Category Archives: Left and Right

Cap and Trade: Stand Up Today; Take Back Your Government – Make A Call

Call and tell your representative they work for YOU, tell them YOU want them to vote NO and YOU will actively organize to ensure they do not get re-elected if they do not represent YOUR wishes. This is YOUR country, take it back, take back YOUR government. Continue reading

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Freedom of Speech: Now Playing in Tehran, but Not Toledo

I’ve been following the Iranian protests these last days – like a lot of people.  I’ve been on Twitter (too much) retweeting credible information in a small effort to help. But it’s made me wonder: what are these courageous people … Continue reading

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Words have meanings – Socialist does not mean black, but doofus still means doofus

  As further evidence that the left wants to control your life and shape the direction of humanity – whether you agree or disagree; whether it goes against your values or not; whether it goes against the Constitution or not … Continue reading

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Doomsday scenario – a peek inside your future

  The Wall Street Journal has a pretty somber story here focusing on what happens if the current batch of liberal Democrats in the Congress can set the agenda, unchallenged, within an Obama presidency.  It’s worth reading in full – … Continue reading

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Michelle Obama slams down the race card…

Interesting (and scary) if true.  Read the entire story. From the African Press International (API) website; Shocking development:  Mrs Obama decides enough is enough: “My husband was born in Hawaii and adopted by his stepfather, does that make him unpatriot; … Continue reading

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Don’t be so selfish…it’s good for everybody – Obama-isms

How much clearer does Obama need to be on his socialist agenda?  He keeps putting it right out there, media does their best to ignore it/edit it and if ever it’s brought up as a legitimate concern, Obama says 1) … Continue reading

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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain…

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. – Barack Obama I am the great and powerful Wizard … Continue reading

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FDR’s WPA, Part 2

It appears the Democrats are already planning their New Deal.  This screams of FDR’s WPA, which, while it gave us some classic architecture, was really a step toward socialism. It just looks like more spending that we can’t afford to … Continue reading

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100 Economists Scrutinize Obama Economic Plan

The McCain-Palin campaign issued a statement today regarding the opinion of 100 economists on the Obama economic plan. How anyone can believe that raising taxes and increasing discretionary spending will do anything to strengthen the American economy is, in my … Continue reading

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Now for something completely different, socializing your 401K

Rush Limbaugh was talking about this today, so I had to check it out. From Investment News, here. Congress mulls major 401(k) changes By Sara Hansard October 7, 2008, 5:18 PM EST A wide range of sweeping changes to the … Continue reading

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Yeah, that bailout was a great idea.

From the “do I have a kick me sign on my butt” file….. It’s been a long time since I could afford a nice vacation, and with things going the way they are, it looks to be a while before … Continue reading

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The bailout bill – more of your money to the greedy feds

I’ve been watching and listening everybody talk about this bailout of AIG, et. al. I have a feeling that if there is no bailout, it will be bad. I have a feeling that if there is a bailout, it will … Continue reading

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Who’s calling who ‘white trash’?

The tone of presidential campaigns have been getting more and more vile over the years.  It’s unfortunate that the American people cannot get honest debate and actual answers to their questions so that they may make an informed decision.  Instead, … Continue reading

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I, American – Part 1

I’ve have taken quite a bit of time away from this blog because, frankly, it wasn’t a whole lot of fun.   Here are some reasons why: The topics I was covering were run-of-the-mill, but they still got folks riled up … Continue reading

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Can’t have kids? Your marriage is voided.

Heard this about an initiative (Initiative 957) being pursued by the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance organization? Initiative 957 If passed by Washington voters, the Defense of Marriage Initiative would: add the phrase, “who are capable of having children with … Continue reading

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