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Thom’s quote of the day – The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

“We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance ...

From THOMPAINE, Constitution Club,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: George Marshall,  NATO,  United Nations

Friday Night Punk – Link 80

Originally formed in the months leading up to the Iraq invasion, the Constitution Club blog and its eccentric group of bloggers present a diverse array of perspectives on society, politics and culture that is always ahead of the curve. Visit Conclub ...

From THOMPAINE, Constitution Club,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Lawrence Welk,  Chris Clarke

Fort Hood shooter’s last words

To the regulars at conclub please forgive the ridiculous title but it was done for a reason. To those of you who googled that and landed here I beg you to discontinue your search. No one yet know if Major Nidal Malik Hasan created some sort of Virginia ...

From THOMPAINE, Constitution Club,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Virginia Tech,  Lawrence Welk,  Chris Clarke

Blue state blues

There is absolutely no reason why operating a business in New Jersey should be a losing proposition. I contend that we have the best infrastructure in place to accomdate manufacturing, distribution or most any other type of business in the nation. We ...

From THOMPAINE, Constitution Club,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Christopher J. Christie

Friday Night Punk Reel Big Fish

Originally formed in the months leading up to the Iraq invasion, the Constitution Club blog and its eccentric group of bloggers present a diverse array of perspectives on society, politics and culture that is always ahead of the curve. Visit Conclub ...

From THOMPAINE, Constitution Club,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Lawrence Welk,  Chris Clarke

I’m all for waterboarding but this is just cruel

At risk of incurring some cut & paste backlash I couldn’t figure another way of doing this. A group of musicians lead by REM and Pearl Jam petitioned via the freedom of information act to find out if they’re music was being used to torture those poor, ...

From THOMPAINE, Constitution Club,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Pearl Jam (musician),  Lawrence Welk,  Chris Clarke

If you go ’round carrying pictures of Chairman Mao. You ain’t gonna make any sense anyhow.

Let’s just start with the fact that it is patently absurd to compare Mother Teresa, who dedicated her life to helping the most unfortunate of God’s children, to a man who slaughtered nearly a million dissidents and starved out tens of millions of ...

From THOMPAINE, Constitution Club,  22 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Mother Teresa,  Michael Moore,  Pol Pot,  Mitt Romney,  Lawrence Welk

Cramer vs Stewart tonight at 11.

Believe it or not I kind of like both of these guys. Yeah Jon Stewart is a flaming liberal but he’s funny and I just love watching politicans getting made fun of. He gives a pretty good skewering to the Dems too on occasion. I’ve read one of Cramer’s ...

From THOMPAINE, Constitution Club,  12 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Jon Stewart,  Rush Limbaugh,  Lawrence Welk,  Chris Clarke

Sight unseen - transcript of Obama’s speech from last night

This is going to be interesting. My cable was out when I got home last night no cable, no cable modem, no Obama speech no Jindal response. It came back literally just in time to hear an NBC spokesperson announce that due to the Presidential address Law ...

From THOMPAINE, Constitution Club,  25 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Al-Qaeda

Friday Night Punk Valentine’s Day edition

Happy Valentine’s Day to all my fellow hopeless romantics out there. Sorry that it’s not the best quality but the venue brings back some fond memories. I remember the Bouncing Souls back when they were a no name band in the Rutgers bar scene in New ...

From THOMPAINE, Constitution Club,  13 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Lawrence Welk,  Chris Clarke

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