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Harry Truman was a stubborn-as-a-Missouri-mule, life long Democrat. Can you imagine the all out apoplectic sh*t fit the Lefties of today would have if a POTUS invoked the name of Jesus Christ and extended a Christmas blessing "filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit" during a Presidential address??! What a pathetic shadow of our former selves we've become.

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Ave Maria by Franz Schubert. Sung by Andrea Bocelli. I'm just a hard oak Baptist, but even I can appreciate that the Catholics got a few things wonderfully correct. Merry Christmas.

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(This is a re-post from 2009) "Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh." - Matthew 2:11 "We three kings of Orient are, bearing gifts; we've traveled so far..." Yup. That's the way the song goes, but how do we know there were exactly three kings? Or were they even kings? Scripture never mentions their names or country of origin, but

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No, I'm not much of a Gingrich fan. He's too much of a loose cannon, in a self-absorbed, populist sort of way. But he does make for good copy, now and again: "As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given The Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, because America gave him the White House based on the same credentials." - Newt GingrichZING! TY 24thS

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As in campaigning with your tax dollars.

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 Yes, that Gene Simmons of 'KISS' rock n roll fame: "When I was growing up my mother went to work. There was no welfare. If you worked, you made money. If you didn’t work, you had to figure it out — you’d go and wash dishes. The new breed of 20-year-olds don’t want to do those jobs. So people from other countries come over and are thrilled to get the chance to wipe the floors. Kiss are the only

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From Hope n Change Cartoons: "Currently, we see our city streets and city parks littered with inarticulate and over-privileged people who know nothing of the hardships of war, yet demand domestic war and class warfare - notions which are actually being fomented and encouraged by Barack Hussein Obama and the Left."Update:

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John Nolte over at Big Government is trying hard to keep up with the rampant criminality of these ugly OWS mobs. So far, he's documented 167 incidents of drug abuse, calls to violence, actual violence, virulent racism, prostitution, public intoxication, arson, sexual assault, vandalism, and riots. John Hawkins at Townhall writes, "The mainstream media spent Obama's entire first term falsely

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From The Daily Caller: Experts begin to doubt Obama’s re-electability "Gallup numbers show the president’s approval at 41 percent, and show him trailing an unnamed “generic Republican” by eight percentage points, National Journal’s Charlie Cook wrote on Oct. 28. “These numbers certainly don’t show Obama’s reelection fortunes as hopeless, but they paint a very challenging situation.” “Nobody’s

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by George Thorogood. Polemic or satire? Discuss.

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New. This Fall. On CBS. Just kidding. But that is a question John Hinderaker at PowerLine blog asked after reviewing a survey by New York magazine which asked 50 “occupiers” (I call 'em squatters) a series of questions about public issues. His conclusion? "To be blunt, people this dumb should be ashamed to show their faces in public, let alone try to tell the rest of us how to run the country."

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Morris Garage (MG) Automobiles. Fussy. Noisy. Unreliable. FUN. I owned a '58 MGA. I always wanted a Triumph TR-6, but hey, youse buys whats you can affords. It was the first car I bought all by myself. Saved up, paid cash. And for a freckle-faced, geeky teen with handful of tools and too much time on his hands in mid-west America, on the open road, top down, I thought my MGA could fly. That

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According to the U.S. Treasury, the 2011 federal deficit clocked in at a red ink scary $1.299 trillion. But don't worry, citizens. That gnashing and wailing you hear is only your great-grand kids being sold into indentured servitude with the Chi-Coms. "The nation only ran a larger deficit for the 2009 fiscal year, which included the dramatic collapse of financial markets and a huge bailout

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It's inventor, Charles Roberts, built the vehicle in Chicago in 1896. The two shown here are the few still road worthy examples of the machine. "Driven by a tiller instead of a wheel, the Roberts car was built seven years before the Wright brothers’ first flight, 12 years before the Ford Model T, 16 years before Chevrolet...." Welcome to the future. One hundred and fifteen years later, and

