From Boston, Massachusetts, Associated Press reports:
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September 29, 2012. Tags: Chemistry, Drug testing, Politics, War on drugs. War on drugs. .
The Daily Caller reports that Bo Obama has a “dog handler” who is paid $102,000 per year of taxpayers’ money.
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September 27, 2012. Tags: Barack Obama, Government waste, Obama, Politics. Barack Obama, Government waste. .
If you know anyone with an interest in politics who likes to get links through emails, or if you post on any political message boards, please show this link to them. Just copy and paste the following. Thank you!
Here are 95 examples of Barack Obama’s lying, lawbreaking, corruption, and cronyism:
https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/here-are-95-examples-of-barack-obamas-lying-lawbreaking-corruption-and-cronyism/
September 24, 2012. Tags: 2012 election, Barack Obama, Gary Johnson, Green Party, Jill Stein, Libertarian Party, Obama, Politics. Politics. .
These are my 126 favorite albums of all time. This list is arranged in order of preference, starting with my #1 favorite.
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September 22, 2012. Tags: 60s music, 70s music, 80s music, Aretha Franklin, Beatles, Blondie, Bruce Springsteen, Christmas music, Classic rock, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Elvis Costello, Favorite Albums, Favorite music, Greatest albums, Greatest music, Hall and Oates, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, Linda Ronstadt, Loverboy, Michael Jackson, Music, Music lists, My Favorite Albums, My favorite music, New wave, Pink Floyd, Pop music, Punk music, Rock music, Rolling Stones, Star Wars, Stevie Wonder, The Pretenders, The Who, Velvet Underground. Music. .
I’ve been listening to this internet radio station for the past few hours, and I’ve really been enjoying it:
http://www.live365.com/stations/paulkies?play=2
September 22, 2012. Tags: Jazz, live365, Music, New wave, Punk, Reggae, Ska, Ska City Radio. Music. .
It’s the evening of September 20, 2012. I’m sitting here typing now – trying to get this down as accurately as I can remember. The following is just a rough version based on my memory – I did not record the call, so these are not the exact words.
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September 20, 2012. Tags: 2012 election, Barack Obama, corporate welfare, Gary Johnson, Green Party, Guantanamo Bay, Jill Stein, Librtarian Party, Medical marijuana, Obama, Obama 2012, Obama campaign, occupy-wall-street, Pittsburgh, Politics, Squirrel Hill. Pittsburgh, Politics. .
This is certainly one of the prettier things I’ve seen on YouTube:
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September 20, 2012. Tags: Action-reaction, Actions have consequences, Anti-smoking, Chemistry, Cigarettes, Darwin awards, Dumbass, Explosions, Fire, Fireballs, Gas stations, Humor, Idiots, Imbeciles, Irresponsibility, Morons, Physics, Poetic justice, Science, Smoking, Stupidity. Humor, Science, Smoking. .
The Washington Times reports:
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September 19, 2012. Tags: Buffett Rule, Buffett Rule Act, Income inequality, Occupy, Occupy movement, Occupy Wall St., occupy-wall-street, Politics, Progressive politics, Progressivism, Richest 1%, Taxes, Warren Buffett. Politics. .
“Hobbes and Bacon” is a “Calvin and Hobbes” tribute that takes place 26 years later. I had nothing to with creating these cartoons – I am merely posting them here so that you can see them. There are four – and only four – but that’s enough to get the message across. You can see larger versions of the images by clicking twice on each image:
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September 18, 2012. Tags: Bill Watterson, Books, Calvin and Hobbes, Comic strips, Hobbes and Bacon, Humor. Books, Humor. .
The speaker in this video makes some great arguments for letting Gary Johnson and Jill Stein participate in the Presidential debates:
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September 17, 2012. Tags: 2012 election, Barack Obama, Gary Johnson, Green Party, Jill Stein, Libertarian Party, Mitt Romney, Obama, Politics, Romney. Politics. .
This is from the Wall St. Journal:
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September 17, 2012. Tags: Education, Education degree, Education major, Math, Math education, Politics, Public education, Public schools, School choice, School of education, Science, Science Education, Teach for America. Education, Math, Science. .
The title of this post is a quote from the Wall St. Journal.
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September 14, 2012. Tags: Barack Obama, Economics, Job creation, Obama, Politics, Stimulus, Unemployment. Barack Obama, Politics. .
