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Tweet I’d meant to write a long, ruminative post about the end of a very painful 2009 and the beginning of what we hope is a better 2010. My husband, however, has commandeered my computer, so I am reduced to blogging on my iPhone. The best I can do, therefore, is to wish all of [...]

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Tweet We’ve been cleaning house like crazy.  My husband woke up this morning and announced that everything that was useless had to go.  Well, I say that every day (usually about the President), but no one listens to me.  With him in the driver’s seat, though, we had a frenzy of cleaning, which resulted in [...]

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Tweet A quick, and personal, history of San Francisco’s decline from the 1960s to the present I was born and grew up in San Francisco.  My very earliest memories of the City just predate the advent of the hippies.  At that time, the City was a solid amalgam of working class people, middle class people, [...]

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Tweet Rush was taken to a Honolulu hospital in serious condition with chest pains.  I hope it’s nothing more than angina or indigestion.  He is a national treasure, something that becomes especially obvious when he has guest hosts sitting in, as he does now, during the holiday season.  No matter how good they are, they’re [...]

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Tweet I would just like to say that it is impossible to do anything when one is interrupted every 4-5 minutes.

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Tweet I blogged the other day that Tom Lehrer’s MLF Lullaby, although about Germany, worked well with Islam in the starring role.  It turns out that Tom Leher was prescient about folk songs too.  First, the New York Times story: When one of Cuba’s best-known musicians landed in the United States, his first appearance was [...]

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Tweet Maybe I’m being picky, but it seems to me that a president who makes an official statement three days after a terrorist attack on the United States could bother with a necktie?  I know he’s on vacation, but I’m really, really sure that, even if he didn’t pack a tie, someone could have run [...]

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Tweet I got an emergency research project, and slipped in a quick workout, so blogging hasn’t happened yet.  Here’s an open thread and a little Dusty Springfield for good measure.

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Tweet Compare and contrast: No wonder our government functions like a bad comedy.  At least Foster Brooks was talented.  Baucus is just a hack — with your life in his hands.

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Tweet I got a letter from a good friend who not only linked me to this worth-reading Uncle Jimbo post, but who also added “Has anyone noticed that all of the airplane incidents since 9/11 have been perpetrated by muslims?”  Since I live with a liberal, and I know the score, my response to him [...]

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Tweet It was a nice Christmas gift for me when my fellow Council members gave their votes to my post about the Communist secret behind the Climate Change mantra.  Considering the quality of the minds behind the Watcher’s Council, I always feel so honored when I win.  But enough about me.  Here’s the whole list.  [...]

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Tweet By now, you’ve all heard that Janet Napolitano, the head of Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, is going around saying that the system worked perfectly when a guy on the US no-fly list, who had been turned in by his own father, boarded a plane and detonated a bomb, only to be foiled by [...]

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Tweet I just returned from seeing Disney’s latest release, The Princess and the Frog. Looked at purely from an entertainment standpoint, the movie is a delight.  The hand drawn animation is imaginative and, at times, exquisitely beautiful.  When the Bayou lights up at sunset with fireflies, every little girl in the audience emits a rapturous [...]

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Tweet Thanks to Lulu for bringing this brilliant comic video to my attention:

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Tweet The other day, the most transparent administration ever did something very secretive and very bizarre:  without any fanfare, President Obama signed an Executive Order giving Interpol freedom to operate within United States borders.  Oh, yes, there was an announcement — of sorts.  The following is the press release that went out: The White House [...]

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Tweet You can’t summarize the whole fiasco better than Mark Steyn did: We were told we had to do it because of the however many millions of uninsured, yet this bill will leave some 25 million Americans uninsured. On the other hand, millions of young fit healthy Americans in their first jobs who currently take [...]

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Tweet Christmas dinner (which was lovely), included in a brief foray into discussing the Senate’s health care bill.  A liberal friend let loose with this terrific line after I said that the Senate had raided Medicare and Medicare Advantage to make the bill ostensibly revenue neutral:  “I don’t know anything about the bill, but I [...]

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Tweet The year 2009 has been a trying year for many of us.  In our personal lives, the recession has hurt people’s jobs, diminished their savings, and placed enormous stresses on their day-to-day functions.  Nationally, watching the Democrats at work at home and abroad has provided us with all the thrills of watching a polar [...]

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Tweet The holidays continue to make demands on me that take me away from my beloved computer and my blog.  I’ve managed to track enough news, though, to know that Reid managed to get his vote.  My question for you, and one I can’t answer myself, is this: Will the health care bill, even if [...]

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Tweet I’m going to be enjoying these Council submitted posts this morning, as I struggle to narrow my votes to two in each category: Council Submissions American Digest – What’s Bad For America Is Good For The Obama Gang Right Truth – Hundreds of British schoolgirls facing genital mutilation Joshuapundit – Jimmy Carter Apologizes To [...]

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Tweet Over at The Dawn Patrol, Greyhawk has put together a very special list:  he’s compiled links to (and holiday messages from) active duty bloggers serving at home and abroad.  He asks that you visit their blogs and send them holiday greetings in the comments section.  That sounds like a plan to me.  It’s such [...]

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Tweet When the family is around, I get nothing done.  I haven’t even read the news today.  The earth could have reversed its rotation and I wouldn’t have known.  I am never left alone.  My presence is essential to all activities, whether it’s sitting, standing, or walking.  If I hear my name called again, I [...]

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Tweet I know many of you enjoyed the video I uploaded of a speech by Col. Allen West (ret.).  Andrea Shea King is having him on her radio show tonight: Tonight we’ll talk with Col. Allen West (US Army Ret), Congressional House candidate for Florida’s District 22 (Jupiter, Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Delray, [...]

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Tweet We just returned from seeing Wicked in San Francisco.  Here’s the ten second review: Production values:  Superb Performance quality:  Real talent, and working hard Book:  Better than the actual book, but pretty dull and didactic Music:  Generic, forgettable, and cacophonous

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