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TY MF

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Read the serious full analysis (seriously) at Hope n Change Cartoons, where Mr. Jarlsberg points out that these "Occupy Wall Street" mobs are predominately "affluent, overwhelmingly white, unbelievably self-absorbed kids." This description, of course, means that MSNBC, CNN, NY Times, WaPO and NPR will demonize these people as racists, any day now. Any day. Soon. Right after the crickets

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"Idleness, selfishness, fecklessness, envy and irresponsibility are the vices upon which Socialism in any form flourishes and which it in turn encourages. But Socialism's devilishly clever tactic is to play up to all those human failings, while making those who practise them feel good about it." - Margaret Thatcher

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(This is a re-post which I thought appropriate during the current political debate season.) Years ago, when there were afternoon movie matinees, only three 'alphabet' networks, and AM radio was king, comic books were tailor made for a kid's imagination - and a parent's disdain. (An industrious parent's hope was their child's pursuits would lean more towards Beethoven, Carver, Emerson, Einstein,

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Or vermin.Take your pick. Hope n Change Cartoons has more...

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"Shop classes are all but a memory in most schools—a result of liability fears, budget cuts and an obsession with academics. Still, even in vocational high schools where shop classes endure, a skills decline is evident. One auto shop teacher says he’s teaching his Grade 12 students what, 10 years ago, he taught Grade Nines. “We would take apart a transmission, now I teach what it is.” Remarkably

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With Ray Conniff and his Orchestra. From the 1963 stereo release, Johnny's Greatest Hits. Song reached #14, Billboard Hot 100 1957.

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In 2009, Newsweek published the cover on the left with an accompanying featured article, trumpeting "In many ways our economy already resembles a European one. As boomers age and spending grows, we will become even more French." Much of that argument was a fair analysis of how we got where we were, and how under the (then) new Obama administration, we would continue to accelerate in a massively

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(you, too, Mac users!) TY Q & O Hmm. What If the World Had Malware / Anti-Virus Protection...?

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"When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you...you may know that your society is doomed. " - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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tobyMac- Lose My Soul And, yes, I judge this holy hip-hop to be edifying and vastly superior to some degenerate rap crap grunting about n*ggas & b*tches.

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‘Government Sold Separately,’ Sales Listing Says. But, wait. There's more! Contentious Debt Ceiling Debate has Obama Starting to Wonder Why He Moved to U.S. President Nostalgic for Land of Birth, Fox News Says. I'm pretty certain both are satire, but stranger things have happened. (;-p TY MF

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Daddy, where does money come from? "If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative."

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TY HnCC

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Can we impeach him yet, or do we have to wait until everything is a flaming wreck?

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Or something like it. That's how Bob Priddy over at MissouriNet characterizes the Missouri Democratic Party's latest assessment of Gov. Jay Nixon's chances for re-election. Apparently, someone at the MDC found an article in GOVERNING Magazine to be noteworthy. Says Bob, "So the senior spokesman for the Missouri Democratic Committee is circulating an article suggesting it “sometimes seems as if

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Much has already been written, so here's my 2 cents: “When your enemy is destroying himself, never interfere.” - Sun Tzu The eloquent visionary who once claimed to slow the ocean’s rise and heal the planet is now a feckless & reckless functionary who cannot tame 500 plus congress critters. In short, Good King Barack has become irrelevant to the process. Even Congressional Democrats are

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The Beatles - Revolution

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Goldfinger by the sensational Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey. I would dedicate this to Pres. Obama, but since Goldfinger "loves only gold" and Obama "loves only quantitatively eased, record national debt and other people's confiscated wealth", it doesn't lend itself to memorable lyrics.

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Michele Bachmann Makes a Gaffe!!! Because only she could do something this dumb.

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Mercifully, after tens years of finger wagging, "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" aired its final episode last Sunday. I've seen a few episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent over the years, but could never put my finger on why this formulaic, thought police soap opera always made me throw up a little in my mouth. That is, until S.T. Karnick over at Big Hollywood summarized it so succinctly.

