American politics
November 22, 2009
- I'm itching like a like a volleyball playing nudist in a field of poison oak to inflate the first 4 story tall balloon and kick start the national parade of giving thanks down Main Street, because Turkey Holocaust Day couldn't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned. Be honest, doesn't a little comforting tryptophan poisoning amongst family and friends sound pretty good right about now? ...
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October 26, 2009
- Now is the time for all good men to put their hands together, pull them apart and rapidly put them back together again, and repeat, to give props to the President for not curling up into a fetal position with a "Kick Me" sign taped to his butt. You know. Like a Democrat. He's taking it straight to his perceived enemy, calling both Fox News and Rush Limbaugh radical and out of the ...
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October 5, 2009
- I caught myself the other day on a rant. Now, those who read my weekly columns on politics might think all of my writing is rather rant-ish, but I I've really made a concerted effort of late to avoid the poisoned penning of political prose (I like alliteration). I look for the take-a-way, the lesson we're supposed to learn, from what I've just read or heard. I try to find the humor in ...
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October 5, 2009
- Just between You and I, I'm begining to admire the multitude of "HATS" the new President chooses to wear ,particularly the one where he gose to to Denmark to negotiate and promote Chicago as the favored site of the 2012 Olympics, 'cause that's some surefire multi-tasking and micro-managing .from our baby 'Boy Wonder"! Then there's 'the hat' he wears as he demonstrates ...
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September 27, 2009
- Well, look at the time. Aren't we expecting the Return of the Bride of the Son of the Swine Flu pretty soon? That's right. It's Baaaaack and this time, its personal. Scientists predict the virus will be worse this swing through Northern Hemisphere, but come on, no matter how bad it gets, it's still not going to be 1919. After all, our public water supply systems have undergone a bit of an upgrade ...
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September 24, 2009
September 22, 2009
- Dear Senator Feinstein:I write not only as a concerned constituent, but as the founder of Writers-at-Large, a first ever California writers advocacy group organized to speak up for free speech, a free press, and a federal shield law.
You may recall that in 2004 I invited you to attend "Engaged: Poets for Democracy and Core Freedoms," at the San Francisco Public Library, an event in ...
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September 21, 2009
- Remember back in grade school, when all learning came to a screeching halt while the teacher stopped to explain what was going on to the slow kids? She'd spend the entire morning trying to simplify the lesson plan so they could get it.. Using small words in her annoying patient voice, which tended to pitch strident the slower she talked. Well, that's what's happening here. America is being held ...
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September 17, 2009
- By the time Jimmy Carter weighs in, with all due respect to the former President, home builder and Nobel Laureate, you can bet that's pretty much the end of the news cycle for that story. When I watched Mr. Carter offer an opinion about South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson the other day, his face as dour and reproachful as always, it just struck me that this had to be the last nail in the ...
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September 16, 2009
- If the president isn't careful, he's going to get the nickname Dr. Feelgood. And, while some may think of Obama as more like Faust than Dr. Feelgood, he's certainly working hard to pacify, and appease those special interest groups he was elected to vigorously oppose.
With the announcement today of FBI chief, Robert Mueller, that rendition of detainees won't happen on his watch, ...
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