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Category Archives: Al Swearengen
Classy…
Today, in Dover, Francine Torge, a former John Edwards supporter, said this while introducing Mrs. Clinton: “Some people compare one of the other candidates to John F. Kennedy. But he was assassinated. And Lyndon Baines Johnson was the one who … Continue reading
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2008
Things are going our way here in New England, and I’m very grateful for that. 4 games out west, 4 wins…spring can’t come fast enough. I still like Petrobrazil (PBR), Oracle (ORCL), Gold ETF (IAU), Canada Nat’l Resources (CNQ), Resmed … Continue reading
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An Ethical Economic Policy
From the 2005 book ‘Greenspan’s Fraud‘ by Professor of Economics (SMU, Dallas) Ravi Batra: The verdict of history is that ethics works, and deception designed to foster the interests of the few does not. Ethical policies start out with direct … Continue reading
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Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman is Gollem, and this storyline (Lieberman Endorses McCain) connecting him with McCain is Tolkenesque in that two men who had been considered in the past as throw-backs to a time when the Senate was occupied by men whose … Continue reading
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A Fox Business Channel “Expert”
I shit you not – they brought in an astrologer to predict the FED’s rate cut. Keep in mind that Rupert Murdoch’s tendency to dumb down everything within his domain, is about to be applied to my beloved Wall Street … Continue reading
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Veteran Suicides
With the new schedule, I’m really behind on my research when it comes to this story right here. Have the Pentagon and VA been cooking the books? Why on earth would they feel compelled to do something like that? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3713137494186089969&hl=en
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Thank God For Helen Thomas!
White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, the same one who admitted to not knowing what the Cuban Missile Crisis was, got a little bit more than she bargained for the other day. How do you think she handled it? Check … Continue reading
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Senator Mitch McConnell On Dead Soldiers
This one was from last week, but seeing as how this guy is the minority leader in the senate, also in light of how Republican policies have led directly to the Walter Reed scandal and the decimation of our military … Continue reading
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Ready for recession?
I’m putting in a lot of hours, and getting to bed early. Sam has been sick as a dog, and we’re about to get a foot of snow. How’s everything with you? Did you know this? At least four men … Continue reading
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One of those days
You’re running on fumes in the morning and by dinnertime the thoughts can’t breathe. This game is all about the consistency of one or two senses at a time while the others rest up. Any man worth half a bucket of … Continue reading
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The Income Gap
We’re nearing the latest Presidential campaign here in America, and on Control Congress especially, there seems to be a lot of anxiety over economic issues. I share in this anxiety, but my analysis of what plagues us is often very … Continue reading
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Stupid American
This generation is something alright…let’s see if the baby boomers can turn EVERY American into a war mongering, illiterate, drug addict (anyone want an ambien?) by the time they’re all collecting those social security checks that were supposedly “never going … Continue reading
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Bye Bye Papelbon
I recorded this two nights ago during desert. Sam is on the left and Max is on the right. It came out a lot darker than I’d expected, but the poop jokes remain solid throughout. The title only makes sense … Continue reading
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My Lieberman for VP Prediction
(h/t Think Progress) I’d had a feeling for a while that McCain and Lieberman had made a deal, and now that McCain is all but out of the race, here come the neocons to try and rescue Lieberman. I can’t … Continue reading
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Democracy Now!
Amy Goodman is the host of this show, which can be seen and heard by going to the Democracy Now! website. Without fail, where the mainstream media fails to even attempt digging into a story, this show right here will … Continue reading
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BCS Insanity 2007
Hoping not to jinx anything, I’m now looking forward to what it will take for BC to earn a shot in the national title game. Clearly, they have to win out, which means winning games in Death Valley (Clemson) and … Continue reading
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Secretary of _______ Wesley Clark
Intellectual dishonesty in politics is a parasite in search of an ambitious host. The transformation that takes place inside the body of an infected politician, especially one hanging onto someone else’s coattails for dear life, is embarrassing to witness first … Continue reading
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Bartolome de Las Casas
He was a Spainard who made the voyage to North America in the 1500s. The following work is a portion of his ‘Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies’, published in 1542. The first reading of this a while … Continue reading
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PTSD News
The scam has been exposed for quite a while now (VA Failing – Troops Suffer (2005), Born Under Punches, Walk It Off, 20,000 Soldiers Denied Healthcare), but the big money media won’t go after the story. There is a game being … Continue reading
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Suicide Prevention (Rerun)
(Since I’m devoting all of my writing energy to a project that cannot be shared publicly, I’ll be reruning some old ones and trying to post some more heady reading material from elsewhere along the way. Original posting) The US … Continue reading
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Al on Sports
College Football – MLB Divisional Round Those rare extended periods of seemingly historical events lining up one after the other, where the second you think it can’t get any better than it already is, something else happens…like Stanford converting a … Continue reading
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The Iran War
This is its genesis right here – text of an amendment to the defense authorization bill (note that paragraphs 3 and 4 were removed from the final version, and 5 remained): (1) that the manner in which the United States … Continue reading
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Support the Troops, Screw the Veterans
This war is becoming more difficult to support in a romantic sense as the bloody months continue to pile up. What interests me most about true believers today, is that besides the token blather points – “Anbar now has casual … Continue reading
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Go Rockies!!!
Anyone who has followed this race down the stretch, you know what I’m talking about. They’re up 2-0 on the Dodgers late in tonight’s game, and if they win, they’d still be a game out of the wild card spot … Continue reading
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OSU’s coach Gundy goes apeshit at a press conference
I agree with the guy. Even when it happens in professional sports, it sucks. I’ve been tempted some nights to get on the blog and tear Eric Gagne to pieces, but then I calm down and get over it. When … Continue reading
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Lynch the Jena 6
Former White House press secretary Tony Snow on an October 2003 edition of Fox News Sunday: “Here’s the unmentionable secret: Racism isn’t that big a deal any more. No sensible person supports it. Nobody of importance preaches it. It’s rapidly … Continue reading
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JENA – Feet meet pavement
White kids from the high school hang nooses up on trees on school property, and one of them gets his ass kicked for it. Something to learn from, nothing too serious, as he was up and about that night, … Continue reading
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Buy Gold – Junk Bonds
FED set to cut rates on Tuesday – The dollar is already going in the wrong direction, and a .25 or .50 rate cut this week will lower its value even more. I sold one of my three US securities … Continue reading
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Eric the Midget Returns!
Howard: “Eric, you’ve got to know that it’s not proper to be calling Diana Degarmo’s mother at her house and constantly asking to meet with her daughter.” My brother emailed me earlier today with a message titled – HE’S BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK – … Continue reading
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