Sunday, January 31, 2010

The Curious Case of Obama & The Dems' Health Care Legislation: Alive or Dead?

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Short answer: It's not dead, at least not yet. What sources told Dick Morris earlier this week -- and as passed along in this space -- ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Oh My! How the Mighty Have Fallen!

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Rip Torn -- once the ruler of his own kingdom, master of the massive and powerful Jun horde that pursued The Beastmaster to the edge of Hel...
Friday, January 29, 2010

"I Am NOT An Ideologue!", Crows Obama Today. Plus, Now He's Considering Having the Justice Department Look Into College Football's BCS System...

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First item today: The ideologue denial immediately conjures up for me images of Nixon's infamous "I am NOT a Crook" proclamat...

Good Cause, First Lady!

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Michelle Obama is onboard for a new campaign to fight obesity in the country (first link below). Obesity takes lives prematurely. Obesity d...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Good Grief!

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Remind me never to set foot in Rubidoux, wherever the hell that is (appears to be somewhere in Cali). Matter of fact, remind me never to set...

Heard the Last 45 Minutes Of the State of the Union. Struck Me As More of the Same.

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...although I did not catch all of it. What I heard was pretty uninspired. Came across as a professor teaching a class or something. On sub...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Random Thoughts...Who Says I'm Some Deranged Right-Winger or Loony Left-Winger? Or Am I Both at the Same Time?

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For example, I'm intrigued by the idea of the spending freeze that Obama had proposed. (Of course, his partisans on the left in Congres...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Told You So: Reports of the Dems' Massive Health Care Bill Being Dead Were Apparently Greatly Exaggerated.

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I had read and heard that Obama, Pelosi, Reid and other high-level dems were meeting this past weekend to talk about possible strategies fo...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

Obama & The Dems: We're Gonna FIGHT! Are They Blind? Or Purely Fatalistic?

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The rhetoric from Obama & The Dems this weekend is that of No Retreat, No Surrender, No Movement to the Center. Despite the recent resul...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

The Folks Are Mad Down in Venezuela Too! Tens of Thousands Hit the Streets Today to Protest the Policies of Socialist "President" Hugo Chavez.

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Chavez should enlist his best buddy, Danny Glover, to help out with this mess -- That is, if Glover can tear himself away from blaming Ameri...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Burger King Joint to Offer Beer with Whoppers. Oh, That'll Work.

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It's to be called "The Whopper Bar." The only thing that could be better? If White Castle joined in on this action. I'd ...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

You Can Act Like a Man!!! (Or a Lady.)
Whatsa Matta With You!

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Political opportunist and turncoat Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) today does his best cross-impersonation between Don Vito Corleone and Eleanor ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

"The Angry Independent Wins." I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself.

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So I won't try. From an article on today's Politico.com: " The angry independent wins Ideologues and hard-core partisans domin...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

HISTORY MADE: Independents Make Their Voices Heard LOUD & CLEAR Tonight in Massachusetts

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(Although I seriously doubt that DC dems are going to pay an ounce of attention, but I digress). As to today's events: First, I must st...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Some Dems Are Blaming Bush For the Surging Polls of Massachusetts Republican Senatorial Candidate Scott Brown. Right!!!

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(See linked story). And Brown's surge of course has nothing to do with, say, (1) an inept, unenthusiastic and gaffe-laiden campaign run...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr., Day to All

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I'm not much of an historian, and King was before my time, and I'm certainly not the most well-read on him. But one thing I have re...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

DC Dems Floating Trial Balloons About Using the Nuclear Option to Ram the Final Health Bill Through the Senate, If Necessary. Stop the Press!

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Obama & The Dems appear to be anticipating that using the obscure procedural mechanism sometimes referred to as reconciliation or ...
Friday, January 15, 2010

I Almost Always Disagree With Obama's Left-Wing Politics, But I Do Try to Give Him Credit When I Feel It's Deserved...

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From everything that I've observed and read, Obama's reaction to the disastrous Haitian earthquake, and the American response that ...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Obama, White House Claim "A Victory" By Cutting Another Deal Behind Closed Doors for Disparate Treatment: Some High-End Policies 2B Taxed, Others Not?

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...Those aligned with special interests powerful enough to garner a deal for their high-cost health insurance policies (i.e. union members)...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

How Come Any Time a Natural Disaster Occurs, We Get Right-Wing & Left-Wing Goofs Comin' Out the Woodwork and Trying to Blame It on Humans?

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And so it was today that we get religious right freak Pat Robertson blaming the Haitian people themselves for causing yesterday's earth...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Drunken Lout/Schoolteacher Who K-O'd Reality Star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi of MTV's "Jersey Shore" Officially Gets His Walking Papers.

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(Linked story below). You have to love the writing style of New York Post stories. They use my kinda language. Choice selections from the ...
Monday, January 11, 2010

I Like Looking at Palin as Much as the Next Dude, But I Really Don't Need to See Her on My TV Every Night.

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That's my immediate reaction to the news today that FoxNews has signed up Palin to be a regular FoxNews "contributor" (i.e. p...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Not So Perfect.

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So much for all the talk from the University of Kansas ("KU") Fan as to whether this year's team will cap off their near-cert...

White.

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I'm just reading today that females describing their bra color is apparently now all the rage on Facebook (reportedly with some connect...