The Postrider's MindSay Blog

Security By Denial

thepostrider — 2005-08-17T06:08:52-05:00

The time has come for a new direction in American security here at home and elsewhere. If you are Arabic, Muslim and or Islamic, listen up. If your hate Americans, have vowed to kill Americans, consider Americans...

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Thoughts on NASA

thepostrider — 2005-08-08T12:08:17-05:00

It is just a few hours before the return of the shuttle scheduled for later this morning. My thoughts turn to all the early failures, like a morbid televised serial. Noboday said quit then, we just worked a little...

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Ignorance Is Bliss

thepostrider — 2005-08-01T12:08:41-05:00

I was happy as a clam until I learned about the capital gains tax rate of 15%. This is obscene: pure, stripped naked, obscene. This tax rate applies to the profit on an asset, such as a block of stock, when said...

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Excellence

thepostrider — 2005-07-27T09:07:56-05:00

It can be see where people enslaved at birth by a doctrine where acceptance is dictated rather than made by free choice would find America and her people a little tiresome. Given the succesful first try at a massively...

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Liberty Takes A Hit

thepostrider — 2005-07-22T07:07:42-05:00

The same House of Representatives that wimped out on flag burning gave their tacit approval to dismantling the Bill of Rights through the state sponsored erosion of our freedom by approving a ten-year extension on...

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Patriot Act: Counterfeit

thepostrider — 2005-07-21T10:07:48-05:00

If ever a bill had a counterfeit name, it is the Patriot Act. Under the guise of anti-terrorism and safety and security amalgamated as patriotism, the upcoming vote to expand this act will erode and usurp freedoms we...

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Hair Splitting: Washington Style

thepostrider — 2005-07-14T06:07:48-05:00

Do our sensibilities have no limits to their assumed elasticity among medial/governement types? My God, am I to believe that divulging "Mr. Wilson's wife" is okay and legal and that, because her name was...

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Bill of Rights

thepostrider — 2005-07-08T10:07:18-05:00

The Bush administration, using tired rhetoric and idiotic scare tactics linked to 9/11, all under the guise of safety, has bashed our rights and freedoms as few, if any, national administrations preceding it. I...

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Fourth of July

thepostrider — 2005-06-29T08:06:39-05:00

It is that time where Americans annually marvel at a few words on a precious piece of parchment. For it is marvelous that people of an entire nation could and would declare themselves free from all else except a...

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The One Positive

thepostrider — 2005-06-29T07:06:01-05:00

Despite the lies, the tax cuts and the deficit, there is one positive Iraqi strategem that I have harbored quietly for months. The need for quiet passed last night as Dubya spilled the beans. We have to deal with...

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