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Wednesday, March 16, 2005



All this time we've been worried about what's going to happen to Social Security when the baby boomers hit and "lo and behold", the University of Illinois at Chicago up and saves us with a report.

According to the professors we aren't going to live as long as we thought we were for one simple reason. All our prosperity has translated into fat. We are eating ourselves to death at a rate that is going to reverse the longevity trend and subtract about five years from the lifespan at the rate we're going.

So "can the private accounts" and pass the feedbag. The more we get, the more we eat. The more we eat the quicker we're gone. The quicker we're gone the less we cost.

Sounds like a plan to me.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 9:31 PM EST
Updated: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:33 PM EST
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Thursday, March 10, 2005



I see in the news where it seems some fellow on trial for alledgedly knocking off his wife down in Arkansas has been sending love letters to a certain Ms. Murphy Smith from his jail cell. That is till prosecutors put a stop to it by issueing a subpeona for the infamous Ms. Smith to appear for the trial.

She appeared but didn't have much to say being she turned out to be a dog. A shih-tsu to be exact. Having one of my own I can speak to their independent nature, closed mouth attitude and sense of loyalty. A shih-tsu after all will not rat you out.

It takes a human for that sort of business. Preferably a guilty one.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 12:05 AM EST
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Wednesday, March 9, 2005



Looks like we're about to get some changes in the bankruptcy laws if the Republicans in Congress have their way .

According to the Democrats the new changes will help credit card companies, creditors and anybody else who is owed money to collect from people who don't have it by limiting their ability to shelter resources and assets they don't have to begin with.

For a change, the Republicans agree. They believe that like Jesus and the miracle of the loaves and fishes, they too can turn water to wine and create something from nothing. And for their first trick they are going to show how you can get blood out of a stone by just squeezing it a little harder.

My take is that more of nothin' is still nothin'.




Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:33 PM EST
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Thursday, March 3, 2005



The latest rumor out of Wonderland D.C. is Condi Rice is being considered by prominent Bush Republicans as a candidate for president in '08. I suspect they were overcome by her uniform of the black power suit with stilletto heels that she wears when she reviews the troops.

Considering that the President is the brightest bulb in the room only because he makes sure all the other bulbs are even dimmer, it makes a lot of sense that the Wizard of Oz from Montana will have to be Condi's vice President too. After all, we all know who's behind the curtain.

Of course then we will have to worry that Condi in her uniform will be too much for Dick and his pacemakers.

Just gets curioser and curioser.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 7:09 AM EST
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Wednesday, March 2, 2005



Went to Europe to get a break from politics and wasn't there three days and the President followed me over, I assume to give his side of the story. So I turned around and came home and not two days later he follows me back here. Just can't seem to shake the guy.

The domestic spin on how the President did wooing the old folks in Europe doesn't seem to match the European take but then they don't have some American's insight that can read between the lines, even the lines the President botches.

See the President talks in code and those that know the code know what he is saying and understand and the rest of us hope he does too, we're just not as confident cause we don't know the code. But the Europeans don't even know there is a code so they conclude that he doesn't know what he is doing because he doesn't make any sense. That's why they humored him and then sent him home.

The general feeling over there was they are thankful he's ours, not theirs and we can keep him. Just be careful not to let him play with matches or pointed sticks.




Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:37 AM EST
Updated: Wednesday, March 2, 2005 1:07 PM EST
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Sunday, February 6, 2005



After considerable time, experience and observation I have concluded that there is a principle difference between a dog, a cat and a man.

If you feed, water and lavish affection on a dog, the dog will always treat you as if you were a God.

If you feed, water and care for a cat, the cat will automatically assume you think "it" is a God.

And, if you feed, water and lavish affection on your fellow man who claims he was created in God's likeness, all bets are off.

It also explains the popularity of dogs.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:28 PM EST
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Saturday, February 5, 2005



"He's back."

Howard Dean, former Governor of Vermont, Presidential candidate and outspoken critic of the Bush Administration who's presidential campaign verbally self-imploded this time last year is on his way back as he's about to win Chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee. (Providing he doesn't say anything in the meantime.)

For Democrats it'a akin to putting Harry Truman in charge of the Democratic Party.

For Republicans who were hoping Marie Osmond, Millard Fillmore or Barney Fife might get the job, it's also akin to putting Harry Truman in charge of the Democratic Party.

And for the viewers, voters and pundits who thought the next four years would be boring and dull, a running battle between "Dr. Know" at the DNC and "Mr. Infallability" in the White House should prove to be pretty entertaining.

So damn the truth, get out your checkbooks and hold on to your saddlehorns. I suspect the ride is just beginning.

Whoever said politics was boring?





Posted by donburnshomepage at 8:48 AM EST
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Friday, February 4, 2005



The President is off on day two of his campaign swing to persuade the country to take up his reform of Social Security. Having raised the issue and scared hell out of everyone in the process he's now admonishing his opponents not to raise questions and scare hell out of everybody.

Ronald Reagan was known as the "Teflon President" because issues just slid off him and Bill Clinton was known as "Slick Willie" because he was able to slip off of issues but they don't hold a candle "Mr. Infallability". He slips on his own issues and then convinces you it's your fault.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:42 PM EST
Updated: Friday, February 4, 2005 11:44 PM EST
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Thursday, February 3, 2005



The President gave his State of the Union Address last nite. Everything is good. We sort of expected it would be. After all, he is talking about his own infallability here.

But to his credit he also talked about the impending problem with Social Security and the fact that it will go belly up in 40 or 50 years (depending on who's figures you believe).

His solution is "personalized" accounts as opposed to "privatized" accounts (which are one and the same thing) because "personalized" sounds and sells better than "privatized". In both cases these accounts would be "personally privatized" to the Stock Market. Republicans love the idea.
Generally anytime someone gives Republicans money to play with they like the idea.

Democrats do not like the idea. They remember the last time the Republicans played Stock Market with their money in 1929. They never got it back.





Posted by donburnshomepage at 12:35 PM EST
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Wednesday, February 2, 2005



The elections have come and gone in Iraq and hopefully there will be some peace that may follow. The President is optimistic but then he has to be. After all, this was all his idea.

Some people see him as a hero or a champion for having established some form of democracy in Iraq.

Ronald Reagan's policies did the same thing with the entire Soviet Union without firing a shot or losing an American soldiers life, and they did have WMD's. Lots of them. And our economy prospered.

Bill Clinton stopped an ethnic civil war in the Balkans and established a peace that endures to this day, and he did it without losing a single American soldier. And our national debt went down.

The present President Bush after almost three and a half years still can't get the guy that blew up the Twin Towers, invaded an already decimated country that had nothing to do with it on the pretext that it did, and now needs democratic elections to give him an exit stategy. And he did it with only 1,436 American deaths, 10,502 American wounded, 160 coalition deaths, between 16 and 18,000 Iraqi civilian deaths, and $300 billion dollars of your grandchildrens money, so far.....and the economy, your jobs and your money are now in China.

And for that we are supposed to cheer.

I'm with Forrest Gump on this one, " Stupid is as stupid does."




Posted by donburnshomepage at 2:18 PM EST
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