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Feature Not Bug

Posted on February 15, 2010 | Leave a comment

A long time ago [longer than I like] I turned 10.  My folks performed the usual; presents, cake and a party.  My friends came over, maybe spent the night, fun was had and Normal America ruled the day.  But there was something else that occurred on that birthday.  See, when I turned 10 that year, I was given something that I am still enjoying today; a job!

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Posted in Politics: National, Raising Men, States Behaving Badly, Welfare

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Elections Have Implications

Posted on February 13, 2010 | Leave a comment

When a candidate runs his campaign on the promise of no home work on Fridays, and wins, you can assume that the folks feel we shouldn’t have home work on Fridays.  When another candidate runs on a suite of issues all rolled into one common theme and she wins…you can say that the folks are pretty interested in that one common philosophy.  And finally, when one party is elected into office because of a wave of support from the folks…you can claim that the folks want that party to change things up.

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Common Sense Approach

Posted on February 11, 2010 | Leave a comment

When you tune out the noise from the right and left, often what you find is a relatively common sense approach to just about everything.

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Red or Blue

Posted on February 8, 2010 | Leave a comment

I am pretty much disgusted with all politics.  And all people in ’em.  Perhaps most especially vile are the Parties.  It seems that in order to satisfy the party, each candidate has to run for the edges, the FAR edges.  They have to do this to get the support, connections and money from the apparatus.  In short, people are rather forced to do and say things they might not otherwise.

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More Senate Races

Posted on February 7, 2010 | 1 comment

I have already introduced the races where there is a Democrat retiring.  This morning I’ll introduce the retiring Republican seats.

There are 5, 1 more than retiring Democrats.  [Technically they count the MA Senate race as a retirement, but since it has already been run and won, I won’t be counting that here].

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Where Do We Go From Here

Posted on February 6, 2010 | Leave a comment

This weekend is the first Tea Party Convention.  So far, two things are clear:

1.  A LOT of people are upset with how this government is being run.

2.  The Tea Party has ZERO organization.

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Senate Races

Posted on February 6, 2010 | 1 comment

It is going to be an interesting election cycle culminating with the mid term elections in November.  Following up on my new found interest in politics that began with the dual primary race for the 08 Presidential election, I am going to watch these Senate races with interest.

An introduction:

Right now there are 36 seats in play.  This includes incumbents and Senators who are retiring.

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After Realizing the Government isn't Going to Help, Haiti Rebuilds

Posted on January 31, 2010 | Leave a comment

Did the Federal government respond poorly to Katrina?  I think so, on some levels.  I don’t blame the Feds for the fact that people were stuck in New Orleans; that was the city’s fault.  And I don’t blame the Feds for failing to act in the first day or two; that’s the State’s role.  But when those folks were in that stadium for that long, ya gotta get ’em out.  Somehow.

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Posted in Politics: National, Politics: North Carolina

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The Scorpion and the Frog

Posted on January 29, 2010 | Leave a comment

One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.  The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn’t see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.  Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.

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Posted in Economics, Politics: National, States Behaving Badly

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When They Say They, They Are Really They

Posted on January 20, 2010 | Leave a comment

Reaction from the news outlets has kept me awake all night.

In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to win the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy for nearly half a century, leaving President Obama’s health care overhaul in doubt and marring the end of his first year in office.

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The loss by the once-favored Democrat Martha Coakley in the Democratic stronghold was a stunning embarrassment for the White House after Obama rushed to Boston on Sunday to try to save the foundering candidate. Her defeat signaled big political problems for the president’s party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide.

This is huge.  No doubt about it, this is huge.

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Posted in Health Care, Politics: National

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