Monthly Archives: October 2009

Health Plan 2009

October 15, 2009 – 7:25 am

Olympia Snowe, the GOP senator from Maine, broke with her political compatriots to vote for the Democratic Health Plan. The threat of socialism didn’t scare her DownEast constituency. 77% of Americans want a change in the present health system dominated by private insurers. The GOP don’t get it. All they see is pinkos behind every […]

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Smart Guys Finish Last Too

October 15, 2009 – 7:01 am

I won a scholarship to high school. Bad grades forced the principal to rescind the award. My diploma from university read ‘sin laude’ or without honor. Few of my employees have remarked about my intelligence, although Manny likes to say, “You’re a smart person.” Anytime he says those words I realize that he’s about to […]

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PEACE OF MIND Blue Cheer RIP Dickie Petersen

October 14, 2009 – 8:04 pm

North Dakota was a wasteland for rock and roll and the heavy-metal pioneers Blue Cheer deserted the badlands for San Francisco in 1966. Their first and really only hit SUMMERTIMES BLUES hit #11 on the charts in 1968. They were loud. In fact the group achieved the Guinness Books record of loudest band at a […]

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Where do we go from here?

October 13, 2009 – 7:28 pm

“The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.” Henry Kissinger So where do we go from here? My suggestion is home. All of us and now. See yah.

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Fun without Borders

October 13, 2009 – 6:53 am

Prostitution is illegal in Thailand, yet millions of men visit the nation to meet women. The whole world has heard of such sex entrepots as pattaya and nana Plaza, but few realize that the trade exists within the country and at the borders too, especially to the south beneath the restive province of Pattani and […]

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