Archive for May, 2007
Friday, May 18th, 2007
There is a distinct difference between the words politician and leader. One is a person that would sell your mothers soul for a few extra votes and the other is someone that would defend your mother’s soul and care not about losing votes. American politics has been bastardized ...
Posted in Campaign News, Patriot, Politics | No Comments »
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Some things just chap me raw, and the latest is the White House's opposition to a 3.5 percent pay increase for the military. The modest increase would narrow the gap between private sector jobs - that presumably don't require getting shot at - and the military. Military pay habitually lags ...
Posted in Current Affairs, General, IDIOT, Military, Miscellaneous, Politics | No Comments »
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
In the wake of the 2006 midterm elections little has happened to predict how Republican voters will ultimately respond to the strong Democratic showing. I suspect that it would be difficult to make definitive conclusion as to what led more voters to back Democratic candidates across all regions of the ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Gay and Lesbian Rights, Politics, Religion, Right Wing Nut | No Comments »
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
John Ashcroft, for all his evangelical world view mentality, is beginning to look like some kind of Hall of Justice Superhero when compared with Alberto Gonzales. And that's saying a lot about a man who needed to cover up a statue to obscure her nude breasts, a statue which would ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Impeachment, Legal News, Police State, Politics, Terrorism | 5 Comments »
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
The post I wrote when Jerry Falwell died presented a bit of a conundrum. I intensely dislike some people, but I'm not much for harboring true hate - especially when the person is no longer around. I heard my mother's admonition to not say bad things about the dead as ...
Posted in DailyFeatured | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Crazy Anti-Car Protesters - Watch more free videos
This old couple looks lost.
Posted in Diaries | 30 Comments »
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Well, about one thing anyway...
On Tuesday night, FOX "News" had it's "Slugfest Down in Dixie" - the second GOP presidential debate. As usual, FOX reduced the debate to a silly affair with endless boxing analogies to make it seem exciting. However the broad, generalized questions for the "Big Three," Guiliani, ...
Posted in Diaries | 25 Comments »
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Given the fact that raising the minimum wage to a decent level could break the economy of America according to President Bush I think that the prices at the pump are going to pretty much bury the American people for the good graces of our President. I was talking to ...
Posted in Current Affairs, DailyFeatured, Economics, Politics | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
A study called "Looking Red, Voting Blue" released by the centrist Democrat think tank Third Way says that the Democratic take-over of Congress in the 2006 mid-term elections was driven in large part by defecting Republican voters who largely disapproved with President Bush's scandal plagued administration, President Bush himself, ...
Posted in Current Affairs, General, Politics, Poll Results | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
For many years there has been a political class in America that existed to maintain the status quo and resist change by spreading fear and loathing (to quote a late clever observer) among it's base. It was not a particularly partisan class, but more local and regionally so. But as ...
Posted in General | 17 Comments »
