Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: US Politics

  • Baucus Stands Up

    A little more information on my rant yesterday about <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2252-South-Koreas-Trade-Barrier.html">South Korea's unofficial, official</a> trade barrier to US beef.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/04/news/state/50-baucus.txt" >Baucus sets condition to support pact</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The next chairman of the Senate Finance Committee sliced into a T-bone steak here Sunday and said he cannot support a free-trade agreement between the United…

  • Solution

    Can we say <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801382.html">Paper ballots</a>? It sure would solve the problem.<br />n<br />n<strong>Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. Ambrose Bierce</strong>

  • Revisionist History

    Don't you just love when people change the sequence of events in history to make their cause look so wonderful? Since <a href="http://www.leftinthewest.com/frontPage.do">Left in The West</a> doesn't allow comments anymore unless registered, I guess they can't stand to hear dissent, I will have to dispute <a href="http://www.leftinthewest.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=56">this piece</a> here.<br />n<br />nBasically the story is about…

  • Be A Man

    Sen. Burns needs to suck it up and act like a man, not a whining little baby.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/11/15/news/state/30-burns.txt" >Burns says media dishonest to him</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>He stopped only briefly to chastise Montana reporters, saying he was "taken advantage of."<br />n"Look you guys, I hate to tell you this, but I don't have anything…

  • ASAP

    Well, we <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/11/14/news/state/23-tester.txt">found out</a> what "as soon as possible" means to the Democrats in the Senate now haven't we. I <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2134-Excitement.html">told everybody</a> not to get to excited about a seat on the Appropriations Committee for Jon Tester. Politicians are to slippery to take at their word. This whole thing is really just funnier…

  • Interesting

    I note that before the election one of the many things I read on left facing blogs was vote fraud and how they were expecting it during the election. They pointed at the last Presidential election as proof of this. Now that they won big, why haven't we heard anything about voting fraud? Why is…

  • Election Thoughts

    There seems to be a lot of celebration out there that the Democrats have taken control of the House and Senate. The going consensus I read is that this is going to turn the country around and great things are going to happen. I hate to rain on the parade, but I don't think so.…

  • Change

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ELN_ELECTION_RDP?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Democrats sweep into power in House</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Americans delivered a stunning rebuke to President Bush and the Republican leadership in Congress, sweeping Democrats into power in the House for the first time in a dozen years and dismantling most if not all of the GOP Senate majority.<br />n<br />nThe battle for Senate seats…

  • Dueling Parties

    The Democrats and Republicans are at it again. The Democrats are complaining that Republicans are going to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110103202.html">attempt to block poor voters</a> from voting and the Democrats are laying the ground work for <a href="http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/11/02/ap3142301.html">disqualifing military ballots</a> from being counted. Why do both parties not like to see everyone vote? Why do they, both…

  • Much Ado About Nothing/Something

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/31/news/state/65-tester.txt">Unlicensed Tester butchered neighbor's animals, wasn't cited</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jon Tester never had a state-required license for the butchering business he ran at his Big Sandy-area farm, but state records show an inspector visited the shop, but did not cite Tester for breaking the law.<br />n<br />nTester cut meat on an…