Since 2001, I have been blogging about the deleterious effects of a dumbed-down electorate here, Sea Change ,and just last year here Captives in O’Babylon and earlier this year here You Lost Now the chickens are coming home to roost and as the saying goes “you can’t see the… Continue reading
The new GM General Motors Guv’ment Motors, stolen from the bondholders of the old GM! Like some bizarre time warp from the Weimar Republic or a Venezuelan junta, we have the government forcing companies into bankruptcy and subordinating senior creditors (bond holders) to junior creditors (the union – a branch… Continue reading
Just like a schoolyard brawl put up by the top bully,- only with more dire consequences -North Korean has started to kick sand in the face of it’s global neighbors . And, as fate would have it we friends with those neighbors, which means if necessary we come to their… Continue reading
– William Henry Clay Dodson – Hither we come to scatter flowers This thirtieth day of May, Upon our fallen heroes’ graves On this Memorial Day; We cherish now no bitter thoughts In this fair land of ours, But on all fallen heroes’ graves We come to scatter flowers. The… Continue reading
“It’s not easy being green.” So went the lament of that great American actor Kermit the Frog. He may have been right. Just ask the Chinese workers who make those little squiggly, weird-looking fluorescent light bulbs that are the favorites of the Save the Planet crowd. In case you didn’t… Continue reading
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Well, here is what the FairTax means to Paul Wizikowski the winner of the FairTax grassroots challenge: “what the FairTax would mean to you” Continue reading
( Déjà vu daise your view )The peek in the rear view mirror of life is usually “20/20” or at least much clearer after the fact than a priori! And, occasionally we can catch a side glance of a current event that will give a clear glimpse into the… Continue reading
