Never one to do anything half-way, I am preparing to work for the next three days and still feeling like Mother Nature does not like me very much. But, the show must go on, as they say.
It kind of reminds me of what my grandmother used to tell me when I was young, “If [...]
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Who needs television when you have the blogosphere?
Despite pretty much being bedridden for the last four days and pretty much “watching” my favorite music channel on my HD-cable (I’m sure SSG Dizzy is rolling his eyes going “we spend how much on cable so you can “watch” a listening channel all day, every day???). It’s [...]
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It was primary day in the forest and so Goldilocks told her mother she was going to go vote. Goldilocks was a democrat and she was terrified at the terrible condition of her country. Her vote today mattered a great deal to both her and her country.
She left her home and went down the path [...]
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Excuse the lateness of my blogging. Mother Nature is kicking my behind and I decided that I needed to just curl up for a few days until the butt-kicking subsided.
I have been ill, but I haven’t been completely out of the loop. It’s looking a lot like the world is in free-fall, financially, and the [...]
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With the economy in a tail spin, regardless of what the last vestiges of deniers want to say, Paul Krugman took a look yesterday at the economic proposals of the various candidates on both sides of the aisle. Here’s a few observations from Krugman that I’ve re-interpreted for sake of brevity:
The short McCain: “a candidate [...]
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“Decisions, Decisions.” In this election it seems that many voters can’t make up their minds. They are not alone explains Meredith Chaiken. Chaiken was was Sen. John F. Kerry’s deputy political director in New Hampshire during the 2004 primary and is a senior analyst with the Mellman Group polling and consulting firm.
Chaiken takes a look back at Kerry [...]
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Senator Obama’s win in Iowa is a real step forward for the Democratic Party and the Country. But the real results of Iowa are the inside numbers. The number show both promise and danger for the Democrats in November.
First, it was great to see so many more participants in the Democratic party caucus, particularly Republicans [...]
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The Justice Department announced today that they were opening ”a full criminal investigation“ into the “destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, putting the politically charged probe in the hands of a mob-busting public corruption prosecutor with a reputation as being independent.”
Attorney General Michael Mukasey announced that he was appointing John Durham, a federal prosecutor in Connecticut, to oversee [...]
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The Sunday L.A. Times had a brilliant OP/ED cartoon that was a full page today. The punchline: “Me Again Why I’m Not Supposed to Like Hillary?” It’s really, as Taylor Marsh says, a “must see.” Taylor also nails it in saying:
Why aren’t you supposed to like Hillary? Because the traditional media, cable talking heads, wingnut [...]
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One of the things Benazir Bhutto was arguing for, as she campaigned for the upcoming elections, was a rejection of that false choice between security and freedom. She wanted to see beyond the spectacle of political violence and terrorism. She wanted that for her own people, but just as importantly she wanted the world to see this. She had pledged to confront the violent extremists, not to abide by them and she planned to do this with something much more effective than helicopter gunships or police state repression. She campaigned on the idea that the most effective weapon in the face of terrorism was the clear mandate of legitimate democracy. There are those who argue that her murder is evidence of her mistaken outlook. To my mind, they only take the crime one step further.
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The Concord Monitor editorial board has printed their anti-endorsement of Mitt Romney today. In a fairly unprecendented and “extraordinary” editorial, the Monitor cited reasoning on why New Hampshire should “VOTE NO” on Mitt Romney in the upcoming New Hampshire primary.
The Monitor’s anti-edorsement starts out with a clear blow saying, “If you were building a Republican presidential candidate [...]
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Ever vigilant, the mass media dug into a critical social issue and rooted out the information in their never-ending quest to guarantee the people’s right to know.
What they determined was the people’s right to know was that 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears, star of Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101,” is pregnant. Jamie Lynn is the younger sister of [...]
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