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Monday, January 5, 2009

For Whatever Reason Technical Or Otherwise AD Is No Longer On Google News
  General piece by Editor (1/5/09)

Interestingly our visitor count is actually increasing.  This may be a short term phenomenon but certainly is interesting.

Socialism R’ Us - Or So Hope The Demercrat Progressives
  Socialism piece by Malcolm Hedges (1/5/09)

Socialism in a word or 5 - “Government control of the population”.  That includes production, property, income, information and thought.

Deepak Chopra Peddles Metaphysical Swill
  Society piece by Frederick Meekins (1/5/09)

In the 6/25/07 edition of U.S. News & World Report, New Age luminary Deepak Chopra was interviewed about his novel about Buddha interestingly titled “Buddha”.  Though many will no doubt fawn all over this narrative in search of some new spiritual insight or revelation in much the same way as they did with “The Da Vinci Code” these past few years, however, it seems some of the answers provided by this guru renowned by millions had as much thought put to them as the titling of this novel.

‘UAW Floating ‘Phantom Employees’ and Avoiding Property Taxes At Luxury Golf Course?‘
  Unions piece by Warner Todd Huston (1/5/09)

Some new tough questions are being asked about Black Lake Golf Club(1), the luxury golf course owned by the United Auto Workers union in Cheboygan County, Michigan. Along with the multi-million dollar golf resort, the UAW also funds what it calls an “education center” with the funding connected to the resort.

Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians”  for 2008
  Politics piece by Press Release: (1/5/09)

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2008 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.”

Monday, January 5, 2009

How Bush threw election to Obama
  Politics piece by Offsite (1/5/09)

I’m surprised no one else has explained this before.

Cheat today, vote tomorrow
  Politics piece by Offsite (1/5/09)

George Bush is still president, although, to look at media you’d think his presidency was long gone.

Police look to hack citizens’ home PCs
  Police State piece by Offsite (1/5/09)

Police and state intelligence agencies from several countries may soon be working together to secretly hack into private citizens’ personal computers without their knowledge and without a warrant.

MLK, Jr. Preached Non-Violence and Provoked Violence!
  Society piece by Don Boys, Ph.D. (1/5/09)

In 1959, King resigned from the pastorate of Dexter Avenue Baptist and moved to Atlanta to direct the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In the following year, King became co-pastor with his father of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

Shot to Death on Main Street
  Middle East piece by Doug Patton (1/5/09)

On that awful evening of September 11, 2001, my gaze alternating between my television screen and my computer screen, I wrote a column called “Now We Know How Israel Feels.” In that piece, I retold the true story of Ken Rex McElroy of Skidmore, Missouri, a local bully who terrorized an entire rural county until, after years of abuse, theft, rape and attempted murder, a handful of Skidmore citizens shot him to death on Main Street in broad daylight. Recently, like those citizens in Skidmore, the nation of Israel had had enough.

The California Taxpayer Protection Act
  Immigration piece by Guest: Armand C. Hale (1/5/09)

I want to call attention to a statewide initiative in California that may change the debate on the automatic citizenship that is wrongly bestowed upon children born to illegal aliens and foreign visitors in the United States. The initiative is called The California Taxpayer Protection Act(1).

‘Media Bias: Are the Practices of the Toronto Star the Natural Progressions of Liberal Dishonesty?‘
  MSM piece by Yomin Postelnik (1/5/09)

Are the Shameful Practices of the Toronto Star and Columnist Linda McQuaig the Natural Progressions of Liberal Dishonesty? - The leftist bias and activist drumbeating of today’s major media is as self-evident as it is plentiful.  A look at how major media acts in North America’s most liberal cities gives us an indication of the true dangers that media bias poses here. 

Freedom’s Final Solution
  Socialism piece by Jayme Evans (1/5/09)

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. It will prescribe for every one where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say. Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance. - Winston Churchill

Sunday, January 4, 2009

The Political Winds Are Blowing - The House Of Cards Is Shaking - 52 Pickup On The Horizon
  ObamaNation piece by Malcolm Hedges (1/4/09)

On the 20th of this month, the ObamaNation will become official. On that date Comrade Commissar President Obama (“the anointed one and political messiah”) will begin his “rule” over the evil USA.

Careful What You Wish For - Sizzle ain’t steak
  Elections piece by Geoff Metcalf (1/4/09)

Reality looms just around the corner as President-elect Obama prepares for his coronation/inaugural. As the confluence of saying and doing approaches one is reminded of the final scene in the 1972 Robert Redford movie “The Candidate”, when after finally winning the election he wasn’t supposed to, the winner is seen turning to his campaign poobah and asking, “Marvin ... What do we do now?“

As recession deepens, so does milk surplus
  Economics piece by Offsite (1/4/09)

FOWLER, California: The long economic boom, fueled by easy credit that allowed people to spend money they did not have, led to a huge oversupply of cars, houses and shopping malls, as recent months have made clear. Now, add one more item to the list: an oversupply of cows.

Dems to Run the Country Like They Ran Their Blue States (Into the Ground)
  Demercrats piece by JB Williams (1/4/09)

As the nation braces for Democrats to take unbridled control of the federal government, some lessons about how big a mistake that really is are already coming to light.

The Plain Truth about Glorious Carbon Dioxide
  Junk Science piece by Alan Caruba (1/4/09)

Okay, children, let’s all sit up straight at our desks. We are going to begin 2009 with a lesson about carbon dioxide (CO2).

