POLL - Would you have OKed a shoot to kill order for bin Laden?
Straight up question:If that's what the order was in fact to do, Would you have approved of an order to shoot to kill bin Laden?
View ArticleSarah Palin buys AZ home that was purchased by 'Robosigned' title release
This is funny and indicates Sarah's not been following the foreclosure fraud too closely. Sarah's bought a foreclosed home in Arizona.From Zero Hedge:Where this story (the purchase of the home) takes...
View ArticleThe website I absolutely dread clicking on (Chapter II)
That's Climate Progress because you get stories like this:Study: Carbon release to atmosphere 10 times faster now than 56 million years ago, the PETM, a time of 10°F warming and mass extinctionThat's...
View ArticleEric Cantor shorting the U.S. Treasury market
Conflict of interest for Big Hair Eric? You bet! But it won't really be a bet for Cantor to kill the debt ceiling talks and let the U.S. Treasury default on its debt. Might as well make a nice tidy...
View ArticleThis Anniversary Should Be Noted - A Great American Novel Published 50 Years...
Catch 22 – was published in June of 1961 according to several sites on the internet. I just can’t let the month slip by without noting the 50th anniversary of this great book. Joseph Heller’s...
View ArticlePregnant women who lose babies face murder charges
In the Deep South right wing prosecutors are taking the war on women to even more extreme heights by charging some women with murder if they have miscarriages. Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but...
View ArticleDo you approve how Obama has handled raising the debt ceiling negotiations...
Polling Kosacks on this question. Just the straight up…….. ApproveDo Not ApproveNot Sure/Don’t KnowI’d appreciate it if you are in the not sure, don’t know category if you would explain what is...
View ArticleThey're pressing against the window!
Like hungry zombies. Scores of them energetically dancing around. And tens of thousands more in the yard. Mosquitoes! Fuck! Minnesota summers would be so much better without so many God Damn...
View ArticlePoll: If Obama proposes/succeeds cutting Social Security and Medicare will...
OK, Obama base voters let's see how you feel about the direction Obama seems to be taking when it comes to the deficit talks.Can Obama win without his base? The 'yes we can' believers? The little old...
View ArticlePoll: If the election were held today would you vote for Obama?
Straight up poll with two no options. No, I won't vote for president. No, I'll vote for another candidate. Assume he's running against the Republican candidate you detest the most.
View ArticleBREAKING Obama Eliminates Warren as Consumer Head
Per Bloomberg:President Barack Obama has chosen a candidate other than Elizabeth Warren as director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to a person briefed on the matter. The...
View ArticleMy letter to Senators Klobuchar, Franken, and Representative Walz
I sent this letter to my Senators and Representative earlier this week (so some of the numbers I quoted have changed in some news reports). It is so nice to not live in the Deep South anymore, so I...
View ArticleLive Blogging the Great Midwest Heatwave, Heat Index Now 113
Heat index yesterday in my Southern MN town was 118 degrees. Each of he last two days the state dew point all time high record of 86 has been tied. The record was held by my town, and now it is just...
View ArticleCitizen's United will be used against Democrats who vote to cut Social...
The oligarchs will use the cover of Citizen's United to defeat any Democrat who votes to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. That would be another wonderful layer of irony in that the...
View ArticleI've already let my Congressman know Mr. President!
I'm already all over your request Mr. President.I told my two Democratic Senators and my Democratic Congressman that if they voted to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid like you want then I...
View ArticleOnce Again Obama CAVES - with a poll
It’s a Kabuki Cave, but it’s still a cave. The Kabuki is a $ of debt increase now coupled with a $ of spending cuts up to a trillion dollars. But then……..the ‘Super Congressional Committee’ will be...
View ArticleHow is your Senator or Congressperson voting on the Obama CAVE?
I've called my Democratic Senators and Congressman regarding the Obama CAVE on the debt. The results:Senator Amy Klobuchar FORSenator Al Franken Not SureCongressman Tim Walz Not SureRoll Call --...
View ArticleWorst to First – Rank the Democratic Presidents in the Modern Era
For this exercise the modern era begins with FDR and the New Deal. How would you rank those Democratic Presidents from worst to first? In historical order the Presidents are FDR, Harry Truman, JFK,...
View ArticleHappy B-Day Baby 7 Billion
About 5 1/2 hours till his/her birth according to this clock at the time of this posting:http://www.worldometers.info/...May you have a good life, but the deck is stacked against you. May you be born...
View ArticleHerman Cain meet your worst nightmare
Karen Kraushaar - one of the woman Politico first reported on 10 days ago. A woman who was sexually harassed while working for Citizen Cain at the NRA. A woman who is an Ivy League graduate -...
View ArticleBreaking - Joe Paterno fired, President Graham Spanier resigns
Board of Trustees live on MSNBC right now.From ESPN:Both football coach Joe Paterno and president Graham Spanier are out at Penn State in the wake of a disturbing child sex abuse scandal involving...
View ArticleRocking in the New Year with great live rock performances on youtube
The tumult and live energy of a New Year's Eve deserves some great live rock performances to keep your party going. Youtube's got a bunch of them. Here are some of my favorites. First - Bruce...
View ArticleJP Morgan Chase going down in flames
At least the stock price is in after hours. One of those black swans just showed up. Looks like they had some bad derivative trades that went wrong and now they might be out - oh $800 million or so....
