tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13960645622184878832011-11-27T15:23:02.895-08:00RunRunDan“You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.” Henrik IbsenKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.comBlogger761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-53833204905986743042011-11-15T19:34:00.000-08:002011-11-15T19:37:39.397-08:00THE BEGINNING OF THE END?THE BEGINNING OF THE END! Berserk
Those who predicted that 2012 would be the end, were not prophets, they were told by the groups I name below that 9/11, and all of the nations the last two presidents have ravaged, and the poisonings of air, water and land, the provocation of citizens and groups by government, were merely tests, which most people have ignored, while in strong denial. There is no PROFESSOR EMERITUS PETER BAGNOLOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08682241203964199531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-8138292825999753252011-01-21T15:57:00.000-08:002011-01-21T15:59:11.634-08:00Obama's Unsavory Anti-Pension/Social Security PlanToday I, like many of you, received an email announcing the president's State of The Union Message.
My reply:
DAVID:
I am a part of five generations of FDR Progressives. I am also a retired architect with many prestigious structures to my credit in Illinois, with a scientific and scholarly legacy as well. I write to say that I will soon move over to the other side of the aisle with large PROFESSOR EMERITUS PETER BAGNOLOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08682241203964199531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-73548605540856760982010-12-23T14:30:00.000-08:002010-12-23T14:30:14.724-08:00THE FINANCIAL REALITIES
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PROFESSOR EMERITUS PETER BAGNOLOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08682241203964199531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-24562874539200392742010-12-04T13:57:00.000-08:002010-12-04T13:57:42.806-08:00Walter Moore Says: Assisted Political Suicide: City Councilman Huizar Hires TrujilloWalter Moore Says: Assisted Political Suicide: City Councilman Huizar Hires TrujilloSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-52681293689394450962010-10-29T08:56:00.000-07:002010-10-29T09:25:28.184-07:00CHAPTER XVII <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 0 1 571 3256 AADPA LTD. 27 6 3998 11.1282 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 0 0 <![endif]--> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Times New Roman"; panose-1:0 2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 PROFESSOR EMERITUS PETER BAGNOLOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08682241203964199531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-70419097949016236962010-09-15T13:21:00.000-07:002010-09-15T15:43:06.790-07:00Bush/Obama, Two Sides of the same Coin <!--[if !mso]> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 0 1 1532 8738 AADPA LTD. 72 17 10730 11.1282 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 0 0 <![endif]--> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {PROFESSOR EMERITUS PETER BAGNOLOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08682241203964199531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-54236039990681501782009-10-18T07:27:00.000-07:002009-10-18T07:38:14.868-07:00Geezers May Be Dodging Swine Flu Bulletby Sandy SandIt’s really hard to find any advantages to being a codger or codgerette except for the freedom to say anything you want and pretty much get away with it. Everything else is a pain…literally.One exception might be a built-in immunity to the swine flu.According to the Los Angeles Daily News: Los Angeles County has seen at least 57 people die from H1N1 virus this year, according to Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-79252033872534154352009-10-11T07:04:00.000-07:002009-10-11T07:19:55.442-07:00Let's See If BPAs Really Make Girls More Aggressiveby Sandy SandNot to be too cynical, but do we really want to drink or eat from plastic containers that contain BPAs?Whether they be rumor or factual, for years there have been claims that BPAs (bisphenyl A) are leached out from plastics and are of special concern to mothers who are bottle feeding their babies.Of course, the plastic bottle and container industry is going to say “pish-tosh” to the Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-7139334566069728392009-07-28T06:32:00.000-07:002009-07-28T06:35:00.104-07:00WHY I SHALL NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA AGAINCongrats, to those who think there have been significant changes in the first six months of the Obama administration, I am not seeing the "political changes" to which some refer: We now have more troops and Mercenaries than Bush did overseas. We still have the Patriot Act and the Military Commission's Act of 2006, both of which gutted our Constitution and Bill of Rights. We have not gone after PROFESSOR EMERITUS PETER BAGNOLOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08682241203964199531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-39673075990580006172009-01-21T20:21:00.001-08:002009-01-21T20:31:17.922-08:00Inaugural celebrations from Washington, DC to St. Paul, MNPresident Obama gets out of limo - screenshotOriginally uploaded by Kathlyn StoneAs President Obama stepped out of his limo to walk for part of his symbolic approach to the White House via Pennsylvania Avenue on Jan. 20, hundreds