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Entries from February 2009

Obama’s Pork Bill

February 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off

I’ve been trying to piece together all the junk in the current legislation that is supposed to stimulate the economy, but Neal Boortz did a much better job of wading through that cesspool: $350 million to develop and maintain a broadband inventory map at the Department of Commerce $1.375 billion for Rural Water and Waste [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Media · Money · Politics · Pork · Socialism · Taxes · The Left · The US

The Logic Of Gun Control

February 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments

By Michael Z. Williamson at Political Humor: That a mugger will kill you in the half-second it takes to draw from the holster, but won’t harm you while you dial 911 on your cell phone, talk to the dispatcher and wait half an hour for the cops to arrive. That the proper response to an [...]

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Here I Am

February 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

By the time you read this post I shall be RETIRED. 18 1/2 years of continuous employment at a particular employer, and they told me that I was no longer needed, and “should” take an early retirement package. And I did. So if any of you out there have any use of a 50-year-old barefoot [...]

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