Providing news and information while helping aspiring writers and journalists, http://thesop.org/categories/opinion-1.php http://thesop.org/categories/opinion-1.php 118 67 http://thesop.org/images/thesop_118x67.jpg Thu, 9 Feb 2012 07:26:00 GMT My Comprehensive Planning Tools and African Partnership Plans cannot solve all the issues; however, I think the following can answer the questions that you ask me http://thesop.org/story/20120208/my-reply-to-africom-the-defensemilitary-arm-of-america-operating-in-and-around-africa.html http://thesop.org/story/20120208/my-reply-to-africom-the-defensemilitary-arm-of-america-operating-in-and-around-africa.html harvey.carroll.jr@gmail.com (Harvey Carroll, Jr.) Wed, 8 Feb 2012 22:33:00 GMT I hope the Flemings and all two of their friends who are still alive enjoyed the party. I'm sure they partied like it was the last day of their lives. http://thesop.org/story/20120208/happy-couple-mark-their-80th-wedding-anniversary-congrats.html http://thesop.org/story/20120208/happy-couple-mark-their-80th-wedding-anniversary-congrats.html rreyes4966@aol.com (Robert Paul Reyes) Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:48:00 GMT Its been one week now since barista Samantha Koenig was abducted from the Common Grounds coffee shack (Anchorage, Alaska). Surveillance cameras, from several different angles, clearly captured her abduction, when in progress. It happened just before 8 PM last Wednesday, February 1st. http://thesop.org/story/20120208/who-took-samantha-koenig-from-the-common-grounds-coffee-stand.html http://thesop.org/story/20120208/who-took-samantha-koenig-from-the-common-grounds-coffee-stand.html jkays@austin.rr.com (John G. Kays) Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:17:00 GMT Minister Martin should embrace his gayness, and make amends by dedicating the rest of his life to combating homophobia in the black church. http://thesop.org/story/20120207/cnns-roland-martins-homophobic-tweet-is-he-in-the-closet.html http://thesop.org/story/20120207/cnns-roland-martins-homophobic-tweet-is-he-in-the-closet.html rreyes4966@aol.com (Robert Paul Reyes) Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:11:00 GMT As dark as it gets. While still in disbelief, we commit to memory every painful detail of what we know Josh Powell did Sunday afternoon, shortly before the Super Bowl would begin. Mount Carmel revisited? And why did so many already know it would happen? http://thesop.org/story/20120207/did-the-scorching-conflagration-of-josh-powell-possess-an-inevitability.html http://thesop.org/story/20120207/did-the-scorching-conflagration-of-josh-powell-possess-an-inevitability.html jkays@austin.rr.com (John G. Kays) Mon, 6 Feb 2012 20:49:00 GMT I'm surprised there aren't more instances of drive-through rage. Folks are so impatient, they expect that as soon as they place their orders, Ronald McDonald will sprint to their car with their order. http://thesop.org/story/20120206/hero-cops-use-taser-on-moron-blocking-mcdonalds-drivethrough.html http://thesop.org/story/20120206/hero-cops-use-taser-on-moron-blocking-mcdonalds-drivethrough.html rreyes4966@aol.com (Robert Paul Reyes) Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:06:00 GMT I need a 10 Billion Dollar Energy Loan to do a Joint-Venture to buy the Venezuelan Oil Company from the Venezuelan People and get it out of the hands of Hugo Chavez and into more progressive and constructive hands.. http://thesop.org/story/20120206/requesting-10-billion-dollar-energy-loan-to-buy-citgo-from-venezuelan-people.html http://thesop.org/story/20120206/requesting-10-billion-dollar-energy-loan-to-buy-citgo-from-venezuelan-people.html harvey.carroll.jr@gmail.com (Harvey Carroll, Jr.) Sun, 5 Feb 2012 22:33:00 GMT Gingrich looks like a