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2021 is refusing to be a decent year, it seems, what with now the omicron surge of the COVID virus and the determined refusal of so many people to take public health measures seriously. It’s a shame that so many people are having to deal with this at a time
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But sometimes, that change is for the worse – not for the better. Certainly, that was the case with Sheldon Adelson, who died yesterday at the age of 87. His legacy is NOT a good one. He destroyed politics in not just his own country but in Israel as well.
Continue readingA long post follows. It is worth your time to read-because not everything, contrary to the opinion of many conservative bloggers-can be adequately discussed in just a couple of paragraphs. The recent incident involving acknowledged reprobate and con man James O’Keefe, who –through a combination of almost criminal deception and
Continue readingWe humbly apologize for what the stupidity of the average American, the greed of the companies that have bought our networks, and the relentless pace of technology ( especially with respect to video editing) has done to your once noble profession.–Skippy-san. There are two pieces of reporting on journalism that
Continue readingSarah Palin continues to play herself as the victim. Even when “the hostile media” actually tries to help her out. Gov. Palin’s press office claims that she has pointed out errors in Daily News coverage that we have refused to correct. The only such complaints of which I’m aware are
Continue readingNamely the windmill of the ever persistent complaint about biased and one sided the Main Stream Media is. “My judgment is now clear and unfettered, and that dark cloud of ignorance has disappeared, which the continual reading of those detestable books of knight-errantry had cast over my understanding”-from Don Quixote
Continue readingThe Asia Sentinel pointed me to a long, but very insightful and sobering article about the background causes, from some insiders’ viewpoint, of the US financial turmoil. The author of the article entitled “The End” is none other than the famed Michael Lewis, author of bestselling books like Liar’s Poker
Continue readingOnly 17 days till the election-and November 4th could not come a day too soon. If I were Barack Obama though, I would be having nightmares about this picture: I hope that his political instincts are attuned enough to smell the real danger this whole “Joe the Plumber” thing can
Continue readingI was shocked when I opened up my e-mail this evening upon arriving home from work. I was dumbfounded when I saw that Tim Russert had died from a heart attack. The news media and the United States will be poorer without him. Its a common thing among many conservative
Continue readingChalk up another candidate for my trusty Louisville Slugger: This guy had a job that I would kill for. Jet around the world, usually in first class or on a private plane, and then tell everyone else how to have a marvellously expensive good time. What’s not to like
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