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WHO WAS THOMAS JEFFERSON AND WHAT IS AMERICA?

By Richard Day on Wed, 09/26/2012 - 7:36pm |

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale.

There is a great article at the Smithsonian discussing our premier Founding Father.

I found it remarkable.

I think it is fair for me to make that appraisal with all of the reading I have done on this subject over the decades and with five or six hours of reading on line every single day—in addition to my bedside book reading.

In ten pages or so Henry Weincek is able to distil a national consciousness by interpreting a side of Thomas Jefferson that is so glossed over.

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ELECTION HEADLINES!

By Richard Day on Tue, 09/25/2012 - 2:13am |

 

Hoboken, NJ

Today New Jersey Governor Chris Christie fell through the stage set for his speech on Thursday.

The five hundred pound chief executive had been stumping for a local politician at this Hudson County event (holding an ice cream cone instead of a microphone as is his wont from time to time) when he stumped a little bit too hard atop the pine constructed podium, falling fifty feet into the cavern that had been covered by the stage.

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THE PRINCE OF ROMNES; A NOVEL

By Richard Day on Sun, 09/23/2012 - 3:01pm |

 

 

 

THE PRE-FACE OF THE MITT

The King of the Hundred Knights was bamboozled.

What is he to do now?

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RUSH: LIBERAL WOMEN ARE CUTTING OUR D&*KS OFF!

By Richard Day on Fri, 09/21/2012 - 6:20pm |

 

Rush Limbaugh

MY PRIVATE PARTS ARE SHRINKING BECAUSE OF FEMINAZIS AND SOCIALISTS AND MINORITIES

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A RANT ON ROMNEY, THE RNC & HYPOCRISY!

By Richard Day on Mon, 09/17/2012 - 10:48pm |

Mitt Romney Dark-haired man with graying hair at the temples, dressed in dark suit, at a nighttime indoor event

THIS IS THE END INTREPID FRIEND; THE END

 

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LIKES & DISLIKES; COMEDIANS & POLITICIANS

By Richard Day on Sun, 09/16/2012 - 5:29pm |

 

There are some things I like and some things I dislike; just like everybody else.

Sometimes there are reasons and sometimes reasoning has nothing to do with my

COMICS

Comedians have to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune with no net—to mix my metaphors.

I rarely hate or detest comedians although I might hate or detest individual gigs or riffs within those gigs.

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WILL & DISGRACE

By Richard Day on Sat, 09/15/2012 - 12:13am |

George Will kills me sometimes. Which is why I refuse to allow guns at my residence.

Sometimes he shows his fascistic nuts.

Sometimes he sounds reasonable enough.

And sometimes he is just plain nuts.

Now ole George is a sports nut and he, at one time, loved to write about baseball and appears in the Ken Burns documentary about baseball.

Well, today he comes up with a blog about some relationship between 'progressives' and football.

I have always enjoyed linking two unconnected subjects and I would never wish to interfere with someone else doing the same.

But this one post of his at the Washington Post has me scratching my head.

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A TALE OF TWO DITTIES

By Richard Day on Wed, 09/12/2012 - 6:22am |

All the President's Men

DITTY ONE

 

Woodward

If there is one line in the movie that I shall remember till I die; it was when Redford tells his partner that he is a Republican!

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TUTTI FRUTTI & YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE

By Richard Day on Mon, 09/10/2012 - 6:43pm |

 

 

 

Not even the promise of crooner Pat Boone singing oldies from a spinning stage could save what was intended to be the premier birther event of the year later this month in Arizona.

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FIDEL CASTRO TO KEYNOTE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION!

By Richard Day on Tue, 09/04/2012 - 6:29pm |

 

Sometimes I think the Democrat's worst enemy is himself or herself or itself.

I just heard that Fidel Castro is going to give the 'Keynote Speech' at our Convention

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