Monthly Archives: May 2009

Just a thought

Maybe we should start calling Dick Cheney former President Cheney as he is leaving no doubt who was in charge during the “bush” administration. Update: It also seems that Mr Cheney is trying to make-up for his role in the … Continue reading

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The end of the postal service?

Probably not the end but looks like they may go to a five day schedule from the current six days of delivery, given that the US mail is mostly a delivery system for bad advertising that goes straight into a … Continue reading

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Thanks to you-tube we know Rick Perry is an idiot

One of the more interesting debates over the past few months has been whether Texas should secceed, and while I recognize that it would create a third world country on our southern border, it might be for the best. Rick … Continue reading

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Reagan Worship

Yglesias trys to explain Reagan worship: Scratch a liberal, and he’ll find some good things to say about FDR. Some good things to say about JFK. These days there’s more and more appreciation of the fact that Lyndon Johnson did … Continue reading

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Tell us what you really think David

David Schuster succinctly explains the Miss USA pageant and the people in it: David Shuster expressed a negative view of the Miss USA pageant after Donald Trump announced at a press conference that Carrie Prejean would remain as Miss California, … Continue reading

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The conservative war on effective medicine

Effective treatments are not the most profitable, therefore we shouldn’t use them. The market has spoken. You’d think that doing research to figure out which treatments are most effective would be an obviously good thing. But no: it is, apparently, … Continue reading

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Rep Grayson

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Collateral damage in the population war

I got this from a militia recruitment web site: It is the opinion of the Militia that there is a world wide effort on the part of Islam to populate Western nations and, when numbers are sufficient enough, declare Sh’ria … Continue reading

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15 seats, none for single-payer

We’d love more of this! <video>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKP05AyfRsI</video>

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Reagan=Bush

People forget that Reagan was also a pretty crappy president My sense is that for the vast majority of Republicans, their current and alleged beef with President Bush is that he espoused some sort of ‘big government conservatism’. He was … Continue reading

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