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Monthly Archive for April, 2008

It’s Time

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Whatever happened to this concept?  It looks like the senate is not the only place which has a desk drawer. Governor Minner would you please dust off the Lead Report? The BCG team reviewed potential efficiency opportunities within the state’s $1.65 billion education budget, and identified opportunities with an annual value of $86-158 million once [...]

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Thank You, John Still!

Dover – The Delaware Senate has unanimously passed legislation sponsored by Senator John C. Still (R-Dover) to protect military personnel deployed overseas from facing higher auto insurance premiums upon their return as a result of their military service.   Senator Still introduced Senate Bill 23 after learning first-hand about the experience of a Delaware citizen [...]

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Foreclosure Prevention

Hey Friends, please pass this on especially to anyone you know who needs to get out of a financial mess.

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A new ad is just waiting in the wings if Senator Obama is the nominee of the Democrats. In 1988, cultural issues came into their own. They defeated Governor Mike Dukakis. They were powerful factors in the elections since 1968, but they were the election of 1988. Now a new effort merges national security concerns [...]

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Democrats doubt Obama

How else can one explain it? Hillary was outspent three to one, out organized and asked to step aside by many insiders, yet she emerged victorious by DOUBLE DIGITS in the sixth most populous state. She was carried to victory by seniors, women, unions, and households who make under $50k.  Democrats have had a number [...]

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Be honest

Of the three remaining major party Presidential candidates, whose latest tv ad is best? Candidate One Candidate Two Candidate Three

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The Ultimate Gift

Once in a while a movie inspires me.  I am particularly reminded of this fact with the recent passing of the modern conservative icon, Charlton Heston.  A recent movie which did not get a lot of media hype but should have is The Ultimate Gift. It was one to added to my favorites for sure. It speaks [...]

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 While we are in the mood for asking prominent figures to apologize for their associations, how about asking our Congressional delegation and Presidential Candidates to apologize for giving our tax money to this group founded by a social Darwinist.  This should go in the anything for money catagory. Planned Parenthood which is the recepient of hundreds of millions [...]

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In a year when political leaders are expected to apologize for not only their bland, void, unimaginative statements, but for those of supporters who dare to have their own mind. I have something that we really should demand an apology for–the tax code. Is time for us to recommit to ending the insanity of the [...]

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The Center-Right is the place to be. More proof Italian Election

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Gov. Sarah Palin cut Alaska’s requested eamarks in the federal budget down from 550M to under 200M and from 54 to 31 projects. How many governors are saying they want less federal money? She is providing leadership which could restore the state’s reputation after the bridge to no where.  This is one more illustration why [...]

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Obama knows best, the following is Obama’s view of small town voters: “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” he said. (Obama) Opponents counter: 1. Democrat Hillary [...]

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Thoughts?

TNJ Delawareonline post: SNOW HILL, Md. – A Worcester County judge has ruled that a Salisbury area Web blog publisher is not protected by a state law shielding news reporters from defamation lawsuits. The ruling means blogger Joseph Albero must explain the steps he took to verify blog postings that prompted a defamation suit filed [...]

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Billed For a Tax on Verizon?

Verizon’s billing office is closed at this fine hour of 9PM, so I am asking my blogosphere friends and non-friends if this line item in my FiOS bill seems, oh, a wee-bit odd: DE Gross Receipts Tax for Cable* $1.40 Maybe I am naive (and I admit I am on many things), but a Gross [...]

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I’ve always been a believer in the following phrase “Meet the children and you know the parents” NY Times: “Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, [...]

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Senator Obama is a very intelligent man so how does he justify adding costs to domestic oil consumption by forcing 150 billion dollars of their money to be invested in his chosen energy programs (not drilling or building new refineries that we desperately need )and robbing them of profits as a means to control gas [...]

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Watch John Adams

If you missed any episodes of HBO’s John Adams, you will want to catch up on the ones you missed this weekend.  This is compelling, informative, quality television.  I can hardly wait for Hamilton to become a mini-series. Out of curiosity, any Battlestar Galactia fans out there?  The new season starts tonight.  Have a great weekend. 

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Tom “Flash” Gordon brutalized the Phillies in the first game (5ER in 1/3 inning…) Tom “Stash” Gordon brutalized a perceived media event in his first campaign kickoff into a double-secret-probation announcement.  WDEL’s Chris Carl posted a blog on this. Seriously, Mr. Coons, with all this hoopla Gordo’s strategically generating, I think you may be in [...]

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Emerging out of the shadows, mad scientists reveled in their latest creation Human genes cloned in cow eggs. The resultant embryo is mostly human with random cow material.  The purpose is to have subjects for experimentation who have no legal rights.   The British Parliament is engaged in a debate which we need to have in our country.  [...]

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Question: Who made the above statement and the next one? Answer below “We’ve been in Europe now since 1945. We’ve been in Japan since 1945, been in Korea since 1950,” said ______ one of the United States’ most outspoken retired generals. “We haven’t had a Middle East occupation force, so this is a start of [...]

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My Favorite April Fools’ Story

Take a time out from political jabbings.  It’s April Fools Day and stories abound.  There is one from many years ago (1985) that is my all-time favorite.  As a highschool sophomore at the time, I was easily taken in, until the end of the article.  Enjoy the story, linked below. I wonder, how much is [...]

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Take a look, I have never been so impressed by her. She is a great American. It is the reason that I switched parties before the deadline. I wanted to vote for Hill and Jack. If you really believed that, April fools’ day is going to be a long one for you. I am still [...]

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