By Alan CarubaLast week ended in pageantry that altered history in ways the whole world could take notice, vicariously participate, and absorb into the collective conscience. On Friday the heir to the British throne married [...]
Pageantry, History, and Change
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Canvassing 2#
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Well the local Conservatives finally got around to saying hello which makes the current visitations at 2 to 1 in Labours favour, not that I favour Labour generally of course. I even got to meet my local MP for the first [...]
Department of Pre-Crime
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I quite enjoy the movie Minority Report based on a Philip K Dick short story though quite well enhanced by some good effects. It essentially involves the police using pre-cogs or precognitive telepaths who can predict murder before it even happens and [...]
Nobody Does It Better
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Nobody does it better when it comes to Royal weddings.We wish the Royal couple a long and happy marriage.Alan Car [...]
Things I Don't Care About
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By Alan CarubaThe alleged Obama birth certificate has now become a cottage industry with YouTube videos explaining why it is a fake and a torrent of articles in the mainstream press about its release by the White House.I [...]
Disproportionate?
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Only a politician of the left could have come up with this sort of thing and I include both Labour and Lib Dems in this category. When police actually enforce the law and do the jobs we expect them too, the net result is some idiot labour politician [...]
History is No Help to the Federal Reserve
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By Alan CarubaFederal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, gave a press conference on Wednesday and, try as I did, I fell asleep almost immediately. For those suffering from insomnia, I would recommend you “take two Bernanke’s [...]
Fear of offending
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Multiculturalism, the leftist idiocy pervading government and various state provisions such as health and teaching has caused untold harm, differences do not unite us, by their very definition they can’t, they divide us [...]
Scaring Mothers and All Others - The BPA File, Part Four
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By Alan CarubaIn a revealing article in the April issue of The Atlantic, “Beyond BPA: Could ‘BPA-Free’ Products Be Just as Unsafe?” the effort to scare American consumers and others around the world comes full circle. In [...]
Making yourself look like idiots.
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I ran across this article a yesterday and although it is clearly Daily Mailesque in its tone it did rather make me smile at the sheer idiocy of the claim.Emirates 24.The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks warned that Al-Qaeda has hidden a nuclear bomb in [...]
The General Motors Debacle
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By Alan CarubaI received an email from my friend, Seldon B. Graham, Jr., a veteran of the oil industry, possessing both engineering and law degrees. I first became aware of him through his book, “Why Your Gasoline Prices [...]
How to Refinance a Vanderbilt Mortgage
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Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance is a Berkshire Hathaway Company specializing in loans for new manufactured homes, including manufactured homes with land. If you have a Vanderbilt mortgage on your manufactured home that you want to refinance, you have [...]
Nationstar Mortgage Loan Modification
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After getting a mortgage on their houses, many people find it difficult to repay their mortgage and look for solutions that would help them reduce their burden of debt. For these people, many lenders have introduced loan modification that allows borrowers [...]
Living high on the hog
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They still don't get it and it's looking increasingly unlikely this side of the revolution that they ever will, because there are no consequences really to their actions. I'm talking about various public bodies spending taxpayers cash like it's an inexhaustible [...]
Parish Notice
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I have been cordially invited to post occasionally on a new blog the Orphans of Liberty and I'm in some very good company.Longrider, James Higham, The Spine, Mark Wadsworth, Sackerson, Captain Ranty, Harry Hook, [...]
Condoning breaking the law
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Some groups are more equal than others, this is one of the sad facts of life in this land in which we live. Some groups get away with a blind eye being turned because a full investigation would be "racist" at least until someone finally got the nerve [...]
The Middle East Mess
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By Alan CarubaAnyone such as myself who lived through the long years of the Vietnam quagmire knows that the United States is repeating the same errors in the Middle East that we did with that nation. We seem incapable of [...]
Cry God! For Harry, England and St George!
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600+ Followers for Warning Signs
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At some point today, Warning Signs acquired two new Followers, bringing the total to just over 600. Welcome to these new folks and a warm Good Friday greeting to all you others.Thank you for your interest and your support.Alan [...]
Earth Day Predictions of 1970.
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I do not know the author who compiled these quotes, but they are a good reason why they were wrong in 1970 when Earth Day was established and continue to be wrong today, Earth Day 2011. "For the next 24 hours, the media [...]
The bluebells of High Elms
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I took Lady QM and the hairy hound off for one of our favourite walks today, it's not particularly long but at this time of year it has certain advantages. We go to High Elms country park (near Bromley) and walk a circular [...]
Obama's Make-Believe Life
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The date was January 2, 2010 and I started the year with some thoughts on Barack Obama that ended up going around the world a couple of times. Insofar as Friday 22nd is Good Friday, I am going to post those thoughts again [...]