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Or is it "Bolshevik-ation Obamanation? All, of course, with complicit gub'mint schools.

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(Washington DC, March 4, 1801) "Almighty God, Who has given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Bless our land with honorable ministry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion, from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way. Defend our

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Alternative headline: "They told me if I voted for John McCain, Big Brother would be snooping more and more — and they were right!" (shamelessly stolen from Ed Morrissey channeling Glenn Reynolds) "The top three states with approved wiretap applications were California, New York and New Jersey."Traditionally, the bluest of blue states. Hopey-changey, boys n girls. Boooshitler has left the

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Demanding that the U.S. Congress get "our fiscal house in order." Alternative headline: Pres. Obama a Revisionist Hypocrite of the Worst Sort. Update:  Looky here. It's Day 800 Since Senate Dems Passed a Budget. Because, you know,  funding and managing a multi-trillion dollar organization which holds sway over world economies and armies should always be done by throwing darts blindfolded.

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Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk '68 (obviously, a couple o' furreigners us bitter clingers don't like) This was originally released on their 1959 debut album on Canadian-American Records, and has been covered by many others artists over the decades. Must be a classic.

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DS at the DM puts a fine point on it: "We spent $787 billion for this. Had we done nothing — and this is from President Obama, not me — the unemployment rate would be a full point below what it is now. Now he can say he was handed a bad hand of cards, but he played them even worse. And it gets worse..."Unless you're employed by Obama: The White House will pay $37,121,463 in salaries for 454

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(this is a re-post from March, 2010) Philosophy matters: Political; Religious; Economic. And a fish rots from the head down. Let's review: In a 2001 radio interview, Barack Obama stated that the government should provide "political and economic justice in this society," and the U.S. Constitution "reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day." Tea Partiers

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(this is a re-post from January, 2011) Fortunately, not all of them murder people. Although some do advocate murder...  and some simply tinkle on their own leg - then advocate murder, all the while cashing pay checks from their employer, whose parent company got bailed out by the Feds to the tune of 126 billion dollars. But they don't contribute to a climate of hate. See how this works? Don

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From KM at HA: "The majority of the nation doesn’t know that investigators have turned up a hatched-scheme in which Union bosses coordinated efforts with public education officials. Further that 44 of 56 school districts in the Atlanta Public Schools system strategically convinced Superintendents, Principals and teachers to cheat–primarily by going back and erasing answers on tests and replacing

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(this is a re-post from April, 2009) Bleeding Kansas: Late term abortions. A $650 million 2010 budget deficit. Those aren't the only mismanaged legacies Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius(D) will leave behind for D.C.'s greener political pandering pastures. Kansas Legislator Tim Huelskamp says her almost assured Senate confirmation as Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services next week is a

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Alternative headline: Another Darwin Award Candidate a Victim of Brutal Irony They ain't called 'donor' cycles fer nuthin'. Condolences to family and friends.

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"On the Fourth of July Americans will cynically celebrate the greatest setback world progress has ever endured in all of human history. The rest of humankind will, of course, be grieving over the dark day when the United States of America was born. To understand the full scope of this tragedy we must look back at the pre-7/04 world and see what it was like to live on planet Earth before 1776."

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From Wikipedia: "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is a hymn by American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song "John Brown's Body". Howe's more famous lyrics were written in November 1861 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. It became popular during the American Civil War. Since that time it has become an extremely popular and well-known American patriotic

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From Wikipedia: "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as "America", is an American patriotic song, whose lyrics were written by Samuel Francis Smith (in 1831). The melody is that of the United Kingdom's national anthem, "God Save the Queen", although Smith encountered it by way of a German adaptation. The song served as a de facto national anthem of the United States before the adoption of "The

