Archive for September, 2010
Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Jim McKenna has make history here in the Commonwealth by obtaining over 27,000 signatures in order to become the Republican candidate for state Attorney General.
Jim McKenna, along with other Republican candidates like Karyn Polito and Mary Z. Connaughton will bring a much needed transparency to the democrat run state government here in the People’s Commonwealth and a much needed accountability to the citizens of Massachusetts.
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Friday, September 24th, 2010
Hot Tub Time Machine
This movie was better than I expected, mostly because of good actors, including John Cusack and Crispin Glover. That and a complete irreverance for just about anything. Craig Robinson pretty much played the same character he did in Zack & Miri do a Porno, but he did it well. I watched the unrated version, so there was a fair amount of gratious nudity, which added to the mindless enjoyment of this B-Movie.
Friday B-Movie Archive
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Todd Domke:
On Primary Day, Jim McKenna pulled off one of the most surprising feats in Massachusetts politics as he received well over the 10,000 write-in votes needed to win the GOP nomination for attorney general. He’s now challenging Martha Coakley, the Democratic incumbent. … McKenna is a serious candidate. A former prosecutor, he says he’ll focus mostly on three issues: public trust in the Attorney General’s Office, illegal immigration and public corruption.
On a personal note, Jim McKenna was the professor of my graduate Business Law and Ethics course. He is very smart, very knowledgeable of the law, and, unlike many “professional politicians”, quite ethical.
Jim McKenna has more than my vote in November, he has my active support.
Stop by JimforAG.com and see for yourself.
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
“In the liberal imagination, the money is the government’s by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.”
Matthew Continetti
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Saturday, September 18th, 2010
Yesterday was Constitution Day, so here are some observations on that document.
First, Patrick Henry:
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
Ayn Rand:
“Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals—that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government—that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizens’ protection against the government.”
Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America:
“The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) asserts that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”
The common theme here is that the goal of the Constitution is limit the power of government, and to put the power in hands of the people.
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Friday, September 17th, 2010
“If San Diego Comic Con is your handsome older brother with a Phd wearing a fancy suit and driving a Prius, Dragon*Con is your loud-mouthed sister who’s dressed just a tad inappropriately and most likely coming off a bender in Vegas.”
— Jewel Staite
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
At least here in the People’s Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
All the interesting races are in the Republican primaries. The democrats are typical Massachusetts democrats, part of the party system, and like my Congressman, Rep. McGovern, part of the caucus of the Socialist Party of America. For those lefties that read this blog, I wish I was making that one up.
The big race is the five way one for the right to run against Rep. McGovern, who, like the President and his cabinet, has never held a private sector job in his life.
For that race, I like Marty Lamb. I’ve met him, and his wife Peri. I like his message and his reasons for running.
The other contested race is for Auditor.
I like both candidates, Kamal Jain and Mary Z. Connaughton. Kamal has the advantage for supporting ballot initiative 3, which would roll the state income tax from 6.5% to 3%.
Kamal (and Marty) get that the problem isn’t that government isn’t taking enough of the tax payer’s money, the problem is that government is spending too much of the tax payer’s money.
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