tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175789082011-12-14T21:36:45.578-05:00Melvin Schmugmeier is my online pen-name, who the hell would name their kid that?!?!? I love to make fun of people and things, particularly political stuff. Stay tuned, check back.MelvinSchmugmeierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14523165446772307842noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17578908.post-1151350264680314822006-06-26T15:23:00.000-04:002006-06-26T15:31:04.730-04:00

Today, the Supreme Court has agreed to listen to the debate regarding global warming.I have 2 problems with this and they are essentially the same problem regarding 2 different parties. My problem is that neither the attorneys that are going to present the case nor the supreme court justices are really qualified to make any determination regarding the issue. The qualified people would be

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I subscribe to DishNetwork rather than pay the rediculous fees that I paid Cablevision in the past. I got more channels and I paid less --> now it's roughly the same, just like everything else. People settle on something and then stop price shopping because they (we) don't want to have to remember that the FoxNews Channel is no longer found on channel 205 it's now channel 26.Anyway, not that it's

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Last night I watched the season finale of 24, which is one of my favorite shows. I basically have a show on most nights that I consider to be my favorite where I'll set aside time to watch it. I watch 24 and TiVo CSI:Miami for Tuesday night viewing.Last night's episode I thought was really good. At 9:45 when the show felt over, I asked myself, now what the hell are they going to do for 15

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Okay, if anyone actually reads this post I'm sure I'll get a negative comment on this one.I just don't believe that humans have anything to do with the current warming trend, and I also don't believe that changing behaviour is going to do a bloody thing to stop it or even slow it down. The earth has been warming since the last ice age ended with periodic ups and downs with the latest warming

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Well, things seem to be pointing towards another Tawana Brawley case. IF THEY ARE GUILTY then they should definitely be prosecuted and if found guilty, jailed. Things aren't really looking like that right now. Let me remind you of the Tawana Brawley case. Up in Westchester around 20 years ago, a high-school aged girl accused a cop of raping her, smearing her with crap, dropping the 'n-bomb'

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I still think that the so-called solution to the immigration/border mess that the president presented last night is a bit odd. He talked about the illegals that are here in the country now (11 to 12 million) can stay, but it's not amnesty. If they are not going to be prosecuted, it's amnesty.Now -- I keep talking about this NOT BECAUSE I AM AGAINST IMMIGTANTS. My grandparents were immigrants,

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I found an updated site which indicates that the US consumes 320,500,000 gallons of gasoline per day. With my proposed $1 per gallon gas tax, we would accumulate $235 Billion in 2 years. That's 1/2 of our defense budget and would go a long way in investing in our war against the extremists.

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There's been a lot on the news over the last week about the President somehow being able to influence the price of gas at the pump. This is rediculous. The only way that the president is going to be able to affect the price of gas is to eliminate the Federal tax on a gallon of gas (around $.18). The government won't allow that to happen -- aren't the Democrats already groaning about his other

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Okay, I had to post again today. I just saw this thing about Bin Laden's latest tape that was released. In this latest tape he's talking up a new jihad in Darfur because the west is sending in troops to protect the innocent people there that are starving to death. He goes on to say that 'the west is at war with Islam'.All I have to say about that is NO SHIT. Bin Laden and crew DECLARED WAR on

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Okay -- it's really obvious to me and I hope it is to you too. Oil is now as much a problem today as it was in the 1970s. Anyone who doesn't want to admit that is kidding themselves or they're too young to remember the 70s.Iran has all but announced that they are going to use oil as a weapon against us and our trading partners (which will hit us in the wallet). The price per barrel of oil (for

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Hey, I'm sorry but I've been away for a while. I sold my business and I've been looking at new businesses so I haven't had much time to be angry at the rest of the world recently.This whole mess with the illegal immigrants is starting to tick me off. There are laws on the Mexican books that really restrict the ability for immigrants to live there. For example, there's a law that says that an

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I'm going to give a quick shout out regarding the NYC Transit Strike.Here's what's at issue. The Transit Workers, who average around $54,000 in pay want a share of the HUGE surplus that the MTA created by overcharging riders. Now for anyone that has ever ridden the NY City subway system, these are not the friendliest, most helpful people in the world. They typically [although not always] yell

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Okay, I have a problem with this probe. We are at war. The war was declared ON US. Granted, there's no organized army, there are no uniforms, there isn't even a country. Does anyone remember the attacks on the US? The WTC bombin, the WTC planes, the Pentagon planes and [my bet] the 2 planes that came down around Long Island [one off Smiths Point and 1 in a Queens neighborhood]. There were

