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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Posted by Bradda at 6/12/2008 03:34:00 PM

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some light reading....

In Her Defense, I'm Sure the Moose Had It Coming
BY AARON SORKIN -- Huffington Post

IT'S TRUE!!!

Tea parties are for little girls.

Please Keep in Mind

Please Keep in Mind

If you're not drinking, you're not paying attention.

Reagan's '80s

Reagan's '80s

(some of us remember)

Pol-ly-an-na

–noun
1. an excessively or blindly optimistic person.

–adjective
2. unreasonably or illogically optimistic

The Literate Electorate

Mock, Paper, Scissors

Area Nod Father Demands Beak Be Moistened - Honest to dawg, he’s skimming the cream off the top: Trump campaign asks for cut of candidates’ fundraising when they use his name and likeness […] “Beginn...
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Progressive Eruptions

- Senate Dismisses Impeachment Charges Against Mayorkas Without a Trial Democrats quickly swept aside the articles of impeachment accusing the homeland...
3 hours ago
Just An Earth-Bound Misfit

GOP Impeachment Big Fail - Heh. The Senate has dismissed all impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, ending the House Republican push to remove ...
3 hours ago
blogger interrupted

Trade-In Strategies: Getting the Most Out of Your Old Car - Trade-In Strategies: Getting the Most Out of Your Old Car Did you know that you can reduce your new car sales tax by trading in your old vehicle? You als...
4 hours ago
OB Rag Blog

Lot’s Going on Across the Street From the Loma Golf Course — It’s the 74 Hawley Lofts - [image: Lot’s Going on Across the Street From the Loma Golf Course — It’s the 74 Hawley Lofts] As usual, *Peninsula News* has the answers:
7 hours ago
d r i f t g l a s s

The Conservative Road to Damascus is a Merry-Go-Round - It just goes around and around, over and over again, and always ends up in the same place. If you have been paying attention you may have noticed this...
8 hours ago
Teena in Toronto

Book ~ "Someone Saw Something" (2024) Rick Mofina - From Goodreads ~ *A missing child is every parent’s worst nightmare. For journalist Corina Corado, it’s a terrifying reality. * *When six-year-old Gabriel...
1 day ago
A Political Glimpse from Ireland

How is accessible transport policy changing in the UK? - 24 per cent of the UK population are disabled yet public transport is frequently described as ‘difficult’ and ‘inaccessible’ by disabled passengers. The ...
5 days ago
Blue Gal

Catching up on posting podcasts! -
6 days ago
Louis Yagera - InfiniteXpansion [Brainwaves entrainment| Hemi-sync| Meditations| Law Of Attraction]

Attirer l’argent par la pensée - La plupart du temps, les gens manifestent depuis un état émotionnel qui n’est pas du tout aligné avec leur réalité préférée, ce qui crée une dissonance dan...
1 week ago
Monkey Muck

Some new art - I turned my maternal grandma into a country music singer. Turns out all my mother's side of the family hated my crazy ass bitch aunt who used me and my...
1 week ago
field negro

The Field Negro poll. - Since we are so inundated with polls leading up to this November's election, I figured I would conduct my own internal polling on the subject. Here goe...
2 weeks ago
phantsythat

The Return of Baby Days for Cousin Faith - Baby Days *Baby Days was drawn over the course of three years during the 1990s. By the time a dozen drawings were complete I started to write the st...
4 weeks ago
The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks!

ยูฟ่าเบท656 ทางเข้าเว็บพนัน มีการรับฝาก-ถอนเงินอย่างไร? - UFABET656 ช่องทางออนไลน์เดิมพันออนไลน์ ยูฟ่าเว็บตรง ยูฟ […] The post ยูฟ่าเบท656 ทางเข้าเว็บพนัน มีการรับฝาก-ถอนเงินอย่างไร? appeared first on omnipotent...
2 months ago
MarketWatch 666

December's trade deficit and wholesale sales & inventories - Regular agency reports that were released this week included the Commerce Department’s report on our International Trade for December, and the December r...
2 months ago
We are respectable negroes

