July 3, 2009 by admin.

News report: Shakira: I want babies

Jim: I want to help

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April 17, 2009 by admin.

It has been disclosed that CIA agents sought permission to tell an Al Qaeda operative that they were going to put him in a box with a stinging insect (but they really were going to use a caterpillar).  The plan was never put into effect.

It has also been disclosed that some people think government officials should be prosecuted for discussing this plan because they were committing “torture” by considering it.

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April 9, 2009 by admin.

It has been 200 years since pirates have had the gall to attack an American ship.  But that’s what Somali pirates have done.  Big mistake.

In this post-9/11 era, Americans don’t just sit and wait. They take action.  That’s exactly what the 20 crewmen of a cargo freighter did, repelling the pirates and evicting them from the ship.  Unfortunately, the ship’s captain was taken hostage.  He and the pirates are floating in a gas-empty raft attempting to negotiate.  The American crew had already given up one pirate prisoner in a failed exchange for the captain.  It is unlikely they can trust the pirates in any more bargaining.

Meanwhile, one American warship has reached the site, and more are following.  American warships carry sophisticated weapons and - good for us - video gear.  We will soon see why pirates should stay away for at least another 200 years.

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April 1, 2009 by admin.

. . . until they had to post bail!

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March 27, 2009 by admin.

19,400 baby seals were aborted in the first phase of the annual seal hunt, and the international community is up in arms about Canadians’ right to choose.

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March 24, 2009 by admin.

According to the Associated Press, President Obama has urged Congress to move quickly on a new energy policy to get away from oil.  Yes, we should rush into a new policy.  We should not ask tough questions.  We should not worry about where the money is going.  We should not avoid the mistakes we made with the rushed bank bailout plan.

Obama says “We can remain the world’s leading importer of foreign oil, or we can become the world’s leading exporter of renewable energy.” Explain this part to me: “world’s leading exporter of renewable energy.”  Does he seriously think we will make money sending wind and solar energy to parts of the world that don’t get air or sun?

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March 20, 2009 by admin.

The UK Daily Mail had a rather rude response to the gift President Obama gave to Prime Minister Gordon Brown when Brown visited the White House:

As he headed back home from Washington, Gordon Brown must have rummaged through his party bag with disappointment.

Because all he got was a set of DVDs. Barack Obama, the leader of the world’s richest country, gave the Prime Minister a box set of 25 classic American films - a gift about as exciting as a pair of socks.

Mr Brown is not thought to be a film buff, and his reaction to the box set is unknown. But it didn’t really compare to the thoughtful presents he had brought along with him.

The article went on to say that Brown had presented a first edition of a 7-volume set of a Churchill biography and a pen holder made from a historic British ship whose sister ship was the source of the White House desk.

But the truly fun part of Obama’s lopsided gag gift wasn’t known when the Daily Mail wrote its March 6 report:  When Brown put the DVDs into the player, he discovered that the disks were encoded to be played only in North America

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March 16, 2009 by admin.

The problem with CNBC and Jim Cramer isn’t that they failed to push Wall Street with intense questioning.  The problem was that Cramer - after supporting Candidate Obama - suddenly turned against him when the market crashed on Obama’s watch.

After all, the entire spectrum of the media always pulls out the usual advice during an economic downturn (you would be foolish to try and time the market; stocks always go up; look at the Dow over the decades).  The difference here is that the rest of the media remains loyal to Obama while Cramer  has broken ranks at a time when the media is hypersensitive to the possibility that its annointment of President Obama crossed the lines of fair reporting and impartiality.  That’s why the mainstream media and Hollywood are in hot pursuit of Rush Limbaugh, too - they don’t want anyone pointing out that their Emperor has no clothes.

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March 12, 2009 by admin.

Bernard Madoff will face up to 150 years in prison for pulling off the second-largest Ponzi scheme in modern history.

The perpetrators of the largest Ponzi scheme - the U.S. national debt - will face re-election.

Talk about inequality!

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March 10, 2009 by admin.

President Obama has pledged to undo many of President’s Bush’s policies and achievements.  Does this mean he will bring Saddam Hussein back?

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