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From Wikipedia: "God Bless America" is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin in 1918 and revised by him in 1938, as sung by Kate Smith (becoming her signature song)." Traditional lyrics While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free, Let us all be grateful for a land so fair, As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer. God bless

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This time from the UAW, which didn't seem to mind huge gub'mint handouts in exchange for Obama campaign contributions, yet is unhappy about bank bailouts. Or something. (this is a re-post from March, 2011.) From The Blaze: "Last week you saw SEIU protesters take over a bank in Stroudsburg, PA when they stormed a lobby in an effort to call out a CEO. Then you learned that a former (maybe) SEIU

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Miami 2017 - Billy Joel I'm not much for polls (except the only one that truly counts, on election day), but I found this to be particularly disturbing: 4 in 10 Americans say they think the economy is in permanent decline. "At the same time, fewer Americans see the economy as having the potential to eventually recover, with 57 percent of those surveyed saying they think things will, in time,

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And that means it's time for another edition of Nanny of the Month (June 2011). But our incompetent, finger wagging AG Eric Holder will defend these kids 'right' to access pr0n at the public library.

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(this is a re-post from April, 2010) FDA Calls for Salt Cutbacks "The Food and Drug Administration, saying Americans consume too much sodium, will seek voluntary reductions by the food industry. An Institute of Medicine report calls for more expeditious action."Voluntary reductions. Got it? So it's all good. Because this administration is completely trustworthy. "We can't drive our SUVs and eat

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From MissouriNet: "Water Patrol spokesman Lieutenent Jerry Callahan says froggers are going to be around and on the water after dark, looking for their game. And he says while smaller ponds, lakes, rivers and streams are unaffected by flooding, larger rivers and bodies of water can be dangerous. Frog season runs tonight through October 31st. Authorities say shooting bullfrogs and green frogs is

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“We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.” - George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943) He started his life as a slave and ended it as horticulturist, chemist, inventor and educator.

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TY IOTW via TS

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Why? Because California wants to tax those internet sales. And Amazon doesn't want to absorb the onerous regulatory costs of collecting taxes for California. Alternative headline: Greedy Liberal Fascists Accelerate California's Rapid Downward Spiral into a Third World Toilet. Or reason number 248 Kalifornia needs to slide off into the Pacific. From the OC Register: "Gov. Jerry Brown has signed

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by David Barton; An excerpt: "John Adams believed that the Fourth of July should become a religious holiday – a day when we remembered God's hand in deliverance and a day of religious activities when we committed ourselves to Him in “solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.” Such was the spirit of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of those who led it, evidenced even further in the

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by the "March King," John Philip Sousa.

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(this is a re-post from April 2010) Police departments across the country have deemed TEA party gatherings peaceful and quiet, while the Leftists are frequently violent. Still, most of our indolent MSM ignore the facts and play to the narrative, all to the detriment of their ratings. So, since FOX news appears to be the only one doing compare and contrast, all to the benefit of their ratings,

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Blogger is being a butt. I'll try again later. GRRRRRRR

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Alternative headline: After 4 Years of College, I learnt that Gub'mint is the Answer, but Only Because I'm Asking Dumb Questions. Nope. It's not a parody. It's a very embarrassing video produced by the College Democrats of America. This vid was savaged so badly on YouTube it was taken down. (But your diligent no talent hack has one of the few functioning videos in the intertubes) ACE has

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2012 Troop Pullback Worries Military Experts: "Mr. O’Hanlon and General Barno said it was hard to fathom the military logic of setting a withdrawal deadline for the surge right in the middle of the fighting season. “This is a rushed ending to what has been a fairly effective surge,” Mr. O’Hanlon said. Even after the withdrawal of the surge forces — an initial 30,000 plus 3,000 other support

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Psalm 119:44-46 44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever. 45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. 46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

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Now, there's a headline you don't see everyday. "It was the body of a baby fawn. Northwestern Energy and Bridges determined the bald eagle dropped its breakfast on its way back to the nest." (VIDEO) TY DU

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"A new book by Matt Taylor, published on the 36th anniversary of the release of Jaws, shares hundreds of rare photographs taken by participants and bystanders on Martha's Vineyard."TIME Magazine has a slide show of some photos from Taylor's new book. But what I really wanna know is when does "JAWS: the Bin Laden Snack" hit the theaters?