Laughing Won't Save You: There is Nothing Funny About Ron DeSantis' Cruelty - Donald Trump stands astride his Republican Party like a Colossus. With his primary wins in Iowa and New Hampshire – and soon in South Carolina – the 2024 ...
2 months ago
"The Rant" by Tom Degan

In Memorium - Tom Degan 1958-2023 To all Tom’s faithful readers of the Rant, we are sad to announce that he passed away on December 7th, 2023. Thank you so much for th...
4 months ago
Awful Library Books

Not Goodbye, but See Ya Later - Hi everyone! You may have noticed that we've slowed down a bit on posting, approving comments, and, well, pretty much our whole end of the deal. We'd like ...
8 months ago
The Democratic Daily

Headline News Stories for Democrats: A Recap of Recent Events - With an ever-changing political landscape, staying informed about the latest headlines is crucial for any Democrat. From policy decisions to party updates,...
8 months ago
The Sirens Chronicles

Kamala Harris To Guest On ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’ – Deadline - Kamala Harris will guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Monday, in what will be her first late night TV appearance since taking office as vice preside...
1 year ago
Talking Points Memo

Listen to This: The Race To Ban Abortion - A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Kate and guest host Nicole Lafond discuss the...
2 years ago
Liberality

[12+] Dance Moms Abby - Created by Collins Avenue Productions the show follows the training and careers of children in dance and show business under the tutelage of Abby Lee Mil...
2 years ago
Urantian Sojourn

The Blind Leading The Blind - Nameless despair is man’s only reward for living and toiling under the temporal sun of mortal existence. Am I right? The post The Blind Leading The Blind...
2 years ago
Murrmurrs

Murrmurrs 2.0 - I don’t want to scare anyone unduly. I’m fine with scaring people duly. The autocrats are demolishing human rights here and abroad. The wealthy are ever we...
2 years ago
Wondertrash®

Mengungkapkan ada hal-hal yang membuat anda gelisah - Jangan khawatir tentang memilih utama anda segera. Sebagian besar perguruan tinggi memberikan anda sampai anda junior tahun kalender untuk memilih jurusa...
2 years ago
Helloooo...... Mr. President, are you listening??

- Okay we know the putrid criminal thugs knew the BIG LIE was a LIE. His crony criminal lawyers knew about the LIES they were spreading. so now what? We d...
2 years ago
Enemy of the state

Saying Goodbye to Chinasyndrome... - This is China's ex-wife (although he was my very best friend in the world). China passed away last Tuesday from cancer. He will be missed so much. ...
3 years ago
SagaciousHillbilly

- They're not really "pro-life" if they're anti-universal healthcare, pro-war, pro-death penalty, anti-food stamps, anti-Social Security, anti-Medicare, and ...
3 years ago
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
3 years ago
DownWithTyranny!

WE'VE MOVED - In fact, you can click on our new home here... and, like a miracle, you'll be transported to the new DownWithTyranny home.
3 years ago
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Six Months In A Leaky Boat - "The tyranny of distance. Didn't stop the cavalier. So why should it stop me?"
3 years ago
Firedoglake

Dissenter Weekly: Leak Prosecutions Against BLM Protesters, Police Whistleblower In Illinois - On this edition of the “Dissenter Weekly,” host and Shadowproof editor Kevin Gosztola provides an update on NSA whistleblower Reality Winner, who is inca...
3 years ago
Comrade Kevin's Chrestomathy

Riots, 50 Years Ago - <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/otZL-EfgrG4" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope...
3 years ago
Left Edge North

- *WATCHING TRUMP SPEAKING IS LIKE THROWING * *SHIT FROM HIS MOUTH ONTO A WALL * *TO SEE WHAT WILL STICK! *
3 years ago
Sleeping with The Devil

Michael Moore On Hillary Clinton's Continuing Attacks On Bernie Sanders - Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people go...
4 years ago
Ornery Bastard

Read It And Weep You Commie Bastards. -
4 years ago
skippy the bush kangaroo

apologies for my absence - skippy, his co-bloggers and his followers are among my favorite people in the world. real life has been challenging for me these last few years but i got m...
4 years ago
darkblack

Fired, Not Freed - [image: Fired, Not Freed]
5 years ago
Keep It Simple Survival

There is so much I could say - But it's pointless. I finally got divorced. That's a relief. I have a decent job with benefits. I'm living on the cheap in a camper. I have some good fri...
5 years ago
Kill This Character, Please!

