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Archive for March, 2010

House Speaker Pelosi needs a few basic civics classes

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

San Fran Nan (a.k.a. Nancy Pelosi, democrat – San Francisco & Speaker of the US House of Representatives) has said that Congress needs to pass ObamaCare so that the public can find out what’s in the bill.

Reality to democrat Speaker of the House Pelosi: Tell the people first, and then they will tell their Representatives in Congress if they want them to vote for it. That is how the system works.

What is in that bill that you are so afraid of the American People finding out?

HT to IMAO for the video.

Monday Book Pick: The Hunt for Red October

Monday, March 8th, 2010

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy’s first novel, which not only launched his career but revitialized the techno-thriller genre. This Cold War era novel introduces the reading public to Jack Ryan, whom Clancy continues to use as his main character in a string of wildly successful bestselling novels.

Monday Book Pick Archive

SciFi Sunday: H. Beam Piper

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

In addition to the Monday Book Picks and the Friday B-Movie posts, I’ll be posting about Science Fiction on random Sundays.

To kick things off, I am starting with one of my favorite SciFi authors, H. Beam Piper. Piper was in inspiration to many in the field today, including the massively best selling author, David Weber.

A lot of H. Beam Piper’s works are available in the public domain. You can find them on the Gutenberg’s SF CD, and there are also audiobook format versions available.

My personal favorites are Space Viking and Uller Uprising, but you should take the time to read his entire catalog.  Sadly, it is not as large as it should have been.

What the MSM isn’t telling you about the Pentagon Shooter.

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

CNN has a long, detailed story about John Patrick Bedell, the fellow who traveled across the country in order to open fire at guards at an entrance to the Pentagon.

What that long, detailed story leaves out is any mention that Bedell is a registered democrat, a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, and a rabid left wing liberal who hates former President George W. Bush.

Don’t expect to hear that particular bit of truth to be utter at MSNBC, ABC or CBS “News.” It doesn’t fit their particular brand of reality.

Quote of the Day

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

“Having lived with Global Thermonuclear War with the Soviet Union, Global Cooling, the Population Bomb, DDT, AIDS, the Elbola virus, a half dozen other doomsday issues, and now Global Warming, life like living in one long 1970’s disaster film.” — Mark Urbin

Friday B-Movie Pick: The Bourne Identity

Friday, March 5th, 2010

The Bourne Identity

Not the big budget action flick with dumb looking dummy from Team America, but the 1989 made for TV movie version. This version had the reigning King and Queen of 1980s TV movies, Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith.  Deliciouly bad, and Jaclyn Smith’s performance reminded me of Sally Field’s performance in Soapdish, which was made two years later.

Friday B-Movie Pick Archive

The Culture of Corruption Marches On…

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

We still have the ongoing saga of tax cheat and democrat congressman from New York, Charles Rangel.

Now we have our Dear Leader handing out federal judgeships in an attempt to buy votes in his own party for his massively unpopular Obamacare Charlie Fox.  As Ms. Malkin says, it looks like a quid pro quo, smells like a quid pro quo, and quacks like a quid pro quo.

This is either a clear case of flat out corruption or the Obama administration is so dangerously incompetent that they didn’t see the connection between this key vote and an federal judgeship appointment.   Either way, it’s not good for America.

Wait! It gets better! The Obama administration has claimed that it is “Anti-Lobbyist”, has hired leftist lobbyists to sell their green jobs platform, dispute the facts that show that the investments in those technologies in other countries have not resulted in job growth.

Monday Book Pick: Tunnel in the Sky

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein

One of his juveniles series, but a good read for all ages. A good solid adventure story of the type Heinlein was famous for. As author Spider Robinson so aptly put it, “And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.”

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