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2009 winners “Palin & Teabag patriots” losers “Obama & GOP
psburton blogging from Phoenix —Despite having won both the presidency and a Nobel peace prize, Barack Obama’s aspirations for 2009 remained mostly rhetorical accomplishment, it was the woman who lost her vice presidential bid by the la...
America Deserves an Award: Great Stewards of the Environment
Americans have been vilified and conditioned to believe that they are the worst polluters on the planet. The USA has the assignment; worlds whipping boy for any and all environmental abuse on the earth. Somehow it’s all our fault that 16 of...
Tea-Bagger to challenge Senator McCain in G.O.P primary
Blogging from PHOENIX psburton - - - A local Phoenix tea bagger and talk radio shock jock who served a few terms in congress during the Bush/Cheney era, only to lose a rock solid GOP seat because he dispatched campaign staff to a synagogue, on a hig...
Stop Family Bullies: The Favorite Child
The holidays may be over for a while but family harassment, bullying and abuse because of a favorite child still needs to be stopped. Typical situations are where the parents: Praise, defend and give the best presents or position in the Will to th...
Remembering The Children That Are Still Missing
We are about to enter into a new year soon. We survived the joys of Christmas 2009. We watched our children on Christmas morning dive into the gifts that Santa left him and smiled as we watched them play with their new toys. The one thing we didn’t...
Lunacy At Christmas – IBM MVS On A PC
I have to admit that today has not been a very productive day, I should have been working, but decided that I would take the day off and have fun. Of course my idea of fun likely does not coincide with the average persons. After a day of visiting rel...
Free Stuff For Christmas - Computer Games
I have to adit that I am not much of a materialist, this is probably a good thing based on the amount of money I make. The one thing I have discovered over the years is that it does not take much to amuse me. I have a large library of books, DVD̵...
A Christmas Message To Everyone
A few days ago I got an email from one of our readers that has been following the cases of the abused and murdered children that we report on here at BNN since just about the beginning started with the Caylee Anthony case. PAW69 has become a friend o...
A Very Merry Christmas To All Of Our Readers
Jan and I want to wish you all the very best this holiday season. I read a book yesterday about celebrating Christmas, it was written from a Christian position, and essentially said that while this time of year is a joyous occasion it is also a time ...
John Birch society back in GOP fold
Blogging from Phoenix—In a display of political rehabilitation surpassing even Richard Nixon’s return to power, the John Birch society has been invited back into the big tent of the Grand old party. For those unfamiliar with the John Birch so...
Haleigh Cummings – Caylee Anthony – Adji Desir – BNN Update
It has been a frustrating year. If you look at any of these cases you just want to walk away from them. They are so sad that they make Jan and I want to cry. In fact the stories have a similar effect on just about all of the people that Jan and I tal...
Liberals divided over health care bill
Blogging from Phoenix—President Barack Obama expressed confidence senate efforts to reform the Nations health care system seem on track toward producing a bill he can sign before Christmass if not his State of the Union address in January. Bu...
Will the Real President Obama Please Stand Up
There’s no way around this. Democrats in the White House and on Capitol Hill have just perpetrated the most criminal rip-off in the history of this country on the American people. And with its passage now a certainty, the only thing left to ...
Caylee Anthony’s Mom Has To Face Possible Death Penalty If Found Guilty
Friday, December 11, 2009, Caylee Anthony’s mother’s defense team was in court with a few requests made to Judge Stan Strickland. Casey Anthony will go to trial next year as she is charged with first degree murder for the death of her then 2 year...
Stop Bullying Boyfriends, Controlling Girlfriends and Domineering Dates
The holidays are a perfect time to recognize and respond effectively to the early warning signs of bullying boyfriends, controlling girlfriends and domineering dates. Whether these control-freaks are stimulated by holiday pressures and stresses, or...
