Mumbling Republican Blog

 Whenever an attempt is made to give someone a blessing, God agrees with that effort. We have only to remember the kindness we show to other creatures we share our lives with, such as I with my cat and my other friends I have seen with cats and dogs, to know the spirit of that [...]

First of all, let me make two comments.  This is not a new decade.  That does not start until 2011.  Secondly January 1, is no different than December 31, but because we are locked into the Julian Calendar, it gives us a sense of time passage and newness even though that sense of newness has [...]

Red Santa Blue Eyes Drifting some Christmas naughty Lap super models Radio UpNorth

The Rebel Jesus by Bebo Norman The streets are filled with laughter and light And the music of the season And the merchants’ windows are all bright With the faces of the children And the families hurrying to their homes As the sky darkens and freezes Will be gathering around their hearths and tables Giving [...]

A very Merry Christmas to one and all! Except of course you politicians in Washington that have no concern for any but your corporate keepers! Dan – Sittin’ in the hood waitin’ on old Sandy Craw….

If you politicians in Washington are figuring on patting yourselves on the back for the job you have done on health care reform, I would suggest first you go out and read what the MPR listeners have posted as comments on your work.  I would seriously consider the possibility that these folks are your boss.  [...]

Some time ago, I concluded that our present two-party system is not a democracy, that the Far Left tends toward communism and the Far Right tends toward fascism. In a free market society which depends on competition, we must necessarily elect leaders who do not fully support either form, because without a middle path there [...]

The people have spoken, from the past.  So what now?  How do we have political freedom based on economic freedom?  Why have the terrorists not attacked the kingpins of our economic imprisonment and not become our freedom fighters? Radio UpNorth

This is what the U.S. Senate has painted with the health care reform legislation, a portrait of failure.  Hieronymus Bosch could hardly have painted a more demented picture of what has become of health care reform at the hands our our legislators.  This is not rocket science, it does not have to be created from [...]

I presently work for a non-profit organization. This non-profit organization offers profit sharing to it’s employees. ( Now, how does that work? ) Once a year, it solicits regular donations from employees to be taken out of their bi-weekly paychecks, even if the wages they pay aren‘t enough to sustain a living. And, by the [...]