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Poll: Support For Health Care Reform Jumps Through The Roof
Gun-Toting Liberal | December 21st 2009
Democratic Congress’ ObamaCare Enjoys Sudden Surge In Popularity In breaking news as reported by CNN, now only four in ten Americans believe the healthcare reform bill in the Senate is “too liberal”, which is bad news for the likes read more
More Stuff in the Soup
I am the Evil Twin | December 21st 2009
In my reading about the "historic" vote in the Senate, the start of moving the bill towards final passage, I stumbled onto this article from the AP. It opens describing one little town in Montana that is receiving a special set of fun read more
How to Make Soup (or What Deals Does it Take to Pass Health "…
I am the Evil Twin | December 20th 2009
I've heard someone compare writing and passing legislation to making soup. Basically you toss in ingredients until "everyone" is happy with the results. It's messy and full of a bunch of things that no one really knows about. Well i read more
Keeping Christ in Christmas: I never knew He left
Jill Victoria: (her) Life in Prose and Cons | December 20th 2009 by Jill Phillips
During the Christmas holidays, you see and hear the phrase “Keep Christ in Christmas” everywhere. It’s no surprise, seeing the way that Christmas is viewed by some. There are the people who say that Christmas is too commercialized a read more
The GTL™ Sunday Guest Column — “All I Want For Christmas Is…
The Gun Toting Liberal Blog | December 20th 2009
GTL™ Sunday Guest Columnist: Author And “Moderately-Right-Of-Center” Political Pundit, Christopher L. Doster, Employs His Wit, Sarcasm And Conservative Sense Of Humor To Attack The Democratic Congress, Senate, President Obama And Their read more
Harvard Swaps Are So Toxic Even Summers Won’t Explain (Update3)
Maynard's Veggie & Boston Blog | December 18th 2009 by Maynard S. Clark
Share Business ExchangeTwitterFacebook| Email | Print | A A A By Michael McDonald, John Lauerman and Gillian Wee read more
It’s Official: Times Person Of The Year Is FED Chairman Ben Ber…
The Gun Toting Liberal Blog | December 16th 2009
“Bailout Ben”: Unaccountable Bailout Czar Of Unaccountable Federal Reserve Bank Wins Prestigious Prize Unemployment is soaring toward record numbers, banks are being bailed out and bailed out by The Gub’mint We, The People while ref read more
Who Can Force the Sun to Shine?
I am the Evil Twin | December 16th 2009
...The Government Can! In a classic case of business competitors using the Government to harm a competitor in a way they couldn't on their own, Microsoft has finally settled an internet browser anti-trust case in Europe. The lawsuit which wa read more
Chester
Temperatures | December 16th 2009 by Guy Ralph Perea Sr
The Butler Name from New York is Chester Arthur to marry the woman in Scarlet name Ellen from Virginia that Chester found love while in prison of The Union while He worked early to free slaves they had a daughter and sons but the daughter died off ho read more
Pledge of Allegiance...Has It Become Meaningless?
OldManOnFire | December 16th 2009
The Pledge: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. According to Wikipedia: The Pledge of Allegiance read more
Are We Doomed? My Answer Is Probably YES...
OldManOnFire | December 16th 2009
Seems like in the past few decades, the issues/problems have grown more complex, yet our capacity to problem solve has grown at a much lower rate...not a positive divergence. Looking into the near future, perhaps the next 10-20 years, we can read more
China and Europe Buying Iraq Oil...US Gets None...
OldManOnFire | December 15th 2009
This is something that US citizens don't understand and we seem to believe oil can flow forever at relatively low costs...but it cannot! The US kept the taxes low on gasoline in order to fuel the economy but this also took funding away that read more
Values & Health Reform Connection
Maynard's Veggie & Boston Blog | December 15th 2009 by Maynard S. Clark
Is an open conversation, a group blog, and a nonpartisan effort to spark a rich discourse on fundamental values in health reform launched by The Hastings Center and media sponsor Health Affairs.The Connection is a group blog and a call for submi read more
Another GTL™ Open Post Monday: Jumping Joe Lieberman Flip-Flop…
The Gun Toting Liberal Blog | December 14th 2009
THE Gun Toting Liberal Reaches Out To His Fellow Commentators -Slash- Co-Bloggers And Readers To Furnish Their Opinions On Any Of The Above, Below, Or Anything Else Political One Wishes To O-Pine On… Here we go again with another “catch-a read more
Healthcare Reform In Trouble?
