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Political thoughts

How health insurance companies gave Obama’s health care reform it’s second wind

March 16, 2010

In November, the Democrats were on the ropes. The GOP had just elected themselves a golden child with Scott Brown and tilted the scales back below sixty votes in the Senate. They had won two gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey. The media was calling the Health Care Reform bill dead. Time between now [...]

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What the heck is a Boondoggle?

February 17, 2010

I’m all for a good parody like the next puppy and although the assumption here is that a large percentage of the working, white middle class probably watched the Super Bowl Big Game and may have seen the Google ad (it ran once), the GOP may have been smarter to parody a Budweiser commercial [...]

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Welcome, Robert Gibbs!

February 13, 2010

Just a quick bark out to Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary, who joined us on Twitter a mere 55 minutes ago. Now, we’re just waiting for Bo to get here.
Big fans, especially with the “hopey-changey” retort press conference.

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Read the writing on the paw

February 10, 2010

Yesterday, we had a guest speaker – Sarah – come into the DogWalk to motivate us to get out there and walk regularly, even if there is two feet of snow outside, kids home from school everywhere and cars zipping by us as we walk in the street.
Then, Charlie noticed that Sarah had some writing [...]

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Stupid is good

January 17, 2010

“Greed is good” Gordon Gecko, Wall Street, 1987
And now apparently stupid is in. Stupid is good. At least that is what Diesel wants you to believe. In 2008, we wanted really smart people to be in power. Judging from the current political winds, 2012 may be the year stupid is cool again.
I understand why Diesel [...]

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Everyone in Washington is behind the wheel, but nobody is driving.

January 10, 2010

The first thing my driver’s education teacher taught me, after he showed me the volume knob also clicked the radio off, was that in all situations, at all times, always know where your safety zone was. If someone was behind you and couldn’t stop, where were you going to pull into to get out of [...]

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Real airport security is very low tech

December 29, 2009

With all the news media chattering on about this latest round of terrorism with flight 253 and the guy with a bad stomach in the restroom, we are seeing the latest group of pundits advocating for more technology, full-body scans, etc, etc.
Oh, brother.
Real airport security is far more low-tech than that. Here is the [...]

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Plain Joe Lieberman

December 18, 2009

If you haven’t already seen the “one more moment” video between Lieberman and Franken, here it is.

At first, I just laughed. Funny people, Senators. “Let him talk, he wasn’t saying anything anyway.”
But then I got to thinking. If Joe Lieberman had to deal with real life the way we all out here in Realitytown have [...]

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Who is being polled every day?

December 17, 2009

Not a day goes by when the cable news doesn’t announce a new poll on this or that, mostly having to do with the approval rating of President Obama, whether the country is headed in the right direction* or if they support this or that program. A daily poll? Why? And who are they polling? [...]

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Where is the bell-shaped curve in the GOP health care dissent?

December 15, 2009

I bolted straight up in bed last night and asked myself the most obvious question most folks in the media should be asking themselves about the health care reform debate. “Where is the bell-shaped curve in the GOP dissent?”
Think about this. When was the last time you had forty supposedly independent-minded people agree on anything? [...]

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Climate change thoughts

December 10, 2009

The two-week climate change conference in Copenhagen began Monday. Only another ten days or so of being lectured by Danes on how we are screwing up everything. It’s ok, its a very Danish thing to do. Ask any Dane.
And the conservative talk shows are all up in a tizzy over the emails that were hacked [...]

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We all created Sarah Palin

December 10, 2009

In August, 2008, John McCain was looking for a quick fix to turn his campaign around. He saw Barack Obama was black, Hilary Clinton was a woman and a woman almost beat the black man to the brass ring. But, in his assessment, Hilary was too much of a man to be a woman candidate, [...]

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Unintended consequences

December 9, 2009

Yesterday, the US Senate tabled the Nelson amendment which would have limited access to abortions for people who had insurance subsidized by the US government. As part of the compromise, Medicare will be opened up to people 55-64 who have trouble being covered by their employer.
In addition, nobody is challenging the “right” of anyone under [...]

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We are creating our own nanny state and them is us

December 8, 2009

The photo above in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye this morning and sent me into a tizzy. For the record, I am a bit upset at the direction the health care reform bill is taking. It favors the preservation of the insurance company system by forcing us to buy the same crap that [...]

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The history of war and the United States; something to ponder on

December 7, 2009

I am reading American Lion, Andrew Jackson in the White House by John Meacham (Disclosure: I am NOT getting any referral fees.) and it got me thinking about the United States and its appetite for war. Like Andrew Jackson, we appear to be quick-tempered, prone to quick, decisive action but our appetite for long wars [...]

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WSJ photo change-up

December 2, 2009

I understand regional differences in editorial selection for newspapers and different editions based on a kind of soft “stop the presses,” but really WSJ, are you pandering to us in the “Pro-America” parts of the country?
At least we should be grateful the cadet wasn’t reading “Goin’ Rogue”

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The Real Iron Chef Tim Hammack

November 26, 2009

Chef Tim Hammack serves up to 1,200 meals a day from whatever is donated to the Bay Area Rescue Mission in Richmond, Calif. Like Dr. Dave Ores, Tim isn’t waiting around for government to help solve problems. He is hopping in and doing it himself.
Like Iron Chef, he has no idea what the secret [...]

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First, do no change this Thanksgiving. Or any other Thanksgiving.

November 25, 2009

Every Thanksgiving, I understand the Conservative movement going on in pro-America parts of the country. I understand Sarah Palin and the Tea Party and even my neighbors who have certain opinions on change and new ideas. I understand it because I unwittingly practice it myself.
Every Thanksgiving, I leaf through magazines and cookbooks containing new recipes [...]

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Let’s try 9/11 terrorists in the heartland of “Pro-America”

November 19, 2009

Eric Holder and President Obama are taking a lot of flack on their decision to try the 9/11 terrorists in New York, just a few blocks away from the former World Trade Center. A lot of the angst and anxiety is centered around making the country less safe, endangering New York unnecessarily and making New [...]

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