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Good bye to Papa Joe
Houston, TX - Joe Paterno, the 46 year veteran coach from Penn State, left this world last Sunday. It was a shock to those outside the family. People knew the coach was ill, but his demise was not expected this soon. Papa Joe was assaulted in the media...

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An open letter to the powers that be at Penn State
Dear mindless idiots in charge of Penn State, Joe Paterno is quite possibly the most straight up, by the book coach in college football today. Over the years he repeatedly demonstrated this fact on an off the field. No one, until now, has ever had the...

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The TSA crossed a line
Over the years in these pages I defended the TSA and their security measures taken in the wake of September 11th. I felt most of standards and procedures were reasonable based on the moronic twisted rules (No profiling for one) the TSA is forced to work...

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More EPA wisdom for the good of all, of course.
Lenoir, TN - In yet another stroke of stunning consequences-be-damned thinking the EPA, acting under a directive from the idiots leading Congress, are going to increase the percentage of ethanol allowed in gasoline blends. The old line was 10%, the new...

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One more launch…
Shuttle Discovery on Pad B with the press area flag in the foreground. Kennedy Space Center - Several of the higher ups around here as well as people from ATK, the people that manufacture the solid fuel boosters for the space shuttle were talking with...

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Socialist Health Care: It's Done.
Clearwater, FL - Everyone reading this blog knows my feelings on Obama-care. There is no point wasting bandwidth with them now. The good side fought the good fight. But the dark side headed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Harry Reid and President Barak...

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Great time for a debate
Yesterday, Washington DC was under 30+ inches of snow. Mother Nature is expected to deliver another 15 inches by the end of the day. Trees are down. Power is out. Flat roofs are collapsing. The city is paralyzed. This would be a great time to hold a congressional...

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Fines for not having health insurance? Oh Hell no!
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) has an interesting idea to get universal health insurance coverage in the United States. He proposes fines on people that do not have health insurance. Read it for yourself. The fines would be the stick to enforce a proposed requirement...

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The Speaker of House and CIA Briefings
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's weekly press briefing and photo op went off as usual today. But new information on her disagreement over when and what the CIA briefed her on was not forth coming. Reporters tried to press Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on the matter....

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Microsoft is not my conscience
Recently while trying unsuccessfully to view a video on a blog it came up that I was using an older version of Windows Media player. It was suggested that I upgrade Windows Media Player to view the video, but I declined. The reason for this is simple...

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