View ArticleThe Too Big Too Fail Club just got some new members
Secret members at that! The source of this is the Wall Street Journal. According to the Journal we have new members of the TBTF Club because of language inserted into the Dodd-Frank Bill by Senator...
View ArticleIs there a greater rock performance on YouTube
Especially one with less than 10,000 views.
View ArticleThe optics surrounding Isaac are not good for the Republicans
Isaac is first going to take much of the hoopla of the Republican Convention away. Networks, other than Fox, will devote time to covering the hurricane and not the Repubs.Then there is the increasing...
View ArticleRockin in the New Year with great YouTube videos
The tumult and live energy of a New Year's Eve deserves some great live rock performances to keep your party going. Youtube's got a bunch of them. Here are some of my favorites. First - Bruce...
View ArticleIt arrived 40 years ago today with a thud
Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park' was release 40 years today. By the standards of the record industry it was a flop. It sold about 25,000 copies in the first year.Apparently on its...
View ArticleApple crop failure at our farm
No bees showed up to pollinate our apple blossoms this past week. We moved back to the family farm in south central Minnesota six years ago and my wife has planted a small apple orchard. It's 24 trees,...
View ArticleHe's gone to The Field of Dreams
Tony Gwynn, one of the greatest hitters in the history of baseball, has died at 54.Tony Gwynn, who banged out 3,141 hits during a Hall of Fame career spanning 20 seasons with the San Diego Padres, has...
View ArticleObama Admin. Loosens 4 Decade Ban On Oil Exports
Because gas and oil prices are cheap enough in the USA, right?From the Wall St. Journal -The Obama administration cleared the way for the first exports of unrefined American oil in nearly four decades,...
View ArticleThe importance of Ernie Banks to little white boys
Indulge me to write about some of my feelings on the passing of the joyous Ernie Banks. The greatness of Ernie as a baseball player has been mentioned in other diaries. I want to write about his...
View Article50 years ago today
Bob Dylan recorded 'Like a Rolling Stone'. Many rock and roll critics place 'Like a Rolling Stone' the number one rock song of all time. It is a cultural milestone worth noting and remembering it if...
View ArticleFinally! The flowers are dead!
Dateline 11/20, Minnesota…..We had our first hard freeze last night. It got down to 26F and that killed the eight different garden flowers and potted plants that were still blooming outside our house....
View ArticleA small suggestion to network TV or cable news
That a network news show makes a news decision to run a crawl that reports the guns deaths in America while another story is being reported on during a nightly network or cable news show. The idea is...
View ArticleAn analogy of the Democratic campaign and baseball
Hillary’s in the field on “defense”— she’s got the game in the bag — and Bernie’s running the bases.xYouTube Video Game 7 looms. As Master Yogi said, “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
View ArticleDonald, it's too bad your name isn't Jack
‘Because You Don’t Know Jack!’‘Jack, er Donald, on issue after issue you really don’t know Jack.’Now there’s a pejorative that can be added usually after Jack. Any thinking citizen should be able to...
View ArticleHillary's 'counter punch' to Trump's rigged charge
“Donald with the way it’s trending. If you win, then I would think it was rigged,” would be the short and sweet Hillary counter punch.I hope she’s on the attack during the debate to put this...
View ArticleCongressional Democrats need a War Council
For the Democratic leadership to go into a meeting with the Unpresidented and sit there as if they are deaf, dumb and blind while the narcissistic sociopath drones on and on about the 3 to 5 million...
View ArticleThe Supremely Illegitimate Court
That’s what I’m going to call the new iteration of the Supreme Court with Gorsuch on it and I encourage all to do so. Those citizens still participating in the ‘Marketplace of Ideas’ need to publicly...
View Article70 years ago today…
One of the most important Americans in our history played a baseball game.Today’s Highlight in History:On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson, baseball’s first black major league player, made his official...
View ArticleAttacking Roy Moore by invoking an Alabama native son
Hugo Black — Supreme Court Justice of the U.S. and a former Representative and Senator from Alabama. Many historians place Black in a short list of the greatest justices of the Supreme Court. It’s...
View Article"Is this treasonous?"
CBS reporter Norah O'Donnell WENT THERE in asking a question to an ex-CIA official about Trump believing Putin's claims that Putin didn't authorize interference in the U.S. elections. The question is...
View ArticleI suspect Drumpf fires Rod Rosenstein this week with poll
Trump’s reality, if one can call it that, is in another world — the ‘Fox News’ world. So, he’s completely filled with rage over this ‘Russian Witch Hunt’ that Rosenstein won’t stop. So he’ll stop it....
View Article116,516
That’s the number of Americans who died in World War I. That includes combat and non-combat deaths. I’m sure many of those deaths were from the flu of the 1918 pandemic. The number of Americans who...
View ArticleFIVE words Trump
Not the five words you have used repeatedly to prove you are all there (you’re not BTW). But these five words - Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly and Petition. See if your addled brain can remember...
View ArticleMore Americans have now died from CoVid-19 than died
As I write this 211,988 Americans have died from CoVid-19. That number represents a number greater than all the American suckers and losers who died in World War I, The Korean War and the Vietnam War...
View Article‘War Time President Trump’ LOST.THE.WAR.
Americans dead from the CoVid-19 Pandemic have exceeded the total number of Americans dead in World War II. The total number of Americans killed in World War II from all causes was 405,399. As of this...
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