With Huckabee’s stock rising with the GOP, ABC News reports that Mitt Romney is preparing to “do a JFK,” and address the issue of faith in a “speech entitled “Faith in America” at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas.”
But if Kennedy’s experience is any guide, one speech will not put the [...]
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Yeah…just a little moody, today. One week from now, my loved one, thanks to GWB, will be in Kuwait, on his way to his third tour in Iraq. The only thing helping me keep it together is my regular morning cuppa and keeping tabs on my RSS reader.
I’m not posting my round-up, so much because [...]
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Is it Monday, already? Wow, the weekend went by so fast. Well, at least I got my morning cuppa and your ten post round-up is ready to go.
From The Huffington Post:
McCain Skipping Most Votes Among ‘08 Senators: Only 3 In Last Month:
In the past month alone, the five Senate presidential candidates each have earned the [...]
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It’s Thursday and we are this close to the weekend. It’s a sunny day, here. Yet, there is a solemn mood surrounding our household.
The title of this post is purposeful and personal. We have less than two weeks, as we prepare to send SSG Dizzy to Iraq, for his third deployment. “Thursday’s child has far [...]
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Tomorrow is Veteran’s Day and this morning, I have been reflecting on all the veterans I know.
My husband, my father and mother, both my paternal and maternal grandfathers, my uncles, and some of my closest friends are all vets. Almost all of my friends are Iraq/Afghanistan war veterans. I live and work on [...]
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I wasn’t sure I would make it, today! I’m just getting over my annual post-trick-or-treat sugar rush, I am finally up and at ‘em on this frosty Thursday morning.
I am proud to say that I finally got the candy to trick-or-treaters ratio “just right”, this year. We started with a large tote box full and [...]
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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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Almost twenty years ago, the assistant pastor of the Anchorage Baptist Temple, as a precinct chair, denied my husband and I the right to register and participate in the state Republican caucus for the ‘88 election. The next day, an official of the state party called to apologize and offer to register us. Too late. [...]
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Simmer down, back there! So the Boston Red Sox won the World Series. Yippee! Hooray! I’m from Colorado, so I don’t wanna hear about the World Series, right now.
I’m thinking a Ten Post Round-Up will make me a feel a whole lot better…
From Signs of the Times:
* Fidel Castro pokes fun at George W. Bush:
HAVANA [...]
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Big time. “Senator Barack Obama is drawing criticism for signing up a gospel singer with controversial views about gay men and lesbians for his campaign in South Carolina. The Obama campaign has recruited several gospel acts , including Donnie McClurkin, for a statewide tour to begin this week in Charleston.
“Gospel music is one of many [...]
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E&P has the transcript (from Media Matters) of Ann Coulter on CNBC’s Donny Deutsch’s “The Big Idea” this past Monday night. Coulter created quite a stir, which she is of course known for, when she ”suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren’t any Jewish people and that they needed to “perfect” [...]
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What is up with the holier than thou sect of the conservatives and their getting caught at all sorts of sexual deviancy? The latest minister gone wild story out of the bible belt, via The Smoking Gun, is a doozy:
An Alabama minister who died in June of “accidental mechanical asphyxia” was found hogtied and wearing [...]
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