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Oy
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- Tuesday 30th September 2008
Sorry to belabor the point, but it’s really out of hand. A quick-witted 7th grader could give better answers than…
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Representative Kaptur kicks some Congressional butt
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- Monday 29th September 2008
Rep. Marcy Kaptur describes America’s newest reality show.
Ripped off from Juan Cole.
Mr. Cole also points to an article by Chalmers Johnson regarding the real costs of the Iraq war; the total makes the Wall St. bailout seem puny:
“Estimates of the true long-term costs of the President’s war of choice, including payments of health care and veterans benefits into the distant…
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National Review columnist calls on palin to withdraw; Lessig on Palin vs. all other veeps
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- Friday 26th September 2008
And you know that if one of those bastion of right-wing craziness has had enough of her, she must be pretty bad:
“If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.”
Wow, maybe they’ll replace her with Newt Gingrich. I can’t get enough of that little guy.
Speaking of conservatives striking out against their own, George Will isn’t so hot on McCain, either.
Lawrence…
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A coupla quick ones…
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- Friday 26th September 2008
…while the wife and I deal with real-estate excitement in our lives.
1) My friend Lauren took a flyer and started a blog on Huffington Post. Her first entry is well worth checking out.
“It’s not clear to me that the American public wants to debate Sarah Palin’s child-rearing skills and personal decisions about her own pregnancy and maternity leave as a means to determine her competency…
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Today’s Republican News Updates
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- Wednesday 24th September 2008
1) Top GOP lawmaker on House Financial Services Committee discovered actively speculating on the stock market he influences.
2) Anti – Obama campaign flyers in NJ town are sort of racist and anti-immigration.
3) McCain campaign manager’s firm was paid $15,000 a month by Freddie Mac from 2005 to end of August ’08.
“John McCain’s campaign manager and Freddie Mac essentially had what…
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Rick Davis’s $2m Value as a lobbyist: “He didn’t really do anything.”
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- Monday 22nd September 2008
From today’s NY Times:
…several current and former executives of the companies [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] came forward to discuss the role that Rick Davis, Mr. McCain’s campaign manager and longtime adviser, played in helping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac beat back regulatory challenges when he served as president of their advocacy group, the Homeownership Alliance, formed in the summer of…
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If, as the Republicans say, “it’s all about the narrative, it’s not about facts”…
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- Friday 19th September 2008
…then I got a narrative for dat azz.
Thanks to…
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This is your nation on white privilege
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- Tuesday 16th September 2008
Thanks to Rich H.
This ain’t perfect, but it’s damned good.
By Tim Wise.
For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your…
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Free Campaign BS Detector
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- Tuesday 16th September 2008
FactCheck.org won’t fix everything that’s wrong with the election, but they’re a good benchmark to use to measure 20-foot wave of…
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Sarah Palin uses ebay to auction naming rights to daughter’s illegitimate child
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- Friday 12th September 2008
Investigative reporters in Alaska covering the campaign of Republican vice-presidential nominee (and Alaskan governor) Sarah Palin discovered today that Palin intends to raise money for her campaign by auctioning off naming rights to her daughter Bristol’s illegitimate child, using eBay.
A spokesperson for the McCain-Palin campaign commented “The Governor’s grandchild will fit in with the…