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Drilling for oil in ANWR [the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge] has been to most ecology and conservation people as if it were sacreligious to even THINK about drilling there. I'm as into nature as most people that love to hike and camp, which is significantly more than most people.I think that it's silly to prevent drilling in the small piece of land that they are considering for use. The drilling at

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A friend of mine sent this over to me as an email. I think this is perfect in the depiction of the American Idiot.(On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live

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There was a GREAT editorial on the flip-flop of the Democrats regarding the Pre-War intelligence. There was more than 1 quote PRIOR to Mr. Bush coming into office, including Mr. Gore commenting that the US needed to create a coalition, invade and get rid of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.If I get a chance I'll put in some snippets from it, but if you can, try to get your hands on it. You know

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This post is going to be kinda short -- it's Friday afternoon, I'm doing the company backup and I'm bored.The current cut & run strategy being professed by the Democrats is really a bad idea. The terrorists are winning and it's because of this strategy. The terrorists have attacked our allies and have made several of them withdraw some or all of their troops from our efforts in the Middle East.

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As you look at the last 40 years of American economic history, there has typically been 1 or 2 major 'things' that have fueled the rapid growth of our economy. Back in the 60s there was a combination of military spending fueled by the war in Vietnam, there was also growth in technology. The 60s were sparked by companies like IBM as well as companies that aided in the development of the space

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Wow. I'm not a really big newspaper reader (since the "best" local paper is a slanted liberal rag -- the NY Times). I saw a link on Fark.com to a commentary in the LA Times Online (latimes.com).In the wake of the riots in France perpetrated primarily by Muslim youths, followed by the hotel bombings in Jordan, they asked 5 very simple questions regarding the actions of muslims throughout the

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Okay -- I'm sure that we all know that there were several bombing attacks yesterday in Amman, Jordan. Al Qaeda has taken responsibility for these attacks, which is no surprise.Al Qaeda is currently following a well documented plan that was developed over 18 months ago. That plan calls for Al Qaeda and affiliated terrorists to plan and execute attacks within any country that is currently

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Bill O'Reilly of Fox News has been very aggressively attacking the oil companies for the amount of profits that they are currently making with the runup of oil prices. Now, I understand Mr. O'Reillys point about helping Americans weather this economic storm, however there's a few problems with this.First, these corporations have 1 responsibility and that is to their shareholders, to make them

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Just for giggles, I decided to have a look at just how much 'stuff' the 2 houses of congress shovel in a given session of congress. [Note each 'Congress' is 2 years long, thus the 109th]. The 109th Congress between the House and the Senate has inundated us with 7,455 Bills, Acts, Resolutions, Joint Resolutions and Concurrent Resolutions. I just love looking at these and reading what these

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Just for giggles I went on to a site that provides information regarding all of the bills that are run thru the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each 'rank & file' member of both houses receives $158,100 per year as a salary [the speaker gets 203,000 and the majority and minority leaders of each house get 175,600]. The total cost in just salary is around $85 million. If you break that

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I've had some stuff going on during the last 2 weeks that have made it impossible for me post or even think about anything.The big thing in the news right now is this CIA leak investigation into who said what about some woman that nobody never heard of before. This grand jury investigation is taking up an enormous amount of time from my hurricane and disaster viewing. Yes there is some obscure

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I just wanted you all to know that I'm working up an analysis on personal spending trends over time and how this can be affected by increases in the cost of oil. This will have a significant impact on the future of the US and the world economy so I want to get my figures/estimates correct before shooting my mouth off.Melvin

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We all feel the pinch of taxes. We don't feel it as much with our periodic paycheck but we really notice it when we do our tax returns (in April for those that owe). I generally try to nail down how much my taxes are going to be some time in October so that I definitely don't get anything back, and sometimes so that I owe a little bit of money. I really hate giving the government an interest

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I'm the parent of a child in elementary school in New York state. There's been a very big push for the last couple of years to standardize testing of all children within the state -- I would imagine that this is a nationwide thing. The increased reliance on these standardized tests is that the entire school program is geared around the success of the children when taking these tests. The test

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As I've been browsing thru a lot of the political or activist blogs that are available, I have only seen blogs that are more left leaning than the current administration in Washington. This is normal because people that disagree with things are much more likely to be vocal about their opposition.Melvin is by no means a radical right-wing conservative slave. Melvin does NOT believe that

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