Tag: President Obama
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PUTIN, POKER, AND HISTORY
I recently heard a commentator (forgive me, I can’t remember who it was or where I heard it, but I did hear it) describe the situation in Crimea as a game. He said that Vladimir Putin was playing chess but President Barack Obama was playing checkers. It was a clever line, but I think the…
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WHAT DO PRESIDENT OBAMA, KATY PERRY, AND RICHARD SHERMAN HAVE IN COMMON?
What do President Obama, Katy Perry, and Richard Sherman have in common? No, not their luscious full hair. The only thing they really have in common is that I am thinking about all of them this morning. So, this blog is about three very unrelated topics bound together only by the fact that they are…
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GREENBEAN’S GOT A BAD FEELING ABOUT SYRIA
II want to put on record that I’m not really feeling the whole “Bomb Syria” thing. I’m channeling my inner George Lucas on this one. You know what I’m talking about–in every Star Wars film some character, somewhere, says “I have a bad feeling about this.” That line is usually uttered about the time things fall…