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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Washington’
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 »
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 [...]
Stimulus Shmimulus
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Humorous, tagged act, allocation, America, appropriation, bill, Congress, Democrat, economy, excess, expenditure, funds, House, legislature, Obama, politics, Republican, Senate, spending, stimulus, Washington on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Supposing any reader of this blog has some cursory knowledge of the current state of the American economy (in the crapper) and my inherent mistrust of politicians (crooks, cons, and thieves, the lot of them), here’s my take on the new stimulus that was passed yesterday. It’s crap. I know all the governmentals were standing [...]