What the Hell is the Point of This Ad? - The joy of riding on the World's Smallest Car Ferry? How does this work to sell anything? Torpedo, *Los*!
6 years ago
Ask 'But Why?': Knowledge is R3volution

Jordan Peterson debunks a lot of myths + lower cost health care - *SOFT FASCISTS - WELL MEANING BUT DANGEROUS* The tv host is typical of the weaponized activists who treat anyone with a different logic channel as undesira...
6 years ago
The Professional Left Podcast

- The Swag Has Landed: [image: Swag has landed] Check out our *MERCH COLLECTIONS* on Zazzle. New products and designs are being added just in time for the n...
6 years ago
finefroghair

Wash, Rinse, Repeat - Republican, Modus Operandi They Lie, They Cheat An endless cycle Wash, Rinse, Repeat Pick any notion Watch their retreat Ask them a question Wash, Rinse, Re...
6 years ago
Border Explorer

Border Patrol Raids Humanitarian Aid Camp in Targeted Attack - Border Patrol agent interrupts humanitarian assistance of migrants provided by No More Deaths. Thursday, June 15th, 6:00 pm, Arivaca, Arizona: As tempera...
6 years ago
The Underground Unbeliever

Completed Transition and Export to Wordpress. - I've finally completed exporting this blog to Wordpress. The new location is undergroundunbeliever.wordpress.com My email will be changing shortly to an en...
7 years ago
Raw Dawg Buffalo

My New Blog - My NEW Blog, do follow.
7 years ago
impeachment and other dreams

Well, we're really screwed now... - The results are in. Now we have four years of this: And in case you thought it'd be okay, that their policies will affect someone else:
7 years ago
bogus zen

Bagaimana kucing peliharaan sendiri - Baru-baru ini, keturunan anjing telah menjadi topik yang populer. I think it's super manis untuk berpikir tentang bagaimana kemitraan kami menyebabkan ...
7 years ago
Okjimm's Eggroll Emporium

Hold the mustard! - Show me a sane man and I will cure him. ~Carl Jung Show me a cured man and I will show you a ham. ~okjimm Show me a cured man ...
7 years ago
Hello Dolly Llama

THE GRAND “GOODBYE” THAT CLARA OSWALD DESERVES. - THE GRAND “GOODBYE” THAT CLARA OSWALD DESERVES. Let’s discuss the real reason why “Face The Raven” was a heartbreaker. The episode wasn’t just sad because ...
8 years ago
D.R.Scott's Pulp Culture

Testing 1, 2, 3. - I'm back. --The Thin Black Duke
8 years ago
Just Ain't Right

Career Advice - Pursuing a career is significant investment of time and money, so really investigate whether this is what you want to do. Research the career to ensure it ...
8 years ago
Of course I'm a communist, I'm a follower of Jesus

April 14, 2015 - Let me tell you about my week... Directing 2 plays for Elementary schools in Dunlap (performances this week, neither is ready). I was given one month of 1 ...
9 years ago
A Blogger and a Father

My Wife Wrote a Guest Post (Spoiler Alert: She Loves Me Too) - Ever since Oren started blogging he has asked me to write a guest post. I would be venting or kvelling about one thing or another and he always, under his ...
9 years ago
Utah Savage

Losing It - I've been losing words Old lover Why am I standing in the kitchen Lost Bad habits, good health Trying to gain weight Wanting loss to matter I cancel ancient ...
9 years ago
EYEAM4ANARCHY

Oct. 24th Radical Movie Night - "30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle" - October 24th Radical Movie NightSeptember's debut of the Las Vegas Radical Movie Night went well enough that we will now be doing two showings per month. ...
9 years ago
Love At Home

Acrylic Nail Supplies - Acrylic Nail Kits Wholesale#Acrylic Nail Kits Nails schoolAcrylic nails suppliesAcrylic nails suppliesImproving the Beauty of Nails with Acrylic Nails Supp...
9 years ago
American Apocalypse

If you haven't heard this you Gotta listen. - Sorry about the ad. But awesome song,written by one of us! Hat tip to the Ghost,somewhere in southern Ind among other places. China III
9 years ago
How good is that?

