Archive for April, 2009
30
Apr
Posted by tarheeltalker in Media, Politics. Tagged: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Louis Caldera, Robert Gibbs, Today Show, TOTUS. 1 Comment
Our favorite talking Democrat is at it again. Vice-President Joe Biden has taken it upon himself to give advice regarding the “swine flu” epidemic. And what pearls of wisdom did he share? Speaking on the Today Show , he shard the advice that he had given his family. Avoid the subway, commercial air travel etc. [...]
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29
Apr
Posted by tarheeltalker in Media, Technology. Tagged: Barack Obama, Cass Sunstein, Internet, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, University of Chicago Law School. 2 Comments
In the never ending quest to control what you see, hear, write, etc, the powers that be have unveiled a relatively new target, the Internet. Yes, folks, the world wide web needs to be controlled. Perhaps someone thought it was the wild, wild west and it needed to be tamed. No matter because Mr Obama [...]
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28
Apr
Posted by tarheeltalker in Politics. Tagged: Barack Obama, Charles Schumer, DHS, FAA, James Johnson, Janet Napolitano, John McCain, Louis Caldera, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, Secret Service, Statue of Liberty. 1 Comment
By now, you have probably heard of the photo-op flyover that took place in New York City yesterday. Predictably, New Yorkers went into something of a panic. You know, Air Force One being trailed by a fighter jet , buzzing the Statue Of Liberty and nobody fessing up as to what was happening.
Now, everybody who [...]
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27
Apr
Posted by tarheeltalker in Media, Politics. Tagged: AFLAC, Barack Obama, Denzel Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, George Bush, Harry Reid, Joe Biden, Kathleen Sebelius, swine flu, TOTUS. 1 Comment
My apologies to the AFLAC duck and my neighborhood friend, Henry the Duck. But the analogy just fits quite well. We are speaking now in presidential terms. Since Mr Obama looks presidential and sounds presidential(except when he and TOTUS are not in harmony) he must be presidential, right?
A bit more evidence, OK. Our friend Joe(Blue [...]
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26
Apr
Posted by tarheeltalker in Christianity, Culture, Politics. Tagged: Barack Obama, Charles Chaput, Denver, Michael D'Antuono, New York, Toronto. 3 Comments
During his campaign and now into his Presidency, Barack Obama has received what some might call an inordinate or even unseemly amount of praise and adulation. In fact, on February 23 of this year, there was a speech made in Toronto by Denver archbishop Charles Chaput. He warned against ” a spirit of adulation bordering [...]
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25
Apr
Posted by tarheeltalker in Media. Tagged: Bronx Zoo, cartoons, Madagascar, Nickelodeon, Rocky and Bullwinkle. Leave a Comment
If you don’t know them, you should. They began with bit parts in the movie Madagascar and now are certified, uh, certified, well, that’s hard to day. But they are quite entertaining, whether you are little people or an old codger like myself. They have appeared in another movie and now have their own show [...]
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22
Apr
Posted by tarheeltalker in Media, Politics. Tagged: Afghanistan, Al-Qaida, Barack Obama, CIA, Constitution, Defense Department, George Bush, George Soros, Georgetown University, Iran, Israel, L A Times, Michele Flournoy, Pakistan, Pentagon, Rosa Brooks. 2 Comments
Never heard of her? Neither had I until a day or two ago. Rest assured that the Israeli government has heard of her and they are probably not her biggest fans. Ms Brooks has just been appointed as an adviser to Michelle Flournoy, undersecretary of Defense for Policy(wonder what that means) , a position that [...]
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21
Apr
Posted by tarheeltalker in Politics. Tagged: Congress, Michael Bloomberg, Parade, Representatives, Senators. Leave a Comment
No, not really, just doing an attention span check. And then again, they probably think they did. A word of explanation. Sunday’s Parade magazine had a reader question about what members of Congress might be doing during this time of economic difficulty. I can almost see the column editor smiling as he mentioned their automatic [...]
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20
Apr
Posted by tarheeltalker in Politics. Tagged: Barack Obama, Blackberry, CIA, Leo Panetta, Michele Obama. 2 Comments
The above title refers to the newest link on my blogroll. For the as yet unenlightened, TOTUS stands for teleprompter of the united states as potus refers to President of the United States. It is doubtless one of the funniest political blogs I have seen and is just a treat to read. I heartily commend [...]
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18
Apr
Posted by tarheeltalker in Sports. Tagged: Anthony Claggett, Babe Ruth, Barack Obama, Baseball, Chien-Ming-Wang, Hugo Chavez, New York Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Yogi Berra. 2 Comments
Planning is a good thing in most cases. After all, it has been said that those who fail to plan, plan to fail. I suppose this is a generally accepted statement. But in the world of sports, perhaps as nowhere else, plans oftentimes do not go according to plan.
Latest case in point concerns the opening [...]
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