Puffin’s Place

I always knew Cheney to be dangerous. Now I know him to be a poor loser and a despicable member of the national community. And, of course, unable to recall that during the GWB administration, anyone who criticized wither Cheney or Bush was loudly called unAmerican.
Dick, you are a toad unworthy of any headline you [...]

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Spammers think the rest of us are idiots. Every day I clear out spam from folks around the world introducing a new site, praising me while embedding a vendor url in the message, or telling me the secret of finding nude pictures of the Statue of Liberty.
Grow up, guys. They ain’t getting through, and your [...]

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Gee, according to HuffPo, Angeline says fidelity is not essential, and the US Senate passes a Mona Lisa bill to the insurance industry. I wonder which is more important. Hard to tell these days as our most revered and hardest nosed journalist spend more time on Hollywood and Celebrity Tobacco Road than on real news.
The [...]

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The best overview I’ve seen on the health care issue can be found hereat the Pro Publica journalism site.
In addition to a clear outline of the legislative process, one can find various scenarios and what they mean in relation to the proposed legislation—e.g., how will this bill impact the uninsured, underinsured, already-insured, and so [...]

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I do not know where the Obama I voted for has gone.

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Am I the only one who finds it interesting that the Fort Hood shooter was immediately identified as a Muslim but the religion of the Florida shooter has yet to be identified? Recall assorted other outbursts of violence recently and try to remember when the religion of the presumed guilty has been a prominent part [...]

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There is not much hopeful or good that can be said about the right wingers in the U.S. They are without vision, without humanity, without ethics, without a sense of history, without an interest in the present and the future, and wholly absorbed by themselves, their own wallets and tight-assed convictions, and frightened to death [...]

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I just saw the newish (?) documentary on Dalton Trumbo, the 40’s and 50’s Hollywood screen writer who chose defending the First Amendment over ratting out friends who joined the Communist party in the 30’s when no one else was doing squat to confront the fascists.
We will come back to Trumbo’s intellectual excellence in [...]

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Good for Obama and the Nobel Committee. He has not yet done all I hope for, but he has totally fulfilled my grinding desire to have a president in whom I can be proud and of whom I can say that he represents the best that is in the US.

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Have you heard the Republican chair’s ad for a Senior Bill of Rights?

How about that! If you remember Marc Antony’s speech to the Romans prior to the murder of Caesar, you recognize the clever suggestions that things never documented are in fact true. Where is the evidence that Obama’s plan puts bureacrats between the senior [...]

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