of elementary school students at St. Paul's Expo for Excellence Magnet Elementary were concluding their own inaugural march along Randolph Street and Snelling Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-44371586479382301932009-01-05T07:21:00.000-08:002009-01-05T07:23:54.090-08:00Come One, Come All. Get Your New People Partsby Sandy SandFor more than forty years physicians have been replacing worn out knee and hip joints.Internal organs are replaced even though they are riddled with rejection problems.External flaws, the ravages of aging and excess fat have people lining up at the body sculptors’ workshops.According to CNNhttp://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2009/01/03/connery.uk.bionic.knuckles.cnnScientists have Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-49333065925512178072009-01-04T08:25:00.000-08:002009-01-04T08:29:01.075-08:00Being Dead Broke is a Grave Situationby Sandy SandIt’s no secret that the economy is bad for most of us, while others have fallen into a black hole of debt. Where yesterday they could pay their bills; today they can’t, even after selling off everything of value that they possess.That is…until they remember that long forgotten, dusty deed to a burial plot.From ashes to ashes; from dust to dust, and for some the dust on the deed is a Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-80066034618455283612009-01-01T04:43:00.000-08:002009-01-01T04:45:44.698-08:00OMG, How Could I Live Without My MTV?by Sandy SandOMG, How Could I Live Without My MTV?Very well, thank you very much even if Time Warner and Viacom reached a temporary agreement.Viacom and Time Warner reached a temporary settlement that will keep Dora Exploring, Sponge Bob doing whatever he does, Jon Steward and Steven Colbert punching the pols.Most of the 17 channels Viacom was threatening to pull from Time Warner Cable I never Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-83566684066467349152008-12-31T05:28:00.000-08:002008-12-31T05:33:32.155-08:00California Astronomer to Leap Into 2009 at 3:59:60 p.m. PSTby Sandy SandThis might be the last time to celebrate the adjustment of atomic clocks if scientists, who think it’s a waste of time get their way.The quiet high desert town of Valencia in Southern California won’t be so quiet around the home of Skip Newhall this afternoon.Seventy-year-old retired astronomer Newhall plans to celebrate with a number of friends to equal his age when the clock Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-79185904416471894002008-12-29T09:55:00.000-08:002008-12-29T10:03:01.400-08:00Armageddon: How to Know When to Bend Over and Kiss Your Derriere Good-byeby Sandy SandYa gotta love end of days speculation; it’s safe and so much more fun than the really serious stuff that’s going on.It was “off with their heads” in the bad ol’ days in China for the emperor’s weather predictors when they were wrong. Drastic, but fitting wun’t ya say?We could try the same thing with the predictors of Armageddon or end times, who are always wrong, and either really Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-63694706314609258112008-12-25T03:22:00.000-08:002008-12-25T03:28:25.251-08:00Obama to Use Lincoln’s Bible for Swearing In: It’s Not the Book That’s Important, It’s the Oathby Sandy SandThe oath of office isn’t about the book it’s sworn on; it’s about upholding the Constitution of the United States of America -- the document that has made us unique from every other country in the world.It’s an irony that a Democrat is the first to use Lincoln’s bible since Lincoln.One would think that a Republican president would have used it long ago.After all, they're the ones whoSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-82406457650329795612008-12-24T07:12:00.000-08:002008-12-24T07:16:34.082-08:00From Sandy’s “I Can’t Really Take Cooking Seriously” Bookby Sandy SandI don’t care what the perky TV chefs say. Cooking is a chore, so I try to make it as easy and unserious as possible.Step One: Kick everyone out of the kitchen; they only get in the way.Step Two: Invite them in to do the grunge chores like washing, chopping, grating and cleaning up. They ate, didn’t they?Be sure to leave the kitchen while they’re making a mess of your kitchen; it willSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-40942947824519492702008-12-23T06:58:00.000-08:002008-12-23T07:01:35.346-08:00Bad Economy Trickles Up; Good Economy Does Not Trickle Downby Sandy SandAaaaaw. Isn’t that just too bad. Even the wealthiest are tightening their belts.Welcome to the real world.According to SpendingPulse, luxury sales dropped nearly 35 percent at the beginning of December as compared to the same week last year, and were also down 23 percent for the five previous weeks.High-end stores and the manufacturers of the brands they carry are feeling the pinch, Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-89747630151405059332008-12-22T07:31:00.000-08:002008-12-22T07:33:11.512-08:00One Potato, Two Potato. 