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President Hu: “That’s Gobshite!”

U.S. National Debt Since 1940 | Where is the Outcry? When is the Revolution?

I’m at a loss for words this weekend. Having spent some time playing and exploring the Government’s General Printing Office (GPO) website (which has an amazing array of statistics, databases, raw data files and reports) – I’m seriously wondering …
- Where is the public outcry?
- Where are the pitch forks?
- When [...]

NYC Reverend Declares ‘End of Days!’ (World Depression’s a Doozy?)

If skepticism is a defense mechanism – I am one heck of a sceptic when it comes to prophetic ‘End of Days’ / apocalyptic / doomsday stories often pressed into circulation as ‘and finally‘ news items footnoted into an already crappy news broadcast.
So when ‘Famed‘ Reverend David Wilkerson, an American Christian evangelist – (who’s substantial [...]

Chinese to Launch English-Speaking News Channel – More Choice for a Fair & Balanced America!

Interestingly, but perhaps not unexpectedly, China has announced plans to launch an English-language-speaking (bound to upset the French) 24 hour news channel (a ‘Chinese CNN’) to fluff-up their righteous Communist-spewing, human-rights-abusing, environment-destroying, currency-manipulating, African-dictator-supporting image beyond their locked-down totalitarian nation state.
Here’s to fair and balanced! But at least it expands our choice of international [...]

Who is “The Man”?

We are truly submerged in a Katrina of conspiracies, convenient fall-guys, and opportunistic (for some) chaos. So let us propose the most simple causes and perhaps, with a glass (or three) of Scotch, we can sleep better for it!

The Three Little Pigs and Homeland Security

Once upon a time in a land far far away (erm,… Portland,OR ?) there was a mother pig who had three politically active little pigs.
The politics of the three little pigs grew so radical that their mother said to them, “You scare the hell out of me. You are too dangerous and must leave and [...]

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