insignificant thoughts

I was with my old insurance company from 2000-2004. In that time I was paying $6,000 a year for car insurance.

No, I’m not kidding.

I also didn’t know better.

One day, I shopped around, and good God was I stunned that another company could cut my premium down to $2,800 a year!

In the end, though, I [...]

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MATT LAUER: You made a comment over the weekend and I want to call attention to that because a lot of people are disagreeing with it this morning.  You talked [...]

We’ve heard this before: men are better at parking than women. It sounds like a bunch of macho male ego BS that’s been perpetuated since the days of Leave it to Beaver (happy 94th birthday, Barbra Billingsley!) and Father Knows Best, but the U.K.’s Telegraph reports that a study shows that this myth may not [...]

Remember this one day when she says she never said this…

I’ve heard the idea that the “Link Economy” as it’s called is the future of monetization on the web. The concept is simple: incoming links from as many sources as possible equals dollars. Lately, this has been brought loud and proud to the forefront as the AP tries to figure out new and [...]

Patches was surfing the web…

And found this…

Imagine her disappointment

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Every single day Colin Powell deteriorates in my mind. Far from the dignified man that used to show up in his highly decorated uniform, Powell has become a coward and man of ever-so-little integrity.

After his utterly ridiculous “mobile weapons labs” presentation to the United Nations, Powell became bitter with President Bush and eventually resigned [...]

Nine months ago, Representative Zach Wamp (R. Never-Never Land) stood on the floor of the house and gave an impassioned speech. After turning down the first “stimulus” bill, he implored his colleagues to pass the second.

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I’m all for universal healthcare of some kind. What form that should take and what form it would happen in is open for discussion, but I don’t believe that anyone in this country should be without health care because they can’t afford it.

That being said, it’s pretty obvious that Barack Obama knows that the [...]

Barack Obama was told on Monday that he will be kept off the ballot in Connecticut. Despite turning in the required number of signatures before the deadline, the ticket will not be listed. The secretary of state admitted that they made a mistake in counting the signatures and also incorrectly struck legitimate signatures [...]

What Free Speech REALLY Means from vincenzof on Vimeo.

Before I show you this article, I have to remind you all of my consistent position on environmental issues: we may not know what’s going on, but we can all do better for a cleaner healthier planet, and environmental alarmists are ruining the ’cause’ with their hyperbolics.

With that out of the way, I present [...]

Apparently lots of folks don’t need $600. At least that’s the impression I get. Lots of people are bitching about how $600 won’t help anything, and that the stimulus package is bullshit, and so on and so on.

I guess we have to go through this every few years. The government offers a [...]

Here’s an idea for Barack Obama.

Put up or shut up.

For weeks people have been telling the heir apparent to the Democrat throne that he had a problem on his hands. His beloved pastor and official campaign spiritual advisor was a blatant racist. Instead of responding to the allegations, he dismissed the numerous examples [...]

Back in August, when the “Subprime Meltdown” was just getting underway and people were trying to figure out what to make of it, I read an article on a blog I visit daily (which one? I don’t remember, honestly, I just remember the article pretty vividly) that talked about a man in the midst [...]

Barack Obama in a speech in New Hampshire actually said the following:

“I’ve had people, High School students, come up to me and say Mr. Obama, I’m voting for the first time! This is so exciting!”

The implication, of course, is that they’ve ignored their obligation to vote all those prior years they were in High [...]

Taylor Hicks might have won “American Idol,” but he doesn’t have his record deal anymore.
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Taylor Hicks was boosted by his “Soul Patrol” on “American Idol.”

The soul singer, who claimed the “Idol” title in 2006, has apparently been dropped by J Records, a label within Sony-BMG, which signs the show’s singers.

“Taylor is going to record on [...]

The boys over at Stop the ACLU had a great clip of Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter showing up unannounced for Morning Joe, and taking jabs at the media who have pretty much ignored his candidacy (yet another case of the media deciding who’s coverage worthy; see yesterday’s story about Fox News and Ron Paul).

Watch the [...]

Maybe I’m a bit of an idealist, but I don’t like what Fox News did with Ron Paul, and accordingly they should never be allowed to host anything related to the elections ever again.

And that goes for all networks.

When you agree to do something for the greater good of the country like host a debate [...]

Oh man. Maybe the next time Rudy makes a statement, he should confirm it with his wife. I hear they speak on the phone a lot.

Factcheck.org caught Giuliani in an outright lie.

At least twice on his presidential campaign Web site, Giuliani claims to have increased New York City’s police force by 12,000 officers [...]