Droning On...
Author: BobR
Date: 03/11/2013 13:01:03
There is something about drones that is dominating the American psyche. Everywhere I look I see people discussing them, with emotions ranging anywhere from concern to mouth-foaming outrage. I don't understand why the fixation is on the drone itself. When America first got into war in the Middle East (the most recent ones - Afghanistan and Iraq), and we started learning about soldiers dying and being maimed, we thought "this is not the proper approach". This was like trying to hit a fly with a baseball bat. Instead of a full-scale invasion of a sovereign country, we should be using covert operations and targeted strikes. That would mean less cost, less soldiers dying, and less money and power flowing to private contractors that were profiteering from the wars.
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Sundee blogee
Author: velveeta jones
Date: 03/10/2013 14:21:04
Open blog this morning as I stayed up way too late for a person of my....wisdom. And it seems we lost an hour of time. But I will comment on THIS story: I think it's a bad idea. Ashley Judd is a wonderful person I'm sure, a great spokesperson and activist, but she has too many skeletons in her closet and she reeks of "Hollywood elitist" that will be used against her. To be honest, I also worry that after a year in the Senate, she'll start missing making movies and that will reflect on her work ethic.
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Good Morning. It's something we all must ponder from time to time as mortal beings. At the end of our existence on this world, what will happen to us as we reach the end? The Hollywood version of a graceful exit, in our own bed, surrounded by family is a nice picture, but it rarely happens in the real world.
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Impeach!
Author: BobR
Date: 03/08/2013 13:42:35
Impeachment is a concept codified in our Constitution as a mechanism for the federal government to police itself. Lately it seems we hear cries of "impeach!" on a regular basis, but of course very little ever comes of it. There were cries for impeaching president Obama almost before he even took office. In all of U.S. history, only two presidents (Johnson, Clinton) and one Supreme Court Justice (Chase) have ever been impeached. None were successfully convicted of any of the charges.
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Rand Paul is a hypocrite. I won't celebrate his filibuster becuase it is built on a false premise. What is that premise? Basically, drones impact American Civil liberties. (H)is remarks focused primarily on civil liberties issues, offering a scathing critique of the Obama's administration's use of unmanned drones, and refusal to rule out military strikes against American citizens on U.S. soil.
“When I asked the president, can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It’s an easy question. It should have been a resounding an unequivocal, ‘No,'" Paul said. "The president’s response? He hasn’t killed anyone yet. We’re supposed to be comforted by that." Here is the interesting thing: while Senator Paul was filibustering, Eric Holder was testifying about that very issue. Continue reading...
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He had been in office for a year. Popular with the electorate, he promised to help the poor, something that left the business community aghast. With cries of socialism and wealth redistribution, he was immediately set upon in an attempt to bring down his presidency and ensure the moneyed business community were the ones truly in charge. Sound familiar? The year was 1934 and Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. Continue reading...
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Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec
Date: 03/05/2013 11:22:30
Good Morning. Today is our 4,167th day in Afghanistan. We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty report from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com: US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,178 Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,080 We find this morning's cost of war passing through: $ 1, 429, 628, 675, 000. 00
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80 years ago today, Franklin Delanoe Roosevelt gave the first of his inaugural addresses. “Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself” as it was known would be the last time a President was inaugurated on a day other than January 20. Continue reading...
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Teabaggery 101
Author: velveeta jones
Date: 03/03/2013 15:11:05
Are you angry with your government? Sick and tired of the news blaring this weeks crisis and party bickering while no work gets done and you suffer? Well, just in time for tax season, you should join the TEA PARTY MOVEMENT! That's right, Velveeta is here today to instruct you on how to become a Teabagger™ a purely grass roots movement that has no ties to any political party and was started by real Americans like the Koch Brothers and members of the tobacco industry and moved along by Fox News, who saw the need for Americans to get up and fight!
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Good Morning! Why, I have a date with my wife this evening! Javi is off to a concert with his grandpa, and shall be spending the night over in Melrose. The benefits of having a working musician parent...it's the Melrose Symphony's "Children's Concert", but unlike other children's concerts you may have heard about, this one has a strict age limit and dress code, and they play *real* classical music, not just Peter and the Wolf and other kid-friendly things. Javi was old enough to go last year, but we had a schedule conflict and couldn't make it. So Javi gets a road trip, and Mrs. TriSec and I will have an evening to ourselves. Imagine that!
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