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After a Somber Week Something New: BBQ Butt Beer Can Chicken

I’ve been laid up for a couple days with knee surgery and getting outside, even on sticks, to get some BBQ sounds great. The idea started with @ktumulty ( journalist with her own blog at Time magazine) and her call on Twitter for receipes for Beer Can Chicken. Apparently she got overloaded with ideas [...]

Short Takes Without Jackson Or Palin

RUSSIA
Reported by Michael Scherer of Time magazine “Medvedev and Obama: Sunshine in Moscow” Moscow Mission Day 1
Jake Tapper of ABC News  reports: POTUS and Putin aspire to get past “grayish moods”
IRAN
Borzou Daragarhi- LA Times reports Revolutionary Guards publicly announce they have taken over national security in Iran during this period of “unrest”. <H/T to @LaraABCNews [...]

Preface to The Declaration of the Democratic Worldview

By John Hank Edson

             
Dedicated to Barack Obama
   
History will honor the architects
who advance the quality of humanity
by improving the structures of democracy.
    
This Election Day, November 4, 2008, we find ourselves in the midst of an extraordinary and important moment in the history of the United States of America.  In May, 75,000 people overflowed an [...]

Kerry: Palin Pick is “Insulting to Clinton Supporters”

John Kerry was on This Week with George Stephanopoulos today talking about McCain picking Sarah Palin as his VP. Kerry responded to a question from Stephanopoulos about whether he thought the Palin pick would help McCain garner support from women who supported Clinton. As always, Kerry was on the money… calling the pick “insulting to [...]

Why aren’t we outraged?

The media is telling her to get out of the race . . . yet she is running a great campaign and one of the closest races in history. The party bosses are telling her to get out of the race . . . that she, single handedly, is destroying the unity of the Democratic Party, [...]

Vitter to come out his bunker today

From Your Right Hand Thief, comes the news that Vitter is scheduled to come out his bunker today. Vitter has been in hiding since his statement on the DC madame came out. Oyster has been all over this one. He now writes:
The Vitter affair: as it stands now
The DP informs us that “Senator David Vitter [...]

Barack Attack

Cross Posted From Article of Faith:
In case you’ve missed it, Senator Barack Obama has been everywhere this week, hocking his new book “The Audacity of Hope” and copping, among other media outlets, the cover of Time Magazine.
In the article, my favorite Time doofus Joe “Patsy” Klein summarizes Obama’s book rather negatively, despite glowing protestations otherwise. [...]

The “9/11 Five Years Later” Deluge

Here it comes. Between now and next Monday, expect to be bombarded by the “September 11th: Five Years Later” juggernaut. Time Magazine kicked it off this weekend with their “commemorative issue” entitled “The Nation That Fell To Earth”.
I haven’t read it entirely (nor do I get the title), but the subtitle of the cover story [...]

Michael Brown: You’re Pink Slip is Waiting

Michael Brown, the Arabian horse hustler is one piece of work, but so is the administration that gave him the cushy job at FEMA. It appears that everyone must have thought that he’d never be called upon to do anything there, because clearly the man had NO qualifications what so ever. This only begins to [...]