Category Archives: Obama Nation

If Republicans were serious

This week’s symbolic show of proposing symbolic cuts will never pass the Senate and will never be signed by the President and everyone in DC knows that. Even if it passed, it’s less than a 2% cut from what is … Continue reading →

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WJR muscles Mark Steyn

WJR-AM, the Citadel/ABC station in Detroit demanded that Rush Limbaugh never use Mark Steyn again as a guest host. If you have lived in or near Detroit, WJR was a total flack for GM and the city of Detroit – … Continue reading →

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The Problem with Public Employee unions

Collective Bargaining with Private Employer: Union: We’re making $16, we want a raise to $20 Management: We can’t afford $20. The best we can do is $17 Union: If you offer $17, we shut you down Management: Well, if you … Continue reading →

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Can a business refuse to hire the unemployed?

So this is the latest twist – are people who don’t have a job a “protected class”?   At first blush, it sounds like nonsense that a business would want to hire people but tell people without a job not to … Continue reading →

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Iran & the Suez Canal

Pull up a map of the Middle East.     Iran is reported to be sending ships to Syria through the Suez Canal.    Iran has no border with Syria – to send anything from Iran you have to go through either … Continue reading →

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Tea Party to Pro-Lifers: Shut the hell up

Since Roe v Wade, probably upward of 40 million American women have had at least one abortion.   Those women will never agree that what they did was “murder”.  It isn’t ever going to happen.  The fanactical religious Republicans are setting the … Continue reading →

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How Freedom works

1) force the President to step down 2) dissolve the Legislative Branch 3) Suspend the Constitution 4) put the military in charge 5) promise elections in the future Sounds like freedom to me!

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San Diego’s angry cab

Cab crushes crowd So what would cause a cab in San Diego to run down a crowd of 25 people leaving a bar at closing time and beating up its driver? The first and only time I heard the story … Continue reading →

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The Real George Noory

At 4 AM on Saturday morning and nobody is listening, it becomes too easy for the truth to slip out. “What did you think about all of the events in Egypt unfolding?  It could happen just about anywhere.   It could happen … Continue reading →

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Egypt – what now?

The party is over, now comes the reality. The story that Mubarak has looted every penny in the Treasury has a single source, an Arabic language newspaper in Algeria, but people tend to accept as truth what they want to … Continue reading →

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In other news

Saudis’ Bin Ladin Group set for nuclear deal with French firm This comes a few days since Wikileaks released a 2008 cable that France intended to sell civilian nuclear technology to Libya. So has the caliphate already swallowed France?

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Stunning

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110209/ap_on_re_us/us_shale_oil_3 Where has this news been hiding?   “Fracking” also works for oil in addition to natural gas.   As a result, domestic oil production has been going up the last two years while consumption has been going down (because of the … Continue reading →

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Remember the ‘Nam helicopter pilot “terrorist”?

Sit down. A week ago, I wrote about the Vietnam Vet Army helicopter pilot from Imperial Beach California who was arrested outside the Mosque in Dearborn, Michigan for having illegal fireworks.   After the war, he spent several years in Indonesia as a bush … Continue reading →

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Narratives and Templates

Who would ever expect Rush Limbaugh and Harry Shearer to be singing from the same songbook? Harry you may know from the movie Spinal Tap, his time on Saturday Night Live or his long running “Le Show” on Public Radio … Continue reading →

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Coming soon – testing Doomsday

The Emergency Broadcast System (now called EAS) was created to use a network of radio and TV stations to alert the public in the event of an emergency. Other than the monthly tests we’ve all heard, participation in EAS is … Continue reading →

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