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POTUS Speaks to the Muslim World

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Politics, tagged , , , on 4 June 2009 | 1 Comment »

Unlike my normal, school day morning, I managed to get up and get myself coffee in time to hear President Obama’s speech in Cairo, Egypt live this morning.  While a good speech, it was not the moving speech we heard on his campaign trail last fall.
 
Many items discussed in the speech made me think that [...]

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NY’s Expanded Bottle Bill

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Politics, tagged on 2 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Last fall, Governor David A Paterson of New York began talking about a new, bigger, better bottle bill in NYS.  The original NY bottle bill has been in effect about 25 years and is only on beer and soda bottles and cans.  This bill was an environmental victory as the funds from the bottles and [...]

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Obama’s Possible Army Secretary

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Politics, tagged , , , , on 2 June 2009 | 1 Comment »

Many of my diehard Republican friends were very disappointed with the results of last November’s election.  They were, though, happy to hear that President Obama would keep Secretary Gates on as Secretary of Defense.  Now, Obama is busy filling those “lesser” positions.
The most recent rumor – being reported by NPR here – is that Obama [...]

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North Korea

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Politics, tagged , , on 27 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I am finding that the one issue I wish people had paid more attention to during last year’s presidential election has come blasting to the forefront of foreign policy issues.  I also looked at the most recent missile test by North Korea as an ironic event as it took place as Americans were remembering and [...]

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Jack Kemp

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Politics, tagged , , , on 3 May 2009 | 1 Comment »

I have noticed as I age my political slant is becoming more conservative.  I was a young Democrat when I stuffed envelopes for the McGovern campaign at the age of 12.  
 
I was a slightly older Democrat when I was in college and had to take both macro- and micro-economics to get my business degree. [...]

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The First 100 Days

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Politics, tagged , , on 30 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The news lately, in anticipation of President Obama’s first 100 days, has been all about dissecting this time frame and, of course, H1N1 flu.  It has been enough to make me turn the news off and listen to music all day but I did turn into the presidential news conference last night.  While I get [...]

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Specter A Democrat?

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Politics, tagged , , on 29 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Maybe the catchy title to this post should be “Has the GOP seen a Specter?,” as in a ghost.  I spent yesterday as I am today, on a news boycott.  I can’t deal with another story dissecting the first 100 days of this administration.  I also do not want to hear anymore stories on swine [...]

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National Service

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Politics, tagged , , on 21 April 2009 | 1 Comment »

The cornerstone of the Obama administrations national service plans is legislation that will provide for the gradual increase of service slots from 75,000 to  250,000. The legislation also comes with a $5.7 billion dollar price tag.
 
Press releases claim the legislation, which President Obama is set to sign into law today, will “foster and fulfill people’s [...]

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NYS’s 20th Congressional District

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Politics, tagged , , , on 20 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As the new Congress began its work in January, the people of Minnesota were lacking representation.  The election for US Senator between former comedian Al Franken and sitting Senator Norm Coleman was too close to call.   There were recounts and lawsuits.  Now, 154 days after the election, Franken is up by 302 votes but [...]

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Media Coverage of War Dead

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Politics, tagged , , , on 6 April 2009 | 2 Comments »

For the first time in 18 years, the media, with family consent, was allowed to photograph the return to US soil of a fallen war hero.  During the first Gulf war in 1991, former president George HW Bush imposed a ban of photographing the flag-draped coffins of war dead.  This ban included the 17 dead [...]

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