Archive | June, 2011

Harvard Study – July 4th + Republicans = Patriotism

What we all knew,  has now been confirmed by Harvard University, America’s Fourth of July parades are really for the benefit of the Republican Party.  A recently released study from Harvard says that Fourth of July parades pump up Republicans, turn kids into Republicans and helps to turn out Republicans on election days! The survey […]

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Senator Ron Johnson R-Wi. “It’s Time To Get Serious about this.”

Senator Ron Johnson R-Wi. has been in Washington nearly six months and he says that in that time “…the U. S. Senate has accomplished virtually nothing. ”   He added, “It’s time to get serious about this.”  “This,” meaning the budget.  Johnson spoke out on the eve of the Senate adjourning for the Fourth of July holiday.  He […]

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Here Come The Mummies

Have you discovered Here Come The Mummies yet?  It was about a year ago I found out about HCTM.  I ran into an old audiophile friend of mine and as we talked about music, he told me he was going to a Here Come The Mummies concert.  I said, “Who?”  He told me that they […]

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Congressman Issa Speaks – Presents His Postal Reform Act

We have all heard the stories of how cash strapped the United States Postal Service is.  Last year the USPS lost something like 8.5 billion dollars and this year they are on target to lose about the same.  It’s not as though the Postal Service hasn’t been doing anything to curtail their costs, they’ve actually done quite […]

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Child In Time – Deep Purple

Sweet child in time, you’ll see the line Line that’s drawn between the Good and the Bad See the blind man, he’s shooting at the world Bullets flying, ooh taking toll If you’ve been bad – Oh Lord I bet you have And you’ve not been hit oh by flying lead You’d better close your […]

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Operation Gunwalker – Whose Idea, ATF, Justice, President?

I can’t imagine you haven’t heard by now of Operation Gunwalker, aka Operation Fast and Furious.  If you haven’t, it was an operation  run by the ATF at the U.S. Mexico border.  More than 2000 weapons, including AK semiautomatic type weapons, were allowed to be purchased by gun smugglers and taken across the border into […]

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Simmons To Obama, Kiss Off

Gene Simmons of Kiss, is not too happy with President Obama these days.  Simmons by the way voted for Obama, a vote that he says he would like back.  Simmons didn’t really say “Kiss Off” but he may as well have.  While on the Fox Business Channel’s Varney &Co.,  Simmons critiqued the Presidents ability to understand how business works as well […]

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Avon Calling or The Union?

Wisconsin state employee and teacher unions fought hard to keep Wisconsin’s new Collective Bargaining bill from being enacted.  The bill will become law on June 29th, 2011.  Unions didn’t like it that the bill takes away their ability to bargain for benefits.  They may bargain for wages.  The bill also will allow the state to […]

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“…Electricity Rates…Will Necessarily Skyrocket.”

If you haven’t heard it yet, there’s talk from many of America’s power generating companies about shutting down substantial numbers of their coal powered generating plants.  Why?  Not from “Cap and Trade” legislation as you might think.  Cap and Trade remember, did not pass.  The Obama administration is using Plan B.  Plan B is simply having the EPA […]

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Blessed Lawnmower Runs Great!

Do blessings and prayers work?  Well, this afternoon my four year old  MTD Yard Machine Lawnmower decided it was not going to start.  When I finished using it about a week ago, it was running fine. The problem?  First it just didn’t seem to want to fire.  I kept pulling the recoil cord with no results.  […]

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