The Georgian/Russian Truth

Author: Tommy Leung | 08.15.2008 | Category: News, Politics, Videos

I put up a video at Tommy Liberty about a 12 year old girl who was in the area where the conflict between Georgia and Russia is occurring. She squarely places the blame on Georgia for attacking South Ossetia and causing all the death and destruction–she was actually thankful for the Russians. Watch it.

Knowing what we know, do we really want to get involved in this conflict? I’m saying that we should not put a base in Poland and send aid to Georgia.

Cold War 2.0?

Author: Tommy Leung | 08.11.2008 | Category: News, Politics

A new Cold War is certainly an attention grabber and will sell news–that is why I titled this what I did. Hopefully, we don’t send troops over to Georgia in an attempt to defend them against the Russians. The news is reporting the situation as an invasion by Russia but, the reality is hardly as black and white.

You can read an in-depth look at what is really going on here. The main point is that Georgia invaded the “breakaway” province of South Ossetia where a lot of Russian citizens happen to reside. Russia used their military might in response to Georgia’s actions. It is hard to put the fault on Russia in this scenario as Russia is protecting its own citizens. We would expect our government to protected American citizens living in Mexico if certain danger were to arise–there is little difference in this case.

The media will try to make this out to be an aggressive action by Russia because that will sell the news. The only prudent move we can make is to stay out of the affairs of that area. We’ve already got our hands full with the Middle East and a weak economy at home. And besides, do our politicians really have the moral high ground to condemn Russia when we’ve invaded a country that did no harm to us?

2008 Olympics Online

Author: Tommy Leung | 08.08.2008 | Category: Books, Internet, Life, News, Videos

I always marvel at what the free market can achieve and all our technological advances that have become a part of our lives is wholly due to that. NBC will be bringing the Olympics to all of us with videos of all the events at NBCOlympics.com. YouTube will have their own share of videos as well.

Go USA! :)

Txting Boosts Literacy

Author: Tommy Leung | 05.27.2008 | Category: News, Technology

Txt messages are amongst the most popular ways to communicate on our cellphones today and a lot of us can’t even imagine not being able to txt. There are just times when an actual call is unnecessary or you happen to be in a meeting, lecture, movie theater, etc. Studies show that txting boosts literacy amongst children. It is believed the the use of “imaginative abbreviations” help with reading and writing.

So with kids getting cellphones younger and younger, this is certainly good news. The smarter our kids, the better our country.