December 2006 - Posts

Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:35 PM

A few more choice cuts of logic, reason, and intelligence.

Everybody has asked the question. . ."What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain
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Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:20 PM

Safety for an Honest Man?

There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.--Edmund Burke Another one of those "smart person" quotes.  This one is so true, being an honest man I find myself faced at almost all times with some form or some
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Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:13 PM

Airport Ikea

So the biggest news of the century occurred a few days ago.  Ok, so maybe it isn't the biggest news of the century, but the groundbreaking for the new Ikea being built out by the airport is definately good news.  Not good for traffic on the
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Saturday, December 30, 2006 12:02 PM

Hmm, The Dollar Lower and Gold Higher

Doesn't speak too well for our ongoing situation.  Per the article here. In other news the psuedo fair trial of Saddam came to an end with his death in the gallows. Last but not least the world seems to be falling apart faster than slower and our
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Thursday, December 28, 2006 4:12 PM

Euphemisms

I have got to start collecting these things.  One I've read recently is “draft” being a euphemism for what is actually “confiscation of labor services” in reference to the "military draft."  Read about Walter Williams' opinion of the recent
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006 10:52 PM

The Best Quotes From Margaret Thatcher's 'Statecraft'

by Margaret Thatcher (On Who Got Credit For Ending The Cold War) "The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen to undermine America when it mattered,
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006 10:19 PM

Pew Poll/Report

These findings are NOT good for the United States.  It places us in a very backwards role in science, technological innovation, and other such industries and roles that are vital to this nation.  All of these things need reversed drastically. 
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006 8:03 PM

Ford's Painful Summary Statement

Someone really needs to get a leash on the automaker unions.  The summary statement of the last quarter is all too painful of the damage the slightly lower demand and union manufacturing can do to a business.  No one needs to find an excuse
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006 2:06 PM

Guv'ment Forcing Poor into Unemployment

People love to argue for the Gorvenmnet programs saying they're needed and they prevent this and that poverty problem.  I wonder though, as I work through line after line, regulation after regulation, law after law, and rule after rule of Government
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Friday, December 22, 2006 8:29 PM

Down the Drain

So GM continues its downward spiral but on the extreme positive note, Toyota is growing and growing and hiring more and more people. Check it out, every positive has a negative, for instance we lose some uncompetitive GM union jobs and some clunky
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Friday, December 22, 2006 2:08 PM

Religious Conflict

What's wrong withthis picture? The article explains more.  But right off hand the two most offensive and horrible things I see are this; Two guys in a gun fight and there is a child near the line of fire.  What the hell do these people think
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:49 PM

The Effects of Business and Government Decisions

Cause and effect is something that people should make great endeavors to understand, not at a superficial 1-3 traces, but full association of laws, regulations, events, markets, statements, myth, and other associated things that cause effects to ripple
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006 7:23 PM

Show me the money!

So with all these Portland Streetcar extensions and all I have one major question that I'd like answered.  Where is the money coming from for construction and operations? At the point we are at in this country every tax increase no matter how small
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