The financial meltdown, government seizing Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and using tax payer monies to bail out companies “too big to fail”, the possibility of ‘spreading the wealth” by merging my AND YOUR 401K plans with the already insolvent Social Security, the Corinthianization of our culture, and many others… Continue reading
Chris Matthews, yes, that same ‘tingly feeling leg-furrower’ alleged journalist and former W. ‘hardballer’ who recently dispensed with any vestige of impartiality declared that it was his “job to make Obama Presidency Successful” ; has recently intimated at a senate Seat in Pennsylvania in 2010 Though… Continue reading
I loved Google – even laughed when it was “verbed” in a movie plot. Google, now a venerable web brand, so entrenched in our daily lives, it is both a noun and an ‘action word’! It has grown so fixed and so ubiquitous that nearly every windows based computer… Continue reading
Our local politicians, both Republican and Democrat, have ignored the often tested concept that lower taxes beget a brisk economy. In Florida and most of America, a rise in property values has netted a significant increase in real estate taxes. The rising values were hosted by a drop in mortgage… Continue reading
O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife. Who more than self their country lovedAnd mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness And every gain divine! O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster… Continue reading
While the approval ratings of President George W. Bush are low, the approval ratings of Congresses are even lower still. Within the context of being lower poll numbers than President Bush the Speaker of the House “Comrade Pelosi” is being urged by the ‘Acolytes of Idiocy‘ in her party … Continue reading
So, the seeds of our current economic condition were most recently sown in the 1990s during the Clintonista regime by the same cast of clowns recently charged with the investigation of same! What’s even more ‘rich’, is the prospect that these ‘apostles of ignorance‘ will be recycled into the… Continue reading
We pay a high price for ignorance in this country – I have often wondered if we could “afford the note”. Now I surmise that we can’t even afford the interest. US officials flunk test of American history, economics, civics WASHINGTON (AFP) – US elected officials scored abysmally on… Continue reading
in response to comments yesterday The Sheathed Sword Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army… Continue reading
‘riffing’ on yesterdays “Preaching to the Choir“, It is important for us to be informed yet “stay up” and positive. Sometimes our voice may be the only rational voice in the cacophonous din for our own circle of friends and influence. Remaining positive in a deluge of mostly… Continue reading
