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Friday, November 1, 2013

Founders Harvest Ale...

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Founder’s Harvest Ale is my favorite beer, and by far the best light/mid-weight IPA I have ever had – better even than the legendary Pliny T...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Ohio Taking Pennsylvania's Fracking Waste-water...

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First question that comes to mind, is if the gas lobby's claims that the waste-water is safe are true, why doesn't PA dispose of it,...
Friday, June 10, 2011

The Weiner Files: Bankrupt morals and absence of ethical standards are indicators of incompetence..

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When a politician, who is a public figure and not protected by the law the way private persons are, is his/her own undoing, as in Mr. Weiner...
Friday, May 6, 2011

Big Box Chains Buying Up State Liquor Licenses...

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One of my pet peeves is grocery chains buying State Liquor Licenses and moving the State Store inside their big-box store. Seems every time...
Monday, May 2, 2011

"USA, USA..."

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Two things struck me this morning… 1- Chanting crowds are chanting crowds the world over. Maybe we’re not as different as we like to think w...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Self-defeating class warfare - Kasich and the Unions...

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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/04/19/kasich-100-days-bob-evans.html I'm beginning to believe Kasich is jus...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Culture/Religions as international special interest groups...

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Are we seeing the advent of the culture/religion as an interntional special interest group? Or has it been this way all along? Does it make ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Libya, the ME revolts, and US national hubris...

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... and we keep on keeping on with our master plan to indelibly mark our legacy as both the embodiment of national hubris and a living/actin...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

SB-5 "Merit Assessment" for teachers...

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"Merit assessment" of teachers opens up whole new horizons for abuse of power. What about the incompetent principal or dean or sch...
Thursday, March 3, 2011

More on Public Workers, job protection, etc...

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You are hearing a lot of Public vs. Private salary comparisons. Broad comparisons are not accurate, because the private sector has so many ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Collective Bargaining and Public Worker Unions...

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After a little research and reading, I think I’ve done a complete about-face on public unions and collective bargaining. Here is what I thin...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Military advertising on NASCAR vehicles…

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The House has voted to let the Pentagon continue using taxpayer dollars to sponsor NASCAR race teams . By a 281-148 vote, lawmakers rejected...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

No need to raise taxes to balance the State of Ohio budget...

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There is a movement among Athens County "Friends" to pledge part of their incomes to increased taxes. http://www.athensnews.com/oh...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Egypt...

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The "revolution" most often goes like this: -groundswell for "democracy" erupts, driven by several different sources wit...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Guvmint, jobs, reading the fine print and expectations...

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http://www.npr.org/2011/01/28/133249970/loss-of-solar-jobs-has-mass-rethinking-state-aid Uhhhh... guvmint stupid. Not read fine print. But p...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Paradox...

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People have less money to spend, so they are spending less; and with less spending, the economy is having a difficult time getting back on...
Monday, January 10, 2011

The Tucson Shooter and "Political Discourse"...

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"If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun" - Barack Obama Both sides seem to be trying to "establish a narrative...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

WikiLeaks, Korea, and Goldman-Sachs...

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With the release of the info that China may support a combined N+S Korea, under South rule, WikiLeaks may have brought the North closer to i...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

TSA Scans are not really about Terrorism...

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I don't believe the TSA body scans and increased security is necessarily a reaction to terrorism, although it is being marketed as such ...
Friday, November 12, 2010

Governments don't offer good return on tax dollars...

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Now I realize that I function best as critic and pitchfork wielder -- and it's more fun than actually solving the problems. But I keep...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Palin candidacy will be death to any revolution...

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I cannot understand, and dare not imagine, the desperate straits that about half of our country finds itself in: that through collective ign...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Funeral Songs... Everybody needs a list.

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Subject to revision, I hope. Funeral Songs Elegy -Bruce Cockburn Flying Red Horse -John Gorka You’re On Your Way -John Gorka Love Is Our Cro...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Questioning Islam equals Racism... ????

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Anonymous poster to HuffPost: "Islam is a RELIGION...as such, it is fair game for criticism, lampoon, ridicule, analysis, as is any oth...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Best comment on NPR...

