I was listening to my morning radio show (Armstrong and Getty) today when an interesting hypothetical came up. The discussion began when the hosts were talking about the fact that one of them had just become a father last week. He and his wife are big dog lovers and have a couple at home. One of the dogs was adopted from a shelter pretty much hours before he was set to be put down. The dog is, in the words of the host, a bit nuts. He’s one of those dogs who can be really friendly most of the...

Good to know that our IRS is on the job. They have gone after a “major tax cheat” in the form of Harv’s Metro Car Wash. His offense ? Underpaying his taxes by 4 cents. Of course with interest and penalties it’s now over $ 200. Good to know they aren’t wasting their time with one of those million dollar tax cheats….

I’d like you to imagine for a moment what would happen if a group of conservative Christians had been arrested for driving around shooting gay men with a BB gun and filming the shootings. Do you think the reaction would be muted or would there be a mild outcry ? Do you think the prosecuting attorney would keep quiet about the story or would go public to condemn the attacks ? I think we all know what the reaction would be. But it seems things are different when the attackers are Muslim. To be...

The *real* Jim Phelps has passed away. Rest in Peace Captain Over.

Thank you for finally taking on these idiotic ads ! http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/broadview-security/1208834/

I was flipping channels today when I caught the story of an anti-whale hunting activist being detained by the Japanese. Of course the Japanese have every right to enforce their laws, but I have to say that I find whale hunting to be one of the more disgusting acts that human beings carry out. There are some good groups who are fighting this practice. Please consider giving them a donation Save The Whales Whale And Dolphin Society And a video that has always touched my heart

This one is for all the music and art teachers out there.. God Bless Them All

She’s always giving us good music

Sometimes politics just goes out the window. Hoping nothing but the best and a quick recovery for all.

According to reports Democrats have given up on trying to alter the abortion language in the pending health care reform bill. This means they will have to try and get the votes from pro life House members who either opposed the bill earlier or who supported it based on the Stupak amendment. Just as a refresher, the House bill contained restrictive language on abortion funding while the Senate version did not and it is this version they will try to pass. As I’ve said in other posts, I do have...

So the good dictators in Burma have promised to hold ‘elections’. But they aren’t actually going to let popular candidates run.

A fairly liberal Congressman from Missouri, Emmanuel Cleaver, says that they don’t yet have the votes to pass Health Care Reform in the House. Right now it looks like they have around 200 of the 216 or 217 needed.

The US Supreme Court will hear an appeal involving Fred Phelps and his disgusting Westboro Baptist Church. For those not familiar with Mr. Phelps he and his church are vehemently anti gay and among other things they regularly picket the funerals of dead soldiers. At the funerals they hold up signs celebrating the deaths as divine justice for the US ‘tolerating’ gays (which seems to be defined as not sending all of them to internment camps or something. The family of one dead soldier was...

So today I got a letter in the mail marked US Census. I assumed it was the form for me to fill out and send back in. Nope.. it was a letter telling me that in a week I will get another letter containing the form for me to fill out. Presumably I will get a 3rd letter telling me I got a form to fill out. And they are doing this something like 75-100 million times……

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If it were not for the battle between Disney/ABC and cable providers I might have gone until tomorrow night without remembering the Oscars were on (I presume at some point tomorrow evening I would have noticed the listing). Setting aside the debate on the Disney vs cable battle, how may of us really care about the show tomorrow ?

Ten trillion more of debt…. (just to show how big that is I actually typed billion at first, just unable to process the t-word) Before anyone accuses me of partisanship, I have been mad at every deficit spending President and Congress in my lifetime, Republican and Democrat. But when we start talking trillions of dollars in debt we start talking about more than just bills to our kids, we start talking about whether there is going to be a country left for our kids..

This is a story that had been under my radar until it was discussed on my morning radio show (Armstrong and Getty for those in Northern California). It seems that for many years there has been something called Do Not Buy in radio advertising. The basic concept being that when a company hires an advertiser to buy radio ads they would include “Do Not Buy” for certain types of stations or for certain shows. For example in the early 90′s a company like Starbucks would be gearing their...

Not exactly the kind of nominee you want: The victory in the 22nd Congressional District yesterday by LaRouche Democrat Kesha Rogers sent an unmistakable message to the White House, and its British imperial controllers: Your days are numbered. (From her official campaign web site) Just to make it clear, I’m not taking one fruitcake and labeling and entire party with them. That would be wrong.

Results can be found here Statewide offices start about 1/2 way down. With about 12% of the vote counted incumbent Rick Perry not only leads but is over 50%. However that is likely to change.

Although most of the attention in Tuesday’s Texas primary election is focused on the GOP race for Governor there is another issue that is attracting controversy (primarily from the left). On the Republican primary ballot are several non binding resolutions, one of which expresses the view that some form of photo ID should be required to vote. This is purely an advisory proposal and has no legal impact but there are some blogs that are freaking out over the idea. The text of the proposal is The...

Time has a very thought provoking article on the difference between the two quakes.

While it might sound like something appropriate to a politically oriented forum this is actually a sleep disorder. An article is out discussing sleep disorders which are downright scary. Nightmare disorder is one we are probably all familiar with but try some of these: 1. Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations which occur as you wake up or start to fall asleep 2. Exploding head syndrome is where you hear explosions inside your head as you start to fall asleep 3. Sleep paralysis syndrome is where...

Often when you are listening to the news they will use little fillers to take up the extra time in the segment. Earlier today I heard a couple I thought worth sharing. As some of you may know the government has imposed new standards for the airlines to comply with. Specifically if the airline leaves passengers on the runway for longer than 3 hours they will be fined for each passenger. The fines could total several million dollars per plane. I’m certainly not saying that preventing people being...

While a good part of me, as a loyal US citizen, would have loved to see team USA win I want to extend the most sincere congratulations to team Canada. I’ve been called an honorary Canadian by some friends and I hold that honorary title with pride, so I am happy for my adopted family today.