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Terror in Amsterdam

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42507856/ns/world_news-europe/ Man with a “machine gun” opens fire in a shopping mall, killing 5 and kills himself with a handgun.  In keeping with European sensibilities, they describe him as wearing camouflage pants, but not his ethnic identity or whether he shouted … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Islam and war, Libya, State of Fear-mongering | 6 Comments

Washington DC about to get new AM station

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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“There is a King in England!”

That’s the rationalization that former Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld used to justify overthrowing dictators in the name of spreading Democracy, but doing nothing about getting rid of “Kings” or “Emirs” who happen to be our friends – we need to respect … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Islam and war | 3 Comments

Libya / Talk radio scorecard

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 →

Posted in American Politics, Islam and war, Libya, Obama Nation, Radio Biz | 2 Comments

Mutiny in the British Navy?

With the impending death of millions of puppies if the US government, this story isn’t getting a lot of coverage Officer killed on British submarine A member of a nuclear submarine’s crew shot and killed an officer in the control … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Islam and war, Libya | 2 Comments

Algeria to UN/NATO – Cease fire or else!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5j8vnqhPb6AUbO7PR4YfKOPMomYrw?docId=6506638 This just in – the “regime” in Algeria has seen enough and wants NATO and the UN out of Africa. Algeria has a relativrly modern air force comparable to Egypt and within easy striking range of France. There goes … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Energy, Global Finance, Islam and war | 3 Comments

Welcome your new Canadian overlords

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 →

Posted in American Politics, Global Finance, Obama Nation, State of Fear-mongering | 3 Comments

Being NATO means never having to say you’re sorry

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.

Posted in American Politics, Libya, Obama Nation | 4 Comments

Shay’s Rebellion

“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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China Disneyland

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/business/media/08disney.html?_r=1&hp With something like 19 million empty houses in the United States, maybe we should import Chinese people instead of exporting Disneyland.

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The Glenn Beck situation

Glenn is dropping the strong hint that the reason for breaking things off with Fox is so he can move out of New York, possibly to Texas.  Told ya. :) and here and here and here

Posted in Internet Streaming, Radio Biz | 1 Comment

Who really owns the world.

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

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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The Epsilon mess

If the hackers are not rookies (which seems unlikely), the breakin at Epsilon is going to dwarf Wikileaks, and every business and ISP needs to be on guard. A large number of reputable companies relied on Epsilon to handle their … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, iTech | 4 Comments

Savage and Government Employees

Savage wants Federal employees to start contributing to their own retirements. Like so many things, Savage is living in the 1950s.    The Federal Civil Service retirement plan was terminated in 1986 under Ronald Reagan.   The current Federal Retirement plan is … Continue reading →

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