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Danke Schoen

By Richard Day on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 11:26pm |
The following is a romantic tale involving Chipper, the triple dipper and Katy, the sailor and the United States Army that keeps us safe 'over there' so we do not have to fight 'them' over here. The United States...
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Sir Lancelot, Sir Gore & The Damsels in Distress

By Richard Day on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 9:21pm |
So Sir Lancelot and Sir Gore were notified that Lady Lee and Lady Ling were being held by King John Ill in a dungeon and that the intent of the evil king was to feed them to the dragon...
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Wyeth Oh Wyeth HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?

By Richard Day on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 9:38pm |
  Here is one more example of how badly the pharmaceutical companies need to be reined in. The New York Times is reporting that Wyeth hired ghostwriters to pen 26 articles that endorsed the use hormone therapy in women,...
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DEPRESSION

By Richard Day on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 9:45pm |
LIMBAUGH: "But Rush, why would somebody want to harm America?" Because he doesn't like it. He thinks it's unjust and immoral and unfair. The people that have wealth in this country have come by it ways that he thinks...
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MARGARET & HELLEN: GHOSTBUSTERS

By Richard Day on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 9:36pm |
I was kind of lost today. But you know I am not the only one to have focus problems: The fearless Clark Hoyt, public editor of The New York Times, casts a rather disapproving eye against his own paper...
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Cannot we all just take five minutes and wish the other person well.

By Richard Day on Sun, 08/02/2009 - 5:25am |
Over the last year, only one person has indicated to me that they would rather I not quote them or cite them in any of my blogs or comments.  Amazing that so many people have no self respect!!!  ...
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SATAN NEVER SLEEPS

By Richard Day on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 11:06pm |
Titles: Satan Never SleepsIf you recall Clifton Webb and William Holden are priests attempting to spread Christian Truths to the Chinese Barbarians in 1949 China while Holden battles his...er...manhood.Now you might ask, what has this to do with anything?...
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FANNING THE FLAMES OF POPULIST IRE

By Richard Day on Thu, 07/30/2009 - 9:13pm |
The storming of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, Russian I would tell you to take the following with a grain of salt. I am out of tobacco for the next 36 hours and it has been a little blue...
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Chinese Checkers

By Richard Day on Wed, 07/29/2009 - 10:31pm |
Between 1947 and 1967, this was a somewhat accurate image, as the distribution of income made the population look more and more like a bell curve with each passing year. Yet since 1967, this story has reversed course. For...
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LIE TO ME

By Richard Day on Tue, 07/28/2009 - 11:13pm |
TPM PIX: VOX INSANITUS POPULIOnce upon a time, an eighty-two year old American Nazi walked into the Holocaust museum out of the blue, opened fire against an innocent guard: This afternoon, a gunman apparently shot at least one person...

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