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Happy...2010......
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Health Care reform, Now!...anyone who pays all or part of their medical insurance knows what's happening...you'd have to be a moron not to see the status quo will only worsen...sometimes I think it would be best for the American people to witness that & then watch them demand reform, which is what ultimately would happen...
Is Everybody Angry?...Even killer whales are getting pissed off...but then again, they have the word "Killer" in their name..everyone from ploarized Washington, to citizens like crazed professor, Amy Bishop or kamakze pilot Joseph Andrew Stack are just going ballistic...needless to say, millions of people are losing their retirement, their savings & medical care is either out of sight or overly expensive....& that is driving many to anger & outrageous behavior...the Tea Bagger crowd are crazed as they bring guns & threats to rallies...
Only The Good Die Young:Dick Cheney has survived another heart attack...they say he's "resting comfortably"..that's for than I can say for those of us who lived under his tryanny...I don't wish harm for the guy...although maybe a little incompacitation might not be so bad,,......
"Boner" Is Dead!!...Andrew Koenig..aka, Boner is gone.... Hopefully they won't mention that character in the eulogy...it might not come across well...
Just What Cincinnati Needs: All You Can Eat:My beloved hometown of Cincinnati is awash with over weight people...lumbering behemoths lurch from side to side as they walk around...God forbid you get stuck behind them at the mall, they're so big, it's hard to get around these giants...if they get between you and the sun, it's like a total eclipse!...when they get their shoes shined, they have to take the guys word for it...now, just to help these waistlines burst into another orbit, Montgomery Inn is offering All You Can Eat Ribs & Saratoga Chips...lots of meat & starch for these leviathans...
Reds Fans will be blue ..again, this season:Look for nothing new from this 3rd rate organization...they asked & received a tax for a new sports stadium, promised a competitive team..& then proceeded down to the basement in standings, year after year, they stink & it was a colossal mistake selling that team to fat mouth, no-nothing Castellini..who promised to do "whatever it takes", to win...except getting quality players..
Tiger & Toyota...what a match:these two iconic brands are in deep trouble & maybe should consider to team up & battle back together...Tiger could dump Buick, an old brand anyway & help himself & Toyota with a little humor about quality control & what happens when you lose it...
IRS Can be A Target Too:The IRS takes aim at business's and people everyday...an audit here & there can terrorize even those on the level when paying their taxes...but yesterday, one Joseph Andrew Stack...blew his stack & flew his airplane right at the IRS offices located in Austin, Texas...he killed himself & a yet unknown person in the building....Stack made his point & won't have to file this year as aresult...
Clear Channel Cincinnati Now Adds Another Sports Station:Another example of what the Telcom Act of 1996 did for radio...Cincinnati is not a market which can support two sports stations but Clear Channel owns the market, has no idea what to do with all their stations, so the'll add another all sports network (FOX SPORTS) to the city 1360/1530 will now both do 24 hour sports...what a farce but Cincy has no diversity anyway..
Cincinnati's Bill Cunningham keeps Cincy in the slowwwww lane: It's nice not living in Cincinnati, if for no other reason, I don't have to listen to rightwing radio all the time ...but I happened to tune into Cunningham's national Sunday night & heard just enough to hear him talking with some nut about the birther movement...even Glenn Beck has moved on from this fairy tale....but not Bill...typical of that never changing Cincy mentality...no wonder Mark twain (or whoever it was) said about 100 year ago, when the world ends, I wanna be in Cincinati because they won't know it for 10 years...
Lizards & Giant Snakes Attacking South Florida!Iguanas & other lizards (some up to 5-6-7 feet) are invading South Florida..ditto that for giant Pythons...feeble minded idiots, some who have such things & pets, only to realize the insanity, have dumped these reptiles off in the Everglades & other areas...they reproduced & now we've got a B-Science fiction movie on our hands...
