Good Friday…on Easter Sunday
What do Glenn Beck, Pink Floyd, and Jesus have in common?
Hard Time America [Reader Post]
The Obama Administration is playing the convict prison card. Most Americans want criminals incarcerated longer in more austere less elaborate facilities. The facts are that many prisons have become playgrounds. Between Yale and jail this discussion will concentrate on doing hard time behind bars eliminating the “Three Hots and a Cot” leisure Plaza Hotel prison mentality. Amendment VIII of the United States Constitution asserts, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted”; then whereas, this narrative will focus on the enlightened humanitarian side of incarceration it will also examine innovative and possibly pertinent means and methods more substantive to addressing today’s social realities. This analysis will be confined to punishment of the Big Three; namely, murder, rape, terrorism in a societal situation where death by execution no longer is an available option.
Easter Sunday Funnies
“President Obama released his 2010 tax return. It turns out that he made $1.7 million and spent $14 trillion.” –Conan O’Brien
“Donald Trump said he’d release his personal tax returns if Obama shows his birth certificate, which is probably the first you-show-me-yours-and-I’ll-show-you-mine in a presidential campaign since, well, Clinton probably.” –Jimmy Kimmel
Union Man ~ by Glen Shulfer
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Troops Assist With NC Tornado Recovery
As you may have heard on the news, North Carolina took a major hit with tornadoes last week. In case you haven’t seen anything on the news about what our …
2012 Poll Watch: New Hampshire vs. Obama
Polls are polls, they can be skewed one way or the other based on many factors but the 2012 election is ramping up so I suppose we better start getting set for many, many polls ahead. First one for me, this one from The Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College on a key battleground State, New Hampshire:
Now you can’t even ask Obama about transparency [Reader Post]
From Whitehouse.gov
Transparency — President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history
This Man Is Not A Subversive Enemy Of The State
He’s a quiet man, barely five foot tall. He moves with the slow fluid movements of a horseman and I can vouch for him, he handles and cares for his horses well. His name is Adrian Menlee and he is from Puebla in Southern Mexico. He is a groom and it is his job to care for the horses of a wealthy patrona. There is pride in his voice as he speaks of his horses and their different personalities. The farm is cleaner than many homes and his horses are not afraid of humans, a fact that makes my job so much easier and attests to the fact that these horses are enjoying their life.
I always try to engage the grooms in conversation; many of them are from different areas of the world and it is interesting to hear of their lives and ambitions. You see these people are doing the work that Americans refuse to do. I know there are American grooms on the race track and on the traditional horse farms of Kentucky and the South, but there are logical reasons for these Americans working as grooms.
A Few Simple Ideas [Reader Post]
We need a program for government waste, fraud and abuse of whistle-blowers. If someone is doing a job which is essentially worthless, and he is able to show this, give him 6 months salary and transfer him to a different job (and end that job). If someone can make a case that an entire department is a waste of taxpayers’ money, give him 2 years salary, lay off the entire department, and end all funding to that department sector.
Weekly Open Thread – Bumped
Sarah Palin edition. You must watch this speech in its entirety. She gave it yesterday in Madison, WI, and it was a barnstormer.
Because let me tell you what isn’t courageous: It’s politicians promising the American voters that, as we drown in $14.5 trillion debt, that they’re going to cut $100 billion out of this year’s budget. But then they cave on that and they reduce it down to $61 billion after they get elected. Then they get in there and they strike a deal and decide, nah, they will reduce that down to $38 billion. And then after some politics-as-usual and accounting gimmicks, we find out it’s not $38 billion in cuts. You know that $38 billion – we don’t have it; we’re borrowing it. We borrow from foreign countries to give to foreign countries, and that’s insanity. We find out it’s not even $38 billion; it’s less than $1 billion in real cuts. Folks, that $352 million in real cuts – that’s no more than the federal government is going to spend in the time it takes us to hold this rally today! That is not courage; that’s capitulation!