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Hilton Head 2013
On vacation this week and enjoying time with my family. Not reading political news this week and taking a much needed break. I’ll be back in a week interacting with my blog buddies here but until then…..
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Kevyn Orr Schools NPR
There was an interesting Q&A on NPR’s All Things Considered the other day between NPR reporter Robert Siegel and Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr and it was quite obvious that these two gentlemen have two very different ways of characterizing … Continue reading
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New PR Tactic For Obamacare
Last week Obama presented a new tactic for getting people to love Obamacare. From the White House transcript from 18-JUL-2013 (emphasis mine): “It’s hard. This is a big country, and the health care industry is massive and there are tons … Continue reading
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Poverty Rate and the Failure of Liberal Policy
You only need to look at two graphs to prove the failure of Liberal policies. First, from Heritage, we see the amount of money our Federal and State Governments spends on Welfare programs to reduce poverty in the US. Second, … Continue reading
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Was That A Threat?
During Tuesday’s White House Press Conference Jay Carney gave the following statement regarding Edward Snowden (emphasis mine): “The fact of the matter is, our message has been clear and consistent with every government in this regard. And Mr. Snowden has … Continue reading
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Minister of Justice Needs Your Help!
Guys and Gals, Eric Holder needs your help. There is this guy down in Florida who was just found Not-Guilty by a jury of his peers but we still think he’s a no good rotten scoundrel so we need to … Continue reading
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Diabetes Update – 4 Months Post Diagnosis
Today I had my 3 month checkup with my Endocrinologist, which was 4 months after I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes during my annual physical, and I’m happy to report that I’ve made great progress. If you want to … Continue reading
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A New Travelling Game
We just got back from a long weekend trip and I spent time killing the one-way 6 hour drive by playing a game I have recently discovered and let me share it with you. Now that cars and its inhabitants … Continue reading
A Lesson In Capitalism For The DC City Council
The Washington DC city council recently decided to teach evil Wal-Mart a lesson. “D.C. lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to a bill requiring some large retailers to pay their employees a 50 percent premium over the city’s minimum wage, a … Continue reading
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Rules For Thee But Not For Me!
There was an interesting exchange on NPR’s Morning Edition today that highlighted the Leftist’s hypocrisy. David Greene was talking to Cokie Roberts and here was the first part of the interview: GREENE: Yeah, I wanted to ask you this morning, … Continue reading
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When bad astronomers play ‘claimatologists’
The Vostok Ice Core data and the revelation about the Hockey Stick being rigged should’ve been the death to the AGW cult lies. Unfortunately for us, the AGW cult depends on the ignorance of the average person to reach graphs … Continue reading
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Insulting Comment From Dear Leader
I have no words….. Obama: "We’ve made huge swaths of your government more efficient, more transparent, and more accountable than ever before." #SmarterGov — White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) July 8, 2013
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Is There No Hope For Change?
The United States is coming apart and I don’t know how we save it. We have reached a point where our overreaching Government has become so big that it is out of the control of even those who support it. … Continue reading
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Different Rules For Liberals
I recently broke my Facebook rule about engaging with my Liberal friends when they post BS and I am contemplating rescinding that rule altogether! Here’s what started it: Note – All names (including my own) will be redacted on the … Continue reading
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CO2 Sucking Machine
In the vein of Dr. Doofenschmirtz – “I give you the great Carbon Dioxide Suckinator!” It’s come to this. From NPR: “Every year, people add 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the air, mostly by burning fossil fuels. That’s … Continue reading
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Obama Pivots To Climate Change
Now that Obama fixed our economic crisis and everyone who wants a job has a job……He’s going to tackle Climate Change next. While Obama is bloviating about a topic that he knows nothing about, keep the following 5 graphs on … Continue reading
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Using BLS Data To Test The Income Inequality Theory
One of the favorite memes of the Left is Income Inequality. They tell us that over the recent years the wealthy, the top 10%, have seen their salaries increase by a greater margin than the poor, the bottom 10%. But … Continue reading
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AGW Lies On Antarctic Ice
The Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) radical Bill McKibben recently tweeted out to his followers that the Antarctic sea ice is melting at a surprising pace! E. Antarctic ice shelves melting at 'surprising pace,' and not a nice surprise either http://t.co/soXx3anuVG … Continue reading
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How to Treat Leftists on Twitter
Most of the time, when an obvious Leftist interacts with me on Twitter, I ignore them because they are most likely trying to entice me into a Reply Trap so they can get my account suspended via the Twitter Spam/Block … Continue reading
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O-Bots Practicing Their Bow
File this under – You can’t make this up. The latest Leftist brain washing camp was held this past weekend and a whole new crop of O-bots showed up. The updates from this Obama Youth rally were categorized under the … Continue reading
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