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HIGH SCHOOL 1959 vs. 2009

August 3, 2009 – 10:46 pm

Scenario 1: Joe goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck’s gun rack. 1959 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Joe’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Joe. 2009 – School goes into lock down, F BI called, […]

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Missile Command

February 23, 2009 – 1:53 pm

The creation of a missile shield to protect America from nuclear attack has been the dream of the Pentagon for decades. Billions have been spent on Star Wars technology without any of the tests achieving their goal. President Bush push the concept of the anti-ballistic system on Eastern Europe with the expected result that the […]

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Who runs this country?

January 13, 2009 – 1:28 pm

We tout America as the Land of the Free, however we have to ask ourselves how much more interference with our diplomatic efforts to end the injustice in Palestine can we allow the State of Israel. Yesterday Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel called GW Bush to stop Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from voting […]

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Obese Beat Out Fat USA

January 11, 2009 – 4:54 pm

Last year the population of America topped 300,000,000. India and China are over a billion each, however while the average weight of a Chinese or Indian person is 54 kilos, over one-third of Americans are considered obese. Not fat, but obese meaning that there is a good possibility that what we lack in numbers we […]

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Good-Bye GM

November 11, 2008 – 11:41 pm

“Whatever is good for GM is good for America.” I heard this adage throughout the 60s and 70s, even as GM manufactured ever worse versions of badly-designed cars. Gas guzzlers and with no eye for overseas sales. In fact one GM VP had the balls to answer a question about why GM wasn’t selling right-hand […]

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