100 Potatoes to Cook Up Super-sized Chanukah Latkeby Sandy SandOnly in Southern California. A beach town Jewish congregation creates a super-sized potato pancake to make McDonald’s proud.Southern Californians like to pride themselves in being innovators and concocting new ideas that the country soon follows.Members of Temple Isaiah in Newport Beach combined a green Chanukah with the traditional blue and white celebration making it into a light Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-18056573128555659472008-12-21T11:51:00.000-08:002008-12-21T11:54:16.574-08:00Mystery: Case of the Lost Schlossberg and the Found Clintonby Sandy SandWill was right. It’s all in the name.The name Kennedy is more powerful than Schlossberg. Clinton is more powerful than Rodham.What happened to Schlossberg; he seems to have gone missing -- or at least his name has.After 22 years of marriage and being known as Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, suddenly Schlossberg is nowhere to be heard.Are the divorce rumors of Kennedy and Schlossberg Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-48526520657088552442008-12-20T06:43:00.000-08:002008-12-20T06:47:53.480-08:00Obama Names ‘The South Shall Rise Again’ President to Speak at Inaugurationby Sandy SandFeeling that Rick Warren wasn’t enough to prove he means what he says about talking with those with whom he disagrees, Barack Obama asked another controversial person to speak at his inauguration.In an astonishing move that sent the country reeling and leaving most loquacious pundits speechless, President-elect Barack Obama invited the self-ordained preacherman and president of The Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-36865505600246529622008-12-17T05:14:00.001-08:002008-12-17T05:19:23.361-08:00Warning! This Movie Contains Smokingby Sandy SandIf the smoking lamp is lit in a movie, you just might not be able to handle it.In a country that boasts it’s a world leader and can take on any enemy and win, we’re told we’re too infantile and weak-minded to not be influence by seeing actors smoke in movies.These control freak asses are going a controlling freakazoid step too far.By their logic, we are incapable of watching anythingSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-18256573707630991242008-12-16T10:52:00.000-08:002008-12-16T10:55:17.047-08:00Fed to Lower Interest Rate to Minus 0.05 Percentby Sandy SandIt’s a topsy-turvy world.The Fed began a two-day meeting yesterday to discuss the economic crunch and came up with a solution to stimulate the economy.“Our economy is like a dying patient,” said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, “so we’re going to try drastic experimental surgery to see if we can save its life.”Interest rates dropped to an all-time low of one-percent during the Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-8007382811457839382008-12-14T06:12:00.000-08:002008-12-14T06:14:52.367-08:00In Retrospect, My Job From Hell Was Funnyby Sandy SandWhen I look back on one of my jobs from hell, I can laugh about it.It’s amazing how time can alter one’s perception of things.All I could find was an awful boring part time job to take while looking for a real job. I had construction experience and went to work for a general contractor, who was in the middle of an acrimonious divorce from his wife of thirty or more years.She wasn’t Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-28779651999338317862008-12-14T06:02:00.000-08:002008-12-14T06:08:07.517-08:00The Day the Music Diedby Sandy SandEven music has fallen victim to a crumbling economy. Work holiday parties, too, but maybe that's a good thing.But this is about entertainment, and heaven knows that during tough times we need a little excapism.= = = = =Santa Clarita, California -- Due to slow ticket sales and limited fundraising, the Santa Clarita Symphony was forced to cancel its 2009 concert season.In stead, they Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-8749924710145804292008-12-10T07:25:00.000-08:002008-12-10T07:30:56.664-08:00Bushies Tone Deaf to Torture by Musicby Sandy SandThey’re a bunch of twisted sisters.Bush, Cheney, Rummy and Gonzo, who authorized torture should have cells reserved for them at Gitmo after it’s closed and be treated to months of nonstop blaring music.Heard often enough and loud enough, even the Star Spangled Banner would drive them crazy (like they’re not now), and make them hate the people who were doing that to them.They can be Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-73964859822954326222008-12-07T08:22:00.000-08:002008-12-07T08:25:24.138-08:00Surprise! OPEC is Going to Cut Oil Production to Raise Pricesby Sandy SandMother Nature and her offspring, the dinosaurs, didn’t give the Earth a limitless supply of oil, so it's time for oil barons all over the world to realize their future wealth doesn't come from below ground.It supposed to be a surprise that OPEC will cut back on production to raise prices.Well it ain’t no surprise no more now that OPEC President Chakib Khelil blabbed all to the Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-13681775738103742992008-12-04T07:37:00.000-08:002008-12-04T07:39:31.067-08:00Campbell Brown, Knock it Off and Get Yourself a Lifeby Sandy SandMore nonsense to make a big deal over when there’s real news to cover.I’m with the 74 percent of the people who said on AOL’s unscientific poll that they weren’t bothered at all by Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell’s comment that President-elect Barack Obama nominee for Homeland Security, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano should “get a life.” Give us a break, Campbell Brown of CNN, who went Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-20846588992671906892008-12-01T04:07:00.000-08:002008-12-01T04:10:57.736-08:00Bush Invitation: That Ain’t No Christmas Tree, It’s a Bush Chanukah Bushby Sandy SandThe Bushies can’t do the simplest damn thing right, not even send out invitations to a White House