Tag Archives: AARP

AARP: George W Bush Celebrates “our” Vets.

Where to begin? First, I’m not theirs, or yours, or his. Especially when the possessive “his” is G W. There’s the bit about him getting a Champagne Duty Station in Texas while hundreds of thousands of Real Americans were drafted, … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, Sgt Kovic

I don’t know if Ron Kovic reads this blog from a backwater county in Colorado, but if you know him, contact him and say Jonah ain’t forgotten him. It’s a little more than a week early.  But there’s so much … Continue reading

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How to tweak a headline, right wing style.

Without being called an extremist, or if anybody does you can call him a paranoid or otherwise mentally ill “conspiracy theorist”. From The Atlanta Examiner: “AARP members bash Obamacare”. This mirrors a similar “Shocking” headline Fox did last year when … Continue reading

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Sen Udall oks metaphorical health care

The only medicine our senators want their constituents to take is the hard-to-swallow metaphorical variety. Senator Mark Udall’s monthly email explains his part in the Senate health care holdup. Two things: Udall and ten fellow freshmen set a roadblock to … Continue reading

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Latest “Victory” in GWOT… Drafting a 50 year old Vet.

So says the State Department, citing the so called “plot” to mix explosives from toothpaste tubes and shampoo bottles on board airplanes, by British kids who had no money and no passports and it was a completely unworkable idea anyway. … Continue reading

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