Gratitude To God For Our Economic Adversity.

It’s been a rough few month, economically, for the Hillbilly household with intermittent work and little money. After today, I thank God for the adversity and the opportunity to approach the holiday season differently. With little money and most Christmas gifts being given this year of the home made variety, I can avoid this.
A Wal-Mart [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

For your holiday cheer via an email I received:

You know what would really irk the Democrats…
  Bush should resign now.
  Then Dick Cheney becomes President
  Then he appoints Condoleeza Rice as VP.
  Then Cheney resigns two weeks later and Condoleeza Rice, A Republican,
  Becomes the first BLACK – WOMAN President!!!

 

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From Russia With Love

From Russia comes a teaching moment. In this article a leading Russian political analyst has predicted that the United States will break up and further expounds that it will break into six pieces. He blames this on the financial crisis that has been building since at least 1998. Whether he is right or wrong, I can’t [...]

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What To Do About China

China ‘using cyberwarfare to challenge US power’
China is using cyberwarfare to challenge American power and distorting economic policy to exert political influence over other countries, according to a hostile congressional report. [Read the rest.]
Somehow, I knew China was going to be a big problem. I’ve blogged about China before but mostly about the free trade [...]

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Obama Advisers To Public: Temper Expectations

Translation: It’s still going to be Bush’s fault four years later.
President-elect Barack Obama and his inner circle fear that some voters expect him to turn around the economy, wind down the war in Iraq and, perhaps, cure cancer — all by the Fourth of July.
They know they must manage and lower those expectations, CBS 2 [...]

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The Fall of eHarmony

This is so sad to me. Michelle Malkin writes about The eHarmony Shakedown in which a gay plantiff has successfully sued to force the, largely faith-based, website “to offer same-sex dating services on a new site, but also to offer six-month subscriptions for free to 10,000 gay users” and several other disturbing concessions. This [...]

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American Working Class World As It Exists Today

Craftsman in the trade for many years walks into a company answering a want ad. He fills out the application, notes his experience, and time in craft. The owner or manager looks over the application and then asks what wage are you looking for, the craftsman answers commiserate with his experience. He gets hired to [...]

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