TEA PARTY BLATHER

“You ask how did we get here with Obamacare?”  First of all, he won the election twice, and though we have a disaster of a roll out by his underlings, the premise of “healthcare for all Americans is a good idea”, according to Warren Buffet.  We are the only rich...

I GOT MINE PARTY

The “I got mine crowd” has been very busy lately.  Once again they have blocked new judges for the federal circuit court in the Washington D.C. area. It does not matter that the area is undermanned and over loaded with work.  They are woman or minority  candidates...

STATES UNFUNDED PENSIONS

What do most states have in common with public pensions?  The states have unfunded obligations to their state employees of near $1 Trillion.  Prior to the 2008 fiscal crisis, investment funds for public pensions were earning 7 to 8 per cent on their investments. ...

VOLCANO

It was an idyllic, sunny and typical day in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii on 9-13-1977.  I had just finished a flight lesson with Tanaka, a private pilot student from Japan, when a phone call from my friend Albert, on the Hilo side of the island of Hawaii, alerted me to a...

REACTIONARIES

Reactionaries.  What are they.  Reactionaries are those identified to support a return to a previous state or status quo.  According to Russ Buchanan, there are four forms of social movements, Revolutionary, Revisionary, Conservative, and Reactionary.   Revolution is...

TEA PARTY LUNATICS

What does the Tea Party stand for?  Originally, members advocated a strict adherence to the U.S. constitution, reducing spending, taxes, federal debt, and the budget deficit. This attracted conservative republicans, libertarians, and populists. Their slogan was...