Laissez-faire

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”

– Groucho Marx

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And in case you hadn’t heard, just last week, food and munitions shipments sent to Stalin to help him repel the advancing Wehrmacht were also finally halted …………

Pentagon stops F-14 parts sales to Iran
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16899097

- Smitty, 1-31-07

I believe it was Albert Einstein who said, “It is impossible to both prevent and prepare for war.”

Gee, you’d have to be a rocket scientist to understand that !!

– Ed Smith

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Wouldn’t it have been great to have had this available last weekend for my fellow vets (especially Vietnam vets) to use to “zap” Hanoi Jane, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and the other terrorist-enabling “leaders” attending that “anti-war” rally ?? Perhaps it would have knocked some sense into them ??

- Smitty, 1-31-07

“Talk about pissing your money away. I hope you kids see what a silly waste of resources this was.”

– Frances (Clark Griswold’s mother-in-law on “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”)

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Reference:
http://www.arcamax.com/businessnews/s-157426-867634

TV owner may buy Air America

NEW YORK (UPI) — A suburban New York TV station owner is negotiating to buy bankrupt Air America Radio, the politically liberal radio network, a published report says.

Dick French, owner of news-talk WRNN-TV in Kingston, N.Y., is leading a group of investors who may buy Air America parent Piquant LLC out of bankruptcy, The Journal News reported Friday.

There is no guarantee the talks will result in a deal, the newspaper said, citing a source close to the talks.

Any deal would have to be approved by a bankruptcy judge.

French’s son Richard, a former director of the state Democratic Party, hosts a nightly show called “Richard French Live.”

Piquant of New York filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors in October. It listed $7.8 million in assets and nearly $20 million in short-term liabilities. It listed a 2006 loss of $13 million and a 2005 loss of $19.6 million.

WRNN and Air America spokesmen declined to comment.

Air America is heard on 92 affiliates, reaching 58 percent of the country, as well as XM satellite radio.

Why on earth do we keep bombing the Iraquois ?? Haven’t those poor people suffered enough at the hands of the US for the past 200 years ?? — Unknown

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The Iraq Study Group Report, Democrats such as Wesley Clark, and even Representative Ron Paul (who I have alot of respect for) advise that the US should “talk” to Syria and Iran “in order to try to obtain their commitment to constructive policies toward Iraq and other regional issues.”

Although I believe that “talking” to regimes run by gangsters and lunatics has little chance of success, I have no problem with “talking” to the likes of Syria and Iran.

“Talking” is not the concern. The concern is WHO we send to do the talking. Sending a “John Bolton” or a “Ronald Reagan” who clearly understand the nature of evil would make the effort worthwhile.

Unfortunately, I doubt that’s the type of individuals the Democrats have in mind. They want us to send someone like Jimmy Carter or Phil Donahue (which would ensure the US gets taken to the cleaners once again like we did when Jimmy Carter “talked” to North Korea in 1994).

If THAT’S going to be the plan, then my thoughts are “Silence is Golden.”

– Smitty, 1-25-07

“You must give us a spanking”

(Graffiti on a newly painted water tower in Archer City, TX after a city official warned that anyone defacing the tower would be “spanked”)

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Reference: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16755853/

With the welfare of in mind, Mountain View CA Assemblywoman Sally Lieber sponsored a bill that would ban spanking young children. Hey, I’m all for our children’s welfare too. But as a threat to children, spanking is rated #47 on my list (the last time I checked it). So I’d like to propose an alternate idea:

If we REALLY give a damn about “the children”, then let’s get serious. How about a ban on the monopoly of public schools ??

- Smitty, 1-25-07