Guy Smith | September 24, 2008
Mohan caught me by surprise.
Mohan is my taxi driver. He works the early mornings, taking hard travelers like myself to the airport. Every cab I’ve called for an o-dark-thirty departure resulted in Mohan arriving at my door.
Mohan is a Sikh, a member of a religious minority that had the bad sense of blending [...]
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Guy Smith | September 22, 2008
As talking heads franticly attempt to lay blame on one political party or another for the current financial market meltdown, all have avoided asking what or who ignited the problem. They blame deregulation (wrong), Bush (wrong), the Democrat Congress (wrong, which may be a first).
The mark of Cain is on Alan Greenspan, former head [...]
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Guy Smith | September 15, 2008
Being surprised is difficult. In San Francisco we are accustomed to what the outside world would considered oddities, and we elect many of them to office.
The fact that a pair of FDR mistakes have failed financially causes no surprise either.
Ignoring the imbecilic notion that any organization is “too large to fail” we witness this [...]
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Guy Smith | September 13, 2008
An enduring and accurate accusation of the Bush administration is a reluctance to admit to mistakes. Bush and/or his operative eventually confess when it becomes painfully obvious that they screwed one or more pooches.
Obama is made from the same unsavory cloth. Two instances come immediately to mind.
Most recent was his now (in)famous punch line [...]
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Guy Smith | September 10, 2008
After reviewing Obama’s positions and his planned expansion of the Federal government (even beyond that of Georgie Boy) we can only equate Obama with a new form of slavery.
I don’t tolerate slave masters. Hence these bumper stickers which you can buy individually or in packs at http://www.cafepress.com/guysmith/5955321.
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