Happy Birthday USMC and thanks to all the Veterans - past present and future!
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“Obama says he’s looking at any way to create jobs” That is just an outright lie!
My employer has reduced staff by about 50% since the first of the year - and Obama’s administration and the Democrats in Congress could easily reverse that and they probably would not [...]
As I flew this past week to DC for my friend Mike’s burial at Arlington I was reading the book - Band of Brothers about Easy Company and their participation in many of the key battles to liberate Europe from the Nazis in WWII.
Here in the Denver area we set a record low temp last night 19 degrees. We barely wanted any AC this summer. The Rockies baseball game today was snowed out.
New England had a cold miserable “Summer”. Record early snow fall in Detroit. The Colorado ski areas are already [...]
By now it is clear that for most people getting the swine flu is no more dangerous than getting the vaccine. So do what my mother did when chicken pox or measles came around - try to get everyone exposed to it! Get sick a day or two and then [...]
During the 2008 Presidential campaign, a “decorated Marine veteran” who had “served three tours” in Iraq, made impassioned speeches for Obama, founded a veterans group to raise money for Democrats.
It was all a fraud!
Dems red-faced over veteran impostorToday the FBI has announced that there is a warrant out for [...]
Forget battling against a national ID scheme - the battle happened quietly in the dead of night and we lost!
The stimulus bill creates a massive database that will include:
“an electronic record of health-related information on an individual that — (A) includes patient demographic and clinical health information, such as medical [...]
Tire worker unions refuse to admit that they had a hand in driving tire manufacturing off shore - appeal to Oblama and he raises taxes and tariffs in the middle of the economic mess he and his cronies created.
The unions have been working hard to drive jobs over seas for [...]
Since not all “Enlightened” school districts have recognised the political nature of Obama’s planned propaganda address to children on Tuesday, I am calling for parents to simply keep their children home. Call it “Freedom Day”.
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TruTV is running a series about drilling for oil. I like it, my late uncle worked his way thru college and law school as a roughneck in Wyoming. DRILL DRILL DRILL
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Americans for Prosperity is asking you to send a message to Obama calling on him to allow drilling in the USA and off our coasts.
My employer would love to sell equipment to American drillers. We are quoting tools to people around the world - millions of dollars [...]
Ted Kennedy has died. He is to be buried in Arlington cemetary.
My mother (at whose house I labored all day today) taught me “to never speak ill of the dead” and “If you can’t say anything nice - don’t say anything at all!”
OK Mom.
[...]Ok, so the average person has had a respite from inflation this year and because of that there will be no COLA (Cost Of Living Adjustment) for those on Social Security this year and maybe next year.
How many of the recipients who get no increase will buy the Democrats saying [...]
How is it with global warming I keep hearing how until just recently NH has skipped summer, that all the reports I hear are that nearly the entire country is having a colder than usual summer.
When there were an abnormal number of hurricanes including Katrina we were told that was [...]
Colorado has a recently built toll road E-470 that skirts the east side of the metro area and can mean half hour or more saved on the trip between south of the city to north of the city. It is not a cheap toll. I am not a fan of [...]
In about 7 minutes I will have won the $250 million in the Powerball.
I don’t think I will announce it here - and I’ll probably disappear from the scene for a while in order to keep from being immediately hounded by everyone wanting to help me decide how to spend [...]
A former model I never heard of before got upset over an anonymous blogger calling her a skank and maybe lying about her age? The news report wasn’t really clear on what the blogger said that got her upset.
There was a time when one requirement for being [...]
Obama supposedly is backing off the Public option health plan part of his Obama care.
I call BS! The reported “new” alternative is a non-profit co-op. Isn’t the Government a non-profit? Co-ops are owned by the users. So what is a Government created and run non-profit co-op health care plan? It [...]
I watched the video of the two MSNBC Dolts talking about the guy openly carrying in Portsmouth. Neither of them mentioned the sign - probably because they have never read anything from Thomas Jefferson, certainly not his quote about the tree of liberty needing to be watered with [...]