Chanukah party.Major Jewish leaders received invitations to a Chanukah reception in the White House that depicted a Christmas wreath on the presidential mansion, while out front was a horse-drawn cart pulling a Christmas tree up to the front door.The invitation from George and Laura Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-74736139655875645982008-11-28T03:55:00.000-08:002008-11-28T03:58:13.864-08:00Black Friday: My Personal Boycottby Sandy SandI'm not stepping into one store that opens before 7 a.m.Not only am I NOT participating in Black Friday, I'm boycotting every store that opens before 7 a.m.It's outrageous, ridiculous, a show of extreme greed on the part of retailers and a disservice to their employees, who after I asked a few of them at several stores, said they stand around until seven before the first customer Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-21517671535676687642008-11-25T05:42:00.000-08:002008-11-25T05:46:10.211-08:00Putting Giant Condoms on Shrimpby Sandy SandIt was all part of preparing for Thanksgiving.Okay. That’s a little bit of a stretch.To say it’s part of preparing for Thanksgiving is a matter of coincidence, because it’s threatening to rain before, during and after the holiday.As I’ve bored you with a dozen or so times, Rick Feldman of Gardens by Rick, just put the finishing touches on re-landscaping my front and back yards.Part Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-73627218973979026612008-11-21T05:48:00.000-08:002008-11-21T06:00:42.602-08:00Speculation Runs Rampant on the Future Who’s Whos in the Obama Administrationby Sandy SandVegas odds makers are probably in on the spek-a-latin’ act, too. Maybe we should check them out; they were correct in calling Obama’s election.Before we go all nutzy over the new same old faces in the Barack Obama administration, and some of his rumored picks don’t thrill me either, we should always keep in mind that those who have served in previous administrations, or are currentlySandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-40038408724474679542008-11-17T06:40:00.000-08:002008-11-17T06:45:27.977-08:00Omigawd! Barack Obama Sparkled on “60 Minutes” Interviewby Sandy SandWhat a joy!After eight years of Inarticulate-Dumbbell-Fool-Hoof-in-Mouth-in-Chief G.W.B., it was heaven to watch Barack and Michelle Obama in their first interview since the election on 60 Minutes last night.I’m not sure we can cope with a president who’s articulate, looks like he’s comfortable in his own skin, has a real sense of humor and not that of a first grader, and who can Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-29140008912165348892008-11-07T04:47:00.000-08:002008-11-07T04:54:33.625-08:00Unprecedented “Get Out The Nuts” Vote Leads To Bachman Win in Minnesotaby Steve YoungAfter suggesting that Barack Obama had anti-American views in an exchange three weeks ago with MSNBC host Chris Matthews, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) told the American Psychiatric Journal Thursday that she was “extremely grateful that we have enough crazy people” in Minnesota who “sent a signal that nitwits have just as much belief in the American dream as people who have Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-71174315736039535392008-11-05T06:01:00.000-08:002008-11-05T06:04:20.546-08:00A Revolution in American Elections Without a Shot Being Firedby Sandy SandOnly in a democracy.Democratic people don’t riot to overthrow tyranny, although George Bush gave us a thousand reasons a million times, and most of us who are appalled by his every Constitution-busting action would have liked to do just that.We also would like to see inauguration day be this Saturday and not wait 76 long, long days.Seventy-six days, a nano-blip in cosmic time, but Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-14024681748058780452008-11-04T08:48:00.000-08:002008-11-04T08:55:24.673-08:00Actual Weather in Southern California on Bellwether Election Dayby Sandy SandWhat never happens is happening in Los Angeles and environs; it’s raining on election day in sunny Southern California. Never happens. But it is and it’s an historic weather event on this bellwether election day.Rumors started by local morning KABC radio guy, Doug McIntyre, are flooding the internet that Karl Rove was seen flying over the area seeding clouds.Why would Rove do such a Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-17173928022064310972008-11-03T07:06:00.000-08:002008-11-03T07:10:17.215-08:00Lobbying Church Goers: Time to Eliminate All Church Tax-exempt Statusby Sandy SandLobbying Church Goers: Time to Eliminate All Church Tax-exempt StatusMore than ever churches are mixing politics and big business with preachery. They’re driving their tax-exempt status straight over a cliff …exactly where it should be … abolished and gone up in flames!Let’s face it. Churches, mega-types or not, have gone so far beyond being houses of faith and worship that it’s timeSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-23091837789070725392008-11-02T05:34:00.000-08:002008-11-02T05:37:01.579-08:00Voter Apathy Equals Election Board Apathy, Long Linesby Sandy SandChanges are needed in how we conduct all elections.This headline in today’s Los Angeles Daily News, combined with pervasive voter apathy might reveal the answer [or part of the answer] to long lines at polling stations: Experts Concerned System May be Overwhelmed by Big Voter Turnout.I’ve been stunned every time I see excruciatingly long lines