I am again having trouble believing that the American people as a whole really care about veterans, or perhaps even the people who are actively serving today. They might on an abstract level, but there’s no risk in that. Troops care for troops. Veterans care about veterans, and family members care as best they can [...]
The more I hear about the BP oil spill, the more I’m struck by the fact that, to save a few bucks, the 4th largest corporation on earth just basically flushed itself down the toilet, and yet almost nobody is talking about the aberrant system of incentives that caused this to happen. Didn’t the tough [...]
Posted on February 18, 2010, 10:34 pm, by cocktailhag, under
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Well, today (and I can’t believe it’s taken this long,…) we had our first Wonder Bread version of 9/11, and it does kind of make you realize why all these loser whities got so worked up about the first one. In short, those habibs have it all over on us for both audacity and effectiveness. [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeXrMRf25U8 It makes no difference what anyone says about flying these days because you just have to suck up all the airport rules, or don’t fly. Tell me about it. Having flown last week-end, just before the little terrorist wannabe tried to detonate something between his legs on a flight into Detroit on Christmas Day, [...]
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Shoe Bombers,
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Stow It!,
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Posted on December 1, 2009, 1:47 pm, by dirigo, under
Uh,
oh.
Barack Obama must be looking over his shoulder as he steps up and sets forth his war policy for Afghanistan. No, he doesn’t sound sure of himself and, despite donning his CIC chain mail for a speech at West Point, he may be be projecting weakness, just as Dick Cheney, our great, snarling former vice [...]
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The Decider,
Tony Blair,
Tora Bora,
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Posted on October 31, 2009, 10:42 am, by rmp, under
Uncategorized.
I was exceptionally impressed with the superb interview Bill Moyers conducted with Glenn Greenwald and eagerly looked forward to seeing it aired on PBS stations. Then, after I discovered it wasn’t airing Friday night, I learned to my chagrin that it was a Web Exclusive Conversation. Even though Glenn posted it almost immediately on his [...]
I saw my VA health man the other day, to talk about my meds – including weighing the pros and cons of going on a cholesterol-lowering drug; plus I asked for an eye exam and had blood drawn. Everything looks good. I’m in the pink. On the way out the door, I got a couple [...]
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say ahhh!!,
Single Payer,
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socialized medicine,
take your meds,
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Posted on October 16, 2009, 2:56 pm, by cocktailhag, under
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Since I’m going to LA next week, I’ve been dropping into the LATimes website more often, and scrolling past the usual horsemen of LA apocalypse, like wildfires and, well, rain, it seems there’s always a story about another water main break, some of them quite spectacular. Of course, this depressing phenomenon is familiar in many [...]
Posted on October 4, 2009, 10:45 am, by rmp, under
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I became a glass half full guy when I was trying to figure out in my childhood living with a mentally ill, bipolar mother how I could be such a delight one moment and the dirty devil the next. Deep down I believed my mother loved me. I wanted to find a way to accept [...]
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A good case can be made that U.S. legislators no longer represent their voters and that our two-party system is only one-party because not only do banks own Congress as my senator Dick Durbin so honestly said, but pay to play politics owns Congress on all legislative matters. Voters like me, learned in the 2008 [...]
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Free Speech,
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voters 24 Comments |
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