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Has Obama Been a Good president?

Posted on October 20, 2014 by The Urban Curmudgeon

    Has Obama been a good President? Paul Krugman thinks he has. In fact he thinks he is one of the three most important presidents in modern history, mainly because of what he has faced and what he has accomplished. First

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Posted in Politics

It’s Way Too nComplicated

Posted on October 16, 2014 by The Urban Curmudgeon

There’s a great deal of speculation about how we didn’t see ISIS becoming a big time threat until they were rolling through Iraq, murdering villages full of non-Sunni Muslims and making a general nuisance of themselves. How come?   We do, after

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Posted in Foreign

Apologia

Posted on October 15, 2014 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Dear readers,   I know that some of you have received a message that tells you that this site is infected with malware and that it could hurt your computer. That warning came from our security system and that malware, if it

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Posted in Miscellaneous

Can We Solve The Middle East?

Posted on October 10, 2014 by The Urban Curmudgeon

  The only solution the Middle East is going to get if it really wants to consider peace, is going to have to be political and religious, not military. We can bomb the hell out of ISIS but eventually that will become

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Ebola Can Make You Dumb

Posted on October 5, 2014 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Ebola Can make You Dumb Well, it happened. It finally happened and right wing fanatics from Florida to Arizona fell to their knees and gave thanks to a God who has made their wildest dreams come true. Yes, Ebola is here. It

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Posted in Social Commentary

Notes on the Middle East Mess

Posted on October 2, 2014 by The Urban Curmudgeon

What the hell is going on with Iraq and Syria. The President says there will be no American boots on the ground despite the fact that we have well over one thousand advisers over there. You can say they are not combat

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Bits & Pieces #48

Posted on September 28, 2014 by The Urban Curmudgeon

      Rick Perry claims that he is confident that the National Guard stands ready to do his bidding in any crisis that his backward state of Texas may encounter but it seems quite clear that he isn’t ready to stand

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A Foreign Policy That’s Trying to Work

Posted on September 25, 2014 by The Urban Curmudgeon

      I’m really getting tired of all the numbskulls with no answers that continually attack the President for being weak or not having the answers to the problems of the Middle East. How about no one has the answers? How

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The Curse of Yellow Journalism

Posted on September 21, 2014 by The Urban Curmudgeon

    There are times when you just can’t get it right, when you just can’t please anyone, let alone everyone. Arthur L.Caplan’s column in the 8/6/14 Washington Post is a perfect example of that.   The piece us titled, Why do

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The Problem is Arab Not Muslim

Posted on September 18, 2014 by The Urban Curmudgeon

      The mess in the Middle East isn’t getting any better; this despite an awful lot of attention by the White House, the so called loyal opposition and media all over the world. The basic problem is that no one

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