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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

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Warning…this post could make your head explode (I think mine just did)

Quote of the Day:     “I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”     –Oliver Wendell Holmes TB … Continue reading

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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

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The Mississippi Debate in a Bizarro Universe

Word of the Day     Truthiness–“truth that comes from the gut, not books” –Stephen Colbert; the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true rather than concepts or facts known to be true  –American Dialect Society TB … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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