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Tag Archives: Issues
Travellinbaen’s Political Consulting Service, Bipartisan Edition
Quote of the Day: “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” –Mark Twain TB’s been thinking about the state of politics in America lately, and trying to set aside my ingrained bias against the Republican … Continue reading
Posted in current events, Politics
Tagged Bull Moose, consulting service, damn political post, Democrats, earmarks, energy, gay marriage, GOP, guns, health care, Issues, Military, Politics, Republicans, Teddy Roosevelt
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The Last Debate
Quote of the Day “I don’t know what they call themselves doing but it ain’t debating.” Smily in the previous post (here) Does anybody need to watch this “debate” tonight? Are you undecided? If so, please respond … Continue reading
Posted in current events, Politics
Tagged damn political post, debate, Election, Issues, McCain, modern journalism sucks, Obama, Politics
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TB’s Guide to Life (in the event of a Second Great Depression)
Quote of the Day “When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” Franklin D. Roosevelt The U.S. Government this week “bailed out” the largest insurance company in the United States, AIG, … Continue reading
Posted in current events, Humor, Writing
Tagged advanced relative macroeconomic theory, advice, AIG, corporations, Depression, economy, financial crisis, funny, George Bush, Great Depression, hobo, Humor, insurance companies, Issues, Jed Clampett, Money, moonshine, Republicans, socialism, Woody Guthrie
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Spending Money
Quote of the Day “It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.” George W. Bush Paul B. Farrell is a financial columnist with over 1000 articles to his credit. He appears regularly on all … Continue reading
Posted in Money, Politics
Tagged Budget, Cons, Conservatives, damn political post, economy, Election, Issues, liberals, Military, Money, Politics, Spending
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Global Warming Slowed by Manmade Global Cooling?
Quote of the Day “It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.” –Yogi Berra I was forwarded an email today including the transcript of a NOVA episode from PBS. To confirm its validity, I went to the NOVA … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, science
Tagged Big Oil, Cons, Democrats, Election, global warming, greenhouse gases, Issues, NOVA, PBS, Politics, science, scientific studies, scientists, studies
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A Political Conversation
Quote of the Day ”When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.” –Will Rogers As closely as I can recount it, here is a lunch time conversation I was involved in this week. Enjoy. Person1–What was … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Politics
Tagged Blank Stares, Conservatives, Deep Thoughts, Election, Hopelessness, Ignorance, Issues, McCain, Mississippi, Obama, Progressives
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Multi-tasking, or How to Make Issue Worlds Collide
Advice for Obama, continued…. Groceries and prison overcrowding: they go together like peas and a box of chocolates. Stay with me. People hate high cereal prices and they hate crime. Bonus hatred for illegal immigrants. We are going to set up a program to provide … Continue reading
