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It's a Conspiracy!
Author: BobR    Date: 2011-01-07 12:03:00

On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot on the moon. I remember watching it on TV as a child with my father, my parents letting me stay up late to watch such a historic event. I was mesmorized.

Except - it didn't really happen. It was all faked, done with sets on a soundstage. We know this is true because someone knows someone that says they worked on the set and were sworn to secrecy, blah blah blah.

Welcome to the world of conspiracy theories.
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77 comments (Latest Comment: 01/07/2011 21:34:50 by Raine)

They pledged & promised - maybe.
Author: Raine    Date: 01/06/2011 13:40:02

Today is the day when the House GOP will read aloud the Constitution of the United States of America. As has been mentioned here and elsewhere, it's all show, much like the great Wizard was in Oz: bluster blunder and theatrics. In the end, the new majority in the House will have to govern. They made a lot of promises and some people expect them to follow through with them.
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64 comments (Latest Comment: 01/07/2011 00:27:48 by Raine)

Day 1
Author: BobR    Date: 2011-01-05 13:00:00

Today is the first day of the new congressional session, when power changes hands in the House, and the Senate rearranges a few deck chairs. We have a split personality party getting ready to set a good deal of the political agenda in DC. What do we have to look forward to?

Nothing... zilch, nada.
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49 comments (Latest Comment: 01/05/2011 22:06:21 by Raine)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 01/04/2011 11:33:57

Good Morning.

Today is our 2,848th day in Iraq and our 3,364th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do...with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing wars, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4432
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4293
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3573
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 204
Since Operation New Dawn: 14

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,446
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 838
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448


We find this morning's cost of war passing through:

$ 1, 132, 713, 100, 000 .00


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27 comments (Latest Comment: 01/05/2011 02:38:41 by velveeta jones)

Let the Games Continue!
Author: Raine    Date: 01/03/2011 13:47:10

Happy New year to one and all. Today we begin the 112th congress -- with a very unhappy Tea Party. What is surprising is who they are unhappy with this time. From the NYT
As Tea Party politicians prepare to take their seats when the 112th Congress convenes this week, they are already taking issue with Republicans for failing to hold the line against the flurry of legislation enacted in the waning weeks of Democratic control of the House of Representatives and for not giving some candidates backed by Tea Party groups powerful leadership positions.

Just a month ago, Tea Party leaders were celebrating their movement’s victories in the midterm elections. But as Congress wrapped up an unusually productive lame-duck session last month, those same Tea Party leaders were lamenting that Washington behaved as if it barely noticed that American voters had repudiated the political establishment.

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30 comments (Latest Comment: 01/04/2011 00:23:24 by livingonli)

Predicktions!
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 01/02/2011 14:58:44

This being our last year on this planet (Mayan calendar and all that...) here follows are Velveeta's predictions for this last year of our True Lord and Savior, Two-Thousand Eleven or in film years MMIX.

Glen Beck will suffer a devastating explosion to his head when he tries to piece together a theory that William Shatner has a goatee adorned evil twin that is best friends with George Soros and the two are involved in plot to bring both Lenin and Lennon back to life as assisted by the Tides Foundation and Acorn that use several Government grants awarded to them from the National Endowment of the Arts (a Communist front group).
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3 comments (Latest Comment: 01/03/2011 04:21:23 by BobR)

2011
Author: TriSec    Date: 01/01/2011 15:54:57

It's 2011; Let's be careful out there.

Resolutions, anyone?
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5 comments (Latest Comment: 01/02/2011 01:35:50 by BobR)

Happy New Year's Eve!
Author: BobR    Date: 01/01/2011 02:05:17

Open blog thread for those partying at home tonight!


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13 comments (Latest Comment: 01/01/2011 06:03:54 by livingonli)

End of Year Round-up (updated)
Author: BobR    Date: 2010-12-31 13:00:00

UPDATED 11:37 AM EST: see bottom for updates...

It's New Years Eve, and the cliche thing to do is to look back on the year's events and wax philosophical about their significance. So - who am I to buck tradition? Let's review some of the major events of the past year; I'm sure there are a lot of things we've forgotten about.

The year seemed to start badly. After the death of Ted Kennedy, a special election was held to fill his seat. The assumption was that a Democrat would easily take it, and everyone was shocked when it was Republican (and erstwhile Tea Partier) Scott Brown who won the election. Over time, he has shown, however, that he is not quite as reactionary as the Tea Party had hoped, angering them by voting with Democrats on several key pieces of legislation.
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28 comments (Latest Comment: 01/01/2011 02:06:21 by BobR)

Eating Their Own
Author: Raine    Date: 12/30/2010 13:54:32

This is the last blog of the year for me. By next Monday, we will be watching the 112th Congress being sworn in. Another year of politics will have begun. It certainly promises to be a year of many twists and turns.
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23 comments (Latest Comment: 12/30/2010 20:33:42 by TriSec)

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