Archive for January, 2009
Next Entries »I Got Invited to the 2009 Empire State Building Run-up, Yippie!
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Well I got invited to the 2009 Empire State Building Run-up! This 86-flight stair race is the unofficial world championship of competitive stairclimbing, and athletes can only compete if invited. The top stair racers from all over the world fly to New York to compete, creating quite a spectacle among them. This will be my fourth [...]
Will Congressional Democrats Impose Their Will on Obama?
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Obama enters the Presidency as a relatively new player on the block, who quickly and deftly rose to the top of the heap. However, has he yet achieved the respect of those he jumped over to get there? I am not so sure . . .
Technorati Tags: cabinet, clinton, congress, democrats, feinstein, hillary, obama, pelosi, reid
The Same Democrats Who Protected Fannie and Freddie are Now in Control
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According to former George W. Bush advisor Karl Rove, Democrats resisted reforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac until it was too late. See President Bush Tried to Rein In Fan and Fred (Wall Street Journal, 1/8/09). See also Michael Barone’s Democrats Were Wrong on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (U.S. News & World Report, 10/06/08). Obviously Rove [...]
U.N. Aids and Abets Palestinian and Hezbollah Terrorists
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Yesterday, Israel bombed a U.N.-run school in Gaza killing over 40 Palestinian civilians. This is a serious tragedy. However, the real fault lies at the hands of the U.N. and Hamas, not Israel. According to Israel, it was responding to rocket fire from these U.N. buildings, and Hamas was stockpiling weapons in them (and of [...]
Barack Bill Clinton Obama
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Obama is in love with anybody connected to Bill Clinton’s tenure. The list just keeps on piling up daily (parenthesis = role under Bill Clinton):
Secretary of State – Hillary Clinton (enough said!)
Secretary of the Treasury – Timothy Geithner (Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs, working under Treasury Secretaries Rubin and Summers)
Secretary of Commerce [...]
“Pay for Play” — Prostitution Government Style (and Obama is in the Thick of It!)
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Yesterday, Governor Bill Richardson withdrew his nomination to be Obama’s Commerce Secretary in light of a “pay for play” grand jury investigation. Though not surprised, I find it appalling that any company or individual (“donor”) may donate money to a politician when that donor has (or is trying to obtain) a business / contractual [...]
Proportionate Response
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Is this what the “Peacemakers” mean when they demand no more than a proportionate reponse?
Technorati Tags: bok, gaza, hamas, israel, proportionate response, rockets
Hamas Rockets “Nagging” Israel
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In a travesty of an article, Palestinian propagandist Daoud Kuttab believes that Hamas’ lethal rocket attacks are merely “nagging” Israel and are nothing more than an amateur “nuisance” (see, if you can stomach the nonsense of it, ”Has Israel Revived Hamas?, Washington Post 12/30/08). Kuttab somehow finds Israeli school children and civilians running to bomb shelters [...]
The End of Black Politics?
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The Illinois Governor Blagojevich appointment of Roland Burris to Obama’s Senate seat reminded me of an article I read in August (see below). I do not want to comment on Blagojevich’s motives behind this appointment, except to guess that he is trying to reassert his role as Illinois Governor and find allies in the Illinois African-American [...]
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