National Debate on Terrorists Trials:A national debate needs to be convened somewhere to address the issue of trying alleged terrorists as enemy combatants or in a civil trial...most people just don't know the difference and how it plays into best judging guilt and applying justice...we are on new ground fighting an enemy that has no particular home country and a war different than most...so the rules need to be discussed on this one issue so at least, we all understand the particulars....wild rhetoric on which way to try a suspect needs to be put to rest and a public debate on what the differences are would go a long way in settling the score...
Shady Husband, Exits, Stage left:Josh Powell of West Valley City Utah, is the husband of Susan Powell, who mysteriously vanished a month or so ago...He's leaving for Washington state...like Scott Peterson, this guy reeks of guilt...it's always the hubby who does in the little woman..she probably wanted to leave him & like so many of today's losers, he couldn't handle rtejection & did her in...God knows where her body is but Utah's been cold for some time so I'm assuming her body is intact...but who knows...one guy who did his wife in decades ago (she was a flight attendant) did her in with a rented wood chipper...it took some shrewed police work but they eventually nailed the guy...Most guys must think they can get away with this but they're always the first person cops look at...
Yemen has always been a trouble spot: Bill Clinton had another clear warning about Al-Qaeda's determination to do us harm with the October, 2000 attack on the USS Cole, as it sat in the harbor in Yemen....Clinton opted to let the next administration deal with that mess as the elction was just weeks away but with Bush as the new president, he was as feeble as getting Bin Laden as Clinton....Clinton at least tried but failed to nail the terrorist who went on to get us on 9/11 that next year...Yemen's awash in terrorism...Al-Qaeda's even listed in the phone book under terrorists organizations...talk about bold!
Cincinnati Sports:Back to the future...The Bungles have returned & seem to nix anything, one-time legit sports writer Paul Daugherty had to say about the team being: "steady & reliable"...they'll be lucky to survive the 1st round of the playoffs...they have no depth & simply aren't good enough...I'm afraid any progress this year will just be a blip on an otherwise usual radar screen for a team that will sink next year into their usual rut...unless God interferes and takes Mike Brown out of the picture, this team is doomed...the latest Daugherty claim is that the bengals will rebound in this weekends game....whatever reputation any Cincinnati Enquirer reporter has is questionable but this sports writer always seemed legit...until now...the Bengals have been playing over their heads & have been lucky...I'll take that back if they win substantially on Saturday....
We Almost Lost Ken Broo:now living in Florida, I only now realized Ken Broo had a heart attack...thank-God he survived, I wouldn't want any piece of the magic puzzle of magestic media personalities Cincy has been blessed with to disappear..
Dick Cheney:A perfect 2012 ticket for the Republicans would be Cheney/Palin...Cheney keeps running his fat mouth trying to diss Obama when he & Bush brought America to the edge of a depression...their mishandling of Iraq kept us from making progress in Afghanistan & they let Bin Laden escape....he's the perfect mouth piece for the Democrats...
Fact Checkers.com has called Sarah Palin's droning & feeble charge of 'Obamacare' creating 'death panels', the biggest lie of 2009....it won't matter to her all white-all right following of brain dead mutant hillbillies...
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Ft. Hood Texas: That whacked out Muslim, Hasan, is paralyzed from the waist down & has gotten the first of many years of torture for his evil deeds...I still say this guy was unhappy about his own miserable life & used the Islamic Jihadist thing as an excuse...he wanted to die & was left in this retched shape which is a good first start to a life of hell
Bush/ Cheney/ Rumsfeld screw-ups helped bin Laden escape in the Tora Bora mountain area during December, 2001, a new report from the Senate foreign relations committee illustrates but most of us already knew this....Tommy Franks was still in command too so his finger prints are all over this as well...to make matters worse, not only did bin laden escape to fight another day but his win over America made him a hero to many crazed Muslims and he helped resurge his maniacal minions to gain strength in Afghanistan after we blindly detoured into Iraq, which also emboldened Iran to begin Nuke proliferation....that adminstration was a perfect example of failure in motion...& it's now on Obamas plate to clean up....good luck Mr. President