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Month: June 2011

The Right Guy For The Job

Posted on June 29, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

So we’re almost three years into the Obama Presidency and the question must be asked. Is he the right guy for the job; maybe, maybe not. In order to answer that question intelligently we have to go back to 2007 and the

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Posted in Politics

Bits & Pieces $12

Posted on June 23, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

For comedians across the country, Sara Palin is the gift that just keeps giving. Her recent tour of places where other candidates were announcing their candidacy led her to New Hampshire where she was kind enough to tell the world that Paul

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Posted in Politics Tagged Chris Christie, Fareed Zacharia, Mitt Romney, Sara Palen

Sadik-Khan Just Can’t Get it Right

Posted on June 21, 2011June 22, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Michael Grynbaum, in a recent article on Traffic Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, completely missed the point. The people of the city don’t care if Sadik-Khan is nasty, abrasive or hard to work with. Most of them don’t ever, thank God, have to see

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Posted in New York City Tagged Janette Sadik-Khan

The Deficit Ain’t the Problem

Posted on June 16, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Everybody talks about solving the deficit as if that’s the most important problem on the horizon. I guess it is if you have a job but there are plenty of people in this country who don’t have jobs and their lack of

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Posted in Politics Tagged Budget Deficit, Paul Ryan

The Dichotomy of Destruction

Posted on June 13, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Why is it that the Right Wing can’t seem to decide whether they want to keep the country safe from totalitarian government or whether they want totalitarian government to be the law of the land? Let’s start with the gun nuts. As

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Posted in Politics Tagged gun nuts, gunners, Guns & Patriots

Dumbing Down the Debt Limit

Posted on June 9, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Seems like everybody with a mouth is having something to say about raising the limit on the debt. Most of it is amazingly uninformed but that in itself is not unusual. Watched Mitch McConnell do a number on how he will demand

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Posted in Politics Tagged Debt Limit, Mitch McConnell

What Kind of Country- Pt 3

Posted on June 6, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Okay, we’ve spoken about what kind of country we have and what kind of country some people want.  The reality is recognizing what we have and trying to make what we have the best there is. The United States of America will

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Posted in Politics Tagged CIA, Military, taxes

What Kind of Country? Pt-2

Posted on June 3, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

In the first part of this three part blog I asked a question: What kind of country do you want to live in, big government or small government? The answer, of course, is that it’s not a matter of choice, but really

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Posted in Politics Tagged TARP. Wall Street

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