Arkady's Thoughts

As the old saying goes, once a tyrant always a tyrant, Chavez is acting in his usual idiotic ways. In a story recently , the tyrant dictator of Venezuela accused Obama of having Bush's stench. Looks like Obama's suggestion of Chavez supporting FARC , rubbed the plump tyrant the wrong way. Yes I realize it's not a real saying, but it should be! This story is interesting for both political ideologies . Liberals will probably become offended that their messiah got compared to Bush, I doubt they can think of any worse analogy. Conservatives might breathe a slight sigh of relief. My relief stems from the fact that if Chavez cannot control his giant cesspool of a mouth and sufficiently angers the incoming administration then he will continue being marginalized just like he was during the Bush administration. See, my biggest fear with Obama is his relaxed stance on foreign policy. With the global economy in a virtual free fall, tensions will inevitably rise. Beyond Russi

Participation in political matters outside of this blog. Cape Cod Online... An article write up of a brunch I attended after the defeat of Question 1. Little excerpt. One of the most effective pieces of tax advocacy this year was entirely volunteer. Arkady Kamenetsky made a YouTube video, independent of CLT or Carla Howell's Committee for Small Government, just sitting at his computer and explaining why Question One was important to him as a young citizen of the commonwealth and a committed believer in better government, which isn't more expensive and intrusive government. So Dan Page, old school door-to-door campaigner, meet Arkady Kamenetsky, Net warrior and libertarian activist. The old dogs like Dan have a few tricks to pass on, and the new watchdogs like Arkady can expand them to alert the 70 Percent as to when their interests are threatened. Patriot Room... Clyde and Bill over at Patriot Room invited me for their weekly special to discuss the miss