Note to John Cole of Balloon Juice: Welcome to the Party, the Democratic Party that is. Now that you’ve become the “Newest Member of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy,” it’s great to see that you’ve jumped right in with both feet and have made a splashing entrance (I’ll get to that in a moment). Cole […]
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I didn’t watch the Dem debate last night, but there sure is plenty to read about it today, as the media and the blogs are all opining on it and th etopic du jour is the Clinton Pile-on (which was incredibily tacky). Chris Cillizza of the WaPo’s The Fix has his usual Winners and Losers piece […]
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My daughter who is in her first year at college, called last night to tell me there was an earthquake up in Northern California. The L.A. Times reports:
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake centered in the foothills east of San Jose rocked the Bay Area on Tuesday night, shaking up residents over a broad area but producing no immediate reports of […]
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There’s a sad piece of news on the one of the SoCal wildfires today. A boy playing with matches was responsible for the Agua Dulce area fire.
Officials blamed a wildfire that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week on a boy playing with matches, and said they would ask a prosecutor […]
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Oh my! It’s all Hallow’s Eve and I’ve got my checklist here to make sure that this Halloween goes off without a hitch. As soon as I verify that everything is ready, then we’ll get started with the Round-up.
Pumpkin? Check!
Little Stevie got his “Commander Guy” costume on? Check!
Little Richie got his “Ru Paul” costume […]
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Oh my! Oh my! Oh my!
Yet another Republican has been caught in a sex scandal. Is it something in their Kool Aid I wonder, because this is just becoming an epidemic with these folks.
Of course, “State Representative Richard Curtis” who “dressed up in women’s lingerie and met a Medical Lake man in a […]
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Last night I posted a little something about Ron Paul here, perhaps for the first time, and a few of his supporters were not too pleased. I’m not a Ron Paul enthusiast, I must admit, and clearly as readers know I’m a liberal Democrat, who has never voted outside the party. So for all of […]
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Bruce Springsteen currently has the No 1 album in the charts, he’ll probably be up for a Grammy for the Best Album of the Year, and his tour is sold out across the country, but even still Republican owned, censor machine Clear Channel is out to pull The Boss from the airwaves. Readers here know, […]
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As home prices continue to slide and we are in the midst of record foreclosures, as Pamela noted here a few days ago, I wanted to share with readers my perspective of the impending housing meltdown.
I first began selling mortgages in 1993. At that time the riskiest mortgage available was a loan to persons in a […]
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The Democratic ‘08 presidential candidates are lining up against the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey to be the next U.S. Attorney General. Hillary Clinton released the following statement today on her opposition to Mukasey:
We need an Attorney General who has the strength to challenge this Administration when it is wrong, who is committed to reestablishing the […]
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There are a lot of scary things in the world.
There’s the “fun-scary”—kids who dress up as clowns, monsters, or fairy princesses once a year to get a month’s supply of candy, which they’ll finish off by morning.
There’s scary movies, from “Jaws” to “Friday the 13th“ to—well—“Scary Movie.”
The murder mystery genre—in books, TV, and film—can scare […]
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So many posts, so little time.
Without further ado…
From Brilliant at Breakfast.
* If parents didn’t buy these, there’d be no need to offer them:
I’m not saying that kids should be forbidden to have any allure until they’re in their 20’s, nor am I saying that a little bit of dress-up is always inappropriate. I went to […]
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