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| The Fix |
Posted By:
Letters
on 2/1/2010 10:41:49 AM in
COMMENT CORNER |
| COMMENT CORNER |
| There recently was an article in the St. Petersburg Fl. Times. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on: "How Would You Fix the Economy?"I think this guy nailed it!Dear Mr. President,Please find below my suggestion for fixing America 's econom ... |
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| Life Messages |
Posted By:
Letters
on 2/1/2010 10:35:31 AM in
INSPIRATIONAL |
| INSPIRATIONAL |
| 1) Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.2) Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.3) &nbs ... |
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| Phony Freeze |
Posted By:
Letters
on 1/31/2010 8:58:24 AM in
Disingenuous Den |
| Disingenuous Den |
| "Fiscal Policy: The latest idea for reining in the federal government's runaway spending is to "freeze" nondefense discretionary outlays for three years. That may sound good, but it's just another gimmick.We try not to be too cynical about politics, ... |
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| From Camelot To Scamalot |
Posted By:
Letters
on 1/31/2010 8:50:18 AM in
Barack Obama |
| Barack Obama |
| "For almost half a century, the romantic and noble label of John and Jackie Kennedy's "Camelot" years in the White House has been an integral part of our political lexicon -- and a major asset to the once-liberal, now mostly left-illiberal Democratic ... |
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| Crisis Of The Government Party |
Posted By:
G-man
on 1/30/2010 1:02:41 PM in
Road To Rome |
| Road To Rome |
| “President Obama is in a dilemma from which there appears to be no easy or early escape. Democrats are the Party of Government. They feed it, and it feeds them. The larger government grows, the more agencies that are created, the more bureaucrats who ... |
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| Show Me State Has Seen Enough |
Posted By:
Letters
on 1/27/2010 12:17:59 PM in
COMMENT CORNER |
| COMMENT CORNER |
| The Democratic Playbook"Mr. Corrigan understands Patricia Flynn's urging St. Louis University to "dis-invite" Glenn Beck from his slated Feb. 5 appearance. Beck contends that Obama "exposed himself as a guy" with "a deep seated hatred for white peopl ... |
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| We Need Diversity |
Posted By:
BullsEye
on 1/27/2010 12:15:23 PM in
RACE COMMENT CORNER |
| COMMENT CORNER |
| "It's not at all uncommon to watch a college basketball game and see that 90 to 100 percent of the players are black. According to the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport report titled "The 2008 Racial and Gend ... |
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| Testimony Time Clock |
Posted By:
Letters
on 1/27/2010 10:54:54 AM in
COMMENT CORNER |
| COMMENT CORNER |
| Watching this congressional committee question Timmy Gietner (a.k.a. Boy Wonder – the only life form able to save America and the banking industry), it is blatantly obvious that the committee chair is more concerned with getting to lunch, rather than ... |
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| Obama Gets Religion |
Posted By:
DOC
on 1/27/2010 10:43:54 AM in
Disingenuous Den |
| Disingenuous Den |
| The Spender-in-Chief’s Fiscal Freeze Follies"There are more loopholes in President Obama’s proposed “spending freeze” than in an Olympic volleyball net. Gargantuan government entitlements (Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) are exempt. A half-tr ... |
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| Public Employee Unions Are Sinking California |
Posted By:
G-man
on 1/27/2010 9:49:27 AM in
Road To Rome |
| Road To Rome |
| Months after closing its last budget gap, the Golden State is $20 billion in the red"An old friend of mine has a saying, "Even the worm learns." Prod one several hundred times, he says, and it will learn to avoid the prodder. As California enters its ... |
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| When Tolerance Trumps Principle |
Posted By:
FlyBoy
on 1/26/2010 8:42:07 AM in
TOLERANCE |
| TOLERANCE |
| "We were invited to dinner with friends and extended family. Wonderful company. Good food. Stimulating intellects. All was well...until the conversation brushed up against two "untouchables" in a Southern home: religion and politics. As the exchange ... |
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| In Memory Of Common Sense |
Posted By:
Letters
on 1/26/2010 8:13:36 AM in
CULTURE Road To Rome |
| Road To Rome |
| What follows is purported to have been a London Times obituary. It has been circulated on the Internet, and its actual source and authorship are, to my knowledge, unknown. Nonetheless, I believe that, in its humorous way, it serves as a commentary ... |
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| The Newest Cliche |
Posted By:
BullsEye
on 1/26/2010 8:34:46 AM in
RACE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS |
| POLITICAL CORRECTNESS |
| "These days you don't have to believe anything in particular about race to be called a racist, for it's now used as just a general term of invective. Much as "Fascist!" or "Communist!" used to be all-purpose epithets for separate but equally uncreati ... |
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| Racial Segregation In Congress |
Posted By:
BullsEye
on 1/26/2010 8:31:53 AM in
Hypocrisy Hotline |
| Hypocrisy Hotline |
| Les Kinsolving whacks Black Caucus for continuing discrimination
"Forty-five years ago this March, I was one of the 25,000 who marched with him into downtown Montgomery, Ala., on the final day of the Selma March.
