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…borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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Time to Freak Out

I’m beginning to understand how it was that nothing was done about Hitler until it was too late. We are now experiencing, or about to experience, the end of the financial world as we know it. That’s just my opinion. … Continue reading

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Bail-outs for whom exactly?

This whole big three Detroit auto company bail-out is really beginning to piss me off. Ford, GM, and Chrysler pay, on average, $78 per hour for labor to manufacture cars, compared to $48 for Toyota, here in the United States. … Continue reading

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Bluegrass Underground

Tonight we went to “Bluegrass Underground” in the Cumberland Caverns, by McMinnville. The headliner was Tim O’Brien and Friends. It was a fabulous show, tight, utterly relaxed musical mastery and good humor. Tim is a great singer, a great songwriter, … Continue reading

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The Transition

The nutroots are angry, but I am quite pleased and relieved, that, so far, President-Elect Barack Obama has implied, by his appointments and actions (Hillary, Lieberman, Bob Gates, Jim Jones, etc.), that George W. Bush has been pretty much right … Continue reading

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Government Health Care

I will turn 65 in January, so I decided today to apply for medicare, which one is supposed to do during the three months prior to turning 65. I began by going online and typing “medicare” into Google, which took … Continue reading

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Autumn Leaves

Saturday we drove over to Manchester and walked around The Old Stone Fort State Park. It was a beautiful Fall day. Here is a slide show of some pictures I took. The sound track is Candace, accompanied by Doc West … Continue reading

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The Facts of Life

It is historic and an affirmation of the exceptional history and spirit of the United States of America that we have elected our first half-Kenyan President. I can’t help but share to some extent in the jubilation of Obama’s disciples. … Continue reading

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How bad could it be?

Although I don’t believe it to be the case, just suppose that Barack Obama is in fact the Manchurian candidate acting out a plot concocted in Bill Ayer’s rec room to overthrow the Great Satan and bring about the glorious … Continue reading

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Black Helicopters and Little Red Books

I think it’s true, as my political science professor brother, Jeff, has been telling me, that world government is about to take a great leap forward. Already the governments of the U.S. and Europe are, out of necessity, groping towards … Continue reading

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