Mr. President, today our nation struggles with how best to rise from economic ashes.  You have presented a plan.  Republicans complain that it contains much that will do nothing.  Like most Americans I worry there is something to that and yet like many I find it almost impossible to li/… Read full post »

I see headlines, "New Yorkers to boycott the NY Post."  I see other headlines claim a debate has started about the cartoon.  Debate my tush.

I was born in the fifties.  I saw postcards with lynched black men when they were in circulation.  I saw the white's only this and… Read full post »

Our ugly side has been on full display this week.  A woman I would not wish to know gave birth to 8 children.  She is unable to support herself, the children she already had or the eight new children she just added.  She seems to have a facination with Angelina Jolie… Read full post »

I find it ironic that a mostly liberal like me was introduced to Obama by a Republican friend who switched early.  He was captivated by Obama's message of hope.  My friend is to Obama what Reagan Democrats where to the great communicator.  And there in lays a lesson for our newly… Read full post »

 

Thank Sarah Palin for exposing the true meaning of the latest fossil discovery, a forty five foot, 2500 pound snake that according to Sarah came before the dinosaurs and lived through the Flinstone age. 

Sarah notes in Palin-PAC that contrary to the anti-God theories post… Read full post »

Dear Mr. President,

I wish to thank you for coming to Washington on a platform of decency, knowledge and hard work.  I want to thank you for seeking to end the polar split between the parties and working in bipartisan fashion to rebuild our nation.  As I and many suspected, it… Read full post »

I saw a recent post making comic fun of the idea that Bush kept us safe.  I wanted to join in, pointing out that we can also thank George because there was not a single aardvark invasion during his 8 years.  And we all know, we never want one of those. … Read full post »

Change to our health care system will come from changes in who delivers health insurance, who pays for it, how doctors are trained and paid, how pharmaceutical companies are paid and how patients are seen.   Today's topic is Doctors.

The two big problems with the doctor end of the business… Read full post »

I grew up in an Irish American household.   One side was Catholic the other Anglican.  My right hand wanted to shoot my left and my left wanted to bomb my right.  Actually not, but the illustration serves.  Imagine, both of these are catholic religions and except fo… Read full post »

Russia is preparing for round two in its plan to retake Georgia as a part of its empire. 

1. They harrassed the European monitors until they had to leave

2. Russia today, Dec 22, issued a report accusing georgia of genocide.  International monitors already issued one saying it wa… Read full post »

Have you ever considered that the Wild West had the right solution?  Now I am not talking about the real Wild West.  I am talking about the one in the movies, the one where they arm everyone and all of sudden people are polite.

I mean really, if your car… Read full post »

I don't know if Governor Blagojevich is guilty or not.  I do not understand all the charges, I do not know the evidence against, I do not know how the evidence was collected and I do not know what was talk and what was done.  So this isn't about us removing… Read full post »

Pretty brazen title to give to an opinion piece, but there it is.  President-elect Obama it would be my near infinite pleasure to help you revamp your public works proposals.

 

You’ve already said you are going for highways.  That is a mistake.  It is a mistake because we alr/… Read full post »

Vladimir Putin, Russia's Dictator, today held a phone in show with Russians.  The western press said it was to reassure a worried public that Russia would be okay. 

Fact is their stock market has fallen much father than the US market.  Putin tried to blame it all on the US. … Read full post »

A Solution  For Drug Trafficking.

In America it is estimated by our Department of Health that 73.5 million people have used illegal drugs other than marijuana.  If we add in marijuana the numbers would more than double.   The time has come to admit defeat in our “Wars o/…

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There was a time when a Republican stood for something.  They did not chirp "waste, fraud and abuse" and then run up the largest deficits ever seen, and do so on consumption not stimulus or investment.  They did not subject their policies to a religious litmus test and expect all the r… Read full post »

Before we can even start to think about a bailout we should take a national five minute break to go outside and have a collective scream at these stupid bastards.  For 40 years they have been losing market share without once changing their business model and now we are supposed to… Read full post »

Piracy has typically had one kind of end.  A Navy tracks them back to their homes and then sends in their Marines to destroy the home base.  Happily, today we do not need much tracking.  Satellites have it covered.  Even better we don't need to send Marines anymore.  Thi… Read full post »

Mrs. Clinton is an inspired choice for State.  Never mind that everyone alive saw it coming, it remains inspired.  The only real question is given the sheer number, complexity and criticality of the foreign policy issues facing our nation, why would she want this job?  Let's take a loo… Read full post »