On the national holiday that i ... |
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| Whose Business Is It? |
Posted By:
BullsEye
on 1/26/2010 8:26:03 AM in
Hypocrisy Hotline |
| Hypocrisy Hotline |
| Politics: During last year's presidential campaign, Democrats blasted "sweetheart deals" for companies like Halliburton and vowed to end no-bid contracts. Now the Democrats' political donors are reaping them.
"Monday, Fox News found that Checchi & ... |
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| Unionized Government Power |
Posted By:
Caxy
on 1/25/2010 3:21:30 PM in
Road To Rome |
| Road To Rome |
| Government Unions Win, You Lose"Since President Barack Obama was sworn into office, the U.S. economy has shed 3.4 million jobs and the unemployment rate has risen to 10%. But not all sectors of the economy have been suffering equally. In fact, the se ... |
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| Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed The World |
Posted By:
Letters
on 1/25/2010 11:56:16 AM in
Book Nook |
| Book Nook |
| Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed The World“A joke circulating in Paris early in 1919 held that the peacemaking Council of Four, representing Britain, France, the U.S. and Italy, was busy preparing a "just and lasting war." Six months of parleying ... |
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| Progressives And Their Fallacies |
Posted By:
G-man
on 1/25/2010 10:34:45 AM in
COMMENT CORNER |
| COMMENT CORNER |
| "Ideology knows no cultural, political, or economic boundaries. Adherents to doctrinaire belief systems -- left, right, religious, anti-religious -- brush aside evidence that might tempt them to question their beliefs. Yet one critter inhabits a clas ... |
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| The Brown Effect: Another Myth Dispelled |
Posted By:
G-man
on 1/25/2010 10:29:33 AM in
MYTHS |
| MYTHS |
| Conservatives, tea partiers, moderates, and independents find common ground.
"Scott Brown’s victory spoils a popular myth. I’m not referring to the one about Teddy Kennedy as an indomitable force in Massachusetts, even from the grave. Yes, the Ken ... |
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| Andy Dick Charged With Felony |
Posted By:
UFO
on 1/25/2010 10:24:49 AM in
COMMENT CORNER |
| COMMENT CORNER |
| Comedian Andy Dick, 44, is charged with two felony counts of first-degree sexual abuse.“Andy Dick, in town for weekend performances at the Funny Bone, was arrested around 4 a.m. Saturday by Huntington Police on sexual abuse charges.The 44-year-old co ... |
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| Obama Endorses Deficit Task Force |
Posted By:
FlyBoy
on 1/24/2010 11:33:54 AM in
COMEDY - HUMOR |
| COMEDY - HUMOR |
| "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" -- Albert Einstein"President Barack Obama has endorsed a bipartisan plan to name a special task force charged with coming up with a plan to curb the spiraling budget ... |
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| Parents Beware: It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World Out There |
Posted By:
FlyBoy
on 1/24/2010 11:37:11 AM in
CULTURE |
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| Investigators: Teen admitted killing parents over chores"The sheriff's deputy who stopped the 14-year-old driving his stepfather's truck tried unsuccessfully to find the boy's parents. They had been dead for hours.Court documents obtained by the 9Wan ... |
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| Conservatives Take Heed |
Posted By:
Heidi
on 1/22/2010 1:55:52 PM in
COMMENT CORNER |
| COMMENT CORNER |
| Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome“Pay attention: In the afterglow of the Massachusetts Miracle, there are flickers of peril for the right. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but like Paul Revere’s midnight message, consider this w ... |
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| The Disappearing Private-Sector Jobs |
Posted By:
Professor
on 1/22/2010 12:25:30 PM in
Road To Rome |
| Road To Rome |
| "Unless private employment growth resumes soon, the United States risks falling into the same long-term economic sclerosis that has plagued the welfare states of Western Europe for decades.Large, frequent and unsettling changes in government policies ... |
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| Judge David Kithil On OBAMACARE! |
Posted By:
Letters
on 1/22/2010 11:48:07 AM in
HEALTHCARE Road To Rome |
| Road To Rome |
| Somewhere in Kenya or Indonesia is a village which has lost its idiot" -- unknownJUDGE KITHIL: "I have reviewed selected sections of the bill and find it unbelievable that our Congress, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, could come up with a bill loaded wi ... |
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| What’s A Military Family Worth? |
Posted By:
Letters
on 1/21/2010 5:10:16 PM in
MILITARY COMMENT CORNER |
| COMMENT CORNER |
| "I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything having to do ... |
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| The Delusional Left |
Posted By:
Professor
on 1/22/2010 12:16:35 PM in
COMMENT CORNER |
| COMMENT CORNER |
| "On Tuesday night, Alan Colmes delusional assertion on The O'reilly Factor that the Bay State's election has little to do with healthcare when Senator elect Brown ran on being the 41st vote to block Obamacare was astounding. Rasmussen ... |
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| Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free Or Die |
Posted By:
Eagle1
on 1/20/2010 5:15:25 PM in
ACTION ALERT |
| ACTION ALERT |
| "Live Free Or Die" Glenn Beck Documentary airs this Friday (1/22/10)Set your DVR’s!Revolutionary Holocaust:Live Free or Die - Glenn Beck“This Friday, January 22, at 5 pm ET on Foxnews, The Glenn Beck Show will be airing an important documentary, "Rev ... |
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