Monthly Archives: April 2008

The Paul Tsongas Memorial Pander Bear Award 04/30/08

As you can imagine, it has been extremely difficult to choose an award winner with the two Democrat POTUS candidates locked in a death match. Even though Obama preaches “new politics”, he has shown himself to be no slouch when it comes to down and dirty “old politics”. But as it turns out, I have [...]

Mommas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys

Instead, encourage them to become bureaucrats. Governments added 76,800 jobs in the first quarter of 2008 while private companies shed 286,000 jobs during the same time period. At this rate, we’ll all be working for the government and getting a taxpayer funded paycheck—just like Europeans!

Back From The Grave And Ready To Party

Last fall to early this year, Ron Paul was a hot item—his fundraising ability was astounding and he had an army of committed supporters. But at some point this year, he abandoned POTUS politics in order to defend and protect his Texas congressional seat from a challenger, which he did. Ron Paul may have given [...]

Hoot Of The Day

Jeremiah Wright was invited to speak at the National Press Club by Barbara Reynolds, who is a journalist, minister and—-a Hillary Clinton supporter!

I Don’t Wish To Belong To Any Club That Would Accept Me As A Member

Alan Keyes rejected by Constitutional Party as their presidential candidate.

This Should Poll Well

At a Q & A session after his speech today at the National Press Club in DC, Jeremiah (God DAMN America) Wright, who was Barack Obama’s pastor for 20 years, married him to Michelle and baptized his two daughters, had this to say: “I said to Barack Obama last year, ‘If you get elected, November [...]

Quote Of The Day

From former Augustana College professor Jim Winship concerning the prospects for Republicans in the 17th Congressional District: “If Andrea Zinga can’t unseat Evans in failing health and then two years later can’t defeat Phil Hare in his first run for office, even when there are lingering resentments over the process that gave Phil Hare the [...]

Tell Me Why 2.0

Phil Banaszek, co-chairman of the RICO task force on poverty, which includes representatives from the county board, city officials, area schools, court services, a work force development board, United Way and the llinois Quad City Chamber of Commerce, had this to say about Rock Island County being moved off the statewide poverty warning list to [...]

Tell Me Why

The good news is that Rock Island County has been moved off the Illinois poverty warning list. The bad news is that RICO remains on the poverty watch list. But still, progress is progress. Unfortunately, the D/A article gave us no clue as to what caused the improvement. The benchmarks are: 1. High school graduation [...]

In The Interest Of Gender Equality….

…on Wednesday I blogged about penis theft. So today, I saw this headline: Menstrual Blood Shows Heart Repairing Stem Cell Properties The lede: Scientists in Japan have discovered that cells taken from menstrual blood can be cultivated in the lab and used like stem cells to repair damaged heart tissue. I’m wondering who would think [...]

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