I am the Evil Twin | December 14th 2009
One of the chief organizations the Congress has been using to support the take over of the US Health Care System has been the CBO (Congressional Budget Office), a non-partisan group that evaluates bills as written. The only problem? The Congress read more
Vegans and Old Clothes
Maynard's Veggie & Boston Blog | December 13th 2009 by Maynard S. Clark
Old Vegan ClothesWhen it comes to wool, leather, and down, one question tends to come up over and over again among vegans and aspiring vegans: Can I keep wearing my old wool coat (or leather shoes or down jacket) until they wear out, or until I can a read more
God Save Us From the Advocates
I am the Evil Twin | December 11th 2009
It's is bad enough that the people in Government want to control and regulate our lives, but without the support and advocacy of "Activists" and "Communities" who also want to control your behavior, they would find it more diffic read more
Renting ‘no bad thing’ says home-owning housing minister
The Spicy Cauldron | December 11th 2009
The era in which all Britons aspire to own their own home may be coming to an end according to the housing minister, John Healey. He has suggested the UK may be moving towards a European model with renting on a roughly equal footing (whatever that me read more
And here’s why you should shut up about Tiger Woods…
Immoral Matriarch: Catechizer | December 10th 2009 by Immoral Matriarch
All of the news I’ve gotten about this entire debacle has been via Twitter and good Lord EVERYONE has had something to say about it. Which is cool, whatever, but some of what I’ve seen has really annoyed me. He’s cheated on his wife read more
Using Medicare for the 47 million uninsured
OldManOnFire | December 9th 2009
I think the 2009 Medicare spending is at $486 billion. Medicare costs every employee and employer 1.45% (2.9% total) of the employees wages. Today there are about 45 million on Medicare. I believe Medicare already spends more than it read more
FOOOOOTBAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!!
I am the Evil Twin | December 9th 2009
Quick note here, the house has passed a bill by voice vote out of to FORCE the BCS to adopt a playoff system. This is the nanny-state at the hieght of stupidity. Just so yoiu don't think the Donkeys have a monopoly on Government control of our l read more
OOPS: TSA “How To Successfully Smuggle Bombs Into Airports Manu…
The Gun Toting Liberal Blog | December 8th 2009
In A Sincere Effort To Assist The Transportation Safety Administration In Revamping Their Current “How To” Manual, We Are Publishing The Old One For Our Readers To Scrutinize And Make Change Recommendations To Their Elected Officials̷ read more
Aid effectiveness
Maynard's Veggie & Boston Blog | December 7th 2009 by Maynard S. Clark
Aid effectiveness is the effectiveness of development aid in achieving economic or human development (or development targets). Aid agencies are always looking for new ways to improve aid effectiveness, including conditionality, capacity building an read more
Aid effectiveness - effectiveness of development aid in achieving…
Maynard's Veggie and Boston Blog | December 7th 2009 by Maynard S. Clark
Aid effectiveness is the effectiveness of development aid in achieving economic or human development (or development targets). Aid agencies are always looking for new ways to improve aid effectiveness, including conditionality, capacity building and read more
Humans can’t cause climate change? Think again!
The Spicy Cauldron | December 7th 2009
A single volcano erupting can put enough of a sulphurous mess into the atmosphere to cause rapid cooling of the Earth. The effect lasts up to a year. Now, take a look at the next picture… How many factories do you think there are in the worl read more
Saturday Night Live Tiger Woods Skit Crosses All The Politically…
Gun-Toting Liberal | December 7th 2009
According To Liberal Fringe Groups, SNL’s Tiger Woods Skit Crosses Racial, Politically Correct And Spousal Abuse Lines How about this, folks — LIGHTEN THE HELL UP. By now, we’ve all learned the world’s greatest golfer, Tiger W read more
...In Infamy
I am the Evil Twin | December 7th 2009
68 years ago on this day America was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. In the words of FDR it is a “day that will live in infamy”. It resulted in America’s entry into the Second World War. Something that read more
There’s nothing wrong with the hive – it’s the drones, stup…
The Spicy Cauldron | December 7th 2009
Image via Wikipedia Two stories today that really should be set side by side in our contemplations. One, the doctor’s sick note is to be replaced by a ‘fit note’ that, rather than saying you can’t work while you recover from read more
Do What I Say, Not What I Do
I am the Evil Twin | December 6th 2009
Interesting notes from the Climate Change Dog & Pony Show in Copenhagen: Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up o read more
Unemployment in the USA...
OldManOnFire | December 4th 2009
I read somewhere that we have about 155 million workers in the USA. If this is correct, using your 17.2% number, it means about 26.6 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed. It is my opinion that we have reached some form of critica read more
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