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Thursday, August 25, 2011
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some light reading....
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If you're not drinking, you're not paying attention.
Reagan's '80s
(some of us remember)
Pol-ly-an-na
The Literate Electorate
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A New Breed Of Conservatives Who Aren't Anti-Gay - Gay conservative Republicans like Aaron Schock (R-IL), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Miss McConnell (R-KY), and Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Patrick McHenry (R-NC) h...
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment in Arizona - I've always hated the death penalty. Even if the right person is convicted, it's all about revenge and not justice. I dislike society stooping to the level...2 hours ago
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Oil By Safer Trains? By Trucks? Better Yet, Divest - Just a few weeks ago, the public learned that Warren Buffett’s BNSF Railway had states sign confidentiality agreements “or otherwise pledged not to release...4 hours ago
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Conflicts abroad and hate at home. - As the dog days of summer drag out, it seems like the world is just going to hell in a hand basket. *(What does that phrase even mean?)* There are wars and...5 hours ago
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NBC Contemplates Swapping Dick Sargent - For Dick York From Page Six: *David Gregory’s time on ‘Meet the Press’ is almost up* By Emily SmithJuly 23, 2014 | 1:08am David Gregory’s time is near...6 hours ago
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Butt Out - I'll trust the FAA to make prudent decisions about no-fly advisories and thank Netanyahu to butt the fuck out. Continue reading →6 hours ago
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LS, Toronto, ON - LS (formerly La Société) at Bloor Street W/Avenue Road recently rebranded their restaurant in June. *A petit piece of Paris centrally located in Toronto’s...
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That's Horrific - "A condemned Arizona inmate gasped and snorted for more than an hour and a half during his execution Wednesday before he died, his lawyers said, in an ep...6 hours ago
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This is What the GOP is Attracting These Days - *GOP candidate from Indiana, John Johnson* *“For almost three generations people, in some cases, have been given handouts,” Johnston said during ...
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American-Israeli Politics: Where Bullying is Called Self-Defense - *“**And I stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel as it defends itself against this shocking violence.” Senator Cory Booker* *“Israel is entitled to take th...
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Media Alert: Ron Crumpton will be on WDNG 1450 AM to Discuss Politics and the Hijacking of Event - [image: Publication1]Tomorrow (7/24/14), Ron will be a guest on WDNG 1450 AM’s “Model City AM” from 9:05 until 9:30 a.m. In one-half the interview, Ron w...11 hours ago
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What Are They Going to Do, Spank Him? - Yeah, like this will have any effect: Beverly Hills police want Justin Bieber to behave himself after neighbors there complained about his loud partying. ...12 hours ago
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Going to San Diego Comic-Con? Put On Your Mask for the Surveillance Camera Network - *[image: SDPD Camera Network]By Dave Maass / Electronic Frontier Foundation* In the TV series Person of Interest, two government artificial intelligence p...13 hours ago
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I Don't Want to Spoil the Party - I don't want to spoil the party so I'll go I would hate my disappointment to show There's nothing for me here so I will disappear If she turns up while I'm...17 hours ago
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NOW WHAT? - Two federal courts give diametrically opposed rulings on Obamacare http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/07/22/obama-health-care-court-ruling/124...
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Spinsters Abroad - Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers Birkett 1989, this edition 1991 Submitter: I’m at the beginning of a massive weeding project at my public librar...17 hours ago
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wireless wednesday - kansas is a failed experiment more than 1/3 of mississippi gop would back the confederacy in a second civil war capitalism's deeper problem how a 12-yea...19 hours ago
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We Should Chill - This summer I must have heard a dozen people declare that they would die without air conditioning. We got into a little patch of warmth here in Portland, tot...
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Summer side boob - Okay, that's enough. Stop leering at my pretend young actress girlfriend Jennifer Lawrence's side boob.
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Bad Headlines, Cont. - Well, bad everything, actually. (Hat tip: Scissorhead Skinny-D) Heading back to Seattle tonight, will be there by tomorrow night. Posting will be lite in t...1 day ago
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The Racial and Moral Hypocrisy of The Wall Street Journal's Essay 'Hamas's Civilian Death Strategy' - Israel's butchery and campaign of mass punishment against the people of Gaza continues. Israel has now started using flechette rounds, white phosphorous, a...1 day ago
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Standoff Continues Between Market Basket Employees and New Management - Yesterday I stopped by my local Market Basket in Newburyport, to see if they might have a few things I needed, although the stock on their shelves continue...1 day ago
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Fascist Barbi in 2016 - Like a bolt out of the blue Fate steps in to see you through When you wish upon a star Your dreams come true Jiminy Cricket BREAKING NEWS: God wants the...
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June’s retail sales, industrial production, producer prices, new housing, and states jobs reports - the major economic releases this past week were all on June data, including the advance report on retail sales from the Census Bureau, the G17 on indus...3 days ago
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Ep 241 The Professional Left Podcast - Via. The button below allows listeners to throw a contribution specifically towards the Professional Left Podcast. Thanks for your listenership and supp...
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Mediocre Films: Dog Poop Robbery - Prank - *LOL LITERALLY* Greg Benson (Mediocre Films) and Jack Vale go on a journey to steal dog poop. *Perhaps the best prank of 2014!* Maybe someone entrepreneur...6 days ago
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all at sea with Crow - In April of last year I wrote about a young man from Holland by the name of Boyan Slat who had devised a plan to clean the plastic detritus from the gyre...
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On Willis Hart Lying About Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee Asserting that the U.S. Border With Mexico is Secure - ...more than 30% of undocumented migrant laborers in the U.S. are victims of labor trafficking - or recruiting a person for labor through force, fraud, o...1 week ago
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IT’S SUMMERTIME - Yep, summertime, and we be chillin’, planting plants, drinking wine, walking the beach; not blogging so much right now. We’ll be back after a few weeks of ...2 weeks ago
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Dublin’s Underground Beat Episode 5 - ... The post Dublin’s Underground Beat Episode 5 appeared first on Louis Yagera.2 weeks ago
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Thank You - On behalf of my family, myself and the two ladies we've welcomed into our home, I would like to express our sincere thanks for all the generosity which we'...2 weeks ago
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An Open Letter of Apology to Karmafish - [image: facebook politics photo political-ideals.jpg] Regular readers of this site (all four of them), are aware that the poster formerly known as Karmafis...3 weeks ago
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Cut the Wires on these Clowns - This commercial, one of a series from DirectTV, is extraordinarily creepy: Whoever came up with this one, all kidding aside, needs some serious profession...3 weeks ago
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Selena Gomez is looking rough - Dating *Justin Bieber* might not be as much fun as you'd think. Sure there