An incredible thing is happening right now in protest of FCC plans to break the internet - A little bit of background: To cut a very long and technical story short, every time you connect to Netflix, YouTube, or your high bandwidth website of cho...
9 years ago
Los Cuatro Ojos

Dirty Trick… But Big Fun… -
10 years ago
The Online Magazine Formerly Known As Rob's Blog

Cruelty, malice, and their far-reaching consequences - Someone once encountered and captured a relatively tame and docile forest animal. The person was, however, very sadistic. Despite initial kindness to win...
10 years ago
L'ennui mélodieux

So long, Kyrie, and thanks for all the mope -
10 years ago
Know Your Government

THE FLIGHT FROM DALLAS - From noon to dusk on November 22, 1963, history went dark, locked inside the closed and crowded cabin of Air Force One. Fifty years later, what happened af...
10 years ago
Watergate Summer

Holding Time.... - Taking a moment to really see the world....the Leaves changing...the crisp autumn sky...the blues...the wispy clouds...Yesterday part of my day was spent ...
10 years ago
Pulp Friction

UGH. - *One Reason I Haven't Posted Much This Year* Yep. Just the thought of Senator Ted Cruz(R-TX)makes me feel like comedian Lewis Black just before his head ex...
10 years ago
PARSLEY'S PICS

A Nation at War With Itself - On my last piece about Tennessee Current Events, one of my good blogging buddies offered up some sound advice to help bring me out of the doldrums: "get th...
11 years ago
I, Splotchy

Splotchy Has Moved And Stuff - HEY I MOVED MY BLOG TO HTTP://WWW.SPLOTCHY.COM PEACE OUT
11 years ago
43-Ideas-Per-Minute

If The Right Wants To Legislate Video Games, They Might Ought To Consider "Freedom of Speech" - After Newtown, like after any great tragedy where lives are lost in a mass-shooting, you automatically know that the Modern American Right will blam...
11 years ago
Zaius Nation - Some apes are more equal than others

NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Provides His Solution For American Gun Violence - [image: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Provides His Solution For American Gun Violence]
11 years ago
Its my Right to be Left of the Center

This blog is not currently active. - It was used for many years but I now blog at leftwingnutjob.net. Check it out. But this one is only a warehouse for old posts.
11 years ago
Fact-esque

Everythings Coming Up Roses! - From the Desk of Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan’s Big Chief in Charge of Bragging, Boasting, & Corporate Victimization: Hey, kids! Well, our policies may be hurtin...
11 years ago
Guys from Area 51

VOTE 2012 -
11 years ago
Handmaiden's Kitchen

A Very Telling Quote - McDonough manages to say *exactly* what is wrong with Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Medicine in America in 81 words. Good job! So here's where I get radical. ...
11 years ago
Hello, Negro

Racism I Found Today: Non-Black Version of “The Talk” - I’m late hearing about this terrible and blatantly racist article. It’s written as a response to recent articles about “the talk” that black parents have ...
11 years ago
No Smoking in the Skull Cave

Oh how I wish this was real... -
12 years ago
Swiftspeech!

Great Depression II - From a N.Y. Times commenter: I'm... an independent who could not bring myself to vote for any of these republican candidates. In fact, I believe they would...
12 years ago
ULTIMATE HAIKU

- polar bear picnic things were going pretty well and then it started
12 years ago
Fried Green al-Qaedas

The Newt Phenomenon, with Dr Harry Spangler - After two sub-par debate performances in four days, there is growing speculation that the mysterious body known as Newt Gingrich has sprung a leak and i...
12 years ago
MOMocrats™

Come On Over to Our New Pad, MOMocrats.com - Hi! If you've come to us from the Washington Post article that mentions PunditMom (yay! also a MOMocrat and running the 2012 election coverage at iVillage)...
12 years ago
PhysioProf

Sickening -
12 years ago
Bloviations…

Maher: Indicative of an Asshole in Real Time. - Update: Thanks to reader @ribletsonthepan for tracking down the clip in question. I’ll try and find a more stable version, given that it may not remain on ...
12 years ago
Just my little piece of the world

