The response over my previous post on Glenn Beck’s propensity to not only stretch the truth, but actually ignore facts has prompted m to do a quick follow-up. I am by no means saying that Glenn Beck only tells lies.  Let’s face facts, if all he did was lie, his credibility would require him...
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This is a message for all the people out there who used to get their news from Uncle Walter.  Perhaps some of you watched Tom Brokaw.  But with the advent of the 24-Hour News cycle (gee, thanks Teddy Turner), many of you ended up either going with CNN or Fox News.  I want to...
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The following editorial appeared in yesterday’s New York Times. The Obama administration has always had a backup plan in case Congress failed to pass a broad climate change bill. The Environmental Protection Agency would use its Clean Air Act authority to regulate greenhouse gases. Regulation, or the threat of it, would goad Congress to...
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I grew up during an era when doctors actually smoked cigarettes while they made their rounds.  Movie theaters had ashtrays built into the backs of the seats so everyone in the theater – except the front row could smoke during the films.  Hell, even people in the front row smoked, they simply threw their...
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Welcome to Richmond, CA. Located in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay area, Richmond is the largest city in the United States to elect a member of the Green Party as their mayor. According to the city’s official web site, Gayle McLaughlin … … was elected Mayor of the City of Richmond...
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My apologies to fans of the Elson-Gray Reader’s Dick and Jane books, this is as simple as possible for a few lug heads out there who get all glassy eyed when you start getting into details.  The following comes from the web site TreeHugger.com: As you might have heard by now, there’s legislation brewing...
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Many years ago, an unknown Native American from an unknown tribe made a very wise statement that should still be hearkened to today. “We do not inherit the world from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Duty on us to return it to them in the absolute situation.” Unfortunately “we” did not...
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I had a hunch that the United States had been dumbed down right after “we” elected George W. Bush to the White House.  After all, anyone who was really paying attention could tell this man was half-moron?  I’m not sure about the other half, but it still isn’t bristling with any form of intelligence....
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Let me begin this post by pointing out that I have always started any counting I do with the number “1″.  If there are five apples in a basket, I do not  count them by saying, “zero, one, two, three, four”.  To begin with, instead of four apples, someone might believe there were only...
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The season is upon us.  As of today, it has been exactly two weeks since my previous post.  This is a very hectic time of year and I would rather not spend too much time focusing on the negative. That said …
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