Political Poker

 
MONDAY 3-31-08…I don’t know about you, but I am thoroughly enjoying the spectacle being presented by this current race for the presidential nomination. I think my liberal friend, Jack Jamison, writing in the Paradise Post had the best description of the Democrat Follies. (Yes, I do have a liberal friend, which proves liberals and conservatives [...]

Adopt a Military Dog

Military Working Dog Bruno in Germany

FRIDAY 3-28-08…I spent my final years in the Navy training narcotic detector dogs, and the following ten years training police service dogs, and search and rescue dogs. So often, while demonstrating the value of such dogs, I’ve heard members of the public say “gee…I sure wish I had one of [...]

Chico fringe group demands Walmart be stifled

THURSDAY 3-27-08…So, Wal Mart has decided to scale back its expansion plan for North Chico. The group that’s been opposing it feels it has won half the battle. Now the battle cry of the group, (Chico Advocates for a Responsible Economy) is “one down, one to go.” By that, it means the group will turn [...]

Global Warming Down Under Going Down

WEDNESDAY 3-26-08…In this “land of the free”….we’re constantly being bombarded with stories about global warming, CO2 emissions, carbon footprints, cap n’ trade systems and the like. But we seldom, if ever, see the stories in print or on the news from scientists who call the whole thing “nothing but hogwash.” I wonder why that is. [...]

Bottled water is killing the planet

 
TUESDAY 3-25-08…There’s another war being fought….and it’s the war over bottled water. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is urging restaurants to stop offering customers the choice between bottled and local tap water. San Francisco has already banned the city from purchasing bottled water. One of the left-wingers on the Chico City Council wants this city [...]

Bill Richardson cuts a deal?

MONDAY 3-24-08…. The presidential race on the Democrat side is getting more fun to watch by the day. The Clintons have been cozying up to New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson in the hopes that he would publicly endorse Hillary’s campaign. Richardson, of course, a staunch ally of the Clintons, served as Energy Secretary in the [...]

Dems of the far left, bereft of Obama, Hillary

FRIDAY 3-21-08……The far-left-liberal-activist-extremists of the Democrat party gathered at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington DC this week. Both Democrat candidates for president gave the gathering a wide-berth….although Hillary Clinton did appear last year. This year, neither candidate felt it would be in their best interest to show up and rub elbows with the party’s [...]

The spoiler

 
THURSDAY 3-20-08… So….Ralph Nader says he’s tossing his hat into the presidential race. Again! Yep, again. He’s tried it twice already. Twice that I’m aware of anyway. Both times, he turned out to be nothing more than a tiny blip on a very large radar screen. So what could his real motivation be?
In 2000, he [...]

Money down the toilet

 
WEDNESDAY 3-19-08…Throughout the decade of the nineties, I interviewed political candidates of every stripe; Republican, Democrat, Greens, Peace & Freedom, and even those who “refuse to state.” These political wannabees were running for city councils, boards of supervisors, Legislative seats, statewide and national.
One of the questions I always asked was “when it comes to spending [...]

Wellness gone whacko

 
TUESDAY 3-18-08 …He is an honors student, eighth grade class Vice President, and preparing to attend the honors dinner. Suddenly, he was barred from attending the honors dinner, stripped of his post as class vice president, and suspended from school!
First thoughts would be, did he take a gun to school, did he kill another student, [...]