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This is what I believe is an accurate description of NPR. Marianne McDonald made this comment on the NPR Ombudsman forum: "...If Fox Ne...

NPR funding reality...

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I would like to say this: despite my critique of NPR, the federal funding kerfuffle is kind of a political football -- NPR gets approximatel...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

NPR FIres Juan Williams...

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/npr-fire ... ly-factor/ Speaking Truth to Political Correctness I condemn this knee-jerk reaction. WOUB will ...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Pipe dreams...

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How about a flat income tax that EVERYBODY PAYS, along with state sales tax with each state then funding the FED based on population/sales t...
Monday, October 4, 2010

We are...

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...lazy and afraid, and willingly deaf, dumb and blind; like all declining empires. And we like cheap products more than we like being an in...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Huh...? SInce when is 250K/yr rich?

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Amazing how the definition of "rich" changes depending where you are and your circumstances relative to those around you... 250K/y...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Global economic equality is coming... Woo-hoo.

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Most people don't realize that the "equality" they dreamed of, have fought for and voted for, didn't end up being equality...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Top 10 Influential Fiction Books...

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This isn't a "most important" list, although some of them are . These are books that established my likes and (fiction) readin...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

"The Amercian Dream" - George Carlin...

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Ok. Discuss... George Carlin – “The American Dream”: “...But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Why no balanced budget ?

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Why no balanced budget? Simple everyday people, like you and me, often wonder why Guvmint can’t “live within its means”. Well, for one thing...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

We give up so much to the Guvmint...

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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Fra...
Friday, June 18, 2010

The 4th Amendment no longer exists...

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Just thought I'd mention that. Too many references to list... "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, pape...
Thursday, June 3, 2010

Guvmint will make sure BP pays... But to who? Guvmint, of course.

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Prediction: I’ll bet yer (ahem) that bad public sentiment will spawn a favorable outlook on new taxes industry-wide — intitially to make up ...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010

When the Faux Stimulus dries up...

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One of the better anonymous comments from the A-News "Letters" section: Oh yes, it sure would be nice to have some economic activi...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Rand Paul, the GOP co-opted Tea Party, and Anti-Discrimination Laws...

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Rand Paul a racist? No. He was presented with what comes off every time as a classic false dichotomy argument based on what he sees in this...

Immigration realities...

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I was doing pre-inspects on a couple houses yesterday afternoon. This is often what happens when I walk into an under-construction house: Th...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The most dangerous words...

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"If you're not doing anything wrong, then you've got nothing to fear." It's a pretty far-reaching attitude problem wit...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Sunday's Coming... The Movie Trailer.

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Via Old Hop: Sunday's Coming... The Movie Trailer.
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Legalizing Pot: Pointless...

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Note this: People who grow pot in quantity for money now, don't want it legalized. These are some predictions from “Hermit” -- if pot is...
Monday, March 8, 2010

In a nutshell...

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Quoting a poster "Hermit" on a local forum: "I think our economy's big problem is that it is built on the premise that pe...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Why I changed my mind on Health Care...

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... or at least, one of the reasons. What brought this on was one common blood draw and test, and one extremity x-ray. My insurance normally...
Friday, February 12, 2010

Palin as a Presidential candidate? Come on...

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Ok, the scam has gone on long enough. Collect all the money you can, but don't make like you are any kind of viable candidate for anythi...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

"Recession" = Sanity...

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Good article from Old Hop. The way I understand it: "Recession" is when the economy corrects itself back toward sanity, and everyb...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

I love trains, but...

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I love trains, BUT... For those of you comparing the proposed (I guess it's a done deal?) government supplied train travel here in Ohio ...
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jackscrow
From Lancaster, Ohio, and living somewhere outside Athens with my beautiful and brilliant much-better-half. I play occasionally in two alt.country bands. In my spare time, I ignore the lawn and garden until it's almost too late, chase the two dogs around the yard, practice juggling the two kittens, and try to forget that I am a "Dilbert" for a flooring company in Columbus.
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