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Posts Tagged ‘politics’

State of the Union

Unemployment December 1999  4% December 2009  10% Source – US Bureau of Labor Statistics Gas prices (per gallon\US) January 2004     $ 1.39/gall. January 2010      $2.52/gall. Source – Gas Buddy.com Median Home prices are falling,  foreclosures are rising,  insurance rates are going up (while coverage is declining),  grocery prices are rising, livestock feed prices are going [...]

Fix Bayonets

November 4, 2008

VOTE!!! or you won’t be allowed to bitch for four years. Don’t say you weren’t warned…

Cheat, Lie and Steal…

They must be dimicrats…. The Fairfax County Registrar (and possibly other Registrars in Virginia) is rejecting most Federal Write-in Absentee Ballots (FWAB) cast by our men and women in uniform.  Is it a coincidence that all of the people involved in this high handed attempt to suppress the vote of our military men and women [...]

We can’t do better than this?…

The population of the United States is over 300,000,000 and we can’t do better than this for our presidential election? Clinton – I’m sorry, if you’re going to tell a lie in public, at least make sure no one can check your facts. If you follow that lie, with another whopper, maybe you need a [...]

If you stick your head in the sand…

Someone will kick your ass. Ignore the problem long enough and it will go away (NOT). So why do the people in charge of the country think that they can print money, spend money, raise taxes, bankroll irresponsible companies, and everything will be FINE, JUST FINE. We seem to be fixing a gaping wound with [...]