It’s going to be Halloween soon. And in the spirit of the season, The Republican National Committee has introduced a fun little interactive page on their website called “Scariest Democrat”. On the opening page, a picture of each of the Democratic candidates for president is shown. Each is captured with a menacing (or goofy) expression [...]
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Surprise!
I know I don’t usually post a round-up on the weekend, but, I couldn’t sleep, so I decided to sneak a peak at my Google Reader, this morning, and see what random tidbits I could find.
I got my morning cuppa and I’m ready to go…
From Minstrel Boy:
PKK tactics may drive Turkey into a reluctant invasion:
Militarily, [...]
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I moved to Los Angeles in January ‘90, when foreclosures were a booming business for real estate auctioneers in the area. Those real estate auctioneers rejoiced in raking in the dough off the backs of those whose lost their houses, we in the midst of Bush I and the economy back then wasn’t healthy for anyone [...]
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It’s been a long week here in sunny Southern California where the sky was glowing with flames rather than sunshine for days on end. Evacuees are now returning to their neighbors and AP News reports that “many Southern Californians lucky enough to find their homes still standing could nevertheless face hardships for weeks to come, [...]
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There’s an interesting piece in the HuffPo about the presidential campaign staffs. It’ seems we can have a woman running for the White House, but we still can’t have a lot of women on campaign staffs. Hmmm… At least the staffs on most of the Democratic Campaigns are more balanced with Hillary Clinton’s campaign leading [...]
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Thomas Jefferson had it right when he wrote:
“The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. [...]
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Let me start by saying thanks to Pamela and Donnie for inviting me to blog on The Democratic Daily!
Baby and how!
UFOs in Colorado? Saved by a violin? Poor people wiser than their middle-class counterparts? Republi-pundits freaking out?
A lot of freaky stuff, just in time for Halloween!
So hold out your trick or treat bag and [...]
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It wasn’t enough that many folks in Southern California were burned out of house and home or at the least evacuated thanks to inadequate response of aid to the area. Hell no, they residents of areas that got treated to the whirlwind visit from Bus today today also got to deal with this:
Rancho Bernardo residents [...]
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Absolutely astounding. Uh huh… Absolutely astounding. But, yet not at all surprising to hear that BushCo botched another opportunity to kill Osama bin Laden.
We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south [...]
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On Sunday, the Iowa Democratic Party Central Committee will vote “on a plan to move the Iowa Democratic caucuses to Jan. 3, the same day as the Republican caucuses.” From Politico:
Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Scott Brennan will recommend the move, according to Carrie Giddins, spokeswoman for the Iowa Democratic Party.
The date is a [...]
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I’ve just posted a more comprehensive, updated, article about this topic, as I did here yesterday, at DailyKos. I hope you visit and support the diary so we can get some visibility.
The update is simply that the Hamilton Trail fire line held yesterday and throughout the night. Unexpected flareups in the fire to the north [...]
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We’re finally feeling some cooling temperatures here in L.A. tonight. The Santa Ana’s are slowing down and the firefighters are able to gain ground and start containing the fires. As Stuart reported below, the federal response has not been what was promised and once again the government has dropped the ball. BradBlog has more on [...]
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