The economy is coming back slowly - despite the best efforts of Obama Reid and Pelosi. The greatest threat to the Capitalist economy is the socialist agenda in DC. My company is selling more stuff to people drilling for oil and gas - mostly over seas. Cash for clunkers is [...]
Well here is a first- I am on an Air Tran flight from Denver to Atlanta and am on line wirelessly! So out the window I see - probably Kansas farm fields.
It is fast, the service is complimentary today for some reason. I signed up and logged on and it [...]
Vicky’s son John had a 1999 Ford Taurus that failed the Colorado emissions test - had been sitting for a year with expired Kansas plates - and was taking up space in the driveway. He said he said “Mom and Rob, if you guys want it you can have it”. [...]
With the Cap & Tax bill and the Helthcare “Reform” tax bill looming, with the “energy independence” bill leading us further into energy dependence, Algore claiming - correctly - that cap & tax will lead to a world governance (Tyrannical socialist) it is no wonder that the US businesses and [...]
Did you know there is a new strain of the “swine” flu? It is called the Sao Paulo H1N1 - because it was first identified there. When we “flu” in last Tuesday we were greeted by people in white smocks and surgery masks handing out flyers about the flu. If [...]
A week ago Sunday my boss and I embarked on a trip to Brazil. From the very beginning it was “eventful”.
When we arrived at the Denver airport there was a report there were funnel clouds reported in Denver. The storm was tracking very near the airport. Our flight was delayed [...]
We are here in Macae’ (Mack-I-ya) Brazil (Brasil the way they spell it) for a trade show. It is a town that without oil would be a nice stretch of beach that nobody would go to unless they had relatives there.
The discovered oil off shore here and - unlike the [...]
Watched Marine One (and the decoy and at least 4 other Marine copters) fly past the window of the Chicago hotel that United put us up in because they were an hour late getting us here on our way to Brazil (or Brasil if you live there). We were supposed [...]
I looked at the Graphic Blue published under their Headline ”
Consequences of Marriage Equalityand I think they are exactly right. The Consequences of the drive to legalize Homosexual Marriage in NH will be to turn the state red! I can’t [...]
Actually that headline reads Obama is automotive disaster. He took over Chrysler and gave it to the unions that destroyed it and Fiat!
Fiat has clearly demonstrated that they cannot build cars Americans want to buy. They have tried several times to enter the US market and failed every time. I [...]
Yes, seriously, I am in cattle country. Saw that bumper sticker today - on Saturday I stood in the yard and watched a young eagle catch and devour its lunch about 20 feet away. The prairie dogs all took cover, the way a couple robins were harassing the eagle I [...]
My best friend in school and on through life has passed on today.
He was 60 and one of those freak incidents that just should never happen got him.
He survived being blown up in an ammo dump explosion in Viet Nam. His letter to me at the time just said “should [...]
My aging laptop had a failing hard drive. I researched the several options to retrieve the data and transfer it to a new hard drive. In the process of doing that I made a full copy of all the data to an external drive and also made an [...]
Name the source of the following quotation
Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, [...]
Now that O is running the show at the former General Motors it will surprise me if he doesn’t change the name to some thing less militaristic - like Union Motors. He claims that the CEO had to go because he forced GM to concentrate on SUV’s and trucks instead [...]
Q: How many Obama voters does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. Hoping that it would change is quite enough.
Q: How many autoworkers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: 17 at GM, Ford and Chrysler; 1 at Honda, Hyundai and Toyota.
Q: How many [...]
Three pieces on Drudge today got me thinking - how long will it be before the Greenies implement a tax on crapping?
They want us to stop using soft toilet paper - it is an “environmental disaster”.
They want us to use reusable toilet wipes.
Obama and his lead henchman AG Holder are using the recent drug cartel violence in Mexico as a reason to bring back Clinton’s scary looking gun ban.
Not surprising is the drive by media contributing to the idea with inaccurate reporting. ABC, in a report on Obama and Holder [...]
Euthanasia! This is just a glimpse at how Obama’s plan to cut the cost of our healthcare system and make it “more efficient”.
Information about his first proposed budget has this coded reference “paying doctors for results rather than procedure” to the change in Medicare. This would mean a doctor providing [...]
