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                                                By Michael Tank           

       

            
         

National Lampoon's Animal White House
Dressed up like a Hawaiian tourist from Kansas, Obama opened the party by saying, "Aloha! I wish I could have given you a trip to Hawaii. Given our budget crunch, we can't do that, so at least we can bring Hawaii to you."
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Posted by Michael Tank at 30 June 2009, 3:25 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Letterman
Now in the good old days this is where Todd Palin, the child's father, gets to walk up to Letterman anytime in the near future and punch him in his foul mouth.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 13 June 2009, 7:21 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Are You Ready?
Most humans have a tendency to believe that 'it' will never happen to them because 'it' always happens to "the other guy."
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Posted by Michael Tank at 8 June 2009, 4:18 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Bailouts And SSI
After bailing out banks, corporations and Wall Street just where is the plan for a taxpayers' bailout for Social Security and Medicare?
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Posted by Michael Tank at 27 May 2009, 6:41 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Returning To The Wild Blue Yonder
I have always thought air travel was fun and exciting.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 25 May 2009, 10:09 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
A Eulogy
In Memory Of Pearl Rose Tank
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Posted by Michael Tank at 23 May 2009, 3:00 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
We Shall Reap What We Sow
So why do players who are already good enough to play college and professional sports cheat?
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Posted by Michael Tank at 10 May 2009, 2:42 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
It's Getting Hard To Keep Up
An Incomplete Review Of Obama's First 90 Days:
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Posted by Michael Tank at 21 April 2009, 12:41 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Smoking Lamp Is OUT! Well, maybe…
Initially it should be noted that this is the first Obama tax that is being placed on the very people Obama promised to help and on those who helped him get elected, the poor and the middle class.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 15 April 2009, 1:57 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Going Crazy In An Insane World: Part Three
*(FOUR TRILLION DOLLARS - In order to start to fully realize the stupidity of spending this kind of money, from this day forward we are all required to use capital letters or shouting out the figures when speaking of amounts this enormous.)
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Posted by Michael Tank at 26 March 2009, 4:54 AM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Witnessing A Defining Moment
I truly wonder that after he explained this vile plan if he actually expected these fine people, many of them Veterans themselves who have dedicated their lives working for the Veterans of America to simply shuffle out of the room, heads bowed in resignation and mumbling but fully accepting the inevitable demands of the Obama regime? If so he was terribly mistaken.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 23 March 2009, 4:08 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Going Crazy In An Insane World: Part Two
You didn't really think that I was finished going crazy already did you?
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Posted by Michael Tank at 19 March 2009, 3:03 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (2)
Going Crazy In An Insane World
For example, you want crazy, analyze this.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 17 March 2009, 8:47 PM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Scenarios
Where Obama and his Congress' wasteful spending was at first obscene it has now become pornographic.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 13 March 2009, 2:24 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Doctors
Imagine our economy as a living entity.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 13 March 2009, 2:14 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Taking Pictures Of Chance
Even with Gates' stipulation that it will be left up to the families of the deceased whether or not the media will be allowed to view the coffins of their loved ones, it was wrong to lift the ban.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 9 March 2009, 9:20 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
STOP IT!
I have a friend who when things start to get too silly or out of hand brings the shenanigans to an abrupt halt by firmly stating in a authoritative, staccato manner, "Stop it!" It is a tried and proven method learned the hard way, from raising children. After witnessing the barely first two months of the new President's administration I want to scream, "STOP IT!" in the faint hope that I could likewise somehow bring this foolhardy political eccentricity to an abrupt end.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 6 March 2009, 1:02 AM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
"A Nation Of Cowards"
In just the past few months we, the American people, have been clearly shown just how little our new 'leaders' think of us.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 21 February 2009, 11:56 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Still Looking For A Breath Of Fresh Air
"Don't worry son, you'll get used to it."
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Posted by Michael Tank at 13 February 2009, 3:46 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
My Super Bowl XLIII (or43) Prediction
First of all, Happy Super Bowl Sunday everybody!
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Posted by Michael Tank at 1 February 2009, 8:13 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Wake: Part Three
To fully understand all that happened to you, the poor deceased Ricky, and the unsuspecting, mournful gathering during these few chaotic moments of your escape, we must take it one step at a time.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 25 January 2009, 1:40 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Wake: Part Two
Reluctantly you enter the bathroom locking the door behind you.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 13 December 2008, 11:10 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (3)
New Rules: A Response to the Responses
In fact I have found that in stating my opinions others can become down right hostile.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 21 November 2008, 12:46 AM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
New Rules: Part Five
Race and Hypocrisy
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Posted by Michael Tank at 14 November 2008, 9:25 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
New Rules: Part Four
You must tell every child you meet that there is no Santa Claus.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 12 November 2008, 8:31 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
New Rules: Part Three
Human Rights and The Military
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Posted by Michael Tank at 11 November 2008, 10:47 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
New Rules: Part Two
You will not be allowed to cry, “Foul!”
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Posted by Michael Tank at 11 November 2008, 9:55 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
New Rules: Part One
For those of you who voted for Barak Obama.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 8 November 2008, 6:30 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Wake: Part One
As we get older the world seems to get just a bit weirder everyday.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 31 October 2008, 3:39 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (6)
Welcome To Htrae
With just two weeks left before we vote, flipping media channels between Fox News to any other is still like flipping into another world's dimension.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 23 October 2008, 3:12 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
"May We Have Some Nuts On That?"
I defy anyone with a brain to watch three hours of MSNBC evening 'news'.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 15 October 2008, 3:43 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
