Monthly Archives: October 2012

Tough As Porter Rockwell

October 20, 2012 – 12:33 pm

My father claimed that Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormons, was a distant relative on his father’s side of the family. My aunt backed up his assertion, saying that our line of the family remained in Maine, while the prophet’s clan drifted from the mountains in Vermont to the religiously burned-over lands of Western […]

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Tough As His Dad

October 20, 2012 – 12:06 pm

During the second presidential debate President Obama responded to Mitt Romeny’s accusations of failure with fierce counterpunches of facts and accuracy, leaving the GOP candidate somewhat staggered by the incumbent’s questioning his opponent’s honesty. At one point Romney remained on center stage close to Obama and I was disappointed that the president didn’t suckerpunch the […]

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Bette Davis Eyes

October 20, 2012 – 12:07 am

The expression ‘the eyes are the windows to the soul’ have been attributed to many writers, principally William Shakespeare, although the actual phrase probably transcended the time of windows, which were very rare in the Dark Ages. No where more true than in the eyes of the GOP challenger. He has tried so hard to […]

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SECTION 43 Country Joe and the Fish

October 19, 2012 – 6:54 am

To hear SECTION 43 Country Joe and the Fish, please go to the following URL

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Decisions Decisions Decisions

October 18, 2012 – 9:09 pm

Here’s a quandry from Big Al Harlow of Pattaya fame, author of the Amazon-Kindle book WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE. Please read the entire thing for the correct impact. You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting […]

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