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Friday, August 8th, 2008
This ranks right up there with ‘teh stupid'.
When a weary and jet-lagged Barack Obama took the stage on the last day of the UNITY Journalists of Color convention in Chicago last month, most of the attendees had already left. But there was still a healthy crowd of over 2,500 there ...
Posted in IDIOT, Obama, Race, media | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Isn't the problem -- well, one of the many, many problems -- with our awful president the fact that he never changes his mind about anything no matter how strong the evidence? Isn't one of the problems with the new John McCain the fact that he keeps changing his mind ...
Posted in 2008 elections, Obama, Politics | 7 Comments »
Friday, August 1st, 2008
When I read straw grasping bullshit like this I know we have this election in the bag.
Posted in IDIOT, Politics | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Sitting Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was indicted today. Good. I think Alaskans deserve to know the whole truth, and I think they deserve a break from their ‘good old boy network’ chains.
Stevens was trailing his challenger Mark Begich in the polls by 8-10 points prior to the indictment announcement. What’s ...
Posted in 2008 elections, corruption | 15 Comments »
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Digby nailed this. We are the vomiting sisterhood of the anti-brutality pants.
A tool has no value when you don't know how to use it. It becomes dangerous when you refuse to learn how to use it safely, and when you completely disregard the knowledge of its safe operation, YOU become ...
Posted in Police State | 8 Comments »
Friday, July 25th, 2008
OMG! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...
Posted in IDIOT, Politics, humor | 4 Comments »
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
We have two new Senate polls, both surprising. In Minnesota, Al Franken seems to have caught up with Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), in contrast to many earlier polls showing Coleman safely ahead. Similar, in New Hampshire, Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) appears to have caught up to former governor Jeanne Shaheen ...
Posted in 2008 elections, Politics, Poll Results | No Comments »
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Last night I hit 6th Steet in Austin to go the the party Kos hosted - free drinks and Zydeco. That is a wnning combination in my book. So winning, in fact, that when I looked at the clock this morning, I had to force myself to get moving to ...
Posted in Environment, Global Warming, Politics | 2 Comments »
Friday, July 18th, 2008
Last night was a veritable cornucopia of speechifying. It's always easy to get pumped up, jumped to your feet, clap yourself stupid at these things... it's sort of the point. I think tho, if we've taken anything away from the Obama campaign, it that the art of the speech is ...
Posted in Politics | 13 Comments »
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
While you were muching your turkey sandwich, I got to shake Howard Dean's hand, see the Change Bus, and generally get completely stoked about being a Democrat. Well, completely stoked really doesn't describe it, but for once, I'm at a loss for adjectives.
Here comes the bus...
It's a 100 degrees and ...
Posted in 2008 elections, Dean, Politics | 2 Comments »