at polling places across the country on Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-82022534665208951512008-10-30T07:17:00.000-07:002008-10-30T07:20:33.649-07:00DST:Falling Back, Springing Forward is Good and Bad For Our Healthby Sandy SandBeing a devout hater of Daylight Savings Time, I always knew it’s bad for one’s health and psyche, and a study by Swedish researchers proves it.Daylight Savings Time turns our body clocks inside out and backwards.According to the Associated Press, the findings, which are reported in today’s New England Journal of Medicine, Swedish scientists discovered the following after reviewing Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-78370987921430017492008-10-26T08:07:00.000-07:002008-10-26T08:11:10.699-07:00Sarah Palin is Going Off the McCain Reservation and Staking Out Her Own Territoryby Sandy SandThe first hints of Sarah Palin separating herself from John McCain came last week from Rachael Maddow and Keith Olbermann; now it’s all over the Web.As I write, it’s the first topic on Howard Kurtz’ Reliable Sources on CNN.But the most prophetic analysis of Palin’s inner self came from the woman who beat her out in the Miss Alaska pageant 24 years ago, Maryline Blackburn.If you havenSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-49561237121759999862008-10-24T03:49:00.000-07:002008-10-24T03:51:50.082-07:00Hallowe'en Masks Pick the Presby Sandy SandAnd the winner is…..….. Barack Obama!I wouldn’t take it to the bank, but pre-presidential election sales of Hallowe’en masks have been accurate predictors of who will be our next president.Tracking of sales by Amazon.com showed that Barack Obama masks are outselling John McCain masks by a margin of eight percent; 54 percent to 46 percent, which more or less reflects the national Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-63572688843876014112008-10-17T05:34:00.000-07:002008-10-17T05:36:45.967-07:00FOX Delays World Series Game 6 Due to Hurricane Barackby Sandy SandProving that money speaks louder than ideology, the Fox Network has asked for and received permission from Major League Baseball to delay game six of the World Series by 15 minutes.That is…if there is a game six.The Obama campaign has made a major television buy on all the networks on October 29th to air a half-hour special.Sports events are never pre-empted except in the case of a Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-49774134512732296622008-10-12T05:16:00.000-07:002008-10-12T05:19:33.773-07:00100 Days to Go and Bush Won’t Let Lameduckedness Stop Himby Sandy SandOh, swell.Bad news for us. Instead of retiring to his steerless, fake ranch and cutting brush between now and January 20th, Bush will work “hard” to solve the economic ills of the country before leaving office.We’d be so much better off if he’d just butt out and go back to Texas or his new “rancho” in South America.We all know what a swell businessman he was and how “daddy” had to Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-38003530139907886462008-10-09T09:46:00.000-07:002008-10-09T10:08:24.621-07:00John McCain Linked To Jackson Fiveby Steve YoungDetails are now coming out revealing a close relationship between Senator John McCain and four performing Jackson brothers who together with McCain, were known as the Jackson Five in the early 70’s.The bombshell news offers a rare glimpse of a younger, hipper McCain, much different than the cantankerous, 72-year-old whose favorite song is “Dancing Queen.”McCain spokesman, Tucker Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-25285557177845137642008-10-08T09:37:00.000-07:002008-10-08T09:42:22.154-07:00If Only One of the Debate Robots Had Stood Up and Asked…by Sandy SandIf only some ballsy questioner had asked McCain when he's going to stop Sarah Palin from inciting rally-goes to riot, and shouting out hateful threats because of her lying accusations that Barack Obama is a terrorist.But, no. They all looked frightened, like they'd been cowed to death.To call last night’s debate a town hall or open forum was a super practical joke perpetrated on the Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-74741933609144674752008-10-03T06:26:00.000-07:002008-10-03T06:33:22.463-07:00Debate Headline: Palin Wants Uber V.P. Power, That’s Fer Sureby Sandy SandSarah Palin is the Dick Cheney pig in lipstick.The single most frightening, glaring headline to come out of last night’s vice presidential debate is that Sarah Palin still doesn’t know what the vice president does and she wants the extra power that Dick Cheney has bestowed on himself.She still does not know what the Constitution dictates the vice president’s powers, and apparently, Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-33163818264932977262008-10-02T08:22:00.000-07:002008-10-02T08:29:59.414-07:00Sarah Palin Unable to Recite All Her Children's Namesby Steve YoungIn what may be the most damaging of the slow but sure dissemination of the CBS News Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee was unable to name all of her kids' names.Transcript follows:Katie Couric: And when it comes to establishing your family view, I was curious: What are the names you use when you want to speak to your children?Sarah Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-31891916340942512592008-10-01T07:53:00.000-07:002008-10-01T08:01:38.561-07:00A Humerous Look at Sarah Palin's Lack of Scientific Curiosityby Sandy SandSpeculation is that Sarah Palin will have a tough time in duking it out with