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Thursday, August 25, 2011
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some light reading....
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Reagan's '80s
(some of us remember)
Pol-ly-an-na
The Literate Electorate
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Republicans-- Plus Blue Dogs Steve Israel And Collin Peterson-- Gave Us Death Panels... And Only Idiots Think Otherwise - Has Wasserman Schultz ever asked her pal Steve Israel why he voted for death panels? Debbie Wasserman Schultz doesn't write to me too often. Ever since I he...
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Late Night: Ted Cruz Celebrates Earth Day Cruz-Style - According to the World Wildlife Fund, there are as few as 3200 of these majestic animals left in the wild. A hundred years ago it’s estimated there were 50...1 hour ago
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Book ~ "Getting Waisted: A Survival Guide to Being Fat in a Society That Loves Thin" (2014) Monica Parker - From Goodreads ~ *Monica Parker bridges the divide between serial dieter's survival guide and memoir, taking readers on a hilariously funny yet bumpy ride...
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Bad Packaging, Cont. - Relax, I’m sure it is a Photoshop… or is it? (Hat tip: Scissorhead Skinny-D)Filed under: Bad Packaging3 hours ago
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It's all about the walk. - Mrs. Field has some "must haves" that every man should have in his repertoire to be considered sexy. One of them is his walk. It never fails; she always no...4 hours ago
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Hey Look! - Another documentary about how Hate Radio/Fox News has helped turned the Right into an army of bilious, ignorant, skull-fucked zombies. I got half-way thr...7 hours ago
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"We Have Taken Control of Your Television Set" - Except that it's not fiction. In an emergency, the Army now has (or soon will have) the capability to do just that. And FEMA is interested in adopting th...9 hours ago
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'Emotion' - Conservatives are not pleased with Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent in yesterday's affirmative action case, even if they reaffirmed the right to ban it....10 hours ago
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Paragraph Of The Day: Clinton Baby Edition - It comes from veteran pundit Jeff Greenfield: Even in this Age of Permanent Gas-baggery, when the signal-to-noise ratio is approaching the win-loss ratio o...11 hours ago
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Bundy Follies - *Cliven Bundy and the Tyranny All Around Us How would the Nevada standoff be different if the rancher were black? * *American history has already a...
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Selena Gomez Ends Her Friendship With Taylor Swift Permanently - Pipe Dreams It's been tough to keep up with celebrity gossip posting lately. Especially with a Hollywood Super Hero script in development! I call it *Mammo...
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Groovy Poetry - The Carols of Christmas McKuen 1971 Submitter: Here are a couple of poetry books I just withdrew since they haven’t checked out in several years. They aren...15 hours ago
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The Art of Bluffing - Suppose you should be walking down Broadway after dinner, with ten minutes allotted to the consummation of your cigar while you are choosing between a dive...15 hours ago
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WHEN SPECIES DON'T ADAPT . . . - The country as a whole is embracing marriage equality. The Republican party isn't. Where does this leave them? http://tinyurl.com/kqw839x A new American Va...
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Happy Birthday, Left In Alabama! We're 7 Years Old & Still Typing, Videoing, & Reporting - It's been 7 years since our first post went up on April 23, 2007, and "what a long, strange trip it's been." Members of the LIA community have written ...17 hours ago
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wednesday night waltz - navy scientists may discovered how to turn seawater into fuel women veterans return from afghanistan in worse mental shape than the men what works for the ...18 hours ago
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Somebunny To Love - Sweetest folks came by while I was out shoveling a load of shit the other day--holy seventh-and/or latter-day witness rollers or something. Whoever they are,...
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Ocean Beach and Peninsula News – Late April 2014 - *OB Elementary School Crosswalk Finally Opens!* The long-sought-after crosswalk for school kids on Santa Monica Avenue is finally installed. It took over a ...22 hours ago
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How to tell if you're in a John le Carré novel - - You're a wealthy white person who dabbles in dangerous espionage related activities. - You went to Cambridge or Oxford. - If you went to ...