Today the big news is that the inflation rate is up - or is it?
OK, gas prices are $1.80 or so and during the [...]
Without doubt the fires in Australia are bad - they are described as “the worst bushfires in the nation’s history“
and without doubt they will be blamed on Global Warming. Even though they are reportedly the work of arsonists.
Yes they are bad - but are they historically the worst? [...]
Here is another video about The Change!
My son the Marine spent three tours in Anbar province. This year it was so pacified they sent him instead to Afghanistan. Here is a letter from the Marine in charge there:
Mgen John Kelly USMC, CG MNF West, senior Marine in Irag. Great Marine
and a true American Patriot
H.C. [...]
No, this is not the picture from the CNN T-shirt, but it is the image that came to mind when I saw the headline on Drudge. He is after all known to use just one finger.
[...]Last spring, the state of New Hampshire was bribed by the Feds to make holders of commercial drivers licenses second class citizens. And the Democrats in the Senate cannot claim they did not understand! They were very clearly told by my good friend Sen. Bob Clegg (one of the original [...]
As a joke today I was handed a Boulder Daily Camera paper. I’ve never wanted to read the Pravda of the Rockies but glanced through it. There was a headline
College loans and grants may be cutThe story - how hard it will be for families, particularly Middle Income families [...]
The Marines know dangerous places and they are very often the first Americans to go to the worst trouble spots - but they also know when the danger is justified. Now, like many Mexican citizens - they will be staying north of the border.
Citing a wave of violence and murder [...]
While on the topic of speed cams (and red light cams) and their unconstitutional accusations of wrongdoing, I came across the following about the validity of studies purported to show a decrease in accidents as a result of their use. Particularly one often used by [...]
There is good news from Arizona. The constitution provides that everyone should be allowed to face their accuser in court. How exactly does a robotic camera take the witness stand?
Pinal County supervisors Wednesday bid goodbye to photo enforcement.
Their vote to terminate their contract with Redflex, the company that operates [...]
Someone reached my blog by searching Robert Boyce USMC and when I looked at what they found with their search I found the article below. As it happens I had read the hard copy of it and I also have the American Flag my son “flew” over iraq that [...]
I expect that every bad liberal/progressive idea that was even considered during the last 20 years will be proposed as law - passed easily in the House - squeak through the Senate - and be signed into law by Obama.
The right to keep and bear arms will be further restricted [...]
Poliwood at Pajamas TV has a review of Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino - I have not seen the movie yet, had to take the grand kids to see Yes Man this weekend instead. From all I can see Gran Torino is a powerful movie about the culture [...]
Day by Day
Just in case trying to scroll the entire Day by Day cartoon in the tiny window is too hard - this one is, as usual, priceless! Kudos to Chris Muir.
[...]Democrats have been quoted as vowing not to pack “Earmarks” into the stimulus package bills they are pushing through Congress. “If it walks like a Duck…”
Among the list of state and local “infrastructure projects” that look to be the main body of what the Dems are proposing are - a [...]
I think it would be entirely appropriate if everyone were to make an effort to wear Black on Tuesday Jan 20th 2008.
Also I think that bloogers should adopt a Black theme or apply a black ribbon for that day. It will be a historic day [...]
A friend took the time to compile this list of proposed bills from the NH legislature. The Senate allows bills to be hidden until they are actually introduced so there probably are more. There is a definite theme among the Democrat sponsored bills - they want to spend more of [...]
When I was first elected to the NH House the entire budget for two years was approaching one billion dollars. Twelve years later the budget had been bloated to nearly two billion dollars - not counting the revenue shortfall of some $200 million or the underfunded state pension fund or [...]
Glen Reynolds at Instapundit has a poll - unscientific naturally - about whether you think 2009 will be better or worse than 2008.
I voted “worse” but I think the question is too broad. If it were “will the economy be better?” I’d say I think it will. If it [...]
What will the business of drilling for and producing oil and gas be like under Obama? That seems to be a question looming darkly over the heads of those who do the drilling and speculate on finding the energy sources at costs low enough to allow for a profit.
