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You Go Your Way, I Go Mine

September 17, 2012 – 11:09 am

The United States and its allies are rattling the saber in the Persian Gulf by conducting naval exercises designed to thwart any attempt to close the vital sea lane should Israel decide to attack Iran to prevent their distant enemy from developing an atomic bomb. This weekend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in New […]

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Honkie Beware

September 7, 2012 – 6:42 pm

Vice President Joe Biden left the stage at the Charlotte Convention to the music of Earth Wind and Fire, but Barack Obama approached the podium to U2’s City of Blinding Lights and basked in the adorative applause of his audience to Bruce Springstein’s WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN. GOP and Tea Party members must […]

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Registered Voter

September 5, 2012 – 2:21 pm

“Vote early and vote often.” This classic call supposedly originated with New York’s Tammany Hall paying ‘repeaters’ $5 to vote multiple times. According to Wikipedia Richard Henry Dana, Jr. to his friend Lord Radstock saying, “The side which has the greater number of dishonest men will poll the most votes. The war cry, “Vote early […]

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O’Bama The Man

September 4, 2012 – 11:12 am

My first presidential vote was for George McGovern in 1972. The Democratic candidate’s middle name was Stanley and he proposed to end the War in Vietnam as well as cut Pentagon spending by 37%. Nixon won by a landslide. The South Dakotan’s electoral wins were Massachusetts and DC. Afterwards Bay Staters said that our support […]

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Make My Way

August 31, 2012 – 1:18 pm

Earlier this month Clint Eastwood announced his support for Mitt Romney and the Hollywood icon appeared on stage of the Tampa Convention Center with a chair. The actor/director/producer pretended to speak with an invisible Barack Obama, accusing him of creating 23 million unemployed, even though the US Department of Labor puts the number at 13 […]

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