Apostates Devise New Ways To Spoil Everyone’s Christmas
One of the shortcomings I remember the most about the Christian elementary school I attended was how a number of the less-than dedicated educators would punish all of the students for the misbehavior of a single pupil. To this day, I remain convinc...
Christmas Won’t Be Fun This Year: A Poem Written in Honor of Those Still Lost
I had this idea for a poem about these missing children and their families: Haleigh, Shaniya, Hassani, Somer, and so many others past & present. You might find it trite, silly, or just plain dumb. It’s ok…I won’t care. It has be...
The Trials And Tribulations Of WordPress And Google
I have to admit that I do not class myself as an expert in the world of web site creation. My bag is content. It does not matter to me if it is News, Reviews, Interviews, or whatever, content is the thing! Content is King! If you read sites by people...
Mr. Obama’s unimaginative Afghan strategy
By Jefferson Flanders The mainstream media has now declared the conflict in Afghanistan to be “Mr. Obama’s War.” Barack Obama’s Dec. 1st West Point speech escalating the war through a surge of 30,000 American troops—foll...
House of Reps Now in Charge of College Football?
From USA Today’s Sports Section:: “House panel takes step to force college football playoff”.Is there anything in this entire country that the Federal Government doesn’t want to control?Today (12/9/09) the House Energy and Co...
Stop Bullying, Harassment and Abuse by Gossip Girls at Work
Recent articles in the “New York Times” by Shayla McKnight, in the “Harvard Business Blogs” by Cheryl Dolan and Faith Oliver, and in “Stumble Upon” have focused on the harm done by workplace “gossip girls,” “mean girls” and on the...
Sarah and the “Birthers”
Sarah Palin stepped in — and then out — of the question of ‘where was Barack Obama born’ during an interview on a Conservative talk show: “The Rusty Humphries Show”. What she said was: “I think the pu...
Breaking News: Cobra Staubs Case May Be Tossed On A Technicality
Anyone that has been following the frustrating search for missing Florida tot Haleigh Cummings is familiar with the name William Cobra Staubs. He is a Florida based investigator and up until his involvement in the Haleigh Cummings case a Recovery Age...
E-mails exonerate White House gate crashers
P.S. Burton Blogging from Phoenix—Tareq and Michaele Salahi the socialites trashed by every blogger, talking head, media pundit and political wonk on both the left and right showed up at the White House dressed to the nines clearly under the im...
Prime Time Prez Is Proud It Took Three Months To Decide
I wrote an article two months ago calling the President to task for his indecisiveness in responding to General McChrystal’s request for 40,000 reinforcements in Afghanistan. I was pretty annoyed that the alleged “leader” of our cou...
English Balls, Eco-Snitches & Filipino Whores: Headline Potpourri #11
British Balls calls for mandatory sex education. The Secretary of Education there has announced that students over the age of 15 can no longer be exempt from compulsory instruction regarding human procreation and physical relationships. The paren...
Suicide: Sexting, Mean Girls, Vicious Boys and Self-Bullying
Andrew Meacham in the Tampa Bay Times article, “Sexting-related bullying cited in Hillsborough teen’s suicide,” reports on the suicide of Hope Witsell. Witsell’s death follows the sexting-triggered suicide of Jessica Logan who was taunted, ...
Taylor Lautner Twilight New Moon Star Stopped School Bullies
Rolling Stone reports how “Twilight: New Moon” star Taylor Lautner stopped school bullies. Taylor told Rolling Stone, “I was never extremely confident. Because I was an actor, when I was in school there was a little bullying going on. Not...
Iran Disses UN, UN Has Temper Tantrum
And, like most tantrums, it won’t change a thing. John Hinderaker notes that the media just can’t seem to bring themselves to admit that a course of action has failed (and predictably so). You almost have to laugh at the way the med...
White House gate crashers called ahead
PS Burton Blogging from Phoenix—Michaele and Tareq Salahi the socialites who crashed President Obama’s State dinner, may have called ahead even if they were not on the official guest list. They may have seen a friends official invite, One ...