I should [...]
I have to admit I had never actually read Ayn Rand, although I intuitively believed much of what she built into her philosophy - sort of “anti-collectivism”. She pointed out that only someone with a strong value for their own “self” could lead the masses, that those who espouse selflessness [...]
Madam Speaker,
As you know, the forthcoming legislative session is going to present our state with many fiscal challenges. Despite the efforts of Governor Lynch and State Department heads to slash their budgets, the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy anticipates that we will still [...]
I came across this somewhere and clipped itbut have since lost the link. It is interesting to see a “Progressive” spell out how they intend to “take back” control. There is insight into how they think here.
1. The Issue Trap
We hear it said all the time: Progressives won’t unite behind [...]
The following is by former Governor John H Sununu:
The Democrats are Ruining the State of New Hampshire
The Democrats have controlled the governor’s office of the State of New Hampshire for ten of the last twelve years and will control it for the next two. They will also control the [...]
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I came across the following in a piece about Marine helicopters in Afghanistan:
“It’s well known among the enemy, with good reason, to never fire at the skinny grey helicopters,” said Maj. Mike M. Richman, Detachment B officer-in-charge of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 269 [...]
“I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not…uhh, I was not aware of what was happening.”
He is weaseling. He says he didn’t talk to him. Did they IM, Chat room, Text message, did O’s people call B’s people.
It is pretty clear to [...]
Every climate scientist on Earth understands that the most prevalent green house gas is di hydrogen monoxide. There is no question, CO2 and Methane are minor contributors. But, there is also the other important component of the “Global Warming” process that no one has addressed.
That is the process of converting [...]
According to the National Council of State Legislators (NCSL) only one state will have a shortfall of more than 15% of their General Fund budget in 2009. This actually come as [...]
A small percent of our US citizens would like to have us forget the true meaning of Christmas, let’s continue to keep CHRIST in Christmas.
This is a Christmas Tree 
This is a Christmas Tree
This is a [...]
The current “crisis” for the big three auto makers reminded me of another era when government took over failing automakers.
The government was France and the car makers were their “Big Three”, Renault, Citroën and Peugeot.
Citroën was weak and unable to withstand the softening of the automobile market that accompanied the [...]
The anti oil Democrats during the summer tried to justify their continued opposition to new oil drilling off the US coasts by citing existing oil field leases that have not been drilled - claiming that the oil companies didn’t need new leases because they already had plenty.
The reality of the [...]
Boy George mug shot
Oh, my! Who would have ever thought that the leader of the ‘Culture Club’ would (1) turn out to be homosexual (2) hire a “male escort” and (3) comment on the escort’s “heavenly butt”. All that is just too much [...]
Using the EPA as their jacj booted thugs, PETA is hoping to use a tax on belching and farting livestock to drive the cost of meat so high that we would all be Vegans!
While farmers say it would drive them out of business, an organization supporting the proposal hopes [...]
I’m not really sure how 80% of the voters abstaining (or as they do in the Illinois Senate - voted “present”) says anything at all about the racist leanings of those who did vote.
A 20% turnout in Georgia… (a victory for Coward Racists)
Does the author mean that the Democrats [...]
This Sunday marks 67 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Here in an audio clip of a program interrupted by a news flash about the attack.41-12-07_cbspearlharbor_johncharlesdaly.mp3
And as we sit here 7 years after the 9-11 Attacks it is interesting to listen to this [...]
In November I wrote my thoughts about Recession vs Deflation and in October about the differences in the definitions of recession, depression, inflation and deflation.
Today comes another news report that commodity metal prices have dropped by some 60% since summer. That is a direct result of too [...]
Went to the local Target store last night to see if any new Christmas decorations were in order - have to add or replace some every year.
What I saw were mostly dull dark red and flat dull dark green decorations. There were no bright Christmas red or green anywhere (except [...]
Except Slinkies(TM) really are useful, they were very handy to demonstrate waves when I taught science and physics. Now, just imagine stretching a liberal twenty feet across a classroom floor and shaking it!