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I was going to say something smarmy like "isn't this the worst in political theatre to pass a symbolic no-brainer declaring that marriage should be joyful and jubilant?", but I decided against it. So, I'll simply leave ya'll with the alternative headline: NY Senate Approves 50% Divorce rate for Homosexuals.

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Alternative headline: This Might Explain Why Homeless Guy is Homeless in the First Place.

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(this is a re-post from Feb. 2010) Guerrilla Art Spotted in Eastern Jackson County Missouri. Oh noes! The left-hand text box reads, "I don't want the world"; while the right-hand text box rejoinder reads, "I just want your half." The woman appears to be holding a handgun. I saw this on my travels, a couple of miles from my house. While not as ubiquitous as the infamous 'obama joker poster'

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(This is a re-post from Oct. 2010, with update) Updated update: NPR's CEO Vivian Schiller resigned in March of this year after the insulting 'Williams' episode (detailed below) proved her to be a hyper-partisan bigot heading up an ostensibly 'unbiased' news network partially subsidized by tax payer dollars. That kerfuffle was quickly followed by the release of an under cover video in which

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Elton John - Holiday Inn

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Years ago, when there were afternoon movie matinees, only three 'alphabet' networks, and AM radio was king, comic books were tailor made for a kid's imagination - and a parent's disdain. (An industrious parent's hope was their child's pursuits would lean more towards Beethoven, Carver, Emerson, Einstein, Salk, or von Braun.) Nowadays, hollyweird mints millionaires out of the comic book genre.

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Economic Smackdown: Paul Ryan vs. Barack Obama

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Dave says, "Can't understand that at all. It was going so well."

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This is back from when MTV pioneered the music video format, and tried to entertain its audience with more than wretched reality shows where the participants scream cuss words at each other. This video is slightly nsfw because there's the gratuitous topless shot of the leading lady, which is censored, but it's there, none the less. (Hey, these guys are Dutch, so whaddaya expect?) Oh. And faux

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It's amazing how things change when you run out of other people's money.

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Apparently, pornographer Flint is quite serious. "This offer is not made in jest. To show our sincerity, Flynt Management Group, LLC is willing to pay twenty percent more than your former Congressional salary, ensuring that your medical benefits would be equal to what you were previously receiving. While you will have to relocate to our corporate offices in Beverly Hills, California, we would pay

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Lawmakers mock Obama claim on Libya hostilities. From a perplexed AP: "In an escalating constitutional fight, House Speaker John Boehner threatened to withhold money for the mission, pitting a Congress eager to exercise its power of the purse against a dug-in White House. The Ohio Republican signaled that the House could take action as early as next week. "The accumulated consequence of all

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Apparently, she also moonlights writing republican campaign ads. From Russ Vaughn @ AT: "Did she really hand Republicans all across the country the hammer with which to pound home the message that the Democratic Party , "Owns the economy?" Apparently she did. That a Google news search doesn't turn up any coverage of her claim on the so-called major networks or in the mainstream press tells you

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... caused by ObamaCare. "In other words, Obamacare is having the exact opposite impact on health insurance markets from what supporters told us it would, and the Obama administration is trying to cover it up. For now, anyway."Just remember, if gub'mint is the answer, it probably was a stupid question.

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The erudite and always entertaining Walter E. Williams is at the podium. Give an ear, citizens, and be enlightened. "Aside from the moral question is the economic efficiency question. If the user of something isn't paying, it's a good chance that he'll overuse and waste it. Our country's problem is that too many Americans want to benefit from things for which they expect other Americans to be

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But you probably knew that already. Fuel cost and crop shortages contribute to higher food prices. And, if you concentrate on more than just what's on your I Pod or what spews out of Schultz's mouth, you probably knew that already, too. Want change? Build more refineries!

