By JamesW on Aug 2, 2009 in Blog, Rants & Raves | 0 Comments
It’s difficult to understand why the word “socialized medicine” strikes such fear in Americans. It’s almost a visceral response, negating what most of us know and have heard about other successful plans in other countries that most folks here would brand “socialist”.
Let’s take Canada for instance. If we look at the numbers, we see that [...]
By MaxW on Aug 1, 2009 in Auto, Environment, Featured, Rants & Raves, The Mud Pit | 10 Comments
Thousands of Americans are rushing out and trading in their old cars to receive a $3500 or $4500 discount towards the purchase of select new cars. This may sound great at first but there are many hidden facts the majority of the population may not be aware of.
The program is designed to get old cars up [...]
By JamesW on Oct 21, 2008 in Blog, Environment, The Mud Pit | 1 Comment
In a recent commentary on CNN, by Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, he suggests that we need to support people like “Joe the Plumber”, and provide the climate in which such entrepreneurial ventures can grow and prosper. Although he doesn’t say so directly in his commentary, I suppose this is [...]
By JamesW on Oct 19, 2008 in Blog, The Mud Pit | 0 Comments
If you want to scare the H__ out of everyone this Holloween, dress up like “A Socialist”! For some reason, this seems to terrorize Americans like few words do. McCain is now using this as his new “scare” tactic, accusing Obama of “socialism”.
I have two words for McCain: “Who Cares!!”? A number [...]
By JamesW on Oct 18, 2008 in Blog, The Mud Pit | 0 Comments
Sometimes I think our political leaders read too much Ian Fleming, or worse, indulge in the faint-within-faint-within-faint political tactics implicit in the whole “Dune” series. If the recent insinuated allegation recently filed by the Obama Campaign is true, then we have nothing short of a full fledged conspiracy to undermine the very fabric of [...]
By JamesW on Oct 17, 2008 in Blog, The Mud Pit | 4 Comments
It turns out “Joe the Plumber” (real name is Joe Wurzelbacher) isn’t really a plumber, and has no real plans to buy anyones business in the near future. In addition, he currently makes about $40,000 a year, and if he did manage to buy the business he has his eye one, he might, if [...]
By JamesW on Oct 16, 2008 in Blog, The Mud Pit | 0 Comments
Conrad, who appeared before the crowd before McCain had arrived, offered a prayer that seemed to urge divine intervention to prevent Barack Obama from winning the presidential election — and cast the outcome as a referendum on differing religions.
The Times’ Maeve Reston was at the event, and she passed along the key passage from Conrad’s [...]
By JamesW on Oct 13, 2008 in Featured, The Mud Pit | 1 Comment
Future generations (if schools still exist), might be taught about the historic meeting on September 25th, 2008, when President Bush was heard to utter “If money doesn’t loosen up, this sucker could go down.”
It was supposed to be not much more than a photo-opportunity, a demonstration of national unity in the face of economic [...]
By JamesW on Aug 20, 2008 in The Mud Pit | 1 Comment
Jerome Corsi, who Swift-boated John Kerry as co-author of ‘Unfit to Command’ in 2004 and who is trying to do the same to Obama in his newly minted best seller, ‘The Obama Nation.’
About the same time his book came out (now a number one best seller), I received an email from a friend entitled “Not [...]
By JamesW on Aug 19, 2008 in Environment, The Mud Pit, World | 0 Comments
A recent article by CNN suggests that Big OIl is at it again, spending huge amounts of money to make sure their record breaking profits stay in tact. In what may be surprising to some, the most recent figures from the Center for Responsive Politics show that the oil industry gives a relatively small sum to [...]