Archive for March, 2009

ABC investigates gay bashing

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Tweet What if they were doing a gay bashing experiment in the bar that you frequented, and you didn’t know?  ABC did this (click here), and in some ways the findings were surprising.  In others, let’s just say I’ve heard it myself when out on the town…

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The problems at AIG

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Tweet There is such a thing as a “bandwagon”, and our US Congress is not exempt.  Sure, people were pissed about the bonuses paid to workers at AIG.  They took billions in taxpayer dollars, and are giving out millions in bonuses to its employees. But here’s the thing.  They took $180,000,000,000 in taxpayer dollars so [...]

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Want to know a place to put your money right now?

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Tweet We all are wondering what to do with our money right now, what little money we have left over to invest.  Yeah, we *are* saving more these days, which is awesome.  But what do to with it?  How about buying a US Savings Bond?  Remember any report from the 1940s and the “Buy War [...]

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Message to Donald Wildmon: Do you own damn protest!

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Tweet So I got an email from Donald Wildmon of the AFA tonight. He’s urging everyone to forward his message to everyone in their address book. In part, it read: I’m writing asking you to help us and also to motivate others to get involved. AFA and other groups have called for a day of [...]

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Your tax dollars at work

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Tweet Okay – so Democrats are called “tax and spend”.  Well look at this map, and overlay what is a red state and what is a blue state.  This map indicates for every $1 in taxes that go out of the state to the Federal Government, how much comes back to the state.  Oregon, where [...]

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