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Yes, that Conan. AP @ HA declares it "The greatest commencement speech ever?" Maybe. Maybe not. Neal Boortz's Faux Commencement Speech runs a close second, imho.

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And now for something completely different. The only thing more cool would've been if the factory itself was made out of Legos. Hey. I'm a great big kid. What can I say? TY DU

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Alternative headline: Men and women are different. Viva La Difference! From the Daily Mail: "Other research backs up this idea that women make less serotonin than men. Scientists at the University of Montreal found that men’s brains, on average, make 52 per cent more than women. The reason may be tied to differences in male and female sex hormones. While the findings about women producing less

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 From Sister Toldjah: "Probably one of the biggest shams perpetrated by this President is the lie that he is not beholden to big donors, lobbyists, and other special interests, as I have documented numerous times – both when he was a candidate and since he was elected..."She's got the goods. Check her out.

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This is a re-post from February, just as a reminder.  “It’s Time Washington Acted as Responsibly as Our Families Do:” "Families across this country understand what it takes to manage a  budget.  They understand what it takes to make ends meet without  forgoing important investments like education.  Well, it’s time  Washington acted as responsibly as our families do.  And on Monday, I’m 

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 From ABC News’ John R. Parkinson @Political Punch: "The lawsuit challenges what the lawmakers see as “the executive branch’s circumvention of Congress and its use of international organizations such as the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to authorize the use of military force abroad, in violation of the Constitution.” “With regard to the war in Libya, we believe

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"According to the latest Internal Revenue Service report, the number of Americans renouncing their U.S. citizenship (or terminating their long-term permanent residency) has increased nearly ninefold since 2008."Robert Frank @ the Wealth Report asks "Are Taxes Causing the Rich to Renounce Their Citizenship?" “There is growing concern, particularly among the wealthy, about the future financial

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Listen live, each and every Thursday evening, 6-9 PM on 980 KMBZ AM or 98.1 KMBZ. FM. And they're a good looking bunch, too.

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Oh YAS! Which is, of course, a stern rebuke of some back-water county Judge Sumi's mess. How about a stroll down neo-bolshevik memory lane?

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 From Jay Ambrose @ RCP: "Businesses love all that, varied researchers tell us. A number point out that, in 2008, Texas accounted for fully 70 percent of all new jobs created in America, and if you think that's great, which it is, don't suppose this was a one-shot deal. Businesses are reported to rate Texas the single best state in which to operate. Give them a chance and many will pull up

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Minnesota is struggling with a five billion dollar deficit this year. From Labor Union Report dot Com: "Minnesota’s Democrat Governor Mark Dayton wants to balance budget by raising taxes instead of cutting the size of state government to fit its revenues. The Republican legislature disagrees with that strategy. As a result, Minnesota’s state government will shut down on July 1st." (VIDEO)

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From the WSJ: "Using Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, Dallas Fed economists looked at state-by-state employment changes since June 2009, when the recession ended. Texas added 265,300 net jobs, out of the 722,200 nationwide, and by far outpaced every other state. New York was second with 98,200, Pennsylvania added 93,000, and it falls off from there. Nine states created fewer than 10,000

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From the Watertown Daily Times: "A man who goes by the name of Ned Nefer, 38, is traveling from Syracuse to Watertown by foot. He is pushing Teagan, a 6-foot mannequin that Mr. Nefer claims is his wife. Mr. Nefer said he was born in Syracuse and in the 1980s spent some time at the Children's Home of Jefferson County in Watertown, where he said he met Teagan when she was just a head. He said he

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"Our government is printing money like crazy, then pouring it down a hole." I watch this last night on FOX. John Stossel is always very informative and entertaining. If you have 40 minutes, this is well worth the time. Your tax dollar at waste. Just don't take your anger out on your monitor.

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