“The Past Is Prologue”
Four years ago during the Bush- Kerry 2004 Presidential campaign my younger brother told me that I needed to forget the past.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 11 October 2008, 9:52 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Crazy Truth About Wall Street
"The Stanley Theory of Economics."
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Posted by Michael Tank at 17 September 2008, 11:23 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
"Like Playing Cards With My Brother's Kids"
"Like Playing Cards With My Brother's Kids"
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Posted by Michael Tank at 13 September 2008, 1:18 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Hey America… Are You Ready To Party?
The National Conventions are upon us once again.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 24 August 2008, 5:33 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Three Ring Circus - Part Two: The Midway
Escaping from the spectacle and embarrassment of this Presidential primary Three Ring Circus the American voters exited the Big Top and once again we found ourselves on The Political Circus Midway. Here the pollsters took over asking inane questions paled only by the insane responses of my fellow citizens. For example:
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Posted by Michael Tank at 14 July 2008, 1:35 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Three Ring Circus - Part One: Under The Big Top
The first half of this historic year is almost past. My word, but it has gone by quickly.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 26 June 2008, 3:42 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
NIGHTMARES: A WARNING
Or, Why I Don't Sleep At Night
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Posted by Michael Tank at 20 April 2008, 2:14 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Under Fire
The Headline read: "Under fire, Obama clarifies small-town remarks " Obama is under fire? I thought Hillary was the one who supposedly had been under fire, by snipers no less.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 15 April 2008, 4:23 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Blessings
When I was a younger man I dreamt of glory and fame Of successes and riches And how everyone would know my name
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Posted by Michael Tank at 24 October 2007, 12:06 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Revolution: In Defense Of America
America is a dreamer. We are a country that was founded on a dream, a dream that had existed within man since his first conceptions of government. It was a dream of self-rule, of personal freedoms, of the right for every human being to pursue happiness in their existence and of the simple, basic belief that all men were created equal. The concepts that every man was created equal and that we all had the right to pursue happiness had never before been considered in any other form of government.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 23 October 2006, 4:16 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Only In Americo – The Drug Smuggler’s Revenge
This is it folks, as much as I love America, today I start thinking about looking for a new homeland because the one we’re living in now has gone wacko. Where once I thought the residents of Wackoville were only in Washington D. C., and with just cause because of the Supreme Court’s ruling of POW status for the terrorist criminals, I now discover that the Zanies* who rule with imputative insanity have spread to Manhattan and El Paso. How else can you explain what is going on in our courts? How else except with a plea of insanity, not by the defendants but by the attorneys, jurors and judges. How else without such inept lunacy can you explain that on Tuesday last, a female radical lawyer, a US citizen named Lynne Stewart, was convicted of passing instructions from her convicted terrorist client to his murderous terrorist underlings in Egypt who have declared war on the United States of America, but she receives only two and one half years for her treason? Then, a mere forty-eight hours later, while seemingly not wanting to fall behind in this rush to utter madness another deranged court in El Paso hands out an eleven-year sentence and a twelve-year sentence to two US Border Patrol Agents, Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, for shooting a known drug smuggler in the buttocks as the smuggler tried to escape! That’s why I am thinking about looking for a new home. This isn’t America anymore, land of the free, home of the brave, with liberty and JUSTICE for all. Our country has indeed become Americo, land of the free loader; home of the politically correct bleeding heart simple-minded, with liberty and justice only for those who break our laws
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Posted by Michael Tank at 22 October 2006, 3:18 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (4)
Azzam The American, Meet Hanoi Jane
Azzam The American, allow me to introduce you to Jane Fonda, alias Hanoi Jane, and her good buddy, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, alias Hanoi John.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 13 October 2006, 12:06 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
THE HALLOWEEN PARTY-1958
I am going to take you back a few years to a time that although may not have been all that simple and easy going at least it certainly seems so in this old man’s mind.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 5 October 2006, 11:22 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
A CNM NEWS FLASH… Part Two
CNM Announcer: “Welcome to CNM the Nation’s number one news source. Now once again from Atlanta here is the number one news anchor Bolt Striker with the number one news program, The Stitching Room, where CNM stitches together the this and that of the news to fit our purpose just for you, America, because like CNM, you America, are number one!”
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Posted by Michael Tank at 22 September 2006, 1:56 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
A CNM NEWS FLASH - Part One
In the not to distant future, in the small town of Gilbert, Arizona an old man picks up his remote and points it at his TV as we join a CNM (Cable Network Muckraking) broadcast… CLICK
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Posted by Michael Tank at 19 September 2006, 5:56 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Ten Things I Want Changed In The NFL
Last weekend was the start of the 87th season of the National Football League. My sons don’t believe me but I was not around when it started. However, I do know a little about how much the pro game has changed and unfortunately the change has not always been for the better. So from an old football fanatic here are ten things I would like to see changed in today’s game. Of course you may or may not agree.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 15 September 2006, 3:21 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Only In America – The Activist – The 9-11 Connections
I must admit that I haven’t been keeping up on this continuing story of immigration activist Elvira Arellano. I figured that when the government sent in the police to drag her out of the church it would make the headlines of all the major television networks and news channels and so I would know about it soon enough. I also figured, correctly, that she would not be dragged out of her sanctuary, kicking and screaming about her violated ‘American civil rights’, any time soon. However, tonight I did a little Google search on this subject and so I wasn’t all that surprised to find that Elvira is still sitting in her new home holding news conferences on a daily biases.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 11 September 2006, 5:24 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Lunch Money
At sometime in our lives every one of us has had the misfortune of running into a bully. Either as a witness to some brutish terrorism of another, or perhaps unfortunately, a meeting with one on a more personal note. So it will be understood in this little conversation that we all know what a bully is and what they do for fun and profit.
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Posted by Michael Tank at 6 September 2006, 3:34 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (2)
The Dreamer
I am flying
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Posted by Michael Tank at 5 September 2006, 2:06 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)