Massachusetts elects a new Senator and suddenly the party that had sixty votes, a super majority, has fifty-nine. And they are crying? How is that? One election, one new Senator and healthcare legislation is in jeopardy? Personally, I don’t like the present bill. Who wants a law that is violated by simply not purchasing an...
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Congress
When 41 Senators Stomp Democracy Into The Senate Floor
Skyscrapers and Senators: Help Wanted
I was reading the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, two rags upon which I base my illogical views of the world, and something struck me odd. It was not an epiphany by any means, but an irony that screamed loudly.
The folks in Dubai, the people who cannot afford to buy shoe...
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Maybe the Dead Died in Vain… But Does It Have to Continue?
November 24, 2009
We’ve lost nine hundred plus young men and women in Afghanistan, good soldiers all. It’s the same though. Death by war. The figure is well over four thousand in Iraq. It was over fifty thousand in Vietnam. These deaths, these losses, sadden me as they should, for they diminish me. I am...
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As the screw turns….
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
On last Friday CIT, the largest lender in the world, filed for Chapter 11 protection under the United States Bankruptcy Code. This filing occurred after the Government lent them 2.3 billion dollars of Citizen money. That’s your money buddy in case you were counting. The filing will undoubtedly mean that that...
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