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Friday, February 3, 2006



Tom Delay is gone so the Democrats get their wish, or do they?

Considering they had the biggest target since Hiroshima sitting in the Congress they may wish he hadn't left quite so soon.

As for the Republicans, it's damage control time. Having sold most of the country for votes to the point that we're out of money it's time to pull out their conservative card and start preaching fiscal responsibility again. In other words it's time to take stuff from those least able to stop them. Like poor people, college students and the elderly.

In other words, it's Compassionate Conservative time again.



Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:04 AM EST
Updated: Friday, February 3, 2006 1:22 PM EST
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Thursday, February 2, 2006



The State of the Union Address is over and what most of us learned is you can be arrested, handcuffed and led off to jail in Washington, D.C. for wearing a t-shirt if the President doesn't like it...... Even if you have an invitation to the event as a guest from a Member of Congress. That was a new insight.

That's what happened to Cindy Sheehan, mother of an Iraq War military casualty and anti-war protester when she went to listen to the President speak.

That seemed to be the news for the night. Oh, and the President mentioned New Orleans, which means he thinks it's still there. That was new too.

He also mentioned the war. He says we are winning. He said that last year too. The year before he said we'd already won. I think he needs to find a new theme. .........How about fixing Social Security?


Posted by donburnshomepage at 2:17 PM EST
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006



The long awaited Filibuster to stop Judge Alito from joining the Supreme Court fizzled and busted. I figured it would.

Democrats for all their good arguments and issues can't seem to put it together and generate any valid threat. That's because at this point they aren't one. The few that speak up are old war horses and the few that are new aren't speakin up or taking any risks. End result is mute and skittish riders on old horses.

Might be better off letting the Republicans have their way. Considering their track record of successful plans or programs completed, that's the best argument I've seen against them.

It's easy to spout negatives when your after something. It's usually something else entirely when you get it.

Posted by donburnshomepage at 1:56 PM EST
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Monday, January 30, 2006



Exxon Mobil Just announce their biggest profits ever. "Hello". That's news?

"News" would be if they didn't.

That should be a good "lead in" to the President's State of the Union Address. I can hear it now.

" My fellow Americans. We have cut your taxes and given them back to you so you could invest them in an Exxon Mobil product. That way the money in this country can get to where it really belongs. Oil men, like me......Remember stay warm, drive a lot and buy fuel. Just like war, it's good for the economy."


Posted by donburnshomepage at 2:29 PM EST
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Sunday, January 29, 2006



The President seems to be falling in the polls again. That was bound to happen. Been nothing to bring him up.

So now it's time for the State of the Union Address. That's where the President gives us all a pep talk and decides what he's going to focus on during the next year. Considering that everything he's focused on in the past has become a failure we're about to see what the term "kiss of death" means.

This years failures to be? Gas prices, health care, social security, the economy and Iraq. How do we know they will be policy failures. Because they're the same ones he tried last year.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:15 PM EST
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Saturday, January 28, 2006



Having failed to get anyone fired up over his crusade the fix Social Security by giving your social security money to private investors for "safeguarding" and having gotten everyone fired up by his failure to make his crusade in Iraq work, which was supposed to be paid for with money from Iraq'a oil instead of money from your pocket, the president now has a new crusade.

He is going to fix health care. And how is he going to do that you say?

Why by giving everyone a tax break that buys private health insurance. That will help all the people who can afford it to begin with. It will give them more money to spend somewhere else. It has nothing to do with health care but it will make them feel better and isn't that what health care is all about anyway.

And as for those that don't have health care to begin with because they can't afford it? This program will serve as an inspiration for them to work harder and get a better job so that they too can someday buy their own health insurance, get a tax break and feel better too.

This is also referred to as "Voodoo Economics Meets Health Care 101".



Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:15 PM EST
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006



The Senate is calling for action on Iran. Seems they think the Iranians are building a nuclear bomb. Probably are. Everyone else does so it's not like it's something new. Once they get it they get to join America's "nuclear target of the month club" which I might add is not an enviable position to be in. After all we have enough spare "nukes" to incinerate the world about ten times over. Iran would take about 15 minutes.

But the call in the Senate is to stop Iran now by negotiations if possible or military action if necessary. We used to assume that meant airstrikes. Under the Bush Amendment to the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine it seems to mean invasion. Sooooo.......

All we need is more soldiers, armor, equipment, money, a plan to liberate the Iranians from the Iranians and the support of the American people for more nation building in another middle eastern desert where we can get more oil to pay for a war because someone might have a weapon of mass destruction. Sounds like a gameplan to me.

Any volunteers?


Posted by donburnshomepage at 7:25 AM EST
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Sunday, January 15, 2006



Good grief. Having just defended the Presidents right to subvert the Constitution on the basis that we need to be secure and therefore we can spy on our own people and torture others because he has been honestly elected by the majority of the people (without benefit this time of the Electoral College and the Supreme Court) I now find I may have erred again.

According to the Boston Globe the electronic voting machines made by a company called Diebold can be successfully hacked and winners can become losers and losers become winners without a trace of evidence to show that it was done. How do they know? Because they just did it in Florida. To prove their innocence the company in question refuses to comment thereby putting the matter to rest? What works for the President works for the President makers.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 9:42 AM EST
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Saturday, December 17, 2005



Having just encouraged the Canadian Prime Minister to turn over the Provinces to the United States so Canadians can pick up the First Amendment right of free speech I now have to learn that the President has authorized the National Security Agency to to conduct domestic surveillance without warrants and the government has effectively been illegally spying on Americans for the past three years.

What will the Administration think of next?

Well at least we still have honest and untainted elections for our President even if he does subvert the Constitution so I guess that makes it OK.

After all, you can't have security without securing someone, can you?


Posted by donburnshomepage at 10:02 AM EST
Updated: Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:44 AM EST
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005



Well it seems after having run an election in Afghanistan and running an election about every month in Iraq, presumably until they get something right, we've moved on to correcting the other democracies that really have been doing it wrong all these years. Most specifically we're fixing the Canadians.

Seems our Ambassador is telling their Prime Minister what he can and cannot criticize in the upcoming Canadian Parliamentary elections. Most specifically he can't criticize the American government.

Of course if the Canadian Prime Minister were to become an American citizen then he could criticize the American government to his heart's content because we've got the First Amendment which gives him that protection. So it really is an easy issue to resolve. Canada merely has to turn over the provinces to Washington as new states thereby making them all Americans and then they too can experience the freedoms of American Democracy first hand.

But then he wouldn't be a Prime Minister anymore so it's probably not going to happen. Too bad. ........ It would be cheaper than sending the army.



Posted by donburnshomepage at 10:19 PM EST
Updated: Saturday, December 17, 2005 9:40 AM EST
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