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CONFESSION IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL!

By Richard Day on Wed, 05/22/2013 - 6:19pm |

For your penance say three Our Fathers and drink three Bloody Marys!(Conspiracy of Silence)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has confessed to changing the CIA’s accurate information on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction for political reasons.

You start out with the truth as reported by the intelligence community, and then you turn it into a total distortion once the political types in the White House and some senior folks at the State Department get their hands on it
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TIDES; TIGER & THE BABE!

By Richard Day on Sat, 05/18/2013 - 2:53am |

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I am missing Smith.

So I am creating this non-Haiku in the hopes I can find out how he is doing.

 

I was thinking about tides.

We can better understand the miraculous as long as we admit the miracle of tides.

The ole 'ebb and flow' as they say.

Babe Ruth is a hero of mine.

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HERE COMES THE SUN & THE WIND & NATURAL GAS &...

By Richard Day on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 3:52pm |

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I scanned a nice article at NYT forecasting how our energy needs will change over the next decade.

But it really is the progress our nation has made over the last five years that astounds me.

We are really close to seeing America as a net oil exporter!

Alternative sources of energy are cutting our dependency on coal.

Alternative sources of energy are creating jobs!

New sources of traditional fuel are creating jobs; real jobs paying good money.

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TOY GUNS!

By Richard Day on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 3:16pm |

The NRA is having another convention and crazy crazy people will show up and give grand speeches about liberty and the Constitution and the commie liberals.

Mediamatters does a splendid job demonstrating how the voices of the right including Hannity and Nugent and beckerhead and so many other nutjobs have been calling for out-right revolution over the last few years.

Talk about yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater?

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CRUZIN WITH CRUZ; EXCEPT HE AINT AMERICAN!

By Richard Day on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 8:54pm |

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Senator Cruz

 

Speaking of revolutions:

Ted Cruz has been accused of setting himself up for a 2016 run for the Presidency!

Ted Cruz has denied these charges.

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/ted_cruz_will_never_be_president/?source=newsletter

Like Joan Walsh postulates:

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I HAD A WONDERFUL DAY!

By Richard Day on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 10:28pm |

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I had a wonderful day.

Spring was more than a month late but damn I had a wonderful day.

It was 67 F for chrissakes!

Seany notified me by email that he would arrive with the troop on the weekend, like two days before the event.

I did not expect the troop until sometime in May.

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THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBARY

By Richard Day on Thu, 04/25/2013 - 7:20pm |

 

We're goin into Iraq, find a way!

(George W. Bush to his Cabinet in January, 2001.)

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IT'S THE DARK SKINNED GUY!

By Richard Day on Fri, 04/19/2013 - 12:49am |

 

 

ITS THE DARK SKINNED GUY

I knew it!

I knew it when I first viewed the damage!

IT'S THE DARK SKINNED GUY!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/cnn-boston-arrests-media-nbc_n_3102680.html?utm_hp_ref=media

WELL MAYBE NOT THIS TIME!

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THE PROM PROBLEM

By Richard Day on Wed, 04/17/2013 - 3:46am |

 

MISCEGENATION

 

We as a nation have so many dire issues facing us.

The 21st century has presented us with a new Boston Massacre.

And there has been little news presented of late that even touches upon other dire issues that effect this country.

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