I am extremely dubious of anyone who calls for “energy independence“. For me, it sends up a big red “I’m a MORON!” flag. So I’ve pretty much totally dismissed T. Boone Pickens‘ energy plan – but I thought I’d take a look at it, if for no other reason than Big Bill Richardson signed off [...]
Of all the stupid things, it would be hard to top the insistence that Barack Obama‘s remark that “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig” is somehow aimed at calling Sarah Palin a pig – technically, a sow. But, if that is true, then he also called her a fish: [...]
I’m addressing this to Steve Rothman, because I live in his Congressional District, and to our US (New Jersey) Senators Bob Menendez and Frank Lautenberg. Also to New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, NJ State Senator Nic Sacco, and NJ Assemblypersons Vincent Prieto and Joan Quigley. During the party conventions over the last two weeks, we [...]
The more things stay the same: I called a special session of the Congress in November 1947– November 17, 1947 — and I set out a 10-point program for the welfare and benefit of this country, among other things standby controls. I got nothing. Congress has still done nothing. Way back 4-1/2 years ago, while [...]
Mike Zemack was kind enough to post a thoughtful commentary on one of my posts at NJ Voices. Though his answer is almost two months old, I’d like to respond to it here – because, like all too many bloggers, he uses blogspot and won’t allow anonymous commenting (the only reason the anonymous commenting is [...]
Let’s play pretendsies. Let’s say that you are the presumptive nominee of a political party and you will soon be choosing your vice-president. Do you go with this list of questions: Campaign advisers at the convention in St. Paul, Minn., said Palin filled out a survey with 70 questions, including: Have you ever paid for [...]
