Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 23, 2012 in Blog, Politics |
There was a moment in last night’s debate when Mitt Romney’s aspirations of becoming the 45th President of the United States came to a shattering end.
Perhaps the worst was a rambling, waffling, embarrassing, and thoroughly revealing two-minute soliloquy towards the end of the duel when Romney was utterly exposed — not just as a pretty little deer caught in the headlights– but as what will mercifully become political road kill come November 6th.
Unable to lay a glove on the chin of a heavyweght champion with a stellar foreign policy record (thanks in large part to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s masterful stewardship), Romney increasingly found himself in agreement with many of the President’s policies, as the night wore on.
It became apparent to millions of Americans watching that the Republican nominee is so thoroughly inept when it comes to international affairs, that he would essentially outsource his entire foreign policy to the same group of neo-conservative zealots (those who make up his current crop of advisors) who slapped us with two unnessary wars costing our nation a terrible loss of lives and treasure, while enriching their buddies like Blackwater who are entrenched in the ultra-lucrative killing business.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 22, 2012 in Blog, Essays, Politics |
Conservatives love to hate President Obama.
They’re willing to resort to any means necessary to defeat the incumbent President.
They will lie. They will cheat. They will steal. And, then when that’s not enough to produce a voting majority, they’ll lie even more.
Consider the wacko disinformation campaign that’s been blasted from one inbox to another over the Internet ever since the name “Barack Obama” surfaced as a serious Presidential candidate, some five years ago. Since then, we’ve witnessed a toxic assembly line of lies almost always consisting of fabricated junk meant to create confusion and hatred for the President — about his intentions, about his character, even about his patriotism and nationality. I suspect that most of you reading today’s column have received these same emails occasionally, which are essentially nothing more than political garbage.
Invariably, they are easily debunked as completely false. Most of the time, a ten-second Google search reveals most of this stuff is quite simply made up. Yet, just as it’s difficult to scrub the ring out of a toilet bowl, the filthy concoction of lies continues to get passed from one scared little person to another, circling around in the right wing’s sewer pipes, pumped from one fanatic to the next.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 21, 2012 in Blog, Sports Betting |
NOLAN DALLA: 2012 POSTED SEASON RECORD
35 WINS – 28 LOSSES – 1 PUSHES —– (+ 6.95 units / 1 unit = $100)
STARTING BANKROLL: $10,000.
CURRENT BANKROLL: $10.695.
BEST BETS OF THE WEEK: 3-3-0
Coming off a 6-5 week, which could have been a much better day…..but a missed 37-yard FG with few seconds left in the first half of the Arizona game cost us an 8.4 unit swing on the OVER…..We lost another 11.25 unit swing on the Lions/Eagles game OVER 9.5 in the first quarter — four illegal motion penalties in Eagles territory gave us a 6-0 first quarter lead, rather than a 10-0 lead, which would have been a monster day if just a play or two had gone our way. Steamed we didn’t go 7-4 or perhaps 8-3. But this is still a season in the black, so far — which is encouraging.
On to Week 7 — Making ten bets and wagering $4,145.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 20, 2012 in Blog, Politics |
We’re having a field day with this. It’s a Liberal’s laugh-a-thon. A three-ring binder circus.
Mitt Romney’s “Women in binders” comment is quite possibly the most memorable tagline of the 2012 Presidential Election. It’s right up there with golden gems of the past. Recall — “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice….” “You’re no Jack Kennedy,” and “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”
Apparently, Mitt Romney’s management style pretty much comes down to two things — balance sheets and binders. If it’s profitable, go for it. If it’s unprofitable, eliminate it. But there’s a lot more to what I will term “Bindergate.”
Here’s a closer look at the files:
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 19, 2012 in Blog, Travel, What's Left |
In few more years, they’ll be gone.
Every one of them.
The millions who marched on foot across a continent and who sailed the high seas some 70 years ago are slowly but surely leaving us. They pass away at the rate of thousands per year, which will gradually come to a few hundred, and then to a trickle. In another decade or so, they will be no more.
They are what has been called “the Greatest Generation.”
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 18, 2012 in Blog, Politics |
When I first heard today’s announcement, I thought it had to be a spoof.
There was no way this could be real.
But apparently, it’s true.
Donald Trump, the failed multi-bankrupted blowhard buffoon is actually releasing a new men’s fragrance. The cologne is called……
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 17, 2012 in Blog, Politics |
It was priceless.
A comedian’s dream.
A pundits paradise.
And quite possibly the single four-word phrase that might torpedo Mitt Romney’s last chance to win the U.S. Presidency.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 16, 2012 in Blog, Politics |
In a proverbial sense, Rome is burning to the ground. And, while much of our national economy lay in ashes and the American Dream smolders in flames, all anyone seems to be talking about is the opera.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 15, 2012 in Blog, Travel |
My visit to the John Dillinger Museum in Crown Point, Indiana.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Oct 14, 2012 in Restaurant Reviews, Travel, Uncategorized |
How do you go out to two separate dinners at two different restaurants and still end up starving at night’s end?
Well, it happened to me tonight in the industrial garden spot of Hammond, Indiana — which is right across the Illinois-Indiana border, outside of Chicago.
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