The Brass Monkey

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And here we go again. It seems that the gang of crooks involved in the Albuquerque metro court house scandal who were just sentenced recently is just out of the news (see The Brass Monkey Blog post Corruption That Rivaled Mexico’s) and indictments come down for a former New Mexico Secretary of State, a democratic [...]

“Awesome” doesn’t begin to describe it. This was found on You Tube and was posted there by tarnell at this You Tube addy Hubble Ultra Deep Field 3D What happens when you point the Hubble Space Telescope to what looks like a blank patch of sky? A view that takes you to the edge of [...]

Back in ’08 Bill Gates made another pitch towards getting more H1B workers in the country, telling Washington that, “America will lose its status as a leader in technological innovation unless it allows more skilled workers to enter the country”. The Facts are that these workers are taking jobs from American workers. Not good especially [...]

Alabama: The Strange Vote The following from the Birmingham News Sweet Home Alabama. Where you can’t make this stuff up. Walker County’s Rep. Ken Guin last week cast a crucial “yes” vote in the Alabama House of Representatives, giving Jefferson County’s controversial occupational tax the legs it needed to pass. What is wrong with this [...]

A note from The Brass Monkey Blog . Net… The following was in the letters to the editor section of the Albuquerque Journal on June 30. The ‘Roundhouse’ referred to in the post is the building where the state legislature meets. Manny Aragon was president of the state senate and in the legislature for a [...]

Jefferson, a Democrat, was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 4, 2007, about two years after federal agents said they found the cash in his freezer. The Feds said the bills were marked and the transaction was caught on video. He was convicted on several counts including bribery, wire fraud and racketeering. This [...]

You flash back to 1975. Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme is convicted of pointing a gun at then-President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California. Secret Service agents prevented her from firing, but the gun was later found to have no bullet in the chamber, although it contained a clip of ammunition. It is said that for years she [...]

You may think this is funny, outrageous, rude, crude or not worth posting. What ever your thoughts President Obama has entered the gang of jokers that have depicted various politicians as The Joker in the past. We are not sure who any of these pranksters are but here is some of there recent work.