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Saturday, March 14, 2015

Last week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Iamnotayahoo spoke before the US Congress at their invitation and in a direct snub of the President.

He says he is not a Yahoo but based on Jonathan Swift's definition, and he's the guy who created Yahoos, ........he is. 

So here we have "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" and a congress full of Bozos to go with him.  

May God save us from the legislature whenever they are in session, which fortunately is very rare.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 10:39 AM EDT
Updated: Saturday, March 14, 2015 11:12 AM EDT
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Monday, August 11, 2014

Appears Joe Biden was right.  Iraq is three countries un-united by religion and in the process of igniting themselves.

When this is all done we will have a major role in what will become Kurdistan and our bases in Kuwait to protect the south of Iraq from being overrun.

The remainder of Iraq, ISIS and Syria can sort out the details on what's left.

 The bigger concern will be Putin and Ukraine before the week is out.  It's just the way these things work.  Organized chaos.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 8:29 AM EDT
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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Leave it to Texas.

They are now looking at a proposal to sell alchohol at gun shows.  

In their defense and to insure that no one goes off the reservation and shoots the place up over a gun deal gone bad they have added rules.... which assumes that a guy with an attitude, a bottle and a Colt is going to follow them.

The Rules:  You can't buy bullets and you can't take posession of the gun at the show....which leaves us to beg the question,  "Why did you come to the gun show to begin with"?

The rest of the country may shake their head about things like this but in Texas they take this stuff seriously, which is one of the reasons why Texas is "a whole n'other country", otherwise known as an amusement park called "Catch 22 Land".


Posted by donburnshomepage at 6:21 PM EDT
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Friday, August 8, 2014

Everybody is saying that times have never been worse.  

Russia is about to invade Ukraine.  Iraq is in turmoil with a third of the country occupied by terrorist.  Syria has a civil war.  Israel and the Palestinians are still fighting.....for 3,000 years.  Libya is a mess.

But I think it all depends on where you're at.  

When I was in grade school we used to have a drill.  We would go out in the hall and get down on our knees with our head bent against the outside wall.  Then we would open up the biggest book we had over the back of our neck.   We were told this would save us from incineration by a nuclear warhead.

Try it.  It is a good excercise in relativity.   If you still think things are worse today... stay there.  The book will protect you.  You have my word on it.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:33 AM EDT
Updated: Friday, August 8, 2014 11:47 AM EDT
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Thursday, August 7, 2014

Lot of hand wringing over what to do in Iraq.  We want to tell ourselves that we don't really have an interest there.  It worked with Vietnam when things went South at the end of the Vietnam War.  Vietnam went on the back burner and is still there.

This new ISIS Caliphate in Syria and Iraq is a horse of a different color.  It has money, spelled billions, it has our weapons we gave to the Iraqi Army, they gave them to ISIS when they ran away, and they have experience, from fighting for what amounts to forever.  

They have also concentrated themselves in the world's biggest sandbox.  If they take the cities you will not be able to find a back burner to put them on. 


Posted by donburnshomepage at 4:48 PM EDT
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

It's summer in upstate New York.  

Summer weather here is just like New England's before it gets there. One hour it can be hot as a firecracker, next hour drop 30 degrees, rain, hail and blow down half a dozen trees, then thirty minutes later turn around 180 degrees and blow them back up from the opposite direction.

Winter is about the same, only frozen.

The trees have gotten so used to it they don't bother to go down any more. They have been educated so to speak and see little profit in falling down in the first place.  They just stand their ground and wait for winter to show up to be frozen in place......which could be as soon as tomorrow.


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Thursday, May 1, 2014

I thought New York had some curious ideosyncracies in their legislature and their laws until I got to Florida.  Down here one of the big issues the state legislature is fumbling with is a "Beer War" between microbreweries and the Big Boys in the Beer Business.

The Big Boys want to limit the size of the microbrewery containers thereby limiting their profitability and ultimately eliminating them as competition.  The proposed laws, if you can follow them look like a three ring circus of flaming hoops the microbrewers have to jump through.  So much for free enterprise.

The main argument being used seems to center around the idea that by limiting the microbreweries the state will limit the amount of drinking and by extension.....drunks.  What have they been drinking?

I have done my own research......personally....in bars.  I can tell you first hand.  They know how to drink beer in Florida.  They are very good at it. Perhaps exceptional.  That argument is a loser.  It don't hold no water, or beer for that matter.  


Posted by donburnshomepage at 5:22 AM EDT
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Ukraine is still in the news.  This time the Russkies (aka. self described patriots..... in someone else's country) have taken over government buildings and seized foreign and domestic hostages.  By definition, that makes them terrorists regardless of where they came from.  

When this happens in Russia Czar Vladimir looks to the West for support, condemns the acts and does not hesitate to use force to deal with the problem.  We do the same in our country.  Those are the rules of the game.

So now the shoe is on the other foot in the Ukraine and where is Putin? ........................... Supporting the terrorists!......Why?    

Hint:  (I think it is always important to keep in mind that, after all, they are his terrorists.)


Posted by donburnshomepage at 1:34 AM EDT
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Conservative 67 year old rancher, anti-government activist and freeloader Cliven Bundy is done with his 15 minutes of fame for putting his foot in his mouth with racist remarks.  It's not because he's gotten smarter. He's simply been replaced by a bigger and wealthier fool.  

Donald Sterling, an 80 year old billionaire owner of an NBA basketball team apparently has a bigger mouth, a bigger foot and a benevolent despot slaveowner mentality to go with it.  After all, he clothes and feeds his black NBA players and their families out of the goodness of his heart. 

In truth these old fools are living in their great grandfathers world and by that standard they see themselves as enlightened.  They might well be....in 1865.  

They say there is no fool like an old fool, but an old fool with money has merely increased his ability to be stupid all over the world.


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Monday, April 28, 2014

The trouble never seems to end in the middle east.  Today it's Egypt's turn.......again.  Ever since the Arab Spring in Egypt followed by their first open election since whenever they've had trouble.  But that is the nature of startup democracies.  So, by Egyptian tradition, the military took over...again, and the cycle starts all over...... again. .... Dumb.

Now the military/government's court has over the past month sentenced about 1,000 of the Muslim Brotherhood (they were the ones who won the democratic election and then lost the military takeover) to death. ....Dumber.

At some point this will reverse again and the military and the government have now set the standard by which they too will be judged....and also sentenced........Dumbest.  

Unfortunately, the lesson they all think they are learning is that democracy doesn't work.  They need to look in a mirror. 


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