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Isn't it great?
Isn't it great living in the paradise that Barack Hussein Obama has created for all of us?
The economy is booming, everyone who wants a job has one, and most of those trained for good jobs have good jobs. Employees are in such demand that all the teens and college students who wanted summer employment are working!
Manufacturing is making a comeback ( Read more... ) -
142nd Belmont Stakes
Belmont Stakes day came up sunny and hot. It was also windy, reportedly drying out the track and leaving it deeper than usual. I’m dubious about that claim, based upon the winning times:
6th race Woody Stephens Stakes-Gr 2 7 furlong track record: 1:20.17 Left Bank 2002
22.28 44.82 1:09.53 final time 1:22.64 D’Funnybone
8th race ( Read more... ) -
Living with a Variable Star
As Washington digs out from the 24" snowfall of the past weekend, it is amusing to re-visit past Warmist pronouncements waxing nostalgic for the good old days. O, foolish people, destroying the fair earth, as the Wise Warmists stand and shake their heads in sorrow for All That Has Been Forever Lost!
"In Virginia, the weather also has changed ( Read more... ) -
More on Kwanzaa
‘Twas the night before Kwanzaa And all through the ‘hood,
Maulana Karenga was up to no good.
He’d tortured a woman and spent time in jail.
He needed a new scam that just wouldn’t fail.
(”So what if I stuck some chick’s toe in a vice?
Nobody said revolution was nice!”)
The Sixties were over. Now what would he do?
Why, he went back to school - so ( Read more... ) -
Kwanzaa
How wonderful. It's Kwanzaa time again, Kwanzaa, that wonderful, wholly made-up hokey holiday with faux Hannukhiah and Swahili language elements. [Using Swahili language in rituals supposedly resonant with people of West African origin is a little like doing a Christmas pageant in Thai or Tibetan.]
Kwanzaa's origins, be they ever so hokey, never ( Read more... ) -
Belated Thanksgiving Thoughts
I am thankful for the survival of Kitty Pyewackett. Last year at this time, the best veterinary help I could get him to said that he had weeks or months to live ( Read more... ) -
tears
"Juan Guillermo Velez couldn't sleep nights during the months his daughter Francheska was in Iraq disarming bombs.
But the baby of the family had just gotten back to the United States and would be home in Chicago in a few weeks. Finally, he thought, he could relax.
Then Velez got the call last night: His daughter was dead, one of 13 people ( Read more... ) -
Princess Pelosi
This woman should not be trusted with scissors lacking rounded ends.
CNSNews.com) - When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance--a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill--Pelosi dismissed the ( Read more... ) -
Smiling faces
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."
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