Recent politics

• The Problem with Socialism

  I love the Daily Show, especially when it picks apart candidates for their flip-flopping ways.  Is John McCain this election year’s John Kerry?  It would appear to be so (Warning:  Jon Stewart gets a little risqué early on in the video when he tries to imagine the “s” word the Republicans have started using).

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  October 23rd, 2008

• The “No Comment” Department – No. 5

  The other four in this series have been negative.  Here is one that brought tears to my eyes.  It is from here and is an early voting story from a medical student in Evansville, Indiana:
  I squeaked in just before the 7pm deadline to find two very frustrated poll workers and a line of a couple [...]

  October 22nd, 2008

• Priceless

  The amount reimbursed to her in per diem payments for 312 nights she spent in her Wasilla home about an hour’s drive from Anchorage - $17,000 *
  The cost to Alaska over 20 months for her family to travel with her, including commercial airline tickets the state bought for some of her children - $43,490. *
  The [...]

  October 22nd, 2008

• Taking a Trip to the Real America

  Courtesy of the “Daily Show.”

   
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  October 21st, 2008

• Some Quotes from “She Who Will Not Be Named” on This Blog Anymore

  It’s bad enough to have to endure the verbal onslaught of a woman in her forties who has a penchant for using the word “like” in the same way teenagers use the word.
  “My son’s, like: ‘Mom, I’m in the army now,’ and I’m, like: ‘I’m so proud.’”
  “And [my son] goes, ‘O.K., well I’ll be praying.’ [...]

  October 14th, 2008