Archive for the ‘Current Events’ Category
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Last December I began following the case of Peter Francis Watts, a Canadian Science Fiction writer (heretofore virtually unknown) arrest for assaulting a U.S. law enforcement officer at the U.S.-Canadian border. Although I haven't been blogging about it since the original incident began, I have been monitoring it. I also ...
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
It's been just over a week now since the firestorm over Captain America #602 and the racist/tea party connection hit the internet and the news. I picked up a copy of Cap and gave it a read. It was my first comic book in over 10 years. Things have changed. ...
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Okay, there are Moonbat Moments and there are moonbat moments. But this one has got to qualify as a MOONBAT MOMENT. Danny Glover said this in response to the 7.0 quake that rocked Haiti, killing tens of thousands of people.
from the Daily Telegraph:
"When we see what we did at the ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
News of Rush Limbaugh's being hospitalized with chest pains reached my monitor this morning. It's a crummy way for 2009 to end for him. I wish him well and a speedy recovery. Unlike some bozos around the blogosphere.
Recently, Limbaugh has been an ardent critic of ObamaCare and the government takeover ...
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Yeah, that's right, even though the bomb failed to detonate, our side failed to stop him from getting into position where he could set it off to begin with.
Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the blown attack. Janet Napolitano at first claimed our anti-terrorist system worked, then backtracked and admitted it ...
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
It's been a while since we've heard anything about former Congressman Cynthia "Assault and Battery" McKinney. I guess she misses the limelight. IN this episode, we find the Moonbat extraordinaire trying to run an Israeli blockade. Again.
From FoxNews:
Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, whose relief ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Two acts of terror took place this week, each resulting in two different responses from the White House.
In the first, abortionist George Tiller was murdered for the sole reason that he provides abortion services, especially (and specifically late-term abortions). Scott Roeder, Tiller's accused killer, is anti-abortion and Christian.
The second incident ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
From World Net Daily News:
A newly unclassified Department of Homeland Security report warns against the possibility of violence by unnamed "right-wing extremists" concerned about illegal immigration, increasing federal power, restrictions on firearms, abortion and the loss of U.S. sovereignty and singles out returning war veterans as particular threats.
The report, titled ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Time to end blog silence as Obama actually managed to get something right. Obama gave the military commander on the scene of the Somali pirate attack authorization to take out the pirates if Captain Phillips, the mariner held captive by four pirates, was believed to be in imminent danger. Granted, ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
I just learned in talking to Walter that Paul Harvey passed away on Thursday of last week. I missed the news as I was not plugged into the 'net for most of a week.
Harvey was a great commentator and storyteller. I first got hooked on his program, "The Rest of ...
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
Today is Reagan's Birthday.
Happy Birthday, Mr. President! We miss you!
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
Usually one of the groups I am in is pretty good about posting important events like this. Sadly, this one was missed. Forrest J. Ackerman passed away last week. This LA Times piece has a lot to say about the man who brought so much to the genres of science ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
The Party of Hate is out in full force, and this time the goons were caught. from the Bee in Portland Oregon:
The presidential campaign got a little too hot for two Portland men who were arrest early Saturday morning, Oct. 11, and charged with burning a John McCain campaign sign ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
It has been crazy here at the home front. Zero time for writing as I have been putting in a lot of hours at the office. And a couple of classes.
But I am through this current week and am still a little surprised by the doings on Wall Street, with ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
I only caught a small chunk of last night's Emmy Awards, but what I saw, and have since read in the news, shows exactly why these people should stick to making films rather than entering the political dialogue.
I am harvesting these quotes from Variety.com:
"The election between Jefferson and Adams was ...
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
There is a lot going on right now in the investigation of the hacking of Sarah Palin's Yahoo! account. Michelle Malin has the latest scoops on her site as the son of a State Representative in Tennesse, Mike Kernell (Democrat), has been contacted by the FBI in relation to this ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Labor Day, 2008. It was the day of the big pro-terrorism rally and parade. There was also a "Victory Over Terrorism" Rally going on at the same time. Knowing about some of the plans being put forth by the so-called RNC Welcoming Committee, I had some doubts about going up ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Sometimes you just have to poke fun at the gaffs made by the Main Stream Media. The latest gaff comes courtesy of Fox News and their index of top political conventions. Number 6 on their list of top conventions is the 1904 Democratic Convention featuring Barack Obama and the "Audacity ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
I ran across this initially on Michelle Malkin's blog, and am as stunned as she is that the politicians running the U.K. would pull a Neville Chamberlain by brokering a deal with Muqtada al-Sadr that resulted in British troops in Iraq sitting on the sidelines while the recent Battle of ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Looks like Canada may actually deport Robin Long, a deserter from the U.S. Army. I'll be mildly surprised if they actually do it.
From the Globe and Mail:
"I was just shocked at some things in [the] ruling," Bob Ages, a spokesman for an informal group called Vancouver War Resisters Support ...
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