Archive for September, 2008

Outrageous Credit Bailout Expands – Foreign Banks?

Outrageous Credit Bailout Expands – Foreign Banks?

| September 21, 2008 | Reply

Congress and the treasury have been working all weekend to rob the US taxpayer of $1.2 Trillion by putting every one of us taxpayers on the hook to repay all of the bad investments their oligarch pals made over the last 10 years, while letting them keep all of the profit. Now word surfaces this […]

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The Beginning Of The “Big Game”

The Beginning Of The “Big Game”

| September 19, 2008 | Reply

Several of my friends and relatives have asked me why I am not posting about the financial antics unfolding in real time these days. I hate to post things like “I told you so”, because they don’t really add much to the solution. I am amazed by so many facets of what is happening. First […]

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Video o’ the day

Video o’ the day

| September 17, 2008 | Reply

OK, after watching this video, I’m having to really rethink my support for Sarah Palin (and the old guy): Heh. ..bruce w..

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McCain images of the day

McCain images of the day

| September 15, 2008 | Reply

As I noted earlier, I actually like the underlit photograph of John McCain that moonbat photographer Jill Greenberg secretly shot while taking his photograph for the cover of The Atlantic. S. Weasel has now done her own photoshop of the underlit image: It sort of says, “Vote for me or die.” Heh. And here’s an […]

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Video o’ the day

Video o’ the day

| September 15, 2008 | Reply

This has been showing up in various places; I finally watched it and was moved: An observation on the closing song. Back in the summer of 2001, my wife Sandra and I attended the graduation from US Army boot camp (Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri) of our daughter Heather, who had joined the Utah Army National […]

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Just in case you were wondering…

Just in case you were wondering…

| September 14, 2008 | Reply

…the sun is blank — no sunspots: This is how the sun has been for the last six weeks or so.  ..bruce w..

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The discriminating Left

The discriminating Left

| September 13, 2008 | Reply

I’m starting to lose track here, but I think that the Democratic/Left/mainstream media attacks on McCain and Palin are coming close to running the full gamut of classes protected by US civil rights laws (see also here). Let’s see: Race/color Obama’s campaign (and Obama himself) has continually raised race as an issue in this campaign, […]

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Palin (and McCain) images of the day

Palin (and McCain) images of the day

| September 13, 2008 | 1 Reply

[UPDATED 2004 MDT] And here’s a great political cartoon posted over at Gateway Pundit: Finally, I actually really like this photo of John McCain (in an Addams Family sort of way): Apparently, this photo was taken by a (Democratic) photographer in hopes of getting The Atlantic to use it on its cover. [UPDATED 09/14/08 1618 […]

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Bibliophibians!

Bibliophibians!

| September 13, 2008 | 2 Replies

Great word: “bibliophibians”. Swap the genders of the two people in the Wondermark strip below, and you’ll capture the essence of many conversations that Sandra and I have had over the years (click on the strip to go to the full-sized original): The difference being, of course, that Sandra and I started out together with […]

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Speaking of infamy…

Speaking of infamy…

| September 12, 2008 | 2 Replies

…or at least cluelessness, the Obama campaign released (on TV) today an ad that, among other things, mocks McCain for not using e-mail or knowing how to use a computer, presumably because he’s so old (another theme of the ad). Here’s the ad itself (if it’s still up on YouTube): Personally, I think it’s a […]

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