Monthly Archives: October 2012

Doonesbury Dumps on Mitt’s Missionary Service

In the Doonesbury cartoons for 10/8 and 10/9 we see an Elder Mitt Romney tracting. Two implications: Mitt is serving as a missionary in order to get out of serving in Vietnam And Mitt despises the poor And note the foot in … Continue reading

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Live-blogging the Presidential Debate #1 Part 3

This segment is the Role of Government. Starting with President Obama. He says that the first responsibility is to defend the country.  But the federal government has a role in supporting the infrastructure.  He used the transcontinental railrod and the … Continue reading

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Live-blogging the Presidential Debate #1 Part 2

They’re digging into Social Security and Medicare now, and both gents don’t want to touch Social Security with a ten foot pole. Medicare gets some talk, though. They are not in such huge disagreement in this topic as in the … Continue reading

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Live-blogging the Presidential Debate #1 Part 1

Well, right off, the two debaters had a friendly-appearing greeting, which was nice.  Unlike Kerry vs Bush where Kerry attempted to make Bush look even smaller in stature than he actually is. Obama’s opening statement repeated one of the mantra’s … Continue reading

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Obama Tweets More Foolishness

Although I am on Twitter, I only occasionally check out the feeds of those whom I follow.  I don’t follow very many, and Tweet only very rarely, mainly just when I post an entry here.  And whom do I follow?  … Continue reading

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Red Dawn, Remade!

They have remade Red Dawn. I probably shouldn’t write about this movie, which is just now getting its release.  I haven’t seen it, yet.  Of course, as an aficionado of the original movie, which featured some really up-and-coming actors while … Continue reading

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