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Six Minutes to Midnight

April 23, 2011
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Six Minutes to Midnight

Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. Have we have reached a point where we will have "soiled our nest" to the point where it will truly be irretrievable?

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The Far Wrong: the electorate lost what was left of its mind.

February 2, 2011
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The Far Wrong: the electorate lost what was left of its mind.

Unilateral action on the part of the miscounterelected should have consequences.

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Pain, frustration, anger. Please, no more.

January 11, 2011
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Pain, frustration, anger.  Please, no more.

So what happens if we ALL decide our way is it, period?

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Bass-Ackwards‏ (You betcha)

November 27, 2010
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If tax rates don’t follow interest rates to or toward zero – especially for those whose incomes are larger than the national budget of Romania – then the HR door will remain closed. It’s as though business intends to hold its breath until WE all turn blue.

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Next stop: American Feudalism

October 10, 2010
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Next stop:  American Feudalism

American companies, especially the really BIG ones, are still collecting dead Presidents. They've got over two trillion of 'em. Managers say there's no reason to invest. That may be the last true statement to come from them, or the first.

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Three-headed monster on the ballot

September 5, 2010
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Three-headed monster on the ballot

If 60-61-101 pass, so many government jobs will be lost that the state economy will roll over and make 2008-09 look like a birthday party at a nursing home.

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Is it really insurance?

August 16, 2010
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Let's start a real reform of the reform, and line up "insurance" companies against the wall.

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Guess who! A limerick or two

August 4, 2010
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There was a hairpiece from the glade Who lived well and sure had it made; But when called to account He would turn to his mount, And use his gratuitous blade. A gilded figure from Poway Had got used to have everything his way. When confronted or locked He annoyed, huffed or blocked While...

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Lexicon: Test on Monday

July 22, 2010
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Lexicon: Test on Monday

Read the newest, most up-to-date entries to the Dictionary of the American Language.

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Is it time for radical economic concepts?

July 3, 2010
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Is it time for radical economic concepts?

More than one-third of existing USA home sales in 2009 were short sales or foreclosures. In March of 2010 the median existing home price was 26% lower than in October 2005, without factoring in any inflation. What's the root cause? For starters, check out incomes. That's what pays the mortgage.

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‘Keep the change.” — Yes I will, thank you.

May 25, 2010
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Photo by jcolman

If these bumper stickers mean the displayer just can’t stand not being able to do exactly as he/she pleases, then Houston, we do have a problem, and it isn’t with “freedom.”

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"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
— Mitch McConnell, Republican Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate - interview in the National Journal, October 25, 2010

“This is not a time for compromise, and I can tell you that we will not compromise..."
— John Boehner, soon-to-be Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Definition: Fascism

Fascism, a philosophy or system of government that advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of belligerent nationalism.
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Quote of the moment

If you marry for money, you will earn it. — Ezra Bowen

They Said What?

"We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike." - Adolf Hitler, May 2, 1933
"We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors." - Ann Coulter