Monthly Archives: March 2008

‘Cotton-pickin’

I guess CNN scrubbed the transcript: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y0W19-N3Ik

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Going off on a storm trooper

There’s this idiot over at Control Congress named bb who back in November agreed to wager on which party would win in 2008. I’ve been working hard lately, so the blog world is pretty much dead to me. Never forgetting … Continue reading

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Kenard on the radio

A couple of the child actors from The Wire…Omar’s killer and Michael’s little brother appear on radio show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHXpgbQrsEo

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Idiots not named Bush

The war on under-age drinking is getting out of hand, now not only is is a crime to drink if you are under 21 some people would like to see drinking out of red cups that may contain alcohol turned … Continue reading

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The Clinton legacy

The carpetbagger report sums up the coverage of Hillary Clinton Sometimes, you can see a meme coming, but you don’t quite know what to do about it. The meme is big and bad, and likely to do some harm, but … Continue reading

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Gallup has Obama at 50% and Hillary at 42%

I got this via TPM I wonder if the Bosnian sniper fire claim is leading to some of this, in the end I think Hillary’s sniper claim was a major mistake because it was easy to disprove and made her … Continue reading

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Religion makes everything better

The problem with religion is that it allows people to spout nonsense and no one challenges them, out of respect for their beliefs.   This time it looks like respect for religion killed somebody. Police are investigating an 11-year-old girl’s death … Continue reading

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Karl Rove has some advice for Hillary

Karl Rove(no relation) has a some suggestions for Hillary Clinton on ways to smear Obama. Here is the deal, if Karl Rove thought it up, it is probably dishonest, sleazy and bad for the country.  I wonder how long it … Continue reading

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Obama’s speech on economics

Yup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSuT5zN2SPI

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Don Siegelman is being released!

I’ve written about this a few times, and have been checking out Scott Horton’s posts over at Harper’s…this 60 Minutes piece will bring you up to speed if you don’t know anything about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsqA0-3hXoohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPn_Jydtywg

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Hillary asks for party unity

Given some of Hillary Clintons’ recent comments, especially when she talked glowingly of McCain carrying her over the commander and chief threshold, I wondered if she was going to endorse her vodka drinking buddy, John  McCain, at least right now she … Continue reading

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being a slacker is part of my religion

What a jackass: A state appeals court upheld sanctions Tuesday against a pharmacist who refused to dispense birth control pills to a woman and wouldn’t transfer her prescription elsewhere Later in the story they try to paint the moron pharmacist … Continue reading

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Buying super-delegates?

Some people do not seem to like the idea of the super delegates going along with the pledged delegates(after all the little people should not be allowed to decide elections) Twenty top Hillary fundraisers and donors have sent a scathing … Continue reading

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Those of which we do not speak

The college student who got a stinging brushback from Chelsea Clinton when he asked about the Monica Lewinsky scandal said Wednesday he’s a Clinton supporter who was trying to get her to show ”what makes Hillary so strong. see it … Continue reading

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Hillary’s watershed moment?

From 360 blogs The Bosnian episode is a watershed event, because it indelibly brings to mind so many examples of this tendency– from the White House years and, worse, from Hillary Clinton’s take-no-prisoners presidential campaign. Her record as a public … Continue reading

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Atrios on Clinton

I got this from Atrios via Kevin Drum: Remember back in junior high, when you had that friend that the bullies picked on all the time? And you defended that friend, who really never did all that much for you, … Continue reading

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Getting fatter

One thing that seems to get missed in the health care debate, many countries spend less than the US on health care yet, they still have better or at least equal health outcomes.  Matthew Yglesisias points this out with regards to Mexico, … Continue reading

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Hillary Clinton claims to have faced sniper fire

I wonder if  This  will make into the mainstream news.  Hillary Claims to have faced sniper fire in Bosnia, yet their is no record of it anywhere.  A gaffe like this has the potential to sink her campaign, hopefully it will so … Continue reading

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Safer highways thanks to expensive diesel fuel

Truckers are slowing down to conserve fuel usually once a or twice a week I wind up driving a couple of hundred miles on the highway. Lately I have noticed that it is not as stressfull. Maybe part of that comes … Continue reading

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Obama’s Speech on Race

One of the best speeches in my lifetime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrp-v2tHaDo

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Bill Simmons on Isiah Thomas

What if the Knicks had never hired Isiah Thomas? “This could have been its own bizarro “Where Amazing Happens” commercial called “Where Isiah Happens.” Where Phoenix dumps the Stephon Marbury and Penny Hardaway contracts on someone and remakes its team … Continue reading

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The War Over the War Inside the Pentagon

Scott Horton: Yet the smoke from this firestorm has been everywhere. Why did Admiral James Fallon suddenly resign following the publication of a portrait piece on him in Esquire? The word spread about the media, which covered this, as usually, … Continue reading

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Warren Haynes and Trey Anastasio

They’re talking for a bit, and then it’s a free-flow jam session with my two favorite guitarists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4wFs91qJaY

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Another member of Bill Clinton’s cabinet endorses Obama

Bill Richardsonendorses Obama. Why is it that people who have worked with Hillary Clinton keep endorsing Obama? Maybe they know something.

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Josh Marshall wonders what is wrong with McCain

I got this from TPM: From the earlier post there seems to be some confusion. No one is saying that John McCain’s service as a Navy pilot shows or suggests that he lacks the grasp of strategy and national interest … Continue reading

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Hopefully my last Hillary post

I have been trying not to talk about Hillary Clinton other than documenting her crush on John McCain(The three way love affair between her McCain and Leiberman is the the stuff of nightmares) but this article that I found Via … Continue reading

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McCain’s war

It is hard to find anything positive from the Iraq war.  Yet John McCain wants to stay there for the next 100 years.  Why?  Other than creating terrorists and draining the US treasury what good is a US presence in … Continue reading

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Something we can all agree on

John McCain does not have what it takes to be president. Hillary Clinton’s praise of him is more proof of her bad judgement. For the third time in two days, the Arizona Republican has pushed the definitively false statement that … Continue reading

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Of course ministers say stupid things

If you listen to conservative talk radio all you hear are people yacking about Barack Obama’s minister and his “anti-american” statements. As near as I can tell the guy didn’t say anything that different from what Jerry Falwell said after … Continue reading

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Maybe I should have used drugs in high school

This editorial encourages people to spy on their children This part makes me wonder what is the real purpose of spying on your kids: Parenting has never been for the faint of heart. One friend of mine, using spyware to … Continue reading

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