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A new revenue source 24 Aug 2013 | 12:15 am
We were taking a break from overhauling the basement bathroom, and were relaxing over at the Holy Land Quickee's. I slurped noisily at my diet Dr. Pepper, earning a bit of a glare from my rather fasti...
The consummate integrity of the FBI 23 Jul 2013 | 07:35 pm
Check this story: Head of Milwaukee FBI office is reassigned after refusing to testify in court an excerpt: Carlson is accused of trying to influence a subordinate’s testimony on whether the FBI re...
Outrage! 22 Jul 2013 | 09:08 pm
Once again, the right-wingers are in a state of outrage - actually, let's make that "Outrage!" with a capital O and an exclamation point. They are outraged over the Rolling Stone cover. And they are...
Community Health 18 Jul 2013 | 11:30 pm
As most of us know, we have lost many doctors in the past several months. This has led to some concerns being expressed, usually over basket-bumping at Walmart or Safeway, or similar such neighborly e...
America's Political Police Agency 15 Jul 2013 | 07:35 pm
That would be the Obama Department of Justice. The DoJ, run by Eric "Fast and Furious" Holder, has agreed to participate in an NAACP witch-hunt prompted by the Zimmerman verdict. The verdict wasn't ...
Obamacare and denying reality 12 Jul 2013 | 07:10 pm
Our Nan is on a tear over the delay that isn't really a delay: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/12/fact-check-rips-pelosi-claim-that-obamacare-mandate-not-delayed/ Cutting through the Fauxne...
Church signs 6 Jul 2013 | 03:50 am
I saw this on a local church recently: "God's plans put man's best dreams to shame." What else can you expect from churches that wallow in the idea that we mere mortals are POS losers, unworthy worm...
But it's a really nice field ... 12 Jun 2013 | 10:05 pm
We seem to be having a bit of a dustup over in the Otero R-1 school district, with the teachers wanting more money and the school board saying they can't afford it: Most of the four million reserve i...
"I'm not going to hide ..." 11 Jun 2013 | 07:01 pm
But Snowden, the 'hero' who outed the NSA's phone records scheme, seems to be doing just that: As Justice Department officials consider charges against Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who cla...
The Great NSA scandal 10 Jun 2013 | 10:52 pm
Yawn. The NSA is gathering metadata on phone calls. Numbers, times, dates, duration, frequency. Nothing indicates there is eavesdropping on conversations. Sounds to me like the NSA is doing what the...