bloated elephant. I bet he robbed the McDonald's, getting away with $1,000 and a thousand Big Macs. http://thesop.org/story/20120205/identity-of-dude-who-held-up-mcdonalds-wearing-obama-mask-remains-mystery.html http://thesop.org/story/20120205/identity-of-dude-who-held-up-mcdonalds-wearing-obama-mask-remains-mystery.html rreyes4966@aol.com (Robert Paul Reyes) Sun, 5 Feb 2012 19:21:00 GMT Deplomacy a hybrid term that combines Defense and Diplomacy, and a bit of White Paint can aid in the transition from Dictatorship, Military to Civilian Control. http://thesop.org/story/20120205/arab-spring-turns-to-arab-winter-when-will-the-us-send-troops.html http://thesop.org/story/20120205/arab-spring-turns-to-arab-winter-when-will-the-us-send-troops.html harvey.carroll.jr@gmail.com (Harvey Carroll, Jr.) Sun, 5 Feb 2012 03:01:00 GMT Unfortunately, as America struggles to reduce its trade imbalance with these countries dumping vast amounts of goods into the American Consumer Markets http://thesop.org/story/20120204/economic-powerhouse-america-spreads-its-influence-on-africa-and-other-3rd-world-nations.html http://thesop.org/story/20120204/economic-powerhouse-america-spreads-its-influence-on-africa-and-other-3rd-world-nations.html harvey.carroll.jr@gmail.com (Harvey Carroll, Jr.) Sat, 4 Feb 2012 20:05:00 GMT The remnants of essential evidence comes by way of two 1/4 inch reel to reel tape left in a box, some personal effects of General Chester Ted Clifton Jr. I easily downloaded (a first for me) these two MP3 files, which ended up on my itunes recently added, as if I had just purchased a new double JFK record! http://thesop.org/story/20120204/an-impromptu-press-release-on-the-two-new-gpo-nara-jfk-assassination-reels.html http://thesop.org/story/20120204/an-impromptu-press-release-on-the-two-new-gpo-nara-jfk-assassination-reels.html jkays@austin.rr.com (John G. Kays) Thu, 2 Feb 2012 20:06:00 GMT Instead of hoping that a UFO will come down from heaven, maybe we should be looking at the oceans for the possibility of a UFO or SFO (submerged flying object) coming out of the oceans. http://thesop.org/story/20120202/did-researchers-find-2nd-ufo-on-floor-of-the-baltic-sea.html http://thesop.org/story/20120202/did-researchers-find-2nd-ufo-on-floor-of-the-baltic-sea.html rreyes4966@aol.com (Robert Paul Reyes) Thu, 2 Feb 2012 19:59:00 GMT My suggestion is that Money is Money, or is it just an Illusion? I have studied money and baking, finance and have built multi-million dollar subdivisions by creating money from thin air millionaire. http://thesop.org/story/20120202/global-economic-reform-based-on-the-fabrication-of-infrastructure-and-money.html http://thesop.org/story/20120202/global-economic-reform-based-on-the-fabrication-of-infrastructure-and-money.html harvey.carroll.jr@gmail.com (Harvey Carroll, Jr.) Thu, 2 Feb 2012 17:08:00 GMT A stronger connection between the two clusters of killings failed to materialize, but many still suspected the perpetrator was one and the same. I lean in this direction myself, but only for a muse of intuition, no hard facts. http://thesop.org/story/20120202/ids-dark-minds-the-eastbound-strangler-brings-back-an-atlantic-citylong-island-connection.html http://thesop.org/story/20120202/ids-dark-minds-the-eastbound-strangler-brings-back-an-atlantic-citylong-island-connection.html jkays@austin.rr.com (John G. Kays) Wed, 1 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT IAEA Inspectors still in Iran and Ahmadinejad is welcomed to the discussion table... http://thesop.org/story/20120201/is-there-any-chance-of-lasting-peace-between-israel-and-palestine.html http://thesop.org/story/20120201/is-there-any-chance-of-lasting-peace-between-israel-and-palestine.html harvey.carroll.jr@gmail.com (Harvey Carroll, Jr.)