Hope and Change Hope and Change Hope and Change

Throughout the 2008 elections the Obama/Biden disciple mantras were to follow our spiritual guides because they are wise. We are now ending month seven of the 2009 and both candidates’ actions continue to dispel the “they are wise mantra”. Biden has went from location to location making a chump out of himself and the US, [...]

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theScoundrel Takes the Rorschach Test

It seems that many in the Gold-Laden Pompous Psychology Industry have become upset as an insider released the ten basic Rorschach images and the top patient replies on Wikipedia. I suppose I could use the building controversy to go on a rant about the smoke-and-mirror shrink industry that I consider mostly a pseudo science, that [...]

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theScoundrel’s Yard is Invaded

No Film At 11:00!
TheScoundrel has officially declared war on invading garden beetles. My garden, which has been producing cucumbers in mass quantities, last week, was the victim of an overnight sneak attack from beetles. The normal defense parameter failed as the beetles stripped the leaves off of a good chunk of my vegetable garden. It [...]

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Joe Biden Foot-in-Mouth Disease Continues

Ever since Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain’s VP nominee choice for the 2008 election, detractors harangued her. They called her too inexperienced and often painted her as a ditzy beauty queen. Heck they are so afraid she will gain a foothold for the 2012 POTUS election they are still trying to paint her [...]

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Surrendering the Right of Privacy

I was reading an article on CNN by Julian Zelizer commenting on healthcare reform by comparing it to a rosy picture of Medicare he seems to have formed. I have repeatedly stated my objections to the current push to socialize and create a Government owned/operated healthcare system while also stating my very unfavorable evaluation of [...]

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The Fools on The Hill

Regions control the deer population by setting dates where it is legal for hunters to kill/harvest the animals. One of the tricks hunters use to lure deer into traps, where they can be easily found and killed, is depositing salt licks to draw the deer into the area the hunter has staked out. Salt is [...]

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The Palin Product – Political Class Warfare

There is a lawyers confrontation scheme that is often used to bully in lawsuits where one of the individuals is incapable of sustaining a long-term legal defense against the other side. Lawyers are not shy of throwing the challenge at an individual when they know they have the other side in a financial bind. The [...]

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Politicians Keep on Playing Wag the Dog

A couple of CNN stories draw question about the timing and intent of the Dick Cheney/CIA story surrounding the anti-terrorist program that was concealed from Congress.

In one story Mary Matalin is quoted that the whole show is an attempt to distract from President Obama’s struggles with running the country. That is probably partially true. [...]

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The Logic of Crystal Ball Illusions

Move over Florida’s hanging chads! Now the City of Rock Island, Illinois has a voting dilemma to call its very own. And while whomever eventually becomes the ruling Mayor of Rock Island, Illinois will not be as exciting as the struggle of becoming POTUS, the controversy is certainly indicative of election problems that can appear [...]

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Pot Thy Name is Kettle Black

Senator Arlen Specter has called fellow rival Democrat Joe Sestak a flagrant hypocrite that conveniently registered as a Democrat just in time to run for Congress. Please do not make me projectile vomit Senator Specter! According to the CNN article about the subject – Sestak registered from an Independent to a Democrat in [...]

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