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Author Archives: Al Swearengen
My Spouse Called From Baghdad
(fromDailyKOS) My wife is an officer in Iraq. She did a decade of service as an enlisted soldier. She wanted to have an effect on policy and make decisions on a day to day basis when she chose to become … Continue reading
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Labor and the New Nationalism (1919)
Napoleon’s words sent me into one of my research kicks, and so I’ve been digging around a bit, reading a lot of material from the first quarter of the 20th century. There’s a lot I could cite, but this one … Continue reading
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Swearengen TV
Since there’s not enough time to post on everything I pile up for the future, I’ll be making a post like this every so often. Here are 13 videos I really liked: Our Accu-Wrath Forecasthttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1194051743737944804&hl=en Hannity & Colmbes – Hitchens/Fallwellhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8522160456160855926&hl=en
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GOP Debate Analysis
I’m finding it to be pretty interesting how this GOP race has played out so far. Not that I’m surprised that Mitt Romney is on top, since he really is best looking one who says nothing controversial to whoever his … Continue reading
Nexus of Terror (Updated)
Keith Olbermann puts together an updated ‘Nexus of Terror’, and here it is in two parts. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6941875603142113385&hl=en
26 of 27
There was a time in my life when something like this would never get by me. Three straight nights of the game starting after 10PM, and all day long I’m thinking the 4th in Oakland is a night game. Schilling … Continue reading
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Matt Sanchez – Act 2
Wolf Blitzer is moderating in New Hampshire, and he asks the entire crop of potential GOP candidates for ’08 to raise their hand if they believe that gays should be allowed to serve in the military. Not one hand went … Continue reading
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Flight of the Conchords – Business Time
Check these guys out. They’re a funny music/comedy duo from New Zealand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU
AT&T’s Net Neutrality Video
For more background on all this, you can see the documentary I posted a few weeks ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGnhF87MWSI
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What if Israel had turned back?
(by Tom Segev – JERUSALEM) Forty years ago, on the morning of June 5, 1967, Jordan launched an artillery attack on the Israeli part of Jerusalem. In reaction, Israel conquered the Arab sections of the city as well as the … Continue reading
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Tomorrow
Not only does Hillary stand in front of the first one, but ABC News manages to get it wrong another way on the same page. You know that each of these mistakes made their way past a number of eyes. … Continue reading
Asante’s Holdout Begins
(BostonGlobe) Asante Samuel: “I’m not coming to camp. I’m not showing up until the 10th week [of the season]. I feel unappreciated. The way they’re treating me is just wrong.” ~~ He added the ‘week 10’ thing, which is original. … Continue reading
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Cavs-Spurs
Bruce Bowen ages a year in this series vs. Lebron, and the team that can figure it out consistently on defense and hit open shots will prevail. I was enlightened by something I read earlier today: (CavsBlog) Reason to Believe … Continue reading
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Phish – Down With Disease > Frankenstein – 9/14/99
Boise State University ~ the entire second set is a masterpiece. My #1 favorite bootleg for years, and here’s one part of it. Hard to pick which one to feature here, but I had to go with the energy on … Continue reading
Banned from Right Wing News
Update 8PM: After simply choosing a new username (kent brockman) and email, I was able to create a new account, then post for the rest of the day. My main point in all of this was to perhaps warn Mr. … Continue reading
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Out of ideas?
“At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001 ], and the naysayers will … Continue reading
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Woody Allen interviews Billy Graham (late 60s)
Outstanding find, Thank God For YouTube!!! Part 2 is below the fold. (H/T Andrew Sullivan, hockey assist Your Daily Awesome) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6iAaxOAHCM
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Deangelo teaching Wallace & Bodie about chess
From season 1 of The Wire – sitting in the housing project courtyard, “The Pit”…relating chess to the drug game. Three great characters, not able to know all about that from this clip alone, but it delivers nonetheless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whwawZ1YoOc
Journal ~ December 2000
GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY ~ of methods such as specific manipulation of the body and mind’s emotions as well as its ability to speak to you using signs & language bop that will pop loud or soft depending on how good … Continue reading
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Hillary Convo From Elsewhere
(from Control Congress) preussow Says: Al, how can she (Hillary) lose you, she keeps changing the stance on the audience and surely at one point she hit your button. Al Swearengen Says: Nah – I expect all politicians to lie … Continue reading
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Journal ~ September 2000
This here is a bit of some journal I’d found a couple weeks ago, long after remembering it was written or still in existence. Very engrossing for me since then, picking it up and catching a glimpse of Al, age … Continue reading
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Colbert at the WH correspondent’s dinner
This one is like the Zapruder film – destined to be viewed millions of times by several generations of Americans. The shock-value with both is what links them together in terms of their popularity and staying power. Aside from the … Continue reading
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Bush talks crazy to a reporter
This 2 minute clip is one you cannot afford to miss! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugV1oqzomE
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Soldier Speaks Out; Military Funerals Turn Wholesale
Blue Man who blogs on Blue Man in a Red District is doing great things in support of the military these days. Before I had the chance to highlight this first story, there was a second one that blew me … Continue reading
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10 Things You Shouldn’t Know
“Poor people go to hospital for minor surgery of some kind, abdominal surgery, or for women gynecological surgery, and come out of the operation with a longer recovery rate and a larger scar than expected. They learn later on that … Continue reading
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Spam Net Too Wide
FYI – bernie kosar and a few others…my spam filter managed to catch one of my own comments and in reviewing the contents I noticed several others that should have gone through. I’ll be checking this daily from now on, … Continue reading
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Playoff Heartburn
Bad feelings in the captain’s chair last night, all about this recognition of something I’d denied a few times already this year, this biased mind clinging onto hope for a higher peak yet undiscovered, though realistic the entire time about … Continue reading
Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters – Chameleon
SoundStage (1975) – 2 Parts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXurhDMrdzs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p59n0vbyRkc
US Interrogation Tactics = War Crimes
Andrew Sullivan: “In Norway, we actually have a 1948 court case that weighs whether “enhanced interrogation” using the methods approved by president Bush amounted to torture. The proceedings are fascinating, with specific reference to the hypothermia used in Gitmo, and … Continue reading
Scent of a Stevens
TPMmuckraker: “Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) jacked his house off the ground, inserted a new first story and placed the old first floor on top, thanks to the help of a top executive at local oil company Veco Corp. who hired … Continue reading
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