Blue Collar Muse @ October 31, 2007 # 9 Comments
Whenever new spending is proposed the opponents of the expense look for the nearest available microphone to ask, “What are the costs and how are we going to pay for them?” I’d like to do the same for the national conversation on bailouts for lenders and borrowers hurt by their choice to use subprime loans.
For […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ October 30, 2007 # One Comment
Those crazy guys over at RedState have done it again! They put up the second in a series of hilarious videos that, in 60 seconds or so, put the entire SCHIP discussion in proper perspective. Check ‘em out for a link to the first video!
I think we could have a sort of a […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ October 29, 2007 # One Comment
A friend, who knows I have been blogging, finally stopped by and read some. He seems to like it and promises to read more. He even left me a haiku. Who knows, it may even be a real haiku …
Kenneth the blogger
He is the Blue Collar Muse
Has Young Trophy Wife
Posting because we all […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ October 29, 2007 # 4 Comments
For those of you who caught the Noon broadcast of Paul Harvey, News and Comment today, you’ve already heard this story. Paul highlighted a UK Telegraph story on tens of thousands of Britons leaving the UK each year to seek medical treatment abroad. The reasons given for the travel are fear of MSRA […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ October 27, 2007 # One Comment
Hat tip to my buddy Al for sending me this …
A blonde goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Christmas cards. She says to the clerk, “May I have 50 Christmas stamps?”
The clerk says, “What denomination?”
The blonde says, “God help us. Has it come to this? Give me 6 Catholic, 12 […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ October 27, 2007 # One Comment
The Much Younger Trophy Wife pulled this up on the ‘Net the other night. It had been sent to her by, of all things, a single guy we know with no kids! I guess his mom sent it to him so she could fulfill her matriarchal responsibilities from afar.
In any event, it’s among […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ October 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Ahhh, yes! The classic definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
Pat Toomey over at The Club for Growth sent a link to a recent interview with John McCain. He’s asked if he had it to do all over again, would he still support McCain-Feingold. […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ October 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Just a few days after Bobby Jindal’s exciting victory over incumbent Governor Kathleen Blanco, the GOP scores another coup!
Earlier today, Louisiana’s Agricultural Commissioner, Bob Odom, withdrew from the runoff election he qualified for earlier. Odom, seeking his 8th term as Ag Commissioner had received 41% of the vote and Mike Strain, his GOP challenger, […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ October 25, 2007 # 27 Comments
I’ve been batting this story around in my head for better than a week. Ever since I got back from CLC in Reno, in fact.
One of my most enjoyable memories of the entire trip was being able to hear 4 separate candidates for President make his pitch to me in person. I even […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ October 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet
According to a story at Comcast’s homepage, a Wisconsin man found a 4 carat diamond that he gets to keep. And it’s totally legal with no waiting period as there is if you find cash and turn it in to the authorities.
How did he manage that? Well, in Murfreesboro, AR there’s a place […]
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