Entries from December 2008

December 31, 2008

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

A blank slate for the new year, list your hopes, dreams, and resolutions

December 31, 2008

Chip the Magic Bigot – dnd

Chip Saltsman had to know that his “Obama the Magic Negro” would stir up controversy.  Certainly he’s seen the memo that the electorate in these troubling times is tired of partisan shenanigans.  It begs the question: why did he do it?
I don’t know why he did it, but it [...]

December 30, 2008

Unity – BrianInNYC

Since Christmas I’ve been racking my brain trying to decide what was my favorite moment in this long campaign year.  Lord knows there was enough to chose from!  By yesterday I had wittled my list down to three, Obama’s “Yes We Can” speech after losing the New Hampshire primary, Tina Fey’s [...]

December 28, 2008

A Border Under Siege, Part 2 – Horsedooty

Corruption on both sides of the border surely exists.  However, on the Mexican side there is no comparison really.  In the last five months, 35 agents with the Mexican federal prosecutor’s office were arrested for corruption. According to Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora, each was being paid between $150,000 [...]

December 26, 2008

Shop at Sears – dnd

Sears employs many military reservists. Following their return from a tour of duty, they are guaranteed their old position back. This, of course is required by federal law. Sears goes beyond that. They make up the difference between their military pay and their pay at Sears if the military pay is [...]

December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas To All – Anon Paranoid

Well another year has come and gone. It seems like only yesterday that we all were waiting in anticipation of the upcoming elections in November. Well the elections have come and gone as did the past year.
So much has occurred during that year. Some good some bad. For me the year began on a sad [...]

December 24, 2008

The upside of being from a “broken home” – BrianInNYC

The first Hunukkah-Christmas after my parents split up is one that will live long in my memory.  We always celebrated both holidays when I was growing up, I think not celebrating Christmas is something both my parents missed as children and didn’t want their children to have that same feeling of [...]