UPDATE: (4:00pm) Reinforcements have been brought in from enlightened places like Salem, and the cops are really rolling up with rubber bullets, tear gas, and what not. Another busload of cops is heading in. More news later; the protesters are heading right here to Park Ave. Bowing to the bleatings of The Oregonian and [...]
Posted on September 24, 2009, 5:42 pm, by cocktailhag, under
WTF?.
Several items in the news both here and nationwide remind me that in today’s America, we will only throw good money after bad; spending precious funds and actually getting something for them in return is considered risky, wasteful, and a woefully inappropriate response to our straitened circumstances. And how, pray, did our circumstances become so [...]
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For whatever reason, when liberal politicians decide to succumb to the charms of the myriad tarts that suddenly find them attractive as they move up the ladder, they delude themselves into thinking that there’s “romance” involved, and fail to see the disastrous implications of fooling around with a nubile lovely whose silence has not already [...]
—–A Cocktailhag Exclusive—- Must credit Cocktailhag— Developing—- I just got a phone call, reporting that a friend of mine, a whisky-voiced midwesterner with a sharp wit and an ear for other people’s business, was just moments ago seated next to Mayor Sam Adams’ boy toy, Beau Breedlove, in, get this, a beauty shop. She listened [...]