Category Archives: Obama Nation

Keep your damn dollars

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Art Stone

IMF ministers push back That’s the message being shouted at Tim Geithner at the semi-annual meeting of the IMF. Developing countries see a real threat from surges in Dollars flooding their countries be the Federal Reserve. Their concern is that … Continue reading →

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Iraq – Cease fire!

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Art Stone

Massacre of civilians in Iraq A week ago, the Iraqi military attacked and killed civilians in its border – a group of Iranians who have been active in opposing the regime in Iran and providing the US government with intelligence … Continue reading →

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The Brink of Default

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Art Stone

I’ve now heard Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachman both repeat the message that failing to raise the debt ceiling does not mean the US defaults on it’s existing debt. It does mean stopping all but emergency spending, selling off assets … Continue reading →

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The government doesn’t build railroads or power grids

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Art Stone

Since he was educated in Indonesia, President Obama may not realize that there was this guy named Cornelius Vanderbilt who built the New York Central railroad, and the Pennsylvania RR was a privately owned corporation.    If he did hear of … Continue reading →

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The new Libya Twist

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Art Stone

Remember that guy who “defected” to England from Kadaffi’s “inner circle”? England let Moussa Koussa leave the country.   By most accounts, he is the man who planned the Lockerbie bombing and carried it off.   He is also the person who negotiated … Continue reading →

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You’re going digital, damn it!

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Art Stone

That’s the word from the FCC for the future of AM and FM radio.  The NAB is holding its convention out in Las Vegas this week, and that’s the clear message from the FCC.   It’s time to get serious about … Continue reading →

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Having friends in high places

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Art Stone

So let’s say you live out in the desert and you want to run your own FM radio station – there is nobody else on the FM dial.   So you put up an antenna without an FCC license to help … Continue reading →

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Good Morning Chernobyl!

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Art Stone

Japan has formally raised the Fukushima disaster to a 7 on the INES scale that rates the severity of nuclear incidents. That’s currently the top number on the scale. I’m getting more serious about the idea of opening up immigration … Continue reading →

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Washington DC about to get new AM station

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Art Stone

The new station is called WCRW-AM (Conservative Radio Washington?). The station is an upgrade to the former WAGE-AM on Leesburg, Virginia. The revamp has been tied up in legal knots by local land use bullies, who are trying to make … Continue reading →

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Libya / Talk radio scorecard

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Art Stone

The opinions of the major talk show hosts on the Libyan situation are all over the place.   Since this may be going on for a while, I feel a need to keep track of who has what opinion.  Since I … Continue reading →

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Welcome your new Canadian overlords

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Art Stone

This morning, $1.00 US will buy you only $0.95 Canadian. Brent Crude oil is $124.66 a barrel. I was hoping someone would notice this in the table the other day that I created of Per Capita Oil Reserves by Country … Continue reading →

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Being NATO means never having to say you’re sorry

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Art Stone

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-libya-nato-20110409,0,6322599.story Call me crazy, but that picture screams out “Mercenary soldier” fighting for the “rebels”.   I wonder how much we’re paying him.

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Shay’s Rebellion

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Art Stone

“Obama thinks it’s good for him politically if soldiers don’t get paid during a government shutdown” That’s the topic TheJerseyDevil heard on Chris Krok’s show… One thing you can be pretty sure about is that when Barack Obama was going … Continue reading →

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Who really owns the world.

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Art Stone

You are your IP address : In the beginning was ARPA, a group of entities doing research for the U.S. Military.   ARPA created TCP and saw that it was good.   With 4 billion possible computers, how could it ever run … Continue reading →

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The news from Libya

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Art Stone

We have entered the next phase in Libya…  since last I wrote on the topic, – NATO planes bombed a Rebel anti-aircraft gun killing 13 rebels – Government forces have switched to small groups of soldiers using pickup trucks instead … Continue reading →

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