spent almost a half hour just to find out how to post an article, which, by the way, are . . . Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:54:03 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977407480 Michael D. 2008-07-27T15:54:03Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977407477 Second Chance Publishing is pleased to announce the June 30, 2008 publication of The Iraq War Blog, An Iraqi Family's Inside View of the First Year of the Occupation , by Faiza Al-Araji, Raed Jarrar, . . . Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:48:22 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977407477 Michael D. 2008-07-27T15:48:22Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977356485   Yesterday morning, after I posted my article, McClellan's Conscience (http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977355779), I reread it yet again, and when I got to the part . . . Thu, 29 May 2008 13:39:49 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977356485 Michael D. 2008-05-29T13:39:49Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977355779 I find it comically ironic that the man who stood at the podium during press conferences and blatantly lied for President [sic] Bush now decides to say that he was "misled" in his new book. . . . Wed, 28 May 2008 16:56:38 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977355779 Michael D. 2008-05-28T16:56:38Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977355319 Those of you who know me know that I am at odds about the upcoming general election in November, during which we will be electing (we hope not appointing) a new president and vice-president. I have been . . . Wed, 28 May 2008 04:02:40 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977355319 Michael D. 2008-05-28T04:02:40Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977347065 I would like everyone to know that our publishing company, Second Chance Publishing, is releasing The Iraq War Blog, An Iraqi Family's Inside View of the First Year of the Occupation , by Faiza Al-Araji, . . . Fri, 16 May 2008 19:51:53 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977347065 Michael D. 2008-05-16T19:51:53Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977333818 A thought just occurred to me. If everyone who opposes the war, (which as of August 2007, stands at 55% according to Zogby International), stops paying their taxes, it would cut funding for the war . . . Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:21:28 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977333818 Michael D. 2008-04-28T14:21:28Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977043181 Okay, I say it's high time we end our massively unsuccessful foray into WMD-searching, Saddam-removing, freedom-spreading, liberating the Iraqis—whatever phrase you want to use to rationalize . . . Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:45:19 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977043181 Michael D. 2007-06-29T16:45:19Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977000146 Our "liberal" mainstream media is at it again. As was the case with the deaths of Uday and Qusay, the sons of Saddam Hussein, photographs of the bullet-riddled body of Mullah Dadullah, the mastermind . . . Mon, 14 May 2007 18:48:47 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977000146 Michael D. 2007-05-14T18:48:47Z