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Unplugged - Haven't been paying much attention to the news or other blogs lately, and to tell the truth it's been kinda nice. I know the world is going to hell in a ha...1 day ago
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The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations: 'White Privilege' and How Black Students are 'Rewriting' the Rules of College Debate - Goodness. I am awed...and not in a good way. Last week, The Atlantic featured a story about how a cadre of "unconventional" black college debaters were r...1 day ago
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The Ballad of Craven Cliven - *"I abide by all of Nevada's state laws. But I don't recognize the United States government as even existing."* *Cliven Bundy* *10 April 2014* *He says...
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Midweek Open Thread - *I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.* [image: John Waters] John Waters Born April 22, 19461 day ago
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Folks T.L. Davis is studying on comms. We could use your help. - Comms for Patriots . T.L. is looking at how Patriots can communicate first hand. Second tier on up can be muddled up. Patriots need clear concise first han...2 days ago
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March retail sales, consumer prices, industrial production, housing starts, state employment, et al - among economic releases of this past week were those for March retail sales and consumer prices, which we’ll look at in detail, and the March Report on N...3 days ago
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SitComs Not Always a Laughing Matter - by Walter Brasch My favorite new TV comedy is “Growing Up Fisher.” It’s the story of a blind lawyer, his 12-year-old son, a mid-teen daughter, and an ex-...4 days ago
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Ep 228 The Professional Left Podcast - The button below allows listeners to throw a contribution specifically towards the Professional Left Podcast. Thanks for your listenership and support...
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Open letter to a vile slimey weasel dick,girly man parading as an American. - Dear Harry,i along with millions of other Americans saw your interview. I am what you describe as an Domestic TERRORIST. I work every day,I put in more hou...5 days ago
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DECADES Of Living Dangerously - The rift between science and religion gets a chapter in the Climate Change debacle. Enjoy your climate today; It might be gone tomorrow.1 week ago
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Buddha's tooth - Long ago in eastern Tibet there lived an elderly widow and her son who was a trader. They spent the long winters weaving and making things so that when s...
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Elliphant in Concert in LA this Friday - 04-18-2014 - What's the best deal in music right now? Elliphant's concert in LA this Friday for $10! I was going to go but I've got other matters to take care of. :( [...1 week ago
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Slaves - One of the many things liberals do wrong, is debate today’s issues with the other side, as though the things we’re fighting for are merely viewpoints, altern...1 week ago
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retro darkblack #11 - Preznit Give Me Watercolors - [image: Warhol U Doin', Boy?] [image: Dubbles] It's nice (if by nice one infers *mildly creepy*) to think that my former muse and I share the same online ...2 weeks ago
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Working Dads, Stay at Home Dads, and Bus Stop Pajamas: Weekly Fatherhood Newsletter - This week's roundup includes stories about working dads, stay-at-home dads, a warning about the biggest threat facing America: bus-stop pajamas, and more. P...
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Giving Them What They Want - It's the way humanity is; give them what they want, and it turns out it's not what they wanted after all ~ Kelsey Sutton, author of Some Quiet Place. See...2 weeks ago
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Blow me, I'm not Irish - . . . so I probably don't have some skanky green stuff growing from my testicles. That happens ya know to idiots who spend all their free time sitting on...5 weeks ago
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Where’s Waldo: Malaysia Airlines MH370 - The world is playing a huge game of Where's Waldo trying to find MH370. Nobody has a clue about what happened and why we may never know. Continue reading →1 month ago
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Tennessee Memo: Legislators Sell Their Souls Lock, Stock and Gun Barrel - Right to Bear Arms Co. The Tennessee Senate passed a bill in February that, according to the Right to Bear Arms Co. in San Diego, CA is a "Great victory for...
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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 t...1 month ago
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How to ask people money to finance your film or artwork project - ... The post How to ask people money to finance your film or artwork projectappeared first on Louis Yagera.1 month ago
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Some things Matt Dillahunty should know about Sye ten Bruggencate - Matt Dillahunty, co-host of the Atheist Experience cable access television programme based in Austin, Texas, and all ’round upstanding member of the skepti...2 months ago
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pppfffffffffffffffffffffttttttttttttttttttttttt - well, still can't see very well. Still can't make paragraphs on blogger....but I scrapped together enough money for a beer. back later.2 months ago
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Take Both Pills and Die, Already! - It's bad enough that we have the hype over Super Bowl commercials, but now we have pre-commercials. He should take both pills-- the red one is cyanide, the...2 months ago
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For You Stragglers - I see that there are still some folks wandering around lost on the Internet that wind up here. I also see I hadn't put up anything since Christmas, which i...
