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Interesting articles to read for November 14, 2008

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Some interesting articles to read:

Chuck Schumer says that the Republicans are deliberating meddling in the Minnesota Senate race.

Tired of getting felt up by some TSA guy every single time you fly commercial. Well check out this new screening system.

Al Gore says that he does not want to be Barack Obama’s “Climate Czar.”

The Democrats are planning on investigating George Bush and his administration once he leaves the White House. Didn’t they do this to the Romanovs?

George Soros wants Barack Obama to regulate hedge funds and to tax hedge fund managers at higher rates.

Obama will officially resign from his Senate seat over the weekend, paving the wave for the likes of Jesse Jackson Jr.

The GOP is going to file federal lawsuits to repeal McCain-Feingold campaign finance regulations.

Want to work in the Obama administration? All of you folks who claim you have that phony ADD, there is no way in hell you could sit still long enough to fill out this application.

Sarah Palin addressed fellow GOP governors yesterday in Florida and she is not too happy about the growing list of industries lining up at the government teat for a bailout.

Vladimir Putin discusses Georgia onions with Nicolas Sarkozy.

When a bus driver hits three pedestrians, what would be your first thought? Fire the SOB. Not according to the union that thinks it is “unfair” to fire someone for killing pedestrians.

A government school student did a little experiment. She wore an Obama t-shirt to school one day and a McCain t-shirt another day … you can imagine the reaction from fellow students AND teachers.

A Marine put pumper stickers on his car with sayings like “Islam=Terrorism” and “We Died, They Rejoiced.” His car is then banned from all federal installations. So he drives his car to Arlington National Cemetery to visit his son’s grave and guess what happens

The Postal Service isn’t doing too well … what did you expect? It’s a government operation.

It seems we have less idiots wandering around these days … the number of adult smokers has dropped below 20%.

A US company is being accused of gender discrimination in Sweden because of an advertisement that says wives will get beauty treatments if their husbands buy power tools.

Interesting articles to read for November 11, 2008

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Some interesting articles to read:

A Georgia Republican Congressman is warning of a possible Obama “dictatorship.” How I would like to just laugh this off … but I can’t.

It looks like the great Obama Agenda for his first term has suddenly disappeared from the Obama website! They say they are retooling the site. Yeah. Or … now that he’s elected the old agenda is no longer operative?

The Republicans have been beaten badly in two straight elections. Time for some big changes. Are they up to it?

From the Wall Street Journal: (D.) for Vendetta.

From George Will: Obama and the Founder’s Intent.

How do you define the push by the unions to end the secret ballot in union elections? Well, “creepy” would work.

We have a new warning from Osama bin Laden about a new al Qaeda attack that will “outdo by far” September 11th.

All hail the age of the intellectuals!

For you global warming nut-jobs out there, take a look at this map. The areas in blue all experienced below-normal temperatures for 2008. Yeah, we really need to deal with this global warming threat.

Barack Obama plans to have his cabinet set and ready to “rule” by the end of this month.

From David Limbaugh: “The most unnerving aspects about the Democrats’ sweeping victory Nov. 4 are their intolerance for dissent and their willingness to censor and otherwise suppress their opponents.”

But there are some Bush appointees that will remain in power as Obama transitions to the presidency.

Now American Express is in trouble. Evidently one of the ways to help them out is to turn them into a bank holding company. I’m just wondering … now that there is so much talk of government bailouts for so many companies, is it possible that people think they can get away with not paying their debts now?

Some sad news to report … Howard Dean is stepping down as DNC chair. Arrrrhhhhhgggggggg!

There is in-house fighting between Democrats over who will be the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee … right now Henry Waxman wants his grubby little paws on the chairmanship. Waxman, in case you don’t know, is generally anti-business. Just the guy we need on the Commerce Committee.

Did anybody doubt that the Bush’s were going to be friendly to the Obama’s as they visited the White House yesterday? People seem shocked by this. Bush has class. Much more than Clinton … and we’ll see about Obama.

There’s a lot of talk right now about who will emerge as a leader in the Republican Party for 2012 … and the person on a lot of people’s minds is Newt Gingrich.

Reuters has declared that media bias was largely unseen in the US presidential race. Yeah…. Right.

Here’s a statistic that shouldn’t shock you. Almost 90% of Muslims voted for Barack Obama in the election.

There is no doubt that Barack Obama will change our relations with Cuba. This could mean lifting the embargo and having direct talks with the Castro brothers.

How much would you pay to attend Barack Obama’s inauguration? The asking price could be over $20,000. But don’t worry, Dianne Feinstein is already drafting legislation that would make it illegal to sell tickets.

This should tell you something … for the first time in history the Postal Service is going to lay off workers.

How much of your tax dollars are spent on your town’s Christmas decorations? Some things are about to change.

A man in the UK was taken to court because his trash can fell over and the government fined him for “incorrectly placed his rubbish bags beside his collecting receptacle.”

A Boeing 737 flying in Europe had to make an emergency landing after it was attacked by birds.

The world’s ugliest dog has died.

The United States Postal Service lost more than a billion dollars last quarter

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

How in the hell can you lose $1 billion? Oh yeah, I forgot this is the government we are dealing with.

The Postal Service had a net loss of more than a billion dollars in the third quarter of the fiscal year, the agency said Wednesday.

For the quarter ended June 30, the loss was $1.1 billion, which officials blamed on reduced mail volume in the slowed economy, coupled with rapidly rising transport costs because of high fuel prices.

There are two things that could easily fix those problems. Lower corporate tax rates to pick up the economy and how about drilling for our own oil and developing other alternative sources of energy to ease the cost of transportation! It’s not rocket science fools.

The post office is working to deal with its losses by cutting costs. The agency has reduced its staff by about 100,000 since 2000 and is offering early retirement to some clerks, mail handlers and supervisors.

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