‘Character counts - how’s yours?‘
  Society piece by Offsite (1/4/09)

What would you do if you could do anything you wanted to do and it would never be discovered? Would that change your behavior?

Israel: Fight like your forefathers
  Middle East piece by Offsite (1/4/09)

As I look at tiny Israel finally get the courage to start defending herself decisively against the evil and intractable Hamas, the de facto leadership of the Palestinians living in Gaza, I had a troublesome sense of unease for several reasons:  As detestable as watching sausage being made, war is something that has always been very difficult for me to view in real time because of the carnage, the slaughter of innocent women and children, but even worse, the geopolitical posturing by corrupt politicians.

Never Again! again
  Terrorism piece by Bruce Walker (1/4/09)

“Never again!”  was a message hammered into my head from the earliest memories of my youth.  The ghastly films of concentration and death camps, the limp bodies of living skeleton, the reduction of humans to something much less than ill treated livestock - this, the civilized world vowed, would never happen again.

‘The Gaza Problem: How Do You Negotiate With People Who Want to Obliterate You?‘
  Middle East piece by Mary Mostert (1/4/09)

Al Jazeera, which is headquartered in Doha, Qatar, quoted White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe as saying: “In order for the violence to stop, Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel and agree to respect a sustainable and durable ceasefire.“

Media Complicit in Creating Economic Crisis
  MSM piece by Jim Kouri (1/4/09)

Seventy-seven percent of Americans believe that the US media is making the economic situation worse by projecting fear into people’s minds.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

MLK Jr.: Civil Rights Provided More Pay, Perks, and Prestige than Pastoring!
  Society piece by Don Boys, Ph.D. (1/3/09)

After assuming the leadership of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1954, Martin Luther King shot to fame because of a local incident involving the local bus system. Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, refused to surrender her seat to a white person and was arrested on December 1, 1955. No one knows what motivated Rosa to refuse to surrender her seat, and she said that she had “no plot or plan.” Who knows? However, we do know that she was an officer in the local chapter of the NAACP and was trained at the Communist Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, and is in the famous photo along with King. Furthermore, we know that she and King corresponded four months before the boycott.  Sounds like collusion to me. How about conspiracy? Or maybe she was simply tired.

Gaza solution is in the hands of Palestinians
  Middle East piece by Offsite (1/3/09)

After Israel launched its military attack on Hamas military installations in Gaza in response to repeated attacks on Israeli civilians, the Arab street wasted no time in demonstrating with passion against Israel. In Europe, many Westerners also took part in the protests.

The Gaza Rules
  Middle East piece by Offsite (1/3/09)

The Israelis just struck back hard at Hamas in Gaza. In response, the United Nations, the European Union and the Arab world (at least publicly) expressed their anger at the killing of over 300 Palestinians, most of whom were terrorists and Hamas officials.

The Peak Oil Scam Controlling Oil Prices
  Energy piece by Kevin Roeten (1/3/09)

Fifty year ago, experts stated that Peak Oil would be reached by the year 2000. Now, most experts [Oilempire.us] say that this number will probably be in the year 2020. If you knew you were being told that a product would soon be in low supply, and you believed it, you could raise prices on a whim.

Government Sends Chrysler $4 Billion Bridge Loan
  Economics piece by Offsite (1/3/09)

AUBURN HILLS, Mich.—Chrysler LLC and the U.S. Treasury Department said Friday that the government had supplied the automaker with a $4 billion loan that was necessary to keep it operating.

Carville Predicts Democratic Scandal Streak
  Demercrats piece by Offsite (1/3/09)

Democratic political strategist James Carville predicts the Democratic Party—already burdened by the Gov. Rod Blagojevich scandal—will suffer more embarrassing scandals in 2009.

Amnesty International’s Anti-Israeli Complaint
  Bird-Brain Flu piece by Jim Kouri (1/3/09)

Leave it to the folks at Amnesty International to take the side of Islamic terrorists in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. What the hell is “disproportionate response” when you are dealing with terrorists? Read Amnesty International USA’s released statement below, but have a barf bag available.

How to tell if you’re a spoiled brat
  Society piece by Offsite (1/3/09)

OK, I confess I wrote last week’s column, “A nation bursting with spoiled brats,“ because I wanted to slap people upside the head with something simple, truthful and, I hoped, profound. During a time of celebrating peace on earth and goodwill toward men, I wanted people to think about just how darned lucky we are. Yes, our country has problems, but we’re unbelievably fortunate to live here, especially when compared to lots of other places.

Between a Rock and a Sinatra
  Society piece by Offsite (1/3/09)

IT ALWAYS SEEMED STRANGELY appropriate that Frank Sinatra died on the day of the Seinfeld finale - 10 years ago this past May. On a night when America was set to celebrate a sitcom’s elevation of irony to unforeseen cultural heights, it had lost its mythic pop singer, who knew something about irony, too, but who at his best stirred in his listeners a more earnest acknowledgment of longings, losses, and the good life.

Globaloney Update: A Tale of Two ‘Realities’
  Global Warming piece by Warner Todd Huston (1/3/09)

From June: ‘No ice at the North Pole,‘ to January: ‘Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979’

Friday, January 2, 2009

MHO is Toast, The Progressive Socialist Left Is After His A**
  Progressivism piece by Malcolm Hedges (1/2/09)

The honeymoon is over on Jan 20th, MHO will become the scapegoat for the mindless adventures of the Democrat Progressive infested House and Senate.

Traffic Since The Move Is Close To Zer0
  General piece by Editor (1/2/09)

It appears that Google is not processing the RSS feed.  At this point, I will assume it is some sort of technical issue.