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Entries from July 2009

Six Flags Failures Help to Explain Bankruptcy Filing

July 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Yesterday, my 19-year-old son and a half-dozen of his closest college friends decided to take advantage of a special admission price — $9.80 per person, courtesy of Y98 radio in St. Louis — and spend the day at Six Flags St. Louis, located in Eureka, Mo., a few miles southwest of the city. News of [...]

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Senator Inhofe Dubs Waxman-Markey a ‘Nightmare’

July 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) uses a just-released video (below) to point out what happened at 3:09 a.m. (Eastern) on June 26 as most Americans were sleeping:  Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives were creating a nightmare. “In the early morning hours,” he explains, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her deputies were pushing the largest [...]

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Angry Crowd Slams Senator Claire McCaskill’s Support of ‘Obamacare’, Soldier Demands Apology

July 28th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) held a town hall meeting last night at Forest Park Community College in St. Louis.  The subject: Obamacare.  While hundreds of her upset constituents attended the meeting, the senator did not.  Instead, the loyal supporter of President Barack Obama opted instead to send a team of staffers in her place.  Coward! [...]

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Uncle Jay Explains the News: July 27, 2009

July 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Uncle Jay Explains the News today by “finally catching up to the present.”  Instead of speaking about “health”, a word that was supposed to be the news word of the week, he focuses on “stupid” as the news word of the week. Enjoy this week’s installment below!

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Lawsuit Closes Chevron Refinery, Costs 1,000 Jobs

July 27th, 2009 · 7 Comments

More than 1,000 construction workers will lose their jobs — at least temporarily — at the end of this month as the result of a decision by Contra Costa County (Calif.) Superior Judge Barbara Zuniga.  Ironically, the major project employing these people was designed to increase efficiency and reduce emissions at Chevron Corporation’s Richmond (Calif.) [...]

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Solution Offered for Obama’s Lack of Transparency

July 25th, 2009 · No Comments

President Barack Obama promised that his administration would be the most transparent one ever.  Unfortunately, he has not kept his promise very well.  Perhaps a piece of tape would help the 44th president and those in his inner circle become more transparent.  To understand what I mean, watch the short video below.

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Google Gives Reason for Blocking MassResistance

July 25th, 2009 · No Comments

Editor’s Note: Thanks to a Google Alert for the terms “Fox News” and “Josh Miller”, a Fox News reporter who interviewed me four months ago (see this BMW post for details), I came across a post published yesterday on Craigslist in Boston that caught my attention.  Posted by someone associated with the Massachusetts-based MassResistance blog, it [...]

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