In this video, Obama says he was “born to a single mom.”
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September 13, 2012. Tags: Barack Obama, Obama. Politics. .
This article from CBS is a great example of the mindset of the people who run the city of Chicago.
Chicago set up a government run health care clinic inside a garbage truck garage. Only after the media reported on it did the government decide it was a bad idea.
The mindset that says it’s a good idea to run a health care clinic in such a filthy environment, is the same mindset that is in charge of running Chicago’s public schools.
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September 13, 2012. Tags: Barack Obama, Charter schools, Chicago, Chicago teacher strike, Education, Health care, Obama, Private schools, Progressive politics, Public education, Public schools. Education, Health care. .
Obamacare summed up in one sentence:
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September 13, 2012. Tags: 2012 election, Barack Obama, Health care, Obama, Obamacare, Politics. Health care. .
Update: All of the contents of this post have been merged into Chicago’s striking public school teachers earn $74,839 per year, and 39% of them send their own children to private schools.
September 11, 2012. Tags: 2012 election, Barack Obama, Charter schools, Chicago, Chicago teacher strike, Obama, Politics, Private schools, Public education, Public schools, Teachers unions. Education. .
The striking public school teachers in Chicago earn $74,839 per year – and they get summer off.
39% of Chicago’s striking public school teachers send their own children to private schools.
Chicago’s charter schools are still open because their teachers are not on strike.
The U.S. Department of Education reports that 79% of Chicago eighth are graders not grade-level proficient in reading, and 80% are not grade-level proficient in math.
When Barack Obama lived in Chicago, he refused to allow his children to attend Chicago’s public schools.
September 10, 2012. Tags: Barack Obama, Charter schools, Chicaco public schools, Chicago, Chicago public school system, Chicago teacher strike, Education, Obama, Politics, Private schools, Public education, Public schools, Teachers unions. Education. .
Note: A longer, more recent version of this list can be found at https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/obama-252/
In the 2008 United States election, I wrote in Ron Paul for President. In the 2012 election, I will be voting for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson. Those who are of a more leftist persuasion than myself might want to consider voting for Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
Here are 95 examples of Barack Obama’s lying, lawbreaking, corruption, and cronyism:
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September 8, 2012. Tags: 2012 election, bailout, Barack Obama, corporate welfare, Cronyism, Gary Johnson, government corruption, Green Party, Jill Stein, Libertarian Party, Lobbying, Obama, Politics, Progressive politics, Progressivism, Ron Paul. Politics. .
In 2009 the Obama administration gave $535 million to Solyndra, claiming that it would create 4,000 new jobs. However, instead of creating those 4,000 new jobs, the company went bankrupt. It was later revealed that the company’s shareholders and executives had made substantial donations to Obama’s campaign, that the company had spent a large sum of money on lobbying, and that Solyndra executives had had many meetings with White House officials.
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September 8, 2012. Tags: Barack Obama, corporate welfare, Cronyism, Environmentalism, Government waste, Green energy, Obama, Politics, Solyndra. Barack Obama, Environmentalism, Government waste, Politics. .
This 14 minute video shows many of Obama’s broken promises:
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September 6, 2012. Tags: 2012 election, Barack Obama, Obama, Politics. Politics. .
In the July/August 2012 issue of Atlantic magazine, Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote this article called “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.”
The very title of the article smacks of radical leftist feminism – an ideology which see victimhood everywhere. In the real world, regardless of one’s gender, it is not possible for a person to “have it all.” And yet, because Slaughter does not “have it all,” she assumes that she is a victim of sexism and gender discrimination.
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September 6, 2012. Tags: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Atlantic Monthly, Feminism, Gender equality, Having it all, Politics, The Atlantic, The Atlantic Monthly, Why Women Still Can’t Have It All, Women's rights. Politics. .
In the 2008 United States election, I wrote in Ron Paul for President. In the 2012 election, I will be voting for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson. Those who are of a more leftist persuasion than myself might want to consider voting for Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
Here are 17 things that Obama supporters hated Bush for doing, but which they don’t care that Obama did the same thing:
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September 6, 2012. Tags: 2012 election, bailout, Barack Obama, corporate welfare, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Obama, occupy-wall-street, Politics, Progressive politics, Progressivism, Ron Paul. Barack Obama, Politics. .
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