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iPhone Emits a Wry Tone

An ominous rush fell over the hall. Steve Jobs, Apple’s iconic marketing guru, could not obtain a signal. Here he was in his usual competent (some say, “Overcompetent) mode, demonstrating the latest and 4 ^th issue of the wildly popular iPhones. Frustrated, Steve blamed the audience for his inability to attain a WIFI signal: “If some of you guys would stop texting…”

Several days later, the reports started coming in. People were complaining that, when they held ...

“MEL”-TDOWNS’ PATERNAL PARTICIPATION

Mel Gibson’s excesses are becoming legend. He is running out of races and religions to disparage. Although it may appear that his raging is booze-based, that well may not be the only cause of his affliction. Imagining what might have been the atmosphere in the household in which he grew up, could place Mel’s dilemma in a clearer light. Living under the thumb of a martinetish, virulently anti-Semitic, Holocaust deniers, whose genius IQ might have made ...

THE DUMB-EMPIRE MODEL

How many fallen empires does it take to keep another one from following suit? Considering the world’s long history and our relatively short one, there appears to be plenty of room, yet, on that framework of former, stupid world-shaker governments After forming cohesive societies, they develop technologically and seek to expand. Therein lies the problem; apparently, that expansion is too heady to be controlled. Of course, that lack of control masks the fact that, whi ...

McCHRYSTAL “CRACK’D”!!!

General Stanley McChrystal, in charge of our military efforts in Afghanistan , is certain to be fired, in short order. In the most explosive commanding general / commander-in-chief debacle since MacArthur-Truman, McChrystal, in an exclusive “Rolling Stone” magazine report, vehemently and personally has trashed the president, his staff, ambassadors – and some senators, to boot. Since being informed by the magazine of what to expect in print, the general has issued s ...

The Question upon which Chris Crumbles

Chris Matthews, who heads MSNBC’s, “Hardball,” has cobbled together an exposé of the Tea Party movement, entitled, “The Rise of the New Right”

Boldly, he connects gun-toting militia folk -- with an unvarnished disdain for, “government” -- to non-uniformed, apparently more respectable, types already in government and others hoping to be in government.

Among the latter is Dr. Rand Paul, who recently became the GOP candidate for next fall’s s ...

HAIL, COLUMBIA !!!

Retaining the coarseness of its native son Andrew Jackson, and consistent with managing the first, attention-getting canon shots of the Civil War, south Carolina, through its capital city Columbia, has been able to keep itself in the national political spotlight.

Last year, it was the poetico-romantic Governor Mark Sanford who absented himself from the governor’s mansion for a clandestine, week-long Argentine fling, via a phantom traipse along the Appalachian Trail ...

QUASH the MOSQUE?

In New York City , Muslims are planning to construct a 13-story mosque and multi-purpose facility within hollering distance of Ground Zero. So far, local government is approving the plan. At first blush, such a proposed edifice would appear – at least legally – to be non-controversial. Among the citizenry, however, there is a gathering chorus of, “No Way!” Therein lies the constitutional dilemma.

As the pro forma, bureaucratic steps are inh process, inquiries have b ...

PREDECESSORS

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PRESIDENTIAL PRESENCE

What is wrong with Barack?   He seems not to take to the dual role of the president. The Constitution, of course, specifies only one, that of “executive,” which refers to the head of government. However, the other, non-specified role is ceremonial,   that of a kind of “king,” or head of the nation, the personal representative of the people. It is this latter cloak that he seems not to recognize or wear comfortably. This is what the people want ...

BP – PLUS

In this case, “BP” does not mean, “British Petroleum.” However, that corporation is included in the, “Plus.” This title refers to Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s prediction, prior to the inauguration, that President-elect Barack Obama soon would be tested by world events. “Plus” refers to the following:

The Bus Wreck

It was necessary to dig deeply into our depleted National cash reserves in order to drag “Bus USA ” out of the ditch.

OBAMACARE

What appeared t ...

IN RESPONSE TO PREVIOUS POST ON DR. RAND PAUL

Writes reader Matador:

This is one of your best. Too bad it can not be published.

Every day we continue to see proof that having a half African in the white house does not mean a damn thing to American society.

My reply:

Thanks.

Rand Paul is so new that I did not catch in time a few more of his Libertarian bugaboos.

·        Wwants to overturn the Fair Housing Act.

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