I sometimes spend 5 minutes whipping up a blog post. However at other times it takes hours, or days to frame something in a way which is designed to instigate, yet not totally drive away the readers. Commenting is a…
Category: Real Discussion
Continuing the Tea Party activities.. As we must.
While writing on some particular topics, I have had the opportunity to see what really drives folks to truly engage in their future. The Tea Parties really awoke the sleepy activists in many of us. From the grandparents who have…
Ownership
Anthropologically, man has been able to over come obstacles, beasts, and events not for reason of being stronger than those beasts, or being more powerful than a hurricane, but primarily because of two things he possesses. The opposable thumb, and…
Petoskey Tea Party Draws Over 1000!
Multiple estimates have the head count at nearly 1200 (my personal count at right around 1000) for the Petoskey Tea Party May 1st. Speakers including “Joe the Plumber” provided down to earth no fear approach to the criticisms of government…
Two things..
Then Michigan film credit plan is a failure, and the film office staff is incompetent or covering up the dismal failure to keep their jobs.. Then we have the looming mid season budget shortfall notice of $1.3 billion???? ow. Perhaps…
Enemies of the State (of Michigan..)
By looking at just last months (March 2009) voting records of Senators, Levin and Stabenow, it becomes clear that Michigan’s best interests have not been represented very well in our federal government. Michigan has suffered the indignant reality of becoming…
An even different approach..
The following was written by a fellow Michigander, Jeff McQueen, describing what he sees as a need for the 2nd revolution and what needs to be done. I am posting it here for the most part unedited. I do not…
Get the hell out of my business
If you had any doubts that the government should get their dirty beaters off the economy (you shouldn’t), recent evidence should put those doubts to rest. Bank of America Chief Executive, Ken Lewis, recently testified under oath to New York’s…
Certain Labels – Deserved Or Not?
Discussions are happening on the issue of whether to use inciteful terminology such as “socialist” when the GOP leadership discusses Obama, and his administration. Mike Volpe, the author of the very site I link to above is often “provocative” in…
Assigning Our Voices.. Our Power
In 2007, my fire was stoked. Michigan was already seeing increasing unemployment, all while the rest of the nation appeared to be in as healthy a state as ever. Our governor, preferring to ignore the time tested methods of increasing…