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By Eastan McNeal on Oct 1, 2009 in Current Affairs | 24 Comments
You can’t kill me! I’m just a kid!
Have you ever heard a gunshot ring throughout a neighborhood street? Have you ever heard church bells ring in the mourning of a soul who was lost by that bullet? Has anything ever rung true to you that you assume most people don’t get?
16-year-old [...]
By Eastan McNeal on Jul 7, 2009 in Current Affairs, Energy Policy, Environment | 17 Comments
For 23 years Keepers of the Mountains has held an annual family picnic on Kayford Mountain, West Virginia to bring together supporters of the movement to end mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. This weekend 20 or so drunken coal thugs charged over the ridge and tried to pick a fight with the festival goers. [...]
By Eastan McNeal on Jun 7, 2009 in Current Affairs | 23 Comments
I am sure some of you have seen the video of dumbo standing in the receiving line greeting the people getting off his own plane and you have heard all about the folks that, probably just minutes before were wiping powder from his upper lip, did not shake his hand.
But, who were those [...]
By Eastan McNeal on May 29, 2009 in Current Affairs, Environment | 65 Comments
A special note from actor and activist Robert Redford is a must see and listen later in this article.
I am working on a story tentatively titled Ecocide – Is Obama the Worst Environmental President in Recent History? On May 15th the Obama EPA cleared 42 MTR permits, saying that blowing up tops of mountains and [...]
By Eastan McNeal on May 14, 2009 in Auto Industry, Bailouts, Current Affairs, Economy, Ford, General Motors & Chrysler, Steve Rattner, Unions | 20 Comments
Ford passed Toyota to become the No. 2 car seller in the U.S. in April of this year.
See the UPDATE at end of story.
*You’re Ahead In A Ford All The Way – Ford Ad slogan 1950s-60s.
Ford, the American carmaker most likely to survive the auto implosion without going bankrupt or taking government aid, deserves credit [...]
By Eastan McNeal on May 9, 2009 in Current Affairs | 13 Comments
-To hit someone upside the head when they are not looking.
The Obama folks knew that even their most loving lap dogs in the media could not turn a blind eye to a 3.5 trillion dollar budget. So, what do they do? While everyone is watching Obama the machine activates congressmen, senators and governors [...]
By Eastan McNeal on May 6, 2009 in Africa, Appalachia, Banks, Crime, Current Affairs, Florida, Piracy, Terrorism, U.S. States | 11 Comments
In today’s age of technology, when government and companies are getting better at guarding the electronic gates, sometimes the easiest way to score a big heist is to come right through the front door in a mailbag.
It seems someone stole $2 million from the WV State Auditor’s office using nothing more than letters sent through [...]
By Eastan McNeal on May 1, 2009 in Christianity, Current Affairs, Religion | 26 Comments
On CNN today we see: Survey: Support for terror suspect torture differs among the faithful.
I suspect there may be some pushing involved in that Pew poll, as there may be a coordinated push to break down the cohesiveness of what the democrat party believes is the foundation of the republican party, White [...]
By Eastan McNeal on Apr 30, 2009 in Current Affairs | 119 Comments
(Bumped up from Wednesday morning)
“this was the most thoughtless, senseless thing they could do to somebody, .. “
A gigantic dark airplane flew low over Manhattan on Monday, frightening office workers and prompting evacuations.
in what turned out to be an Obama Administruction - approved publicity shoot. .
The circling of the 747 around some [...]
By Eastan McNeal on Apr 27, 2009 in Bill of Rights, Breaking News, Current Affairs, Gun Control, Hugo Chavez, NRA, Obama | 35 Comments
We have been exposed to an education lately on International Law and the Rule of Law. Everyone has been following the torture memos and some of us have a quaint understanding of how the U.S. signing the treaty at the Geneva Convention forcibly influenced laws that we were required, by the treaty, to add [...]
By Eastan McNeal on Apr 26, 2009 in Current Affairs, Environment, Obama | 38 Comments
If a foreign enemy had done to this country what this industry has done to West Virginia, it would be regarded as an act of war.” – Robert Kennedy, Jr.
“If the American people could see what I have seen from the air and ground during my many trips to the coalfields of Kentucky and [...]
By Eastan McNeal on Apr 19, 2009 in Advertising, Bill of Rights, Current Affairs, Freedom of Speech, Homeland Security, Obama Administration | 28 Comments
A computer program that tells the White House where you have been on the Internet, RADICAL!
Note: Wings Under America was a response to Homeland Security’s Right Wing Extremism Alert discussed by Susan here and here.
If you really want to get the feel of a Klan rally you should don a [...]
By Eastan McNeal on Apr 16, 2009 in Current Affairs | 23 Comments
Homeland Security Released Warning This Year About Left Wing Extremists. WH Said Nothing.
“I wish we’d set more bombs. I don’t think we did enough.”
In this book there is detailed advice concerning electronics, sabotage, and surveillance, with data on everything from bugs to scramblers.
There is a comprehensive chapter on natural, non-lethal, and lethal weapons, running [...]
By Eastan McNeal on Apr 12, 2009 in Current Affairs, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Tim Geithner | 26 Comments
Faster than you could shake a drunk donkey off of an epileptic elephant’s back I put two and two together..
Sometimes I wish I had Larry Doyle’s knowledge and financial background. Sometimes I am glad I don’t, for if I did, I would not have amused myself as much today.
I was listening to a talking [...]
By Eastan McNeal on Apr 9, 2009 in Current Affairs | 79 Comments
Does anyone find it unusually coincidental that the same day a new, over-reaching cybersecurity bill is introduced a huge “BE VERY AFRAID” story hits the Wall Street Journal.
Typically news like this is kept secret by the government. But, for some undisclosed reason, an un-named a senior intelligence official told the newspaper all [...]
By Eastan McNeal on Apr 9, 2009 in Current Affairs | 8 Comments
Today we have absolute right to criticize and complain about government affairs. That is true. Sometimes, however, it is healthy to take a break from our fire-fest and take in a story about the surviving members of the great generation that helped us hold the right to be open social critics.
The story of [...]
By Eastan McNeal on Mar 31, 2009 in Current Affairs | 29 Comments
Used Idea Salesman
If GM fails it won’t be because Washington did not try to give it every advantage imaginable. One advantage, not withstanding the formidable Obama marketing machine’s vast resources, not easily attainable is consumer trust.
Following the first bailout last year several studies of consumer perceptions have been conducted. These studies’ results are [...]
By Eastan McNeal on Mar 23, 2009 in Current Affairs | 4 Comments
The FUTURE potential bonuses already passed by congress and signed by the president far exceed anything you have seen yet.
On September 26th, 2008 NoQuarter ran a piece predicting that the U.S. taxpayers would have to call on the same scoundrels who got us into this mess and pay them a handsome sum of money to [...]
By Eastan McNeal on Nov 5, 2008 in Current Affairs | 232 Comments
How do we protect it?
We honor our fellow Americans for exorcising their right to vote. We respect our country for being built upon that honor.
Let us not critique the Obama children and their dresses. But let us fear the vindictive hatred their mother has for all things red, white and blue. Let [...]
By Eastan McNeal on Nov 1, 2008 in Current Affairs | 197 Comments
Hey bots, who work for people like me, welcome to your future.
I am posting this without comment. You may, of course, add yours.
Dear Fellow Business Owners:
As a Business owner who employs 30 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama will be our next President and that my Taxes and Fees [...]