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March 2009

AIG….Financial Suicide Bomber

March 19, 2009

The Reverend on Monday… As I see it, America, the nation of 300 million, is being held hostage. It is as if specific and powerful interests have kidnapped the population, placed knives against our collective throats, and then have continually sent ranson notes warning that the kidnappers will slit those throats if the proper authorities [...]

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AIG…..Brief Review

March 18, 2009

UPDATE: Here's Obama today…. AIG, big bailoutee, to the tune of $160 billion, give or take, is handing out $150 million, give or take, in contractual bonuses to mouse-clicking traders deemed by the company to be "irreplacable talent." The bonuses amount to less than .1% of AIG's total bailout package. But you would never know [...]

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The Gospel According to David Brooks

March 17, 2009

David Brooks has a reputation for being the New York Times "intellectual" conservative writer. I'm not sure why that is, really. The intellectual reputation, that is. Perhaps because the group of "intellectual" conservative writers is such a tiny one. Brooks plumbed his own "intellectual" depths today in a piece of rubbish he called, "The Commercial [...]

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The God Report: Evil Condoms

March 17, 2009

AP News… Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa Tuesday that condoms were not the answer in the continent's fight against HIV, his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with AIDS patients. Benedict had never directly addressed condom use. He has said that the Roman Catholic Church [...]

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Hostage Nation

March 16, 2009

As I see it, America, the nation of 300 million, is being held hostage. It is as if specific and powerful interests have kidnapped the population, placed knives against our collective throats, and then have continually sent ranson notes warning that the kidnappers will slit those throats if the proper authorities do not do exactly [...]

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Embryonic Stem Cells According to Krauthammer

March 14, 2009

Charles Krauthammer's take on funding embryonic stem cell research…..'I'm not against it, but Obama is still wrong.'…. President Bush had restricted federal funding for embryonic stem cell research to cells derived from embryos that had already been destroyed (as of his speech of Aug. 9, 2001). While I favor moving that moral line to additionally [...]

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Fleischer & Gaffney's 2009 Whitewash Tour

March 13, 2009

*Crude language warning The propagandist and former Bush II press secretary, Ari Fleischer, still having his way with "liberal" news show hosts, goes on Hardball the night before last and simply makes sh*t up….. Fleischer…."After 9-11, having been hit once, how could we take a chance that Saddam might not strike again?" Read that sentence [...]

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Israel Still Controlling American Policy

March 11, 2009

America still conducts witchhunts after all these years. You may or may not have been aware of the contrived controversy over the man selected to be the nation's National Intelligence Council head, Charles Freeman. Catch up here, here and here. Freeman withdrew himself from consideration to the post yesterday after the well organized Israeli Lobby [...]

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The "Message War"

March 10, 2009

Rarely do politicians speak the truth. So, in a way, this is refreshing and kind of unusual….. “We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every day, and every week, until November 2010,” said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., an outspoken conservative who has participated on the GOP message teams. “Our goal [...]

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"Blackwhite" America

March 9, 2009

From George Orwell's, "1984", first published in 1949… "The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal [...]

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