I Prefer Hot Rods with Fenders

Posted on 27/07/2009 by Grumpa Joe

The yellow thirty-two duece hot rod in American Graffiti is the icon of hot rodders across the states. It is mine too. I love hotrods, especially street rods.  The car that drives me wild is a thirty-four Ford three window coupe that has been channeled, chopped and modernized with a hot fuel injected engine, power disk [...]

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Sneaky Slinky

Posted on 23/07/2009 by Grumpa Joe

He’s baaack.  A few weeks ago, I noticed a huge garter snake on the front lawn. He is easily seven hundred and sixty centimeters  long, and three centimeters in diameter. I was curious, and moved closer to take a look. He slithered off into the Barberry shrubs and disappeared. Oh well, I forgot about him. The [...]

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Radical Overload

Posted on 21/07/2009 by Grumpa Joe

The Cloward-Piven Strategy to implement socialist revolution I recently came across an article written about sociology professors Cloward and Piven from Columbia University.  After reading the article linked above, the current state of affairs in our country becomes very clear. We have been undergoing a revolution from within since nineteen sixty-six.  The revolutionaries are socialists [...]

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A Health Care Prediction

Posted on 18/07/2009 by Grumpa Joe

Alot of speculation is taking  place on the news about the new health care bill. First of all, why the rush? Everyone seems to want universal health care, so a good proposal should pass easily. I happen to believe the rush to get it done has nothing to do with health care. It has to [...]

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Converting Dollars to Cents

Posted on 18/07/2009 by Grumpa Joe

It is not that I don’t trust big government with my health care dollar, it is that I don’t trust big government with any of my dollars. I see a record of tired old ideas that have failed to produce the utopian society that they were invented for.  Take education, as an example. We spend [...]

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