Archive for September, 2009

Videos: “Mysterious” Security Firm in Hardin, Montana Raises Questions

UPDATE:  PLEASE SEE  HERE

This is a strange story.  Vehicles showed up in Hardin, Montana, with police emblems on the vehicles….the trouble is Hardin has no police department.  The town contracts with the Big Horn County Sheriff’s Department for patrols, so  just who are these people driving police cars with a Hardin Police Department emblem on [...]

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Military coup “to resolve the ‘Obama problem’ ” is not “unrealistic”

UPDATE:  Newsmax pulled the article.  At the bottom of this post is the full text  from  TPM. I’m very unhappy my screen shot program didn’t get a full page screen shot but you can see a couple of the comments left at the original Newsmax article at the bottom of this post.
The author of [...]

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Does Your Employer Carry a “Dead Peasant” Life Insurance Policy on You?

I remember the story about Wal-Mart collecting $72,820.30 in life insurance on an employee, Karen Armatrout, who died of cancer while working at Wal-Mart.  At the time, I didn’t think to look deeper to see if this was a common practice among big corporations.
A Texas attorney, Michael D. Myers, sued Wal-Mart over the Karen Armatrout [...]

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House Passes Bill to Stop Rise in Medicare Premiums

Isn’t this big of them?  Year after year, medicare increases eat up part of the cost of living increase in Social Security…..sometimes leaving seniors with little to nothing extra in their social security check.    I think it’s time that we, as a country, take the idea of taking care of our seniors more seriously. [...]

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Video: Ukraine’s Got Talent – Sand Animation

I found this fascinating and thought I would share it.

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Secret Service Investigating Facebook Poll Asking Whether Obama Should Be Killed

Yesterday I put up a post with a screen shot of a poll on Facebook asking if President Obama should be killed.   The poll was reported to the Secret Service who responded with an investigation.  The backstory is HERE.  I have to wonder why the application that is used for polls on Facebook didn’t remove [...]

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State Finds Swim Club’s Actions May Be Racially Motivated

If you’ll notice, I copied this article that was updated at 11:29 (see below) and at 11:39 ABC re-wrote it and changed the headline.  Evidently ABC doesn’t really know what the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission actually said.  Was it MAY BE Racially motivated or the original WAS racially motivated?
Here’s the 11:39 version:
Swim Club lawyer blames [...]

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Obama poll on Facebook

Really?  A poll on Facebook asking if the President of the United States should be killed?  Why in the world has this poll been left up for over a month?
The poll has been removed from Facebook, which was the real goal in posting this, so I have removed the screen shot.
Polls on Facebook | The [...]

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Video: Saturday Night Live Sketch Mocking Moammar Gadhafi

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Buy Insurance or Go to Jail?

Yesterday ABC reported that Thomas Barthold, Chief of Staff to the Nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation stated in a letter to Sen. John Ensign that those who do not purchase health insurance and do not pay the tax penalty will go to jail pursuant to Internal Revenue Code of 1986, Section 7203.  (See below to [...]

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