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October 25, 2005
Now this is just ridiculous. It's one thing to be against abortion for moral reasons and sure there's potential dangers, but sometimes wacko's go too far on trying to tie things together in order to support their moralist agenda. Case ...
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October 21, 2005
In the continued assault on every person in America, Northwest Airlines is implementing a plan to charge smokers more for health insurance starting in January. An internal memo laid out the plans. I'm sure there's some of you out there ...
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October 03, 2005
The mayor of Riviera Beach, Florida has decided he knows what's best for the homeowners of a local community and has decided that throwing them out of their homes and onto their asses is the best course of action. It's ...
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September 22, 2005
ACLU lawyers receive untold millions from taxpayers with every case they win. The current law allows them to collect fee's whenever they win a case. These fee's come from taxpayers. This actually encourages them to file as many suits they ...
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September 21, 2005
Bloggers across the Blogosphere -- left, right and center -- are teeing off on the Bush administration's nomination of Julie Myers to be the head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). As I reported on Sep 18 Senator ...
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September 18, 2005
Well who didn't see this coming. After reports of the $2000 debit cards, being handed out willy nilly by FEMA, being used for electronics, DVD's and video games it has now been found that they are showing up at strip ...
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September 07, 2005
Reader Bill L. sends this great email that encompasses everything wrong with our current immigration policy. He doesn't pull any punches and it just goes to show you that citizens are mad as hell and just aren't going to take ...
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June 03, 2005
Here's how not to save for retirement. Put all your money into a home on the side of a landslide prone area where you can't get insurance and then crying when your home and your life savings take a ...
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May 25, 2005
I've just been sitting here posting and I swear that the whole entire Fox & Friends morning show on Fox News that's been on in the background has been a two hour commercial for American Idol. WHO GIVES A FUCK ...
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May 24, 2005
Over 700,000 customers personal information was stolen from Wachovia, Commerce Bank, PNC Bank and Bank of America. It was stolen by employee's of the banks and then in some cases sold to collection agencies. To remedy the problems 2 of ...
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May 13, 2005
Michael Ross, a serial killer of at least 8 women, was put to death by lethal injection this morning. Ross was the first person executed in Connecticut since 1960. As usual there were a bunch of stupid people saying "keep ...
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April 08, 2005
The title for this entry is of course the most ridiculous line ever written for a commercial. It comes from a commercial currently running for OnStar. Whoever wrote that line in hopes of "tugging at consumers heartstrings" by having some ...
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March 21, 2005
I haven't written an entry on this and this will probably be my only entry on it. I'm going to post a couple comments I made at other sites which basically sums up my take on it. Comment made at ...
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March 18, 2005
EdWonk over at The Education Wonks is telling us that once again the teachers "unions" are raising their dues. These are not voluntary dues, but mandatory dues paid by every teacher in the state. Why do they want to raise ...
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PoliBlog has a piece where he dismisses farm subsidies as a waste of money and that farms should be allowed to die if they aren't profitable. Spurred by this recent article where the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture talked of cuts ...
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March 14, 2005
There was a recent discussion in the comments on an article I did a few days ago entitled "Utah Governor Signs "Driving Card" For Illegal Aliens Bill". I have decided to post some of that here and also my take ...
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March 02, 2005
Teachers in the Berkeley school district are refusing to give written homework because they are complaining they have to correct it on their own time. Now I understand what they are saying, everyone wants to get paid for the work ...
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People under the legal age of 18 should be executed for their crimes. A lot of people think that kids under 18 should not face the death penalty. I beg to differ. People get the death penalty for premeditated murder. ...
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February 07, 2005
In an entry wrote from December 10, 2004 entitled "Washington State Tells Parents They Can't Listen In On Their Kids Phone Calls " I covered the Washington State Supreme Court ruling that a mother was in violation of Washington privacy ...
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January 24, 2005
It is a joyous day indeed! Break out the party hats and cake! Recently we have seen Gary DeFilippo the DMV Commissioner for Connecticut resign, Tom Ridge, DHS Secretary resign and now we have the ridiculous Asa Hutchinson who was ...
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Posted by Digger at 09:20 AM
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January 19, 2005
President Bush has announced three Arizona lawmakers to come up with details for the immigration reform plan he wants to put before Congress. The three, Republican Senators Jon Kyl and John McCain and Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe, were selected to ...
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January 17, 2005
A 35-year-old help desk employee has been sentenced to 14 years for Identity Theft. Philip Cummings stole personal information from more than 30,000 customers and then passed that information onto criminals. Losses to the victims are estimated at $50-$100 million. ...
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I watched the mini-series last year when it came out and was a little annoyed at the overt sexuality in the first 15 minutes. I love my porn, but not with my sci-fi. Anyway, I sort of enjoyed it. It ...
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January 11, 2005
Well the headline is a statement, but the article is a question. Do SUVs Make You Stupid? Registrations for the huge lumps of bulbous steel jumped 39 percent between 1997 and 2002, from 1.9 million to 2.75 million, and overall ...
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December 29, 2004
There are a few articles on strip clubs recently that annoy me. First we have investigators in San Francisco going around visiting strip clubs and checking into whether club owners are taking more than they should from the strippers. Sacramento ...
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There's a well written piece on the failure of public schools and is listed as part 1 in the failures of Liberalism over at Blogs For Bush. Here's an excerpt: The fundamental problem with public schools is the fundamental problem ...
