I watched the first 40 or so minutes of this morning\’s Today Show on NBC. And, unless I missed it, there was not one word about the midterm elections. Six days before the elections, with a possibility that control of the senate will change hands, and this is not newsworthy. Today did, however, have time for a major feature on a hot looking female actress walking through...
Apropos of nothing political…. Yesterday afternoon, I closed down our garden. Incredibly, there were almost 100 green cherry tomatoes and several full-sized ones still on the vine – which I removed and have inside, hoping they will ripen. And several basil plants are still ok (though that will end at first frost). I don\’t remember our garden ever going anywhere near...
During the 2006 midterm election campaigns, when George Bush was President and Republicans were apparently going to get their clocks cleaned, there was a certain level of coverage from the three major networks, CBS, NBC and ABC. During the 2014 midterm election campaigns, now that Barack Obama is President and Democrats are apparently going to get their clocks cleaned, there is a...
One day I looked upon the stair and saw a man who wasn\’t there. He wasn\’t there again today. Gee I wish he\’d go away. How many examples of this do we have to see before even the fools who claim voter fraud is non-existent have to stop lying to us…and themselves? Excerpted from Kenric Ward\’s article at watchdog.org: Votingmachines that switch Republican votes...
Not much blogging to do here. The following excerpt, from Dan Diamond\’s article at forbes.com, will pretty much tell the story: DoctorsWithout Borders this week said that 16 of its staff had contractedEbola in the current outbreak, and nine had died from the disease.Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, the doctor who heroically led Sierra Leone\’sfight against Ebola, got sickand died in July;...
Let me start with an end. Here is the end of CBS correspondent Chip Reid\’s report, last night, on how the ebola crisis is playing out politically, and the response from news anchor Scott Pelley: REID:One independent liberal group released an ad criticizing Republicansfor cutting spending that they say could have led to an Ebolavaccination. Scott, that ad is titled “Republican Cuts...
I congratulate nurse kaci hickox for her humanitarianism in going to West Africa and administering to people who contracted the ebola virus. But I condemn nurse kaci hickox for her lack of humanitarianism in coming home after doing so, with a fever (which is typical of people with the ebola virus), and then raising such holy hell about being quarantined that Governor Christie – with the...
Today\’s Quote Of The Day comes to us from Peter Kirsanow, a member of the United States Commission On Civil Rights. Here is what Mr. Kirsanow has to say about President Obama\’s promise (or threat, depending on how you see things) to bypass congress (thus the constitution of the United States) and unilaterally grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens from...
This picture of a Halloween lawn decoration comes to us from our pal P.R. Ann….and, though just possibly not in the very best of taste, I have to admit I laughed out loud. Maybe you will too: Too bad the Viagra didn\’t just lodge in his throat. Then all he\’d have gotten was a stiff neck.
Years ago, I watched a TV show which, among other things, had a group of comedians talking about each other. When Shelly Berman\’s name came up, one of them asked “Is there anything good you can say about this guy”. Everyone chuckled. And then Henny Youngman, who must have been nearing 90 years of age, suddenly blurted out “His brother was worse”. The room...
Think that title is over the top? Then let me ask you a few questions. Suppose you wanted there to be an ebola epidemic in the United States. What would you do? Well, for one, you would make sure that people who want to travel here from places where ebola is killing people by the thousands, are not at all impeded in doing so. For another, you would demand that, when they come here...
Can anyone explain to me what that car commercial with some guy named Stan going into a store and everyone greeting him, followed by him going into the store and the same people who greeted him now ignoring him, followed by him getting into a car and driving, is supposed to be telling me – or why it should get me interested in buying the car? Do you even remember which car it is? OK...
I don\’t know if it will last, but crude oil futures have dropped below $80 this morning. That, folks, is good news. And it is almost entirely due to oil production from hydraulic fracturing (more commonly known as “fracking”), which – as I showed by presenting both sides last week – is a controversial technique of recovering shale oil. Now watch Barack Obama...
Earlier today I blogged about New York Governor Cuomo sandbagging New Jersey Governor Christie regarding the quarantines of people coming back to the USA from ebola-ravaged parts of West Africa. But, based on the following excerpt from an article at NBC News, I may have to retract the blog\’s commendation of Governor Christie for sticking to his mandatory quarantine edict: Thenurse...
Today\’s Quote of The Day comes to us from Audie Cornish, co-host of National Public Radio\’s (NPR\’s) “All Things Considered” show. As you are probably aware, information was leaked last week about the grand jury investigation of Michael Brown\’s shooting and killing by Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson. This included the...
