Did anyone see if Dame Pelosi left town in government aircraft on her way home to California to re-elect herself? Ah, well, I guess the third in line to the throne must be protected. But there are degrees in everything and the size of the aircraft should have been corporate jet small. We can all… [Read more…]
September 29, 2010
Utilizing both the prestige of his role at Delaware’s Attorney General and the influence he holds as the son of the Vice President of the United States, Beau Biden has warned voters about Delaware US Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell: Delaware state Attorney General Beau Biden said his state’s Republican Senate nominee, Christine O’Donnell, “should be… [Read more…]
September 28, 2010
The team of Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas came down to earth this week on Dancing With The Stars. It was signaled with the dowdy, ankle-length, two-tiered purple chiffon dress in which she appeared. Then there were the ill-fitting satin gloves. It all added up to an outfit that had to be overcome. It positively… [Read more…]
September 27, 2010
This past Sunday, Venezuelans went to the polls to elect all members of parliament. Leaders of the opposition to President Hugo Chavez have cited it as a test of Chavez’s government and socialist reforms: “We want a total change,” Dieter Jaaniorg, a voter at a polling station in Caracas, said. He said he is fed up with… [Read more…]
September 26, 2010
Here’s Max on David Letterman: Equally entertaining, Mitt Romney on David Letterman: This is all done to try to get to the source of the difficulty: people are not totally turned on by Mitt Romney. Why? It isn’t that he grew up driving a Nash Rambler – Nah. But it may be that he is… [Read more…]
September 26, 2010
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour claims there are at least 17 Republican presidential hopefuls for 2012. The A-Team Nine - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the front-runner, largely because he was the runner-up to Sen. John McCain in 2008. - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has recently made a name for herself by endorsing winning… [Read more…]
September 26, 2010
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Michael Ware was that voice of the CNN press in Iraq that spoke from a deep knowledge of the region and its people with a decidedly Australian accent. His perspective was balanced. But then something happened. He watched a young insurgent with a gun get shot in the back of the head by a US… [Read more…]
September 26, 2010
The Department of Defense, alerted by intelligence sources, recently bought up and burned the memoir of a US soldier in Afghanistan. The officer, Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer’s memoir, Operation Dark Heart, is alleged to have contained information sensitive to US security. The DOD claims he should have had clearance for publication above his… [Read more…]
September 26, 2010
One of the reforms that would have taken more time to implement and an even longer time to calculate results would have been education reform. It should have been a priority. It is obvious today that the stupid human tricks we see in the press highlighted as comedy are the result of people falling through… [Read more…]
September 26, 2010
Bobbie Battista, former news anchor for CNN, now at ONN News also known as the onion. explains what has happened to that for which CNN became known around the globe – the best and most comprehensive coverage of world news: How often do you see Christiane Amanpour’s reporting on CNN anymore? Very selectively. Her reports… [Read more…]
September 25, 2010
It is almost 1:00 AM. I have a raisin stuck in my keyboard and a mosquito as large as a drone pinging my monitor. WordPress has just recovered from a crash. I love this. I had a bad fall this summer and my only concern as I hit the pavement: “Will my hands be OK”? … [Read more…]
September 24, 2010
Twenty-four hours ago I thought that the labor was over and that I would be delivered of a Special Edition 2010 Jetta. I swallowed the idea that trading it a few yeas hence might see me lose money because it was a special edition? Ah but I was enamored of all the bells and whistles… [Read more…]
September 23, 2010
They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace, Christopher Robin went down with Alice….” They’re spreading the wealth and nailing down the Royal Family Government “stipend” in Britain. This is a constitutional “watershed.” [Independent] Revealed: The secret deal that changed the monarchy Sovereign’s debt crisis sparked 2006 agreement surrendering ultimate financial autonomy By Robert Verkaik, Home Affairs… [Read more…]
September 23, 2010
Fahreed Zakaria joined Larry King last night following King’s interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran. His main reaction: the Iranian leader was more confident than he had seen him in recent times. And why not? Ahmadinejad smells blood in the water as the Obama White House hemorrhages key staff and Obama’s polls are almost… [Read more…]
September 22, 2010
I am about to purchase what may be, at the very least, the penultimate car during my lifetime. When I was a teenager, I was fortunate my father was an airman who collected cars, fixed them up and sold them. He gave me an army green 1951 Mercury stick shift to learn on. It was… [Read more…]
September 30, 2010
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