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December 17, 2004
The latest fad craze that overtook America seems to be finally at an end. First there was the pet rock, then there was retro-70's and now you can add to that lame pantheon the low-carb diet. In a brilliant marketing ...
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Hey, remember right after September 11, 2001 when all the radio stations banned the playing of songs like Benny and the Jets by Elton John and Rock the Casbah by The Clash? Wasn't that stupid? I mean at the time ...
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November 24, 2004
David Anderson over at In Search Of Utopia has finally gone over the edge and joined the far left in justifying their vicious and hateful attacks on all Republicans. I posted a comment on his entry that includes one of ...
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November 18, 2004
The shear arrogance of this action by Disney just reinforces their downward spiral into the hate-filled core of my soul. I've always been a huge Disney fan and have just been really disappointed with them ever since after the release ...
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November 12, 2004
I would just like to thank those of you who truthfully thanked our veterans for their service. I bold the truthfully word because reading around the Blogosphere I see some posts from those that have been against the military and ...
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November 03, 2004
I agree with Michelle Malkin on all of this stuff the media keeps repeating. How we are "all divided", how "We need to heal". Tell that to all the ignorant slamming done by the Democrats during this campaign. I don't ...
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October 17, 2004
I was reading Michelle Malkin the other day where she had this to say. Yesterday my pediatrician informed my husband that our 11-month old son probably will not be able to get the two vaccines that would protect him the ...
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October 14, 2004
I've heard this about 100 times and am sick of it, so I was pleasantly surprised to see Rusty at The Jawa Report totally blow the claim away. Charts, facts and everything. And this is the first president in 72 ...
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October 06, 2004
Do we really want someone voting who listens to a video game character's instructions to do so? Apparently MTV thinks so. In its latest Choose or Lose campaign they plan on using Lara Croft, Spongebob Squarepants, The Sims, characters from ...
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September 29, 2004
Michael King has a piece over on his site Ramblings' Journal entitled "Help get rid of "F DUBYA" license plate". He's calling for people to write into the DMV headquarters here in Sacramento to have the plate yanked. It is ...
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September 26, 2004
Now the conservatives out there are going to think I'm off my rocker, but Bill Maher in his latest show, Real Time with Bill Maher, ended with a commentary that suggested such. I can't find a transcript of the show ...
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September 18, 2004
I love public television. I've watched PBS since I was a little boy watching shows like Sesame Street, The Electric Company and 3-2-1 Contact and I still love the shows like Nova. I watch Now With Bill Moyers almost weekly, ...
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September 06, 2004
With all the negative articles and stories on the war in Iraq, Afghanistan and military actions elsewhere it's always good to take a look at history as a measurement of how things are portrayed. Jessica's Well does just that with ...
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Michael Hiteshew at Whine and Jeez has an excellent post on the moral and military aspects of killing civilians during war. The only qualm I have with this well put together article is in the following excerpt: So we, the ...
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Posted by Digger at 06:27 PM
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The prosecuting attorney stood and walked forward. "So, Mr. Smith why don't you recount the episode that has brought us all here today." Jack cleared his throat and leaned forward, "Me and my friends went to Clancy's Place after work ...
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August 12, 2004
There has been a lot of banter going around recently about the elimination of the IRS in favor of a national Valued-Added Tax (VAT) or a National Sales Tax (NST). Dennis Hastert, the current house speaker and an Illinois Republican, ...
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August 11, 2004
After all the hyping of Amber Frey on the news and in the papers as the "star witness for the prosecution" lets take a quick look at her "relationship" with Scott Peterson from a realistic point of view. 1) They ...
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August 05, 2004
An Eminem "Fan" over in England has been banned from owning a radio, tv or stereo and from causing harassment, alarm or distress in England and Wales for two years for being a total asshole and blasting her music so ...
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August 03, 2004
Between Scott Peterson and the Mark Hacking case I figure if there's one more wife murdered "allegedly" by her husband that all of a networks primetime news coverage would be complete. It seems like most of the news networks seem ...
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July 21, 2004
I make my case for legalizing prostitution over at the Jolt message board. There's one moralistic woman on there called "Sheilanagig" who decries the way the women are treated, she has this incoherent train of thought: Prostitution is a sordid ...
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June 28, 2004
I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 and wasn't really that impressed. I actually liked Bowling for Columbine. Of course his political views don't match mine, but Bowling for Columbine was well done and did present a point of view that at least ...
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May 22, 2004
Ahh time alone, how I cherish thee. The family ran off to Reno for the night and have given me the gift of peace, something only a man can truly appreciate. No bickering females in this household today. I grew ...
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April 27, 2004
I figure it's just easier to cut and paste some of my rantings rather than try to recreate them. so here they are below. Digger:When are we going to crush these damn Fallujah asses? "We will not negotiate with terrorists"..my ...
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April 11, 2004
I'd just like to thank you SUV drivers for driving the price of gas up. I'm no environmentalist or green peace foolio, but now we are paying for your ego. I could care less what the hell you drive, but ...
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April 03, 2004
Audrey Seiler faked her kidnapping. That's about it. The media reported after she disappeared how sweet of a girl she was, how she had a 4.0 grade point average and was an outstanding person. Now it's shown that it was ...
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May 12, 2003
So is Saudi Arabia a friend or just misleading us? If I go by the commercials they ran after September 11th they are a friend. I never trust commercials really and a commercial from a country that is not advertising ...
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