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Jersey Woman Seeks to Embrace New Levels of Fatness

March 18, 2010

First Jersey Shore, now Donna Simpson?  2010 is a bad year for Jersey, but I’m telling you, while Jersey girls have their own unique kind of baggage, they aren’t generally that bad!
Speaking of “baggage,” by now you’ve heard the buzz about Donna Simpson, that 600 lbs. woman who’s aiming to be the world’s fattest woman [...]

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

March 17, 2010

Ah the perfect pint…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
And to all those in Congress prepared to vote for that Obama Care monstrosity in the coming days, here’s some Gaelic:  pog ma hon! (pronounced pogue ma hone)  Pog ma hone indeed.

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Recalling Bob Menendez

March 16, 2010

New Jersey’s non-comatose Democrat Senator, Bob Menendez, just got some bad news today.  As it turns out, NJ is one of 18 states which has a recall provision on elected representatives, so a Tea Party activist attempted to recall Bob Menendez.  Well, that effort just passed its first hurdle — a three-judge panel has allowed [...]

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Busy Supreme Court News Day!

March 15, 2010

As it turns out, today was a busy news day regarding the ordinarily quiet SCOTUS.  Usually, without any major decisions coming down, we hardly hear anything from The Nine*.  Here are three recent stories:
First, Butler University is cool with Chief Justice John Roberts attending his niece’s graduation this May, but think Roberts is simply too [...]

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The Astroturfing of the “Coffee Party”

March 13, 2010

I heard a little buzz a few weeks back about some people who are upset with government who want to organize to get this country moving in the right direction by breaking the gridlock in Washington and get our representatives to be more representative.
Sounds great, right?  Kind of sounds like the Tea Party Movement, but [...]

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Justice Roberts Stands Up for SCOTUS

March 11, 2010

Word came yesterday that Chief Justice John Roberts was upset about the treatment the Justices got from both Congress and the President at January’s State of the Union Address, questioning even whether or not SCOTUS should really even show up anymore.  Here’s my opinion about that address and the treatment of the court who are [...]

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Patrick Kennedy at His Whiny Best

March 10, 2010

Enjoy!

Watch CBS News Videos Online
At least his dad was a drunk — what’s his excuse?  … Oh yeah…

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Pelosi’s “Read the Bill” Moment

March 9, 2010

When John Conyers ridiculed those who wanted him to actually “read the bill” last summer, we nodded our heads and generally agreed that people like him were the problem in Washington — so, we elect people to pass laws that they don’t even bother to read?  Yup.  We thought it, and it was confirmed in [...]

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The Hurt Locker Wins Best Picture

March 8, 2010

Yesterday, Iraq had another in a series of successful parliamentary elections, moving them closer to a functioning democracy which can police itself and defend it’s territorial integrity. It’s wasn’t a perfect situation, dozens were killed in attacks on election sites, but the people seem determined to take the path of democracy.
In unrelated news, yesterday, the [...]

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Coming Soon: A “Clash of the Titans” Remake

March 7, 2010

I haven’t been to the movies lately (mostly due to snow and nothing really piquing my interest), so I missed out on the new Clash of the Titans remake trailer which has been floating around out there.  I knew it was coming, but hadn’t seen anything beyond a few flashy TV commercials.  It looks pretty [...]

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The Spending Limit Amendment

March 7, 2010

Three House Republicans, Mike Pence, Jeb Hensarling, and John Campbell, are proposing a Constitutional amendment which states that Federal spending shall not exceed 20% of the economy unless in times of war, debt repayment or by the will of a 2/3 vote in both houses of Congress.
Known as the Spending Limit Amendment (pdf file), co-author [...]

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NJ Transit: Going Nowhere Fast

March 6, 2010

Governor Chris Christie inherited a huge mess in New Jersey when he took office about six weeks ago.  Since then he’s taken an approach which has dealt with cutting large state expenditures in order to try to deal with the state’s $2.2 billion budget deficit.  His first offensive was against the pension system (which I [...]

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“The Coming Insurrection” in Greece

March 4, 2010

Last week I posted on the violence in Greece due to the first signs of the collapsing of the Bismarckian welfare state, which has been the norm in Europe for a hundred years.  The significance of this and the rest of the PIIGS in Europe is that the trends facing Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and [...]

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Obama: Reconcile THIS!

March 3, 2010

Where’s the modern day Paul Revere galloping through the towns this night shouting “The White Coats are coming!  The White Coats are coming!“?  Maybe Paul’s waiting to see how things shake out over the next few weeks.
As it turns out in a speech earlier today, President Obama decided that health care reform simply must be [...]

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New ObamaCare Plan: Lipstick on a Pig

March 2, 2010

The Democrats have lost the health care reform debate:   that much is clear in the polling and by their actions.  However, the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Team are not ready to throw in the towel.  One just has to refer to last Thursday’s “bipartisan” Health Care summit to see that Obama and crew are still trying to [...]

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Brighton (UK) Tea Party Update

March 1, 2010

Well, keep in mind that they’re British and they do mean well.  Saturday’s Brighton Tea Party managed to attract around 300 people (some having to be turned away due to room occupancy issues) in what turns out to be a very “Green” (read: “Red”) locale.  As Daniel Hannan said on his blog:
“If you can run [...]

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A New Greek Oracle

February 28, 2010

The ancient Oracle of Delphi used to be a spot where ancient Greeks would go to breathe in various toxic fumes and listen to Pythia tell them about possible futures in cryptic phrases and symbols.  Well, millennia later, the Greeks still have some prophesying to do — this time on the eventual collapse of what [...]

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8.8 Quake Hits Chile

February 27, 2010

A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Chile at about 3:34am local time.  Aftershocks have followed throughout the morning, day and now into the night.  The power of the quake set off a tsunami which is (at the very moment I write this post) hitting Hawaii with about an 8-foot swell.  Because of the new early [...]

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What to do with a Bad Poll with a Great Outcome

February 26, 2010

I kind of experienced what it must be like to be a Lib today when I read that in a CNN poll, 56% of the American people believe that “the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans.”
“But wait!” you say, “that’s not a Liberal position!”
No, but it is a poll of “adults” [...]

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Tea Time for the UK!

February 26, 2010

British patriot Daniel Hannan, the hands-down best member of the EU Parliament, is speaking at a UK-style Tea Party in his home town of Brighton tomorrow!  Hannan rejects that the “Taxed Enough Already” concept over here in the States is unique to the Red White and Blue — he notes a sparse history of the [...]

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A Nor’easter by Any Other Name

February 25, 2010

Central Jersey already has had about three or four inches and it’s going to get much worse.  In the midst of all this global warming, we have another double-digit snow storm (the third in February alone!).  We should have 10-16 more inches before tomorrow afternoon as the latest Nor’easter hits this area.
“Nor’easters” are large snow [...]

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The Central Falls Precedent

February 24, 2010

I lived in Rhode Island for about 24 years.  I can say without hesitation that Central Falls is one of the worst square miles one could find outside of Detroit.  One doesn’t drive through it… you find ways to drive around it!  OK, that’s a little exaggeration (nothing in the developed world is nearly as [...]

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The Iraq War is Now “Operation NEW DAWN”

February 21, 2010

The Iraq War is getting an official name change from Operation Iraqi Freedom to the much clearer and more succinct “Operation New Dawn.”  Like changing the name of the War on Terror to “overseas contingency operations” the Obama Administration has done it again — change the name, infer the completion of the mission, and claim [...]

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Alexander Haig Dies at 85

February 20, 2010

Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig has died from complications resulting from an infection at the age of 85.  A distinguished Korean and Vietnam War vet, NATO Commander, and four-star general, Haig served under President Nixon and Ford as White House Chief of Staff from 1973-1974, and most famously as the State Secretary under President [...]

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Newsflash: Iran May Be Making a Nuclear Bomb!

February 18, 2010

I know, I know!  It’s so shocking and such a surprise — news that just seemingly appeared from nowhere!
Mind the sarcasm, but Captain Obvious strikes again:  the IAEA has just released a report indicating that it seems like Iran is making a nuclear bomb.  Hans Blix was nowhere to be found in the report, so [...]

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Rush Likes NJ Governor Chris Christie

February 17, 2010

I don’t always get a chance to listen to Rush, but last Friday Rush said the following:
Chris Christie, New Jersey governor, has frozen spending. The state’s budget is in shambles. He has sliced into the school surpluses, the New Jersey transit subsidies. The Democrats are furious. They’re furious because he’s doing exactly what he promised [...]

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Coming Soon: “Generation Zero”

February 16, 2010

The conservative group Citizens United previewed a new documentary film for the Tea Party Convention in Nashville a few weeks ago called Generation Zero.  This documentary seeks to explain our current national mess by pointing the finger squarely at the way society and culture has been shaped by the narcissistic Boom Generation.
This is what I [...]

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Romney Assaulted on Plane

February 16, 2010

Former Massachusetts Governor and 2008 Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was assaulted on a plane this morning right before leaving the Olympic Games in Vancouver.  No one was hurt and the attacker was removed from the plane before take-off.
There are a few unusual angles to this story:  for one, super-loaded Mitt Romney and his wife [...]

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Phil Jones — No Significant Global Warming Since 1995

February 15, 2010

The UK Daily Mail has published this article focusing on hacked ClimateGate scientist Phil Jones’ admission that there has NOT been any statistically significant global warming since 1995!  Ouch — that’s 15 years!
Think 1995 for a second:  Newt and crew take over Congress for the first time;  Jacques Chirac becomes President of France;  the Oklahoma [...]

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The Problem with the “PIIGS”

February 15, 2010

If you haven’t heard about the acronym “PIIGS” yet, I’ll let you in on it:  PIIGS stands for Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain — countries in the European Union on the verge of economic collapse.  Of the five nations in trouble, Greece is the closest to collapse and the youth in the streets have [...]

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