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Richard Cochrane is trained in chemistry and metallurgy but is far more interested and practiced as a political and fund raising consultant, writer and amateur historian. He grew up in a Navy family and with his two younger brothers carried on its 500+ year tradition of naval service to Great Britain and the USA then enjoyed a career with one of the largest advertising and public relations agencies working with numerous Fortune 500 companies and many of America's premier educational institutions. He maintains friendships and acquaintanceships around the world. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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Learnin the Blues with Richard Cochrane

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This is where I study writing the blues. Singing comes muuuuch later.


“I woke up this morning in an empty bed in Kansas City, still worried about the botched job in Memphis”

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and discovered a new report has found that adults in Washington, D.C. are among the top users of cocaine in the country. All this time, we thought the problem was government waste, but it’s actually that the government’s wasted.” Inspired by Billy Holliday

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara desert in five years you’d have a shortage of sand - Milton Friedman

The average American family have seen their income fall nearly $300 per month under Obama’s Presidency.according to an analysis of income tax filings.

When you have no solution yourself chastise your opponent for every attempt.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

In 1939 Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, “Gadsby”, which contains over 50,000 words — none of them with the letter E!

In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” was considered a dirty word!

The official unemployment rate dropped to 9.1% Friday because 200,000 people stopped looking for a job not because more jobs were created.

Saying the U. S. has solved its deficit crisis is like raising the blood-alcohol limit and then declared you’d solved the drunk driving problem.

It’s hard to believe that just a year ago, Obama was in his 40s and his approval rating was in the 50s. Now it’s the other way around.

August 14, 1961 is used to mark the building of the Berlin effectively cutting Berlin in two. It was 96 mi (155 km) barbed wire barricade and concrete wall with an average height of 11.8 ft (3.60 m). There were 302 guard towers with armed guards ordered to shoot-to-kill.

Somnolence (SOM-nuh-luhns) noun: A state of sleepiness or drowsiness. EtymologyFrom Latin somnus (sleep). Ultimately from the Indo-European root swep- (to sleep), which is also the source of insomnia, hypnosis, soporific (inducing sleep), soporose (sleepy), somnambulate (to walk in sleep), and Sanskrit svapnah (dream). Earliest documented use: around 1386.

Democrats in Congress are out for Standard and Poor’s blood demanding investigations of it for downgrading U. S. credit from AAA to AA+. Saturday Obama didn’t stir from a weekend off at Camp David but issued another bromidic statement. The USA credit rating is now below Canada, France and on a par with Belgium. More than ever are calling for Treasury Secretary Geithner’s head to be sent rolling down the rudderless White House’s driveway.

GM Sold Only 125 of its troubled Volt electric vehicles in June. Despite its poor sales and rotten consumer reports GM says it plans to increase production of the electric dud that EPA says only has a 35 mile range on electric only power.

A new report has found that adults in Washington, D.C. are among the top users of cocaine in the country. All this time, we thought the problem was government waste, but it’s actually that the government’s wasted.

Obama and sychophants attacked the S & P credit downgrade calling it the Tea Party downgrade and sending the likes of Senator John Kerry to the Sunday morning talk fest to continue its campaign of finger-pointing to try to deflect blame from its own ineptitude.


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