Archive for July, 2009
Stimulus-Stimulus? What Stimulus?
In February the President said we needed an immediate stimulus of close to 800 Billion dollars, at once, to stop unemployment from going past 8%. He got his stimulus money and the recession has deepened with unemployment closing in on 10%. A new term has entered his rhetoric and that is” the jobs that [...]
Obama’s America Demolition Squad
Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Charlie Wrangle and John Conyers* are key players in the American demolition team that is working overtime to destroy our country. The are not using explosives but incendiary legislative proposals that will cause the end of the America that has offered the world a safe [...]
Obama Proposes a Global Cooperative.
I received several calls today from close personal friends concerning my recent Post on how to properly make an omelette. Typical was the comment: “Buck have you lost your mind. You are writing about omelettes when Obama is announcing his plan to end America as we know it. I know that you [...]
Food Blog Coming Soon
Dozens of friends have responded with suggestions concerning my occasional diversion from political and economic Blog Posts. The comments almost unanimously encourage me to expand my writing about things other than Obama and this administration. My doctor has suggested that Nancy Pelosi is probably the cause for the occasional high spike in my [...]
Julia Child in Vanity Fair
The current edition of Vanity Fair has an article that reviews the life and career of Julia Child. It describes how Julia changed the American view of food preparation from a pedestrian list of uninteresting fare to a heightened awareness of the possibility of food as almost an art form. She convinced many [...]
The Fifth of July
The best thing about the Fourth of July being on a Saturday is that you have the Fifth on a Sunday with no commitments for BBQ’s, family or neighborhood gatherings. The 5th on a Sunday gives a whole day to think about the 4th. without having to worry about rain interrupting the fireworks.
I must admit [...]
Join Me in Helping The President
“Most of you know by now that the Senate version of the “stimulus” bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior citizens. The advocate of this part of the bill, former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle, was credited by Bloomberg with the following statement.
Bloomberg: “Daschle says health-care reform [...]
Beach Memories & the Summer of 1942
My summertime memories started at an early age. The events of the early forties and the beaches of Cape May County during that time were the stuff that made memories that have lasted for more than sixty years.
In the last few years Cape May has restored one of the Coastal Watch & Fire control [...]