Joe Biden in the veep debate. That remains to be seen; we all might be surprised. But considering her lack of scientific curiosity, how would she do if someone threw in some science questions?Thanks to my friend, W. Christopher “Bill” Epler, who gave me an idea for a post with his Never in the History of theSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-10717040582730557162008-09-27T17:53:00.000-07:002008-09-27T17:59:57.622-07:00Travel Only Broadens One’s Backside, It Doesn't a Foreign Policy Expert Makeby Sandy SandFrankly, I don’t get Katie Couric’s question to Sarah Palin about what took her so long to get a passport (last year), or that people who wrote CBS before that painfully embarrassingly interview, wondered if that indicated a lack of interest and curiosity about the world.Actually, I believe that really wasn’t a viewer-induced question; it sounded more like a question conjured up by Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-51348051486246995642008-09-25T05:25:00.000-07:002008-09-25T05:34:37.149-07:00Palin Suspends Vice Presidential Campaign: Rushes Back to Alaska to Keep an Eye on Russiaby Steve YoungIn what most Fox News talk show hosts feel is a gosh darn terrific political move, Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin announced that she is interrupting her campaign to return to Juneau to look at Russia, which you can see from Alaska.“This is exactly the time that those Ruskies like to attack like they did at Pearl Harbor, don’tcha know,” said Palin. “I would hope Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-43297149776979161652008-09-23T05:55:00.000-07:002008-09-23T05:58:45.396-07:00Economic Terrorism: Bush's Wall Street Bailout is the Patriot Act IIby Sandy SandCongress, don’t make the same mistake twice.Fool the fools in Congress once…My greatest fear is that Congress -- in a panic to do “something,” and anxious to go on the campaign trail -- will pass Bush’s bailout bill as written it.Giving control to one entity with absolute rule and no oversight whatsoever is the death knell for American business and the economy.We don’t need another Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-51666146664743631302008-09-19T05:20:00.001-07:002008-09-19T05:29:18.192-07:00Punxsutawney Bush Sees Shadow. Experts Predict At Least Six More Weeks Of Hellby Steve YoungPicture this: President Bush being held up by VP Dick Cheney in The Rose Garden.President Bush, who has been hibernating over the past months -- either to keep from ruining John McCain’s presidential chances or so that he won’t royally botch up something else -- emerged from the White House yesterday to comment on the broken economy announcing that “The American people can be sure Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-38697791286157070032008-09-17T05:00:00.000-07:002008-09-17T05:03:28.909-07:00They Say They’re Shooting and Bombing Terrorists, But How Do They Know?by Sandy SandIt a wonderment.The Associated Press is reporting that the Pakistanis’ shorts are up in an angry bunch, because our forces are invading their country and killing off their civilians, and prompting them to promise that they will start shooting at our forces.http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_10482245The situation is so critical that Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-59737952325690959902008-09-17T02:12:00.000-07:002008-09-17T02:18:44.872-07:00In Los Angeles It’s All About the Mayor. What About Your City?by Sandy SandIs your city suffering from mayoral egotism that’s destroying your city?Three years ago the idiot electorate of Los Angeles voted for Antonio Villaraigosa, an egomaniac who used every public office to step up to the next one as he was term-limited out of each office.Villaraigosa makes wild promises and starts massive projects, such as taking over L.A.’s ever-failing schools, which bySandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-58295135292731344602008-09-13T06:38:00.000-07:002008-09-13T06:41:25.805-07:00Metrolink/Freight Train Head-on Collision 5 Miles From My Homeby Sandy SandAll news is local, or so they say. At approximately 4:23 Friday afternoon PDT, a Metrolink commuter train crashed head-on into a Union Pacific freight train in the quiet bedroom community of Chatsworth, California, northwest of Los Angeles, killing at least 17 people [according to ABC News] and injuring more than 100.If it weren’t for Hurricane Ike, the head-on collision between a Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-20192363533932954692008-09-10T08:05:00.000-07:002008-09-10T08:15:05.862-07:00To Even Mention Book Banning is Sarah Palin at Her Dangerous Worstby Sandy SandThe mere suggestion of book-banning should set off alarm bells of epic proportion across the country.The fact that Sarah Palin, the Republican would-be veep, approached Wasilla, Alaska librarian with a ‘how would you react to banning books?’ question should not only give us all pause, but make us run shrieking in alarm to editorial boards in every nook and cranny of this Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-21799782870177784522008-09-07T17:24:00.000-07:002008-09-07T17:29:21.263-07:00Barack Proved Sarah Can be Attacked on the Issues and Not be Called SexistIf Barack Obama can go after Sarah Palin on the issues, then Joe Biden shouldn’t have any problem facing her down in the one and only, one-on-one vice presidential debate.Speaking to a crowd of about 800 people yesterday at Wabash Valley Fairgrounds in Terre Haute, Ind., Obama ripped John McCain and Palin for calling themselves ‘agents of change.’When McCain says ‘change,’ the only change I see Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-70109888199248665052008-09-05T15:23:00.000-07:002008-09-05T15:25:56.268-07:00A WARNING TO KIDS EVERYWHERENebraska is the last state to have enacted a "safe haven" law, which allows parents to abandon unwanted children at hospitals with no questions asked.Most states have laws that permit abandonment within the first few days of birth, but Nebraska's law, in effect since July, is much broader in scope. It allows for the abandonment of all minor children--in Nebraska that's age 19--and doesn't specifyJohnDWoodSrnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-86380093980593896392008-09-05T07:25:00.000-07:002008-09-05T07:38:22.586-07:00Intruder at RNC dealt with quicklyApparently, there was a security breach at the Republican convention last night that no one seems free to talk about.However, a reporter for Talon News was able to interview one delegate who was close to the action. Talon, noted for high journalistic standards, decided not to run this story because the account couldn't be corroborated, but passed it to me so you can decide for yourselves if it's JohnDWoodSrnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-12720896303949032302008-09-05T04:59:00.000-07:002008-09-05T05:05:28.794-07:00The First Weekly Ya Gotta Be Kidding Award Goes To...by Steve YoungHello, and welcome to the very first Y’Gotta Be Kiddin’ Award Ceremony.Named after legendary Danish Mayor, Yugotz Tabekiddin, who once took credit for ending a civil dispute he had started in the village of Ikea, due to every man, man and woman relocating to Copenhagen.The Y’Gotta Be Kiddin’ Award is presented weekly to the person who epitomizes Tabkiddin’s spectacular balls by Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-23917610685038556932008-09-02T06:29:00.000-07:002008-09-02T06:36:34.543-07:00Compassion for Bristol Palin; Derision for Her Motherby Sandy SandWhile Bristol Palin must take responsibility for her actions just as we all must, don’t get me wrong from a piece I wrote yesterday http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=8962, which some interpreted as a condemnation of Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old pregnant, out-of-wedlock daughter.The converse is true. I have utter contempt for her mother and her skewed family values that Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-36048789452097493532008-09-01T05:24:00.000-07:002008-09-01T05:27:30.132-07:00Tropical Storm Gustav Agrees To Fill In For President Bushby Steve YoungIn what is being called a brilliant move by most political pundits and Al Roker, Tropical Storm Gustav has promised to fill in for both President Bush and Vice President Cheney at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis today.“We had a last minute choice to make. Bush or Gustav,” said Republican National Committee Chairman Robert M. “Mike” Duncan. “We went with the less Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-82274877785717464372008-08-29T14:23:00.000-07:002008-08-29T14:26:47.997-07:00BILL KRISTOL SUFFERS POSSIBLE CAREER-THREATENING INJURYby Steve YoungIn what were a few frightening moments for Fox News, rescue squad doctors were rushed to the FoxNews broadcasting platform at Denver's Invesco Stadium where FoxNews contributor and Weekly Standard editor, Bill Kristol, had suffered what onlookers had feared was some sort of brain aneurysm or stroke.We had first thought Bill had been dipping into the FoxNews convention punch bowl andSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-71595942115292860922008-08-29T06:10:00.000-07:002008-08-29T06:12:40.237-07:00Obama's Darkest Secret Revealed Live on ABCIt slips out in a 14-second followup analysis of Obama's acceptance speech.I love it when TV commentators try to out-emote each other.ABCNews really went all out. Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-78149204846352945502008-08-28T17:11:00.000-07:002008-08-28T17:18:55.578-07:00JUST IN! FOXNEWS RESPONSE TO OBAMA ACCEPTANCE SPEECHas transcribed by Steve YoungFox News Transcript: 8/28/2008 3:30PM ESTBRIT HUME: Joining me now is our the Fox News all star panel. The question arises immediately of course, how is this speech? Did Obama seem like he thought he was a rock star or did he think he was Zeus preaching hope with a bolt of lightning held high above his head? Did the speech do what the convention organizers and the Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-27711994598778988872008-08-27T11:47:00.000-07:002008-08-27T11:49:48.556-07:00BEWARE THE *ASTERISK*--JOIN THE BOYCOTT!I'm considering calling for a boycott of all makers of computer keyboards, until the * as well as the !,@,#,$,%,&,and+ are eliminated from their product.Asterisks and other seemingly harmless symbols that replace letters in words are not only useless, but diabolical. Writers routinely use this artifice under the erroneous assumption that they can disguise offensive language and thus avoid JohnDWoodSrnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-77605539883410648352008-08-27T03:44:00.000-07:002008-08-27T03:50:04.666-07:00Hillary Supporters! What Part of “Supreme Court Life Term” Don’t You Not Understand?by Steve YoungSo your candidate lost.The one who would fight for the rights of women and minorities. The one who would never allow Roe vs Wade to be overturned. The