Harry Reid is threatening to block the congressional raise that the fat cats have voted themselves unless congress passes a new Minimum Wage law. GREAT. The last people who deserve a raise is those tin plated buffoons! And if it takes an impotent threat by Reid (he cannot block the house raise as each house does its own thing even if they usually do it together) to kill their pay raise, I am all for it. But I am afraid the Caspare milquetoasts of republicans will cave. ...
Back in the days before the Civil war, there was generally considered to be 2 kinds of blacks. Free Men and slaves. Free Men, through work or a twinge of conscious of their former masters, were just that. Free people. And as such, they enjoyed all the rights granted to other citizens of the US. They could vote, they could own property, they could marry and raise a family. They were citizens. After the war, all the blacks were Free Men (Men used in this sens...
Quick. For anyone over 30, what was the big boogie man of the 80s? Anyone? Well, for those of us around, and objective enough to understand what happened during the 80s, the answer is easy. It was Thermonuclear war, and a Cowboy in the White House that was going to bring it about. Except that Cowboys name was not Bush (not even Bush41), but Reagan. And so in 1983, we were blessed with the 80s version of "The Day After Tomorrow" and "An Inconvenient Truth". ...
This is in response to Col Klink. As I have not read his article, I cannot say that he is totally incompetent, but I can say with authority (as I am an Economist by education) that he is indeed clueless. First, the differentiation between micro and macro is the difference between personal choice and nation choice. That is, I chose to shop Wally world because they give me the best bang for my buck. That is Micro. America buys a lot from China because they are cheapest.&...
Ted Matthews, aka Tim Kaine, governor of Virginia, broke his first campaign promise in a record 6 days. A record that will last many years I am sure. With over 3 1/2 years to go, Ted Matthews is well on his way to breaking every promise he made during the Governor's race as he once again decided that his faith was more important than the law, after promising to uphold the law. Which does beg the question of how good his faith is (apparently it is selective as well since he support...
In one of the sickest examples of refusing to accept responsibility for ones own actions, a 40 something year old lawyer has decided she had an abortion because of Bush. And then she spends the next dozen paragraphs detailing her own irresponsibility and that of her husband, plus decisions made by doctors and pharmacies - not required by law - plus decisions of the state of Virginia. Yet this all must be Bush's fault. Nowhere is there a direct link to Bush (He was never Governor o...
If there was ever any doubt of why Tony Snow should have replaced Scott McClelland, those doubts should be put aside based upon the latest press conference. The fossil, Helen Thomas, still working even after senility has set in, started the latest rounds of questions thusly: Q Why did the President pick a man who is so contemptible of the public servants in Washington to be his Domestic Advisor -- saying, "People in Washington are morally repugnant, cheating, shifty human beings"? Why...
[Note: the link is to a subscription site. For that reason, I will quote most of the article] Yep, Virginia is still without a Budget. Why? Because the Republican controlled House of Delegates are finally learning how to be Republicans again. They have dug their heels in and stated unequivocally - NO NEW TAXES. That is in the face of opposition from the democrat governor (Ted Matthews - errr I mean Tim Kaine) and a supposed Republican controlled Senate. And...
Just as Al Gore's stardom is about to hit stage screen and hollywood empty heads, along comes a report that sinks his ship! Yes, that master of impersonating Chicken little with his "An Inconvient Truth" is being usurped by none other than his supposed supporters. For it seems that the death and destruction that he and his ilk have decided to scare us with is not happening. Latest indication? The Ozone is repairing itself. Now some may say that is due to the ban on...
In another example of his firm grasp om politics and the laws of the Commonwealth he is supposed to govern, Ted Matthews "It was all just a faykade" (AKA Tim Kaine) stated that Virginia does not need an official language bill since: "It's been the official language since 1607," he told a caller on the WRVA "Ask the Governor" radio show. The problem is Virginia passed just such a bill in 1996. Isn't it so nice to have a governor so clueless? Maybe he can pass a law outlawing murd...
Howard Dean has decided he is judge, jury and Executioner once again. Affording rights to terrorists like Bin Laden, while denying them to Americans. In his latest Diatribe: President Bush's deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, "still has his security clearance after leaking intelligence information in a time of war," Dean said. But in the next breath he defends another unindicted 'innocent': "There's a difference between the involvement of Congressman Jefferson in activit...
To start off with, no, my Spanish is lousier than lousy so I would be nailed in a heartbeat. But many people are! Who? You ask. Why? You ask? How? You ask. OK, so maybe some of you are not asking those questions and just thought what a weird title for a blog. But the Who is the rest of Latin America (why Latin? can anyone tell me? French and Italian are Latin based languages. Why is Spanish singled out for that designation?). The Why is because ...
It seems that the loony loopy Luddite left has been reduced to baby talk. No longer able to discuss issues rationally, they must resort to using on of the 3 title words to enter into any discussion or debate. No longer able to engage in rational discourse, the first words out of their mouth is "bush is Hitler" or "conservatives are Nazis" or "this amendment is racist" (Harry Reid). Racist? OK, as Bakerstreet likes to point out, it is cultural supremacist. It is jingois...
Aw, there it is again! The Big but. This time it is none other than that senile congressman from Pennsylvania, John Murtha. In it, he is accusing some US troops of murder. But doing so in a way that not only impugns the troops under investigation, but all the troops. In his own words: "there was no firefight, there was no IED (improvised explosive device) that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed ...
The mainstream media seems bent on providing us with regular examples of stupidity. Or the Education system does. Or the DNC and Howard Dean does. Lately I have been running a lot of Deanisms (about 16 so far and climbing with a bullet), Zero Tolerance idiocy (sorry, I lost count of those) and now Smears. The smears are the most interesting, for like Smear 1 (Rathergate), they can easily be avoided by good reporting. But instead the MSM has decided that smearing is ...