Posted on October 31, 2009 by no2liberals
Any football fan, and current or former resident of Louisiana, knows about the famous 89 yard punt return on Halloween night, by Billy Cannon, also known as “Flyin’ Twenty,” which was the winning score in this 7-3 hard fought game in the mud. That brief moment in time, in a tightly contested game between #1 [...]
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Posted on October 31, 2009 by nuke
Dede Scozzafava has dropped out of the contentious special election in upstate New York. Winners and Losers? Mondo has the recap … We’d say one big beneficiary would be Sarah Palin, who jumped in to support Hoffman before supporting Hoffman was cool. Her principled stand can be expected to both benefit Palin–and enrage that group [...]
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Posted on October 31, 2009 by nuke
I learned yesterday that my good friend’s wife may be about to face some difficult health issues. I want them both to know that they are high in my thoughts and prayers. Certain prayers availeth much: effectual, fervent prayers of righteous men and women. Those are the ones that I covet most for my friends, [...]
Filed under: family | Tagged: prayer requests | 11 Comments »
Posted on October 30, 2009 by nuke
from AP: Regulators shut nine banks Friday, including Los Angeles-based California National, as the still-weak economy produces a stream of loan defaults. The banks were units of privately held FBOP Corp., a Chicago-based bank holding company. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said U.S. Bank in Minneapolis agreed to assume the deposits and most of the [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2009 by nuke
The Obama administration is crowing about the success of their largest-ever stimulus package, claiming some 1 million jobs either created or saved. Taking out my trusty calculator, I see that 1,000,000 jobs are being claimed at a cost of some $340,000,000,000…. Put another way, each of those jobs came at a cost of $340,000. How’s [...]
Filed under: economics, Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder | Tagged: hopenchange, porkulus, stimulus | 10 Comments »
Posted on October 29, 2009 by nuke
Americans for Tax Reform has waded through Nancy Pelosi’s 2000-page healthcare takeover bill. Thirteen new tax hikes. Here we go. Wake up America! LINK
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Posted on October 29, 2009 by nuke
The AP is reporting that Obama administration officials have been cooking the books in reporting job growth as a result of stimulus spending. Cooking the books? I’m shocked! (not) The AP review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2009 by nuke
Wordsmiths in Washington, D.C. have been doing their best to hide the true nature of their massive new healthcare entitlement program. The latest obfuscation involves changing the name of the unpopular “public option” to something less objectionable. In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as [...]
Filed under: Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder | Tagged: consumer option, nancy pelosi, nationalized healthcare, public option, socialized medicine | 7 Comments »
Posted on October 26, 2009 by nuke
Posted on October 26, 2009 by nuke
Posted on October 25, 2009 by nuke
Today is St. Crispin’s Day. Although I’m not sure what St. Crispin’s Day is all about, William Shakespeare made sure it would be never forgotten in Henry V. This clip is from the movie Renaissance Man.
Filed under: military | Tagged: band of brothers, danny devito, renaissance man, shakespeare, st crispins day, we few we happy few | 20 Comments »
Posted on October 22, 2009 by nuke
Beginning this weekend, the cell phone business will get a healthy dose of competition: Walmart style. The new Straight Talk cell phone plans from Wal-Mart will drive down the prices. The company said yesterday that its $30 dollar monthly cell phone plan includes many goodies. It will have 1,000 minutes, 1,000 texts, 30MB of mobile [...]
Filed under: business and economy | Tagged: cell phone, walmart | 9 Comments »
Posted on October 22, 2009 by nuke
… to fight Fox News h/t Harnden
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Posted on October 21, 2009 by nuke
O’Keefe and Giles rock the Philly Acorn office. h/t Breitbart TV
Filed under: News and politics | Tagged: acorn, acorn video, breitbart, giles, o'keefe, philadelphia | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 20, 2009 by nuke
Nicko Margolies at The Sunlight Foundation sends a heads-up for the new and improved database for researching government documents. • the Congressional Record • congressional bills and resolutions • congressional reports • congressional hearings • GAO reports • presidential documents and • the Federal Register. The Library of Unified Information Sources, or LOUIS for short, [...]
Filed under: News and politics | Tagged: government transparency, louis, sunlight foundation | 4 Comments »
Posted on October 19, 2009 by nuke
Update: Link to video For Release Immediately: WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government will hold a press conference featuring James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, the two daring young journalists who, posing as a “pimp” and “prostitute,” exposed massive corruption within ACORN’s offices throughout the country. The Press Conference will be held at [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2009 by nuke
Bro-in-law sent me a get-well note with a pack of Obama trading cards inside the envelope! Woo Hoo!!! (After all, he DID win the Nobel Peace Prize). Now that’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are.
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Posted on October 18, 2009 by nuke
Please Donate to ACORN Related Legal Defense Funds Hannah Giles | James O’Keefe | Breitbart Defense & Discovery Fund
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Posted on October 17, 2009 by nuke
For those who will not learn from history … click here It’s time to get rid of these parasites. Send them back to wherever they came from. H/t NRO
Filed under: Islam, multiculturalism and political correctness | Tagged: islam is a mental disorder, leftist-islamist convergence | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 17, 2009 by swampie
From American Thinker: The liberal/progressive movement has convinced modern man that to satisfy his material needs it is not necessary to labor exhaustingly in pursuit of said needs; but much more beneficial to modern man to simply reallocate resources from those who can afford to do so. The foundations of the welfare state having been [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2009 by nuke
It’s long. Trust me.
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Posted on October 4, 2009 by no2liberals
This gentleman’s name is Sinh Tho Nguyen, a resident of Ft. Worth, Texas, but his history is more interesting than his current residence. Born in Viet Nam in 1969 to a Viet Namese mother, and a U.S. Army father he never knew, Sinh immigrated to the U.S. in 1992. Since that time he has become [...]
Filed under: military, n2l, Patriotism | 5 Comments »
Posted on October 4, 2009 by nuke
What kind of survivor and thriver are you? Discover your Survivor Personality with this free, fast quiz widget from TheSurvivorsClub.org. El Nuko is a Thinker. Heh. No kidding. BTW, my surgery is scheduled for Tuesday morning. Much to do tomorrow in preparation for down time. This will be my last post for a while. Catch [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2009 by nuke
But I’m just too dang distracted to come up with the words. Muslim Congressman rebukes fellow Muslim for linking Islam to terrorism. Linking islam to terrorism? Why in the world would anyone do that? Talk among yourselves.
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Posted on October 1, 2009 by nuke
Conan won’t last very long on NBC if he keeps this up.
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