Browsing the Archive
August 2009
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You can’t fool this dog with old tricks
by Pat_S on August 26, 2009A post by Pat A recent study determined dogs were at least as smart as a two-year old. Turns out some dogs are smarter than a lot of American adults too. No thanks Obama. Keep your treats.
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Today’s Tammy Radio Podcast Now Up
by Tammy on August 26, 2009Today’s podcast of Independent Tammy Radio, Weekday has now been posted for Tammy Army members. Please visit the Podcasts page for your media. If you aren’t a member of the Tammy Army, please join today! This program is made possible exclusively through the support of my listeners. Thanks. :)
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Ted Kennedy Is Dead
by Tammy on August 26, 2009Mary Jo Kopechne unavailable for comment. Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy Dies at 77 After Cancer Battle Oh, and btw, my gun Snuffy has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy’s car. RIP Teddy? I suppose that might be difficult now that he finally has to face that terribly inconvenient woman last seen alive in his passenger seat. Maynard’s note: For an overview of Chappaquiddick, see my previous post here.
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Obama’s Healthcare Strategy
by Maynard on August 26, 2009A post by Maynard Some conservatives are saying we’ve dodged the bullet of nationalized healthcare. I’m not so sanguine. At least, not yet. Obama wants power over life and death of every American citizen. He wants this a lot. (This excellent Drudge-linked WSJ editororial notes that “White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said [Obama] was ‘quite comfortable’ with the idea that sticking to his agenda may well mean ‘he only lives in this house’ for one term.) Obama knows this is his best shot. It looks like he’s going to give it everything he’s got. A practical politician would work for incremental change. A practical politician, whether of the left or of the right, would be more focused on the catastrophic...
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The Moon isn’t made of green cheese—or anything else green
by Pat_S on August 25, 2009A post by Pat One day the Russians and the Chinese may have laser weapons pointing at us from their moon base while NASA employees are enjoying cool breezes and natural light in their earthbound “green” building. The $20.6 million building near Moffett Field in California will be fancifully named Sustainability Base in homage to Tranquility Base on the moon. It’s more like a ludicrous mockery if you ask me. NASA gets ready for new green building NASA’s Ames Research Center is ready to begin construction of what is planned as the greenest building ever built by the federal government, a structure that will use state of the art sensors developed for space missions but also rely on the age-old...
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Notice: The Feds Insist You Panic Over Swine Flu
by Tammy on August 25, 2009Hey you! Stop being so calm. There’s a good crisis the Fed creating but it won’t be an actual crisis unless you bitter and clingy wheel cogs start to panic. So come on now! Flu Fighters Not Content with Calm Why are health agencies peddling more and increasingly specific advice on flu preparedness, when the public is feeling pretty chill about it? The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll shows the American public is not very worried about flu. Most people feel confident that health agencies will be able to handle a flu outbreak. But health officials don’t seem content with that sort of tranquility… Now, officials’ aim is to fight what they claim is public complacency. We’re not fearful enough....
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Today’s Tammy Radio Podcast Now Up
by Tammy on August 25, 2009Today’s podcast of Independent Tammy Radio, Weekday has now been posted for Tammy Army members. Please visit the Podcasts page for your media. If you aren’t a member of the Tammy Army, please join today! This program is made possible exclusively through the support of my listeners. Thanks. :)
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On O’Reilly Factor Tonight
by Tammy on August 25, 2009On Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor tonight. Not sure yet what the subject will I’m sure it will be enlightening :) Hope you can join me. **Update video added
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How Not to Deal With Genocidal Maniacs
by Maynard on August 25, 2009Speaking of mobs “carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting”…Here’s a flashback to the real thing, as opposed to slanderous demagoguery. The Lockerbie bomber brings to mind another historical prison release. Community organizer Adolf Schicklgruber was pardoned and discharged from prison on December 20, 1924, after serving just over a year for his leadership at Bavaria’s Beer Hall Putsch, in which 20 people were killed. A humbled Schicklgruber went home and was never heard from again, thus validating the wisdom of the merciful treatment he received. (Which reminds me…has anyone tallied a body count of people murdered by terrorists who were released from Gitmo? It’s not a small number. I think there is a special place in...
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Rick Perry Grabs At Palin’s Coattails
by Tammy on August 24, 2009“Riding coattails is a metaphor that refers to the way in which lower level or uninspiring celebrities can often reach stardom through their ties to another, more popular and successful celebrity. This can often be used as a generic phrase for anyone that hangs onto another person as they forge ahead, without effort from the hanger-on.” Texas Governor Rick Perry: Sarah Palin Is The Face Of America “I love Sarah Palin, I love her positions, I think she was a good governor. . . . I want her to be engaged in this rebuilding of the Republican Party. . . . She is substantially more the face of this country than some other people who might want to be the...
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And People Like This Want More Power?
by Tammy on August 24, 2009Disconnected, bureaucratic menaces. 1,200 veterans wrongly told they got fatal disease At least 1,200 veterans across the country have been mistakenly told by the Veterans Administration that they suffer from a fatal neurological disease. One of the leaders of a Gulf War veterans group says panicked veterans from Alabama, Florida, Kansas, North Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming have contacted the group about the error. Denise Nichols, the vice president of the National Gulf War Resource Center, says the VA is blaming a coding error for the mistake. Letters dated Aug. 12 were intended to notify veterans who have Lou Gehrig’s disease of disability benefits available to them. Calls to the VA were not immediately returned Monday. Lou Gehrig’s disease, or...
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The Lockerbie Bomber: What Would Reagan Do?
by Maynard on August 24, 2009You know about the release of the Lockerbie bomber. He flew home to a hero’s welcome in Libya, as Obama voiced impotent objections. I’m flashing back to a somewhat comparable episode that took place on Reagan’s watch. Who remembers the Achille Lauro incident? This was an Italian cruise ship in the Mediterranean that was commandeered by four PLO terrorists. They murdered a wheelchair-bound vacationing American Jew, Leon Klinghoffer, and threw his body overboard. There were the usual negotiations with the locals, and Italy agreed to allow the hijackers to go free and fly to Tunisia aboard an Egyptian airplane. Reagan dispatched military aircraft from the carrier USS Saratoga, which intercepted the Egyptian plane and forced it to land at a...