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Hmmmm, History Repeats Itself

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Saturday, August 16, 2008 8:41:28 AM
Isn't this how Obama got he last job? The press delving into the divorce of an opponent?

An old post on the subject.
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Dems = Reds in 1980

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Monday, August 11, 2008 5:47:23 PM
I knew I remembered that blue states used to be red states and red states used to be blue states. Check out this video from 1980. Why would all the networks in 1984 switch to dem/blue and GOP/red? Why?
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Ex-President Obama

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:08:18 AM
There is another angle to an Obama presidency on which I've seen no commentary. If he is elected president, in 4 or 8 years (if, then hopefully the former), he will be an ex-president, and at 51 or 55 years of age he could be an ex-president for a very long time. Democrat ex-presidents of late, of both the 4- and 8-year variety have a real problem fading into the sunset as was modeled by Reagan, Bush I and Ford. Bill, to the consternation of Hill, was unable to play it cool. I don't think he helped Gore or Kerry much as his false pout wore thin with the electorate. And Carter's failed policies somehow served as PhD. degrees qualifying him to comment, nay criticize ad nauseum. On the contrary John McCain would very likely be the kind of ex-president that Bush the First has been. Remember Bush I refused to go to Germany for a victory lap when the wall came down, because he felt others deserved that honor more than he. Apparently Obama had no problem running that lap as pre-president.

So remember, we are not just electing a president, we are also electing an ex-president. Who would make a better ex-president?
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What WMD?

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Monday, July 07, 2008 11:39:22 AM
   Oh that WMD!
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Yeah, Good Luck with This One

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:02:37 PM
The wacky left are going to lose a lot of support if they push this cause.
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Think I'll Buy Stock in XM/Sirius

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:28:17 PM
And a subscrition once conservative talk radio is outlawed on public airwaves. If Nancy Pelosi gets her way that is.

If I start paying for it, I'll be listening a lot more. So their intent of keeping the masses ignorant will fail here.

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I'm Sorry, What Did She Say?

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:16:41 PM
Ruth Bader Ginsburg in dissent of the Supreme Courts ruling cutting Exxon's punitive damages from 1989's Valdez oil spill actually wrote, "The new law made by the court should have been left to Congress." I'm surprised her mouth could actually form those words. She's part of the most legislative court in US history.
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Stealing the American Dream

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:10:56 PM
Man we should've bought a house we couldn't afford.
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Get Out Your Calculators

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:56:12 PM
From this Motherearthnews.com article...

"THE BIGGEST WIND ENERGY SYSTEM ON THE PLANET " , consisting of 20 separate windplants, is planned for construction by U.S. Windpower, Inc. of Massachusetts. The $75 million project will be erected at Pacheco Pass -80 miles south of San Francisco-and is expected to supply enough power for 1,000 people . . . while saving 178,000 barrels of oil a year."

That's a cost of $75,000 per person. Not household. We have five in our family. That's $375,000! I don't think our family in our life would come close to spending $375,000 on power. Not at about $40 a month. Which is what we spend now. Not a very efficient use of resources. How much oil will go into  making the windmills? How many people want thousands of these things in their neighborhoods? How many birds will be killed by them. Ah yes... the law of unintended consequences.

Nuclear power is an unnegotiable with the left, but it's definitely the way to go here in California. Things will have to get really bad before we throw out the left in Sacramento.

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Please Do This For Me

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:41:13 PM
All the media in their over coverage of Tim Russert’s death is screaming, “Please do the same for me when I die.” You see those in the media are largely secular. This life is all they have. So it has to count for something or why live at all. There is no God that deserves our undying love and obedience. Just self.
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Why We Homeschool. Reasons 240-2

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:50:16 PM
240.

241.

242.

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He Was Guilty of Being a Boy.

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:46:13 PM
Hatred defined...

Lesbian couple brutally tortures son.

His fingers are now fused together after repeated stove top burnings.

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What!?!? Gary, Indiana didn't make the list?

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Friday, June 13, 2008 6:52:13 PM
This article, "The World's Best Places to Live 2008", seemed to make a big deal out of the fact that the highest ranked U.S. city was Honolulu at 28th. Adding fuel to the "conventional wisdom" fire of - "Has America Fallen From Grace?", "What Happened to America the Great?", "Why Everyone Hates America?", "How Do You Spell America? H-E-L-L-H-O-L-E", that seem to populate news lines, blogs, posts, etc. of the angry left. Except after reading this sentence in the second paragraph...

"Consultants rated each city on a variety of factors including the level of traffic congestion, air quality, and personal safety reported by expatriates living in more than 600 cities worldwide."
...I wondered how Honolulu even got on the list. Are they expatriates or geographically challenged? Doesn't being an expatriate kind of imply that you'd rather live somewhere else?

One note: Amsterdam (13) made the list? Is that where the old are afraid to go to the hospital because no one ever comes back?


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Congress Passes Laws...

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Friday, June 13, 2008 6:29:59 PM
... and the Executive branch enforces them. Civics 101. Thomas Edsall makes this point at his Huffington Post article about how BHO is "moving to the center"...
"At the same time that the economy flourished during Rubin's and Summers' tenure (1995-2000) -- per capita income rose from $22,153 to $25,469 in inflation-adjusted dollars; median family income rose from $53,349 to $59,398; and unemployment fell from 5.6 to 4.0 percent -- both Treasury secretaries were accused of acceding to Wall Street pressure to eliminate deficit spending at the expense of the poor and unemployed."
Forgetting completely that Rubin/Summers/Clinton had virtually nothing to show for their tenure. The heavy lifting was done by the congress. But hey, if they want to take credit for that mild boom, how about taking credit for the massive dotcom crash that really created what everyone now knows as an artificial boom.

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No. You are too liberal!

Posted by Contrarian Guitarist on Friday, June 13, 2008 6:22:43 PM
BHO is using the race card saying the GOP is accusing him of being too black. The left wants to frame the election this way. They want to whine and guilt voters into voting for their guy. Typical. It will probably work because most people were "educated" in government schools. Including myself and I'm a complete idiot.
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