American media is having difficulty looking at the taking of hostages and killing them in India as terrorist acts or as terrorists being those behind it.
CNN says “gangs of gunmen launched a murderous rampage. ” Reuters calls them militants. Even in a story Quoting the surviving “militant” saying [...]
Chavez has been boosting ties with Russia while tensions with the U.S. have grown, and he has bought more than $4 billion in Russian weapons.
My son, a Marine, returned from his first Iraq tour in 2005 with a very interesting tidbit about the tanks Sadam had purchased from Russia.
The [...]
Sometimes buried in a long lefty post, there is something so manifestly Marxist that it is staggering. I’m sure - considering the quote below - the author of it won’t mind at all if I don’t give him (or her) credit or even provide a link to it. I suppose [...]
I just came across a Leftist site with a piece about how to stop the foreclosures by creating - through legislation - a “Right to Rent” for people who would be forced out by foreclosure.
Congress can temporarily modify the rules on foreclosure to give families facing foreclosure the right [...]
A recent BBC report calls Mogadishu a ghost city. Which is obviously is. But rather than place the blame where it belongs - on the lawlessness of that country and the near total lack of anything resembling a government, the reporter blames the US. Now the US and the [...]
Sometimes I think maybe I’ve heard it all but this is restoring my belief that there are some truely whacked people out there:
The global corporate media is up in arms about the Somali pirates, in actuality a militia mounted by Somalia’s fishermen to protect their fisheries from [...]
Victory in Iraq Day
November 22, 2008
“THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:” Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. “There’s nothing going [...]
I fully expect someone to claim this is a racist post and to call me a racist. Far from it - the original remark is from Osama bin Laden’s senior deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri calling Obama:
“the direct opposite of honourable black Americans” such as Malcolm X. “It is true about [...]
The ink is hardly dry on all the ACORN provided ballots electing Obama and his “advisers” are leaking all sorts of info about how Obama will not be keeping another promise - the repeal of Clinton’s “Don’t ask Don’t tell”:
Repealing the ban was an Obama campaign promise. However, Mr. Obama [...]
Over a month ago I pointed out that Obama would reneg on his promises, it has been less than three weeks since Obama won and already the MSM is trying to manage the expectations of his adoring public. According to CBS:
This might be a long haul,” said Robert [...]
During the campaign Obama used the thinking of Mao and other socialists. Now he is channeling Keynes.
From last summer’s small stimulus checks to the infrastructure projects under consideration by President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, almost everything the government has done or wants to do is justified by [...]
I posted on this but Mitt says more and is more closely related to that industry.
In the NYT today Let Detroit go bankrupt
F General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won’t [...]
Pelosi, Reid, Obama and the UAW are all working overtime trying to sell a very bad deal to the taxpayers. The Taxpayers won’t actually have a voice in the matter - they lost that opportunity by squandering their votes on November 4th.
The Dems want to bail out the UAW but [...]
Something stinks at GE and it is not just the fall line up on their TV channels or the political reporting at MSNBC. They just got a bailout from the feds of some $140 billion. Last year according to their annual report their total earnings were only about $172 billion. [...]
Excuse me, but didn’t GE - owner of among other things the in Obama’s pocket cable channel MSNBC - just get $140 billion as a bailout from the feds?
Then what is all this:
In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Immelt, GE chief executive, said the company had the resources [...]
That headline will probablycause problems with the RSS feed but not everyone understands Monty Python.
Drudge has this headline but no link yet:
HORMEL FOODS struggling to keep up with SPAM demand…
I fo one have never understood the negative perception of the meat from the little square can. I actually like [...]
With a razor thin margin in the MN Senate race, scrutiny is needed. A quick search found that there are known problems, like:
Omar Jamal, with the Somali Justice Advocacy Center, claims anywhere from six to ten people acting as interpreters inside the polling place inside the Brian Coyle Center [...]
It has long been acknowledged that if you want to learn how to cheat and steal an election go to Chicago. In the Movie Key Largo Edward G Robinson plays a hood from Chicago and he spells it out very clearly how they do it. Franken and Company in MN [...]
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