The site for ranting and reporting by John Masters
Sen. Ensign missed some votes this week, including an important one for Nevada. He had to fly home to hold the usual Republican press conference to disclose his nine month affair with a campaign worker back in 2007-2008.
Read moreMr. President, I was finally prompted to write you after reviewing the Motion and Brief submitted by W. Scott Simpson, Chief Trial Counsel of your Department of Justice in the case of Smelt and Hammer v. United States. I’m no attorney, but even a layman can determine bigoted and hateful reasoning when it rears its head. I voted for you with high expectations that your administration would return this country to the principles of fairness, respect, and government of, by and for the people as set forth so eloquently by our founding fathers. Thus far, I am gravely disappointed in the actions of your administration.
Read moreLet your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. –H.G. Wells
Read moreWhy is every business now yelling at me when I walk in? It seems like every restaurant you walk into has decided they have to have everyone working yell out a welcome to you when you walk in. Give it a rest…PLEASE!
Read moreLeave it to Bill Moyers to be the voice of sanity in an otherwise insane discussion about healthcare reform. A recent report showing the majority of bankruptcies in America are healthcare related (and most of those people have healthcare insurance) should be causing Americans to demand that our Congress Critters take a serious look at single payer as the only real way to reform healthcare.
Read moreBack to the Deep Thoughts Series. The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes of it. –John Ruskin
Read moreThe start of a new series trying to better observe the humor in each days happenings.
Read moreWe had read some good reviews of this film, and although Lay and I have not been into this series, we decided to rent the DVD and watch this movie. It was something of a disappointment.
Read moreDon’t ask me why, but I got interested in determining what, if any, difference there is a between a State and a Commonwealth in the United States. (I guess it might have something to do with working a project for the Commonwealth of Virginia.) The short answer is that there isn’t much of a difference.
Read moreI’m a bit late, but we made the first posting to Deep Sand on May 24th, 2004. So here we are five years and 1,370 posts later.
Read moreThis morning I went to a nephew’s 5th grade graduation ceremony over in St. Petersburg. I found it telling that the speakers two main points were about responsibility: taking responsibility for yourself and your own actions; and being responsible in the friends we choose.
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