The Ramble for 9/19/11

Queens, NY– I’m at College Point again, unloading as this is written. I’m writing ths on m Palm Pre’ so it’ll be a ittle shorter than usual, perhaps. 

A nice weekend, but a bit short. It’s cooler around here this

Firing Squad perhaps? From Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube, NBC News:

WASHINGTON — The Army on Wednesday filed 22 new charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of illegally downloading tens of thousands of classified U.S. military and State

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-08/google-amp-verizons-net-neutrality-proposal-kind-scary

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/28/AR2010072806141.html

Weren’t these the same people that screamed about the terrible Patriot Act?

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• SPENDING FREEZE: So Obama’s response to the anger he’s generated, is that he claims he wants a spending freeze on “many” domestic

Even Howard Dean called this “reform” plan crazy! “Reform” is in quotes because calling this reform is a lie.This is not reform it’s a complete socialist take over health care with rationing of care for the old and undesirable. If

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This is the Unemployment Edition In honor of those who have lost their jobs thanks for Barry the O.

• DEATH PANEL:  If

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This is the “Beep Beep” Edition. If you don’t get the reference, look here.

• The Obamacare Telethon:  No, I didn’t bother watching

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• Spin City: You can be reasonably assured of the Republicans pointing up the failure of the so-called

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This is the Truck Stop Edition

• The Fairness Doctrine in Acton:  Seems Crazy Uncle Hugo has decided to shut down the last

The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Attorney General of the United States
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.  20530-0001

Dear Attorney General Holder:

This letter is respectfully submitted to inform you that I must decline

First the good news, Jim Mann,Daily Inter Lake reports the death of Algore’s pet theory, anthropogenic global warming:

The prevailing conclusion at the New York conference, according to Berry, is that “the global warming hypothesis is dead, scientifically

Now

President Obama is mulling declaring war on wounded veterans, David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers:

WASHINGTON-The Obama administration is considering making veterans use private insurance to pay for treatment of combat and service-related injuries. The plan would be an about-face on

By way of Bruce McQuain, who you will recall, I was a little harsh with last week on the AIG thing, comes this news:

The other shoe concerning the AIG “bonuses” and the administration’s knowledge of them is beginning

From the New York Slimes:

Mr. Obama called Ms. Collins and Mr. Specter, as well as Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, another Republican expected to support the deal, to acknowledge they were acting against pressure from their party