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It’s 1973, a few years before my time. California Governor Ronald Reagan appears on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts: Man of the Hour: Ronald Reagan. share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend It’s 1973, a few…

Like so many others I like to go out to the movies on occasion. I really like the drive-in theater, but those are just about extinct. Certainly not one anywhere near where I live. So I’m limited to going to the standard indoor theater with teenagers making lots of noise and unknown substances sticking to my shoes. In this case, Dickinson Theatres[1]. In a rare moment of aligned schedules my…

Michael Moore is many things, to some he is a champion of the poor fighting the oppression of the evil Right and the horrible corporate profit mongers. To others he is simply a skillful liar who pretends to fight for the little guy while making millions of dollars selling pseudo-documentaries and books to anyone gullible enough to pay for them. (If you think he is something else, that’s what the…

Michael Moore movies sure do seem to have a following. For some reason it does not matter how much truth or more importantly how many half truths, misrepresentations, mis-quotes, or outright lies the movies have. I wont even try to get into the lies Moore portrays as factual in the many movies. This is just a post with a short look into one of the reasons his films might be…

Browsing the internet for web sites of like minded people can provide some rather interesting experiences. Sometimes I end up going in directions and discovering things I had not even thought about. Occasionally this voracious consumption of time and productivity is rewarded with entertainment and enlightenment. Which is one of the reasons I love the internet – I have an insatiable desire for knowledge. A desire that can be fed…

Congressman John Conyers (D) Michigan (H.R. 676 UNHI) does a lot of talking, Republican bashing and war protesting. The one thing he does not seem to do is read the bills he votes on. I guess he spends too much time talking/trying to impeach President George Bush or Impeach Dick Cheney to actually read something before voting on it. It would seem that bills he writes or sponsors are a…

The debate over Michael Moore’s SiCKO rages on! Michael Moore throws a fit on CNN and stirs up a big mess over allegedly being treated like he treats people. Of course his fans all agree and rally around him. It never ceases to amaze me how many people simply run to his side and claim the title of oppressed victim of corporate greed and Bush tyranny. It seems I have…