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Roger O'Daniel's Blog – May 2012 Archive (10)

How do you talk with a person you passionately disagree with?

Many years ago, my now deceased father showed me a cartoon from the side of his file-cabinet in his home basement office. It was a yellowed Pogo cartoon drawn by a political cartoonist of a bygone day. It pictured two people at opposite ends of a full-length double mirror shouting at each other with angry expressions on their faces. Dad showed me the cartoon and asked me what I thought it meant.

I knew that this was a teaching moment, so I avoided the typical teenager…

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Added by Roger O'Daniel on May 31, 2012 at 12:53pm — 38 Comments

Why Did We Ever Let Obama Become President?

Original author is unknown (and probably wishes to remain anonymous). I share it as I received it from a friend who added "The person who wrote this article voted for Obama." Looks like the author voted before doing their homework.

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Disregarding all the furor…

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Added by Roger O'Daniel on May 27, 2012 at 2:00pm — 4 Comments

California faces $16 billion deficit - $91 billion budget proposed

The Los Angeles Times reported the following:

Gov. Jerry Brown today released a $91-billion budget proposal that sharply cuts health and welfare spending, reduces state payrolls by 5% and freezes construction of new courthouses.

The revised budget reflects a steadily worsening fiscal picture for California. On Saturday, the governor announced that the state's deficit had grown to $16 billion, nearly twice what he projected when he released his initial budget proposal in…

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Added by Roger O'Daniel on May 14, 2012 at 2:01pm — 2 Comments

Unity, Commitment, Persistance and Determination will Defeat Obama

By Roger O'Daniel

The redistricting process, required by the US Census, created all kinds of political mischief and mayhem in the political organizations of the United States at the grassroots level. Urban communities with ward structures urgently need to hold their officer elections if they have…

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Added by Roger O'Daniel on May 12, 2012 at 1:30pm — 3 Comments

Oil, Religion and Politics - The Next Perfect Storm

Tane Woodley wrote a thesis to earn a Master of International Relations Degree in February 2007. She claims that petroleum and conflict have a long and robust relationship. “Petroleum is unique among the world’s resources. It has more potential than any of the others to provoke major crises and conflicts in the years ahead.” The following link directs the reader to her paper.

Caution: It is a long read, but chock full of important information.…

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Added by Roger O'Daniel on May 9, 2012 at 7:00pm — 12 Comments

The Imminent Threat to Israel

By Roger O'Daniel October 24, 2011

Prolog

Palestine never was a Nation State recognized by the United Nations or any Western Power. At best, it was a protectorate of some other nation. Ancient Rome, Turkey, Syria and Great Britain come to mind. Palestine is not now recognized as a sovereign…

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Added by Roger O'Daniel on May 7, 2012 at 10:00pm — 5 Comments

Did 1 Million Job Seekers find Work in April?

By Roger O'Daniel

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), "Yes." Here is the link to their latest report.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm

Dennis Jacobe, Chief Economist for Gallup says what Minnesotans…

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Added by Roger O'Daniel on May 7, 2012 at 7:17am — 3 Comments

ABC News Story about the F-22 Fighter Riles the US Air Force

Friday, May 4, 2012 by Roger O’Daniel

ABC news aired an interview about the F-22 stealth fighter. The show “60 minutes” also plans to broadcast another one this week-end. Simply put – from the perspective of about 300,000 angry Airmen, retired military, and the people who built the plane, the…

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Added by Roger O'Daniel on May 4, 2012 at 9:38pm — 1 Comment

US House Drafts Contempt Citation against Eric Holder

This came to me from NewsMax. Martin Gould wrote this feature article, subject as above.

"Congressional Republicans Thursday took the first formal steps toward holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt, issuing a draft of their complaint against him for his handling of the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal.

"The 44-page complaint, issued by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asks the full House to hold Holder in contempt for failure to comply…

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Added by Roger O'Daniel on May 3, 2012 at 11:17pm — 6 Comments

China Rises while America Declines - Update

By Roger O’Daniel

This post is an update of a previous post titled, “China Rises, America Declines” that I posted over a year ago. I just now received a video infomercial that essentially confirms what I wrote in the earlier post and supports this update. The author of this video goes even farther to assert that our own US administration and the Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank (FED) are collaborating with the Chinese Government to collapse the purchasing power of the US dollar and…

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Added by Roger O'Daniel on May 1, 2012 at 6:16pm — No Comments