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Author: BobR Date: 03/10/2010 13:03:22 With the Oscars over, we are entering a period of award show withdrawal. The Golden Globes are done... The Tonys aren't until June... The Emmys are in August. What's an award show junkie to do? We invent one out of thin air! So here we have the Hypocrisy Awards (Hypos for short) for the political set. Continue reading... 52 comments (Latest Comment: 03/10/2010 23:10:57 by livingonli) Perma Link
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Author: TriSec Date: 03/09/2010 11:20:21 Good Morning. Today is our 2,547th day in Iraq and our 3,075th day in Afghanistan. We'll start this morning as we always do, with the latest casualty figures from Iraq and Afghanistan, courtesy of Antiwar.com: Since war began (3/19/03): 4380 Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4241 Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3917 Since Handover (6/29/04): 3521 Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 152 Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318 US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,014 Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 664 Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,457 Journalists - Iraq: 338 Academics Killed - Iraq: 437 We find this morning's cost of war passing through: So, did you all watch the Oscars? I've been hearing about the Hurt Locker since it came out; it's been a huge story throughout the veteran's community and online, and it rightly won for Best Picture and Best Director....(and you had to love James Cameron's ex snatching the award right from under his nose.) Of course...it is only 'just a movie'. How does it jibe with real life? Continue reading... 46 comments (Latest Comment: 03/10/2010 02:51:22 by livingonli) Perma Link
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Author: Raine Date: 03/08/2010 13:50:56 Take a look around you. They are everywhere. They've brought you coffee, cooked for you, cared for you. They've worked along side you. They love you. They make you laugh and they bring life into the world. They are sexy, smart and intriguing - even mysterious. Men have gone to war over them. In turn, they have stopped a few. Continue reading... 46 comments (Latest Comment: 03/09/2010 01:18:25 by Mondobubba) Perma Link
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Author: velveeta jones Date: 03/07/2010 15:16:41 As you know, it's Oscar's night, but the day belongs to the (first and last) annual Plopsters Awards™ (pending). The award that goes to the dumbest and/or most deceiving of our Politicians and Pundits. Here is the nominee's for Best Direction of Deceit: Nominee - Sarah Palin and her use of "Death Panels" on, of all things, her Facebook: The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's ‘death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil. A brilliant scam that made use of the casual social networking site - so "it must be true", right? Continue reading... 14 comments (Latest Comment: 03/08/2010 02:17:50 by livingonli) Perma Link
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Author: TriSec Date: 03/06/2010 13:53:19 Good Morning! It's a bright, beautiful day in New England. The end of a depressing, two-week period of gloom and storm. Looking out my windows, I see nothing but blue sky in every direction. Which could make for an interesting evening. It's going to be warm today, near 50 degrees. Maybe it will be a nice evening, too. How many of you out there are city dwellers? (show of hands). Do you have a pair of binoculars, or maybe an old telescope kicking around in the cellar? Seems to me that every kid had a cheap one at one time or another. Tonight is an excuse to pull one out and take a peek at one of our celestial neighbors. Sure, it's the "dog star", which we normally associate with the dog days of summer....but it's technically a winter star. (August is when it starts to become visible again after being below the horizon all summer.) Continue reading... 7 comments (Latest Comment: 03/07/2010 06:32:09 by livingonli) Perma Link
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Author: BobR Date: 03/05/2010 13:39:45 A picture is worth a thousand words, so the saying goes. Graphs in particular can bring a table of sterile data to life in a way that simple words cannot. My intention today is to let the pictures do the talking, and keep my words to a minimum. By my count, this blog will be worth over 5000 words! Much has been bandied about recently regarding the deficit and the process of budget reconciliation, so I will focus on that. Let's start with a simple one. Three examples of budget reconciliation in action, and their effects on the budget balance: Continue reading... 44 comments (Latest Comment: 03/06/2010 05:15:10 by livingonli) Perma Link
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Author: Raine Date: 03/04/2010 13:58:18 Into your life it will creep It starts when you're always afraid You step out of line, the man come and take you away We better stop, hey, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down You know the song, it was allegedly written to get people to recognize the turbulence going on during the 60's, especially regarding Vietnam. Today, after reading about a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) it takes on a different slant to it's ominous message. Continue reading... 51 comments (Latest Comment: 03/05/2010 01:10:45 by TriSec) Perma Link
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Author: BobR Date: 03/03/2010 13:50:33 We have seen two large earthquakes rock our hemisphere in the last couple months. The destruction was very different in the two countries, based on their building preparedness. But in both cases, the human preparedness seems to be lacking. Just how well prepared are we as a nation - and as a worldwide people - for these kinds of disasters? Continue reading... 68 comments (Latest Comment: 03/04/2010 03:42:35 by livingonli) Perma Link
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Author: TriSec Date: 03/02/2010 11:32:20 Good Morning. Today is our 2,540th day in Iraq and our 3,068th day in Afghanistan. We'll start this morning as we always do, with the latest casualty figures from Iraq and Afghanistan, courtesy of Antiwar.com: American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 4379 Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4240 Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3916 Since Handover (6/29/04): 3520 Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 151 Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318 US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,008 Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 664 Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,457 Journalists - Iraq: 338 Academics Killed - Iraq: 437 We find this morning's cost of war passing through: Here's an interesting tidbit from the just-completed Vancouver games, thanks to our friends at IAVA. While I'm sure many of you watched the gold medal hockey game on Sunday afternoon, there was just as significant event that took place Saturday evening. Continue reading... 50 comments (Latest Comment: 03/03/2010 00:22:03 by Mondobubba) Perma Link
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Author: Raine Date: 03/01/2010 13:49:47 Last Friday, Senators Kyl and Bunning blocked legislation to extend jobless benefits to Americans for one month. Both had different reasons. Kyle said he was blocking it because he wanted the now expired ESTATE TAX to not be reinstated, as scheduled. Bunning's reasoning was that he wanted this emergency bill paid for immediately. I could point out the hypocrisy that he voted for the Bush tax cuts, the 2 wars and numerous other deficit inducing spending programs passed over the previous 8 years -- but I won't. Letting the Estate Tax (or as people on right talk radio like to call it -- the 'Death Tax') be reinstated after a period of time is actually a good thing (details to follow). Instead, these two Republican senators - with the support of others on their side of the aisle - have blocked a bill set to provided -however minor - relief to Americans out of work. Continue reading... 42 comments (Latest Comment: 03/02/2010 04:06:58 by BobR) Perma Link
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