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January of 2014 - Here we are in January of 2014... the end of January. I have begun on a journey of writing... I am working on a series of humorous skits, a play, and a boo...2 months ago
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And You Want To Tax MY "Hard Earned" Money? - I become a CEO for a large company, then to make it more “profitable", I lay off 500 people that make $50K/year, each, and put the rest of the emplo...3 months ago
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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...5 months ago
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October's Challenges.... - October was spent in a quiet struggle, unseen by most. I was trying to get into school. I started applying to schools in June and by July had applied to a...
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Reasons to Become a Radiology Technician - As the day goes by, similar situations continue to present themselves and just like the *colors of the rainbow that can mix themselves into an infinite n...
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Test Post #3 - Testing IFTTT. Will it post this correctly to LinkedIn? Or will it not? Only time will tell.6 months ago
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION…OR UNDER DESTRUCTION… - OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. NUNLY’S IN THE MOOD FOR CHANGE!6 months ago
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Protests today in over 10 cities anti-border militarization component of immigration reform - Border residents and communities across the country are participating in a National Day of Action Against Border Militarization on Wednesday, July 17. Re...
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Can’t do this anymore , I’m done ……. - and I won’t be back … can’t deal with “stupid” pathological liars … only way to change things is at the ballot box , and with your feet to move out and awa...9 months ago
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Chalk the Police State - July 18th - [image: sunset 3]Chalk Washes Off, Injustice Never Will!Emma Goldman once stated that if voting actually changed anything they would make it illegal. The r...
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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...
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All that Glitters..?. A Practical thought.. - I have been farming... no excuses for not blogging for a bit but things that matter day to day have been taking priority. Having said that now is a good ti...1 year ago
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The Library News - Library news for those who care about what happens at the library. First off, we have a man who, as part of his bail, is forbidden to step into *any*lib...
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For God and Country - James Parco LtCol, USAF Ret, has written a position paper, *God and Country: Religious Fundamentalism in the U.S. Military*, for the Center for Inquiry. Th...1 year ago
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NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Provides His Solution For American Gun Violence - [image: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Provides His Solution For American Gun Violence]1 year ago
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The Fall of Mittens - Glad we'll be seeing more of this for the next four years, instead of this: Four more years!
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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 hurting ...1 year ago
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Effective Business Transactions With Use Of Contract Management - The idea of agreement control is often used throughout purchase or perhaps purchasing departments. As a aspect of purchase division's responsibilities, the m...1 year ago
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loaded topics - Friday's 'mass shooting' at the Empire State building had the shortest shelf life of any such incident in recent memory, which is kind of a shame...
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On the Fly - I'm pretty sure I'm too busy to write this, but it has really been too long and some of it just needs to land somewhere outside of my head. If this were...
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Since a few people have asked... - I'm still around online, even though I don't update this blog at the moment. I can give you a litany of excuses but I don't want to be that person. Instead...1 year ago
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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. ...1 year ago
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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 ...1 year ago
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Chinese Chicken - In Japan they have cafes where you PAY to pet cats and drink (nonalcoholic) beverages!! BY THE HOUR! "At Calico, one of Tokyo’s most popular cat cafes, one h...2 years ago
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Hacked - While I was recovering from having a broken tooth (with an exposed nerve and a long and healthy root) pulled with not much more than fancy pliers (hold tha...2 years ago
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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...2 years ago
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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) a...2 years ago
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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 ...2 years ago
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What'd I say - Years later, and with new technology, we still can't make records that sound better than this:
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How To Succeed In Politics Without Really Trying - *HOW TO SUCCEED IN POLITICS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING* *A New Musical* *Act I* J Andrew Boener ("Jab"), a young member of the country club set has a mind for...
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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...2 years ago
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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...
