Memorial Day Tribute

by Joss Armstrong | 2:06 pm, May 28, 2010

Other than our boys (and gals) on active duty, the people who understand most the sacrifices made by the men and women killed in service to our country are the loved ones they leave behind.  For them every day is Memorial Day.  For the rest of us, we can cope with spending a mere weekend [...]

Newt Gingrich joins the Ali Hasan for Treasurer Team

by Joss Armstrong | 2:18 pm, February 12, 2010

I received an interesting email from the Ali Hassan campaign yesterday: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 11, 2010 Contact: Drew Dougherty, Campaign Manager NEWT GINGRICH JOINS TEAM HASAN The former speaker joins as campaign adviser in bid for Colorado State Treasurer DENVER – Ali Hasan is proud to announce support from former speaker of the [...]

Moving Minutes–Casablanca

by Joss Armstrong | 12:49 pm, February 5, 2010

In the past I have joked about cheese-eating surrender monkeys.  Hell, I’m sure I’ll do it in the future. This is, nonetheless, one of my favorite scenes from a classic movie.

To the Congress . . .

by Joss Armstrong | 4:31 pm, August 28, 2009

Awesome post brought to my attention by Mike at ColdFury.com: To the Congress: The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 – you have had 234 years to get it right; it is broke. Social Security was established in 1935 – you have had 74 years to get it right; it is broke. Fannie Mae [...]

“How American Health Care Killed My Father”

by Joss Armstrong | 11:57 am, August 28, 2009

Writing for The Atlantic, Dave Goldhill uncovers the source of the flaws inherent in our current health care system. After the needless death of his father, the author, a business executive, began a personal exploration of a health-care industry that for years has delivered poor service and irregular quality at astonishingly high cost. It is [...]

Obama’s Secret Backroom Pharmaceutical Deals

by Joss Armstrong | 4:44 pm, August 26, 2009

I never thought I’d say this. Really. But . . . I’ll take a deep breath and say it. Props to Air America and the Huffington Post for standing by their principles.  I may not AGREE with those principles, but at least they are beginning to see that he’s not a messiah, he’s a dirty [...]

Why I want Socialized Medicine

by Joss Armstrong | 6:23 pm, July 21, 2009

Healthcare is a RIGHT.  I have a RIGHT to healthcare, dammit. What a relief it would be to know that life-saving services would be available to my daughter whenever she needed them. I could walk into any E.R. for treatment of myself and my daughter, much as I do now, but I wouldn’t be hit [...]

Will You Fight?

by Joss Armstrong | 1:37 pm, July 21, 2009

There’s a lot of  folks out there right now who are awfully unhappy with the state of things.  The entire Tea Party phenomenon, if taken in its historical context, indicates a populace issuing a warning against their government.   A populace on the brink of revolution.  Props to Jason Talley for tweeting this. Violent revolution. Now, [...]

Moving Minutes: The Aviator

by Joss Armstrong | 8:46 am, June 6, 2009

In this scene from Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator,” the mentality of inheritors and the mentality of earners clash at the dinner table of a New England estate. The Hepburns—supporters of Roosevelt’s expansionist policies—reveal the aristocratic socialism that is sometimes promoted by those comfortably born into money. Although he was himself born into wealth, the entrepreneur [...]

Because Fighting the Police State is ALWAYS a Good Cause

by Joss Armstrong | 7:26 pm, May 15, 2009

So, if you didn’t know, the gents over at TheMotorhomeDiaries.com were arrested and landed in jail yesterday morning. Why? For filming a traffic stop.  Miscreant bastards.  Oh, wait, that’s not against the law. . . it’s just what was being done when the police took an extraordinary and unprecedented interest in the three. Jason was [...]

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