In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws [...]

With all due respect to the trolls that practice the dismal science, economics, who claim the recession will be over in Q3…I offer further proof of the value of your education. Note that on the following graph, even though we lost another 467,000 jobs it only corresponds to a .01 loss this time. When we [...]

Like a Phoenix, rising from the ashes, Smokey has come full circle to the shelter.  He was adopted from the shelter as a little kitten, then moved to Oregon. His family couldn’t keep him any longer and took him to a shelter in Oregon. All of our shelter animals are micro-chipped so the Oregon shelter notified us [...]

The events of the last couple of weeks in Iran, in which millions of courageous Iranians from all walks of life have taken to the streets in the face violent repression to protest a stolen election, have produced riveting real time theater around the world. These events have also drastically changed the political landscape not [...]

I have grown weary of idle talk about what people are "going" to do. I stumbled onto this story and clipped it. Colonel Kenneth Reusser was a real American hero. A story of personal courage currently in short supply. He died a little over a week ago. He apparently had balls the size of cannon [...]

The 3 Stages of Truth
First, it is ridiculed
Second, it is violently opposed
Finally, it is accepted as self-evident

 The following timeline describes just a few of the hundreds of atrocities and crimes committed by the CIA. (1)
    CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute [...]

After reading a satire piece Saturday about how Tweety-bird hired an attorney to sue Twitter, I noticed The Idaho Statesman posted a staff report featuring a bewildered parrot waiting at the Idaho Humane Society. In Did Tweet do the twick?, they say, “It was impossible to ignore a Friday morning tweet from the Idaho Humane [...]

“If you want other people to speak well of you, do not speak well of yourself.”

Michael Jackson’s death yesterday didn’t really shock me. In fact, I thought he did pretty well to make it to 50. Michael led a bi-polar life where the highs were high, and the lows were gawd awful low. It does not matter what you thought of him, his life was tragic. Make no mistake about [...]

Seeing how treacherous the Big Wood looks lately reminds me of an incident five years ago; before they smashed Ski View Lodge into smithereens…
 
That year, it was another wet spring and one late afternoon, there was a tap at my shack door. It was Rapping Tim[i] and he brandished a large chainsaw. Tim was a [...]

 When I was in Iran two years ago I was entranced by
 Shiraz in May
 
 
 
The parks of Isfahan
 
And the snow covered peaks of the Alborz Mountains north of Tehran.
 
These are sights that Neda Agha-Soltan will never see again.
 
Gunned down in the prime of life, the 26 year old woman has become the symbol of the [...]

Nice bit of sheep dipping going on in the news, but just more praise for the conformist training centers our "American" school’s have become, turning out divided citizens who go off to the left or right and spend a lifetime in a fake fight all the while both lose it eventually..Hmmm, is there a College [...]

Three of my favorites - Craigslist, Weird Al & The Doors. How can you go wrong? Weird Al has a new single called "Craigslist" off an album due out next year. He mocks Craigslist and those that can be found hocking wares on it. The embed has been disabled so click on the previous link [...]