one who would fight for the just due for our veterans who were forgotten by the President and the Republican legislators the second their service was done.The one who the talk radio Lords of Loud lambasted for years, and did so with Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-84985788634785198662008-08-26T05:38:00.000-07:002008-08-26T05:54:13.166-07:00The Press vs. The Blogs: Who Will Win?by Ron Kaye I spent my whole adult life earning a living in mainstream media and the last four months working for free as a blogger, so I offer myself as something of an expert on what's going on: Corporate news media still have a long way to fall while the blogosphere has a long way to rise.Corporate media face unsolvable problems. Advertisers have fled to new media. Readers, particularly the Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-31671515126026859902008-08-25T08:27:00.000-07:002008-08-25T08:30:11.319-07:00Polls, Rumors and Spin. The Democrats Are Getting Nervous, Again, or So the Press Saysby Sandy SandNews stories abound stating that Barack Obama is sinking in the polls, or not making strides to far out-pace John McCain.Of course, it would be nice -- if not fair and balanced -- if the press would give McCain some of the negative press he more than deserves.Faced with voluminous poll reporting, of course, the Democrats are getting nervous. The press keeps hammering away at the Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-12388439436453910022008-08-24T18:20:00.000-07:002008-08-24T18:36:43.767-07:00DREDLOCKED!The Biden Combover Bounce Knots Raceby Steve YoungThere’s been little question that John McCain has been winning the diminishing mane coverup contest with Barack Obama. McCain’s attempts to arrange purposely overgrown strands from distant segments of the scalp over the badly balding crown may seem a sign of a lack of self-esteem.While some youngsters who have yet to see their curl-less destiny Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-25769063099535165602008-08-24T15:49:00.000-07:002008-08-24T18:38:11.332-07:00Better run faster, Dan!The poor little guy in the exercise wheel on top of this page could end up in a sandwich, if a government official from India has his way.Telegraph.co.uk. recently posted this article, describing the efforts of an Indian government official to promote rat meat for mass consumption. Excerpted below:Vijay Prakash, the welfare minister in Bihar state in eastern India, said he wanted to set up rat JohnDWoodSrnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-82706196511078487892008-08-24T09:36:00.000-07:002008-08-24T11:06:44.579-07:00The oligarchs are coming! The oligarchs are coming! Up, down. Up, down. Billboards, signs, graffitti and even jumbotrons with opposition messages have become part of the spectacle soon to take place in the Twin Cities. The Daily Show and many other entities have an early and looming presence here as my hometown, St. Paul, plays "host" to the RNC whose convention runs Sept. 1-4. Brian at east-lake.net posted the DS welcoming shot.The Union of Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-40079309259134797072008-08-23T09:45:00.000-07:002008-08-24T11:03:40.390-07:00Joe Biden's Personal Tragedy Isn't Used as a Reason to Vote for Him as McCain Doesby Sandy SandJoe Biden knows to keep his personal tragedies out of politics.Joe Biden lost his first wife and daughter in an auto accident, and his two sons were critically injured. But unless asked, Biden doesn’t talk about it, nor does he use it as a giant crutch, sympathy getter or reason to be elected to office.I can’t say the same thing about John “I Was a Prisoner of War, You Know” Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-67028700824744659462008-08-22T08:19:00.000-07:002008-08-22T08:28:50.226-07:00Bravo! Annie of Miami Got a Tattoo at Age 80by Sandy SandBravo for Annie of Miami. She knew what she wanted and she went for it.Crazy, that at age 80 Annie's wanted to get a tattoo?No. Her reasons were most practical, sensible and came as a total surprise to the tattoo artist, who must have heard it all.A petite, active, intelligent, witty, wise and forward-thinking senior, Annie said she wanted a "tasteful" 'A'" with pizzazz on her upper Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-17599004519038225052008-08-22T06:34:00.000-07:002008-08-24T10:26:56.713-07:00A Spine-chilling Visit to Dr. Frankengaliby Sandy SandIt was the beginning of an eerie misadventure that began on one quiet, normal day several years ago.I was sitting in my editor's chair at the Tolucan weekly newspaper on the fringe of Beautiful Downtown Burbank, minding my own business of deadlines when the phone rang.It was Dr. Harry "Machiaborgia" Zelig, a family practice physician with an unusual practice even for those days, who Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396064562218487883.post-66753773928093653272008-08-21T09:56:00.000-07:002008-08-24T11:07:15.678-07:00Union of Concerned Scientists annouce winner of 2008 editorial cartoon contestJustin Bilicki, an art director and editorial cartoonist in Brooklyn, NY, is the winner of this year's Science Idol editorial cartoon contest sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Bilicki's cartoon and the work of 11 others will be featured in UCS's 2009 Scientific Integrity Calendar. Bilicki is auctioning off his winning cartoon (above) and donating the proceeds to UCS.Database managerKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.com4