Yeah, I am back again. But this may be the only one for a while. - Reading blogs today I found a reference to a blog post at DailyKos from 2005. Now I normally don't read much at the big orange anymore because I just can't...
12 years ago
Übermilf

Writing Tools: Idiots Who Think They're Great Because Other Idiots Respond to Them - I write for my local Patch*, a fun diversion that also pays a bit of extra pocket money so I can get my eyebrows threaded and keep Dilf in bon bons**. Fo...
12 years ago
Godless Liberal Homo

It's Time for the FCC to Investigate "Fox News" for False Advertising - Now that Rupert Murdoch's neo Nazi media empire is facing controversy and criminal investigations in Britain, it's time to consider the illegal activities ...
12 years ago
Freida Bee

The Things Mothers Do For The Ones They Love - *"Don't worry Oscar, Lenny, Brenda, and Travis. If Mama's goin' down* (pun only partially intended, but not really because there are the offspring fish t...
12 years ago
SteveAudio

Now don't you wait or hesitate - Who is the best male Rock'n'Roll singer working today? Probably a stupid question; there are many fine ones. But I think a case can be made for this guy:
13 years ago
Journeys with Jood

Jane Harmon to step down - Jane Harmon leaving Congress to become the next President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. I'm sort of surprised, but it's quite a ...
13 years ago
My Saturday Evening Post

Want What - A new poem.... Want What Sometimes I just want to separate Jump out This skin Evaporate Into thin air Into ether Into another body Happier than me Sometime...
13 years ago
CheapThrills

Millionaire Matchmaker’s Patti Stanger should be a spokeswoman for damaged Black hair - I enjoy the Millionaire Matchmaker as much as the next couch potato, but there’s something about Patti Stanger’s “tough love” critiquing that irks the hell...
13 years ago
aarting

Blankie release party Oct 1st! - Join us to celebrate the launch of Blankie™! a new designer blind box series by design company Aarting. We’ll be hosting the official release party which...
13 years ago
Attentive Aphorist

Final Blog - As most of you may have already heard, TheMom lost her long health battle on July 3rd. I am sorry I couldn't post any sooner than this but there have been ...
13 years ago
The Dean's Office

In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'. - I left the democratic party today and registered in the Oregon Progessive Party. I encourage anyone in the state to also join the OPP. They need to get o...
13 years ago
Staying Alive

- I am now getting off line. Financial and technical problems have become too much. Stay live. Michael
13 years ago
Marcy's Musings

Odds & Ends Sunday - It's time to cook up a storm and restock the freezer with my homemade TV dinners...First thing this AM I made a tamale pie from a new recipe ...turned out ...
14 years ago
Politics Plus

Politics Plus has Moved - Please join me at our new location. http://www.politicsplus.org/blog I’ll leave this site up, because it is where we have been, but I’ll be turning off com...
14 years ago
The Unconventional Conventionist

"I'll Take the Dreaded Opera Category for $500 Alex" - Turandot [The Village] must be satisfied by being begged for marriage and having her pre-requisite riddles answered and never challenged or rebuked. She’...
14 years ago
Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda

Blog is Dead. Long Live Blog. - Well, my inner defeatist has triumphed over my better intentions. Considering I have nothing to add in terms of half-enlightened commentary to this ongoing...
14 years ago
FranIam

The End - No - not exactly the end, but a departure of sorts. I am going to take a break here. I'll be back or I will turn up elsewhere. Don't worry, I am not that...
14 years ago
Mixed Martial Arthur

UFC 98 Happening This Very May 23rd - ...And oh what an event it threatens to be. Tapped for May 23rd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena (you can catch it on PPV starting 10 PM Eastern), this even...
14 years ago
The Nefarious Lair of LGPPP, Inc.(Lesbian Gangs Packing Pink Pistols)

Happy Birthday, BAC! - Darlings, it's BAC's birthday! I almost forgot, but Dr. Zaius reminded me. You simply must *go and wish her a happy birthday!*
15 years ago
Jon Swift

Sometimes There Are No Words - One of my favorite bloggers and frequent commenters has suffered a terrible loss. Fair and balanced commentary from a modest and reasonable conservative.
15 years ago
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