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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 ...2 years ago
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Buh Bye Blogger! Moving to WordPress. - I am no longer posting to this damn Blogger blog. My new site can be foundhere, and the name is changed to *Leftwing Nutjob*..which is what it should be an...
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Michigan my friend - the dumber you are the easier you fall Michigan my friend is the dumbest of all in these hard times who do we elect a vulturous cadre of reptilian descent ...2 years ago
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Remember That Dress????? - Remember awhile back I bought this dress? I promised to put it on and show you! Well, here it is..... Not the greatest picture of me but .. when a 5 year ol...
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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 ...3 years ago
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Open Thread - Well, all the goodbye posts have been made, so this is really it. Comments on articles will continue to work for seven days after the articles were posted...3 years ago
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In Memoriam...Roger Ranch - Tuesday, I saw an email pop up with the title "Great Quote." I noted the author of the email was friend and fellow Progressive, Roger Ranch. I made sur...3 years ago
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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 Who's happier than me So...
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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 o...3 years ago
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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...
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Thanks for listening to The Professional Left! - We are very grateful for your listenership, readership, and moral and financial support. Driftglass and Blue Gal (The Professional Left) are award-winning b...
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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 ...3 years ago
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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 onl...
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Sirens Chronicles bids you adieu… - We will be closing up the site this week. It has been fun, informative and interesting with all the various authors/writers we have had over the couple of ...3 years ago
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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 ...4 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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"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’...4 years ago
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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 c...4 years ago
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Sweet Home Alabama: ukelele version - Go on, you know you want to hear it: Forget the uke. She’s really good. If you doubleclick on the video, you get to Hayley Legg’s Youtube page, which has a...4 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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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!*
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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.5 years ago
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Good Reading and Good Blogs
- Al Jazeera
- All Africa
- all kinds of stuff (JohnK.)
- AlterNet
- AP/Reuters Photo Wire
- Beta News
- Bitter Lemons (Israel - Palestine)
- Bloomberg News
- Canadian Alternative
- Common Dreams
- Crooks and Liars
- CTV News (Canada)
- Daily Kos
- Democratic Underground
- Glen Greenwald (The Salon)
- Guerrilla News Network
- Haaretz (Israel)
- Inside Iraq
- Inter Press Service
- International Herald Tribune
- Iraq Blog Count
- Meet in the Lobby
- MSNBC First Read
- New York Times Politics Page
- Political Animal (Kevin Drum)
- political zazen
- Real Clear Politics
- Reuters Iraq Summary
- Roll Call
- Samachar (India)
- Slashdot
- Some Historical Perspective
- Ted Rall online (Comics)
- The Daily Dish (Andrew Sullivan)
- The Daily Voice
- The Nation
- The Onion
- The Smirking Chimp (Matt Taibbi)
- Truth Out
- U.K. Independent
- U.N. News Center
- U.S. News and World Report
- Village Voice
- Voice of America
Get off the couch
- An Enduring Legacy
- Any Soldier
- Boycott O'Reilly
- Bring Back Arrested Development
- College Dems
- End Animal Cruelty
- End the Death Penalty
- Foundation for Middle East Peace
- New Israel Fund
- No War in Iran
- NORML (Reform Pot Laws)
- Not Your Soldier
- P.I.R.G.
- Peace Now
- Picken's Plan
- Save Africa's Children
- Save the Whales--but Kill the Seals
- Save Tibet
- Students for Sensible Drug Policy
- The Climate Project
- The Color of Change
- The Green Foundation
- United for Peace
- We Can Solve It
- Why Tuesday
- Working for Change
Stuff We've Been Digging...
- 2008 Election Videos
- A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America -- Sen. Webb
- Aarting Designer Toy Competition
- Blackwater
- Body of War
- Fire Breathing Liberal (Rep. Wexler)
- Generation Kill
- The Great American Hypocrites
- The Great Derangement
- The Shock Doctrine
- Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed: A Judicial Indictment Of War On Drugs
* Another Victim of the Drug War *
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2 comments:
I'm not surprised at anything anymore, but wait...didn't Grandpa Walnuts McCain have a crush on Moammar?
Only if Condi was wearing a Princess Leia costume.
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