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 Jun 13, 2009 in Blog, Featured, Rants & Raves | 1 Comment
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, [...]
By JamesW on Apr 22, 2009 in Rants & Raves, The Mud Pit | 0 Comments
Christian Conservative Right, would you like to get back in the game? Maybe win a few elections? Have some significant influence over frail humans? Then you need to change your mindset. The recent presidential election shows us that most Americans are tired of fear, intimidation, and most of all, anger. We don’t want it [...]
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 10, 2008 in The Mud Pit | 2 Comments
FROM THE LEE COUNTY, FLORIDA, WEBSITE:
When Mike Scott took charge of the Lee County Sheriff’s Office in 2005, he became just the 12th person to oversee the agency since 1887. Already, he has made his mark in the community – and the state.
“People could say running for sheriff took either courage, ignorance, or [...]
By JamesW on Oct 8, 2008 in The Mud Pit | 0 Comments
This from the LA TImes: Days after the Feds committed $85 billion of tax-payers’ money to a bailout of insurance giant AIG, senior execs from the troubled company headed to Southern California’s ultra swanky St.Regis Resort in Monarch Beach for a week of wining (or should it be “whining”) and dining. The company paid [...]
By JamesW on Sep 2, 2008 in The Mud Pit | 0 Comments
Which one would you get behind, one of the universe’s worst sociopaths ever, or a ‘blowhard doofus’? I think I know which one I’d pick.
The blog Politicker ME reports that at a Maine delegate breakfast at the Republican National Convention, Rove, the so-called “architect” of the Bush administration, called Biden a “big blowhard doofus.” Biden, [...]
By JamesW on Aug 29, 2008 in Environment, Featured, The Mud Pit | 4 Comments
Pesky Scientists Ruining Our Good Time – AGAIN
There are an estimated 20,000-25,000 polar bears in the Arctic, but scientists from the US Geological Survey predict that two thirds of the world’s bears will disappear in the next 50 years because of a decline in the Arctic sea ice.
In a stark warning last year, scientists at [...]
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 [...]