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Day 96: The Weekly TEA Party Protest!

Monday, April 5, 2010

There were again about 18-20 of us out on Tenth Avenue South Saturday afternoon.  There were also about five on the corner where I took this photo from, and five or six back on 9th Avenue South on the detour for west-bound 10th Avenue South traffic. Today was a little unusual, however.  The Cops on […]

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Nyet, Comrade Max, Nyet!

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Max Baucus:  Health Legislation Will Address The “Mal-Distribution Of Income In America” Sen. Max Baucus (D): “Too often, much of late, the last couple three years the mal-distribution of income in America is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy, and the middle income class is left behind. Wages […]

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Day 86: Tea Party Time!

Saturday, March 27, 2010

There was a Tea Party protest down on the corner by Target and the Pasta Pitstop! (Two photos stitched together in MS ICE) There were about 18 to 20 people protesting; lots of friendly and supportive waves and honks, with a small spattering of fingers, scowls and comments about us giving “mis-information”.  Which we aren’t. […]

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How the New Health Care Bill Saves Money

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

A comparison of previous health care ideas, projected vs real costs: So assuming they are only up to the >>third<< worst example, Medicare Hospital Insurance, the $940 Billion in costs for this bill are only an actual $6,993.6 Billion…and this does not count the $350 billion in Medicare payments to doctors cut out of the […]

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The socialist won a battle…

Monday, March 22, 2010

The Socialists Won A Battle; Now It is Our Turn by Dana Loesch “Last night the Democrat party died as it drove a spear through the torso of the Constitution and passed legislation that the majority of Americans overwhelmingly opposed. Nancy Pelosi sauntered into the capitol surrounded by fellow socialists, carrying the gavel used in 1965 […]

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Things As Seen on TV…Somewhere…

Sunday, February 28, 2010

$$$ ??? !!! !!!

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“America is Not Ungovernable”

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

From:  RealClearPolitics HorseRaceBlog By Jay Cost “Recently, some analysts have suggested that the lack of major policy breakthroughs in the last year is due to the fact that America has become ungovernable. Ezra Klein argued that it was time to reform the filibuster because the government cannot function with it intact anymore. Tom Friedman suggested […]

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Universal Voter Registration…

Monday, January 18, 2010

The end of freedom? http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/democrats-plan-for-election-2010-cheat/ “…universal voter registration bill. This bill would be a federal mandate that gives the federal government power over the state governments’ election processes. According to John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, “The feds will tell the states: Take everyone on every list of welfare recipients, take everyone on every […]

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Will the terrorist kill healthcare reform?

Friday, January 1, 2010

Not even 12 hours into the new year and there is a political post!  Well, he says it all, and very clearly, too. From Soccer Dad: “If – as shown by last week’s terror attack – the relatively simple step of improving the assessment of intelligence was not accomplished by introducing a new bureaucracy [Department […]

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A fascinating history…

Friday, December 11, 2009

…of Greenland’s Viking settlers, back in the day when it was, you know green.  And warm. http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/greenland/ ~Curtis in Idaho {!-{>

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