Perhaps I should note, right up front, that I am not equating Barack Obama to a douche. Or more accurately, I am, but not in the spirit of meanness. South Park fans will understand immediately. For the rest of you, let me explain. After major elections overseas and several state primaries, my thoughts turned to [...]
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Kyrgyz Clashes
Posted in General Mischief, tagged ABC, action, ammunition, appointment, arm, automatic, Bahkiev, Bakiev, Bakiyev, Bishkek, capitol, change, cheat, clash, CNN, concussion grenade, conscience, corrupt, cost, coup, damage, dead, demonstration, depose, determination, excessive, fair, fight, fire, force, freedom, government, governor, guard, gun, handgun, hostage, hurt, injure, interim, justice, killed, Kurmanbek, Kyrgyz, Kyrgyzstan, leader, malfeasance, mass, media, moral, news, Nightline, non-lethal, opposition, Otunbayeva, oust, police, politics, populace, population, power, president, price, protest, rebel, republic, resign, resignation, resolution, retaliat, riot, Rosa, Roza, rubber bullet, Russia, sharpshooter, sub-machine, Talas, tear gas, unarm, United States, unjust, USSR, utility, vehicle, video, violence, water cannon, weapon, White House, witness, wound on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve watched the world news or read a bit online, you’ve probably seen something about the riots in Kyrgyzstan, a former USSR republic that borders China and just tried to oust its president. Protesting masses took to the streets demanding a change in government, the president fled, hundreds of police were summoned to quell [...]
Green Shoots
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Humorous, Personal Insights, tagged America, banana, bandwagon, beat, Blue Ball, Blue Devil, box, bruise, bull, Burpee, business, cardboard, caveat emptor, change, chemical, chlorophyll, claim, company, cost, country, crush, died, disgust, display, dollar, drop, E. coli, economist, economy, elbow grease, enforcement, exotic, family, fertilizer, fly, food, fresh, frost, funds, fungicide, garden, genetic engineer, government, Green, ground, Gurney, heirloom, herbicide, honor system, hybrid, Ides of March, ill, import, incident, investment, label, law, layover, lettuce, mango, market, mascot, order, organic, oversight, patch, pathogen, pesticide, plan, plane, plant, plate, plenty, poke, politics, popular, price, produce, regulation, rubbish, rule, season, seed, shoot, shovel, sick, soil, spinach, spray, spring, stipulation, store, summer, sun, supermarket, supplier, supply, Team Blue, test, tomato, variety, vegetable, Victory Garden, wam, Washington, Word War II, WWII on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The phrase used by optimistic economists for the last year is starting to come to life. But I’m not going to talk about the economy, or politics, or even Team Blue (which, by the way, needs a mascot, I think … but Blue Devils is taken and I don’t think Blue Balls would go over [...]
Hoist the Flag
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, Readings, tagged abandon, action, America, American Dream, animal, basement, Bernie, black, blood, booty, build, burn, business, bust, call to arms, car, caution, Charles, cheat, chest, city on a hill, claim, company, conclusion, conscientious object, consequence, construction, context, corporation, credit, cry, damage, Darwin, desire, dollar, drought, drywall, employer, evolution, fact, family, fear, fellow, fight, flag, flip, flood, floor, freedom, frost, future, garden, generous, global, goodness, government, grace, grade school, H. L., hoist, homeless, House, hungry, hurricane, insurance, internet, investment, job, joist, liberty, lie, life, lose, Madoff, man, meaning, Mencken, money, mortgage, need, normal, nothing, pacifism, pay, payment, payoff, pirate, planet, plunder, policy, profit, rally, read, reality, risk, sales, see, sentiment, slit, society, something, spoils, stand, steal, storm surge, structural integrity, structure, survival, sword, tax, tempt, theory, throat, treasure, treatise, trust, unemployed, useless, utopia, value, victor, Wall Street, wallboard, want, war, warning, wave, weed, wind, word, work, worthless on November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There is a quote from H. L. Mencken that reads, “Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.” Since first reading it, I’ve been struck by those words and have remembered them. Every normal man must sometimes want to throw caution [...]
Cash For Clunkers, the Newest Con
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged block, budget, burden, buy, buyer, car, Cash For Clunkers, choice, class, con, consumer, cost, credit, crush, dealership, demand, destroy, economy, engine, government, hardship, incentive, liquid glass, low-income, market, mileage, new, price, pro, program, purchase, salable, shred, stimulus, supply, trade-in, truck, used, value, vehicle, voucher, water glass on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cash For Clunkers seems like a pretty good program. Bring in a not-so-great vehicle and get up to $4500 in credit toward a new vehicle, a value virtually no one would get from a traditional trade-in program. There are a few stipulations but nothing outlandish. And it’s helping both the consumer and the economy, right? [...]
Harping On A Theme
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, Readings, tagged abortion, airport, American, and Political Climate, and Recruitment, assessment, attack, autonomy, bias, Christian, Chuck Baldwin, conservative, conspiracy, county, Crackers Beware, Current Economic, dangerous, Debra J. Saunders, Debra Saunders, Democrat, Department of Homeland Security, destruction, detain, DHS, dire motive, dissent, domestic, Everett, exception, extremism, Extremism report, facts, fearmonger, federal, free trade, Fueling Resurgence, government, Gulf War, gun control, harm, Herald, home-grown, Homeland insecurity, I&A, ideal, in Radicalization, knife, law, law enforcement, lone wolf, militant, militia, Missouri, Mt. Baker, NAFTA, national forest, nationwide, newspaper, non-violent, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Oklahoma City bomber, organization, paraphenalia, planning, political, report, rhetoric, Rightwing Extremism, same sex marriage, SanFrancisco Chronicle, Seattle, sensitive, sludge, Snohomish, Snoqualmie, state, supremacist, suspect, suspicious, terrorism, terrorist cell, threat, Tim McVeigh, veteran, violence, violent, Washington, Washington D.C., white on April 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Okay, I know I’ve posted nothing since coming back but I have to re-visit a recent topic before I can in good conscience move on to post anything new. In my travels I picked up a newspaper which had been discarded in a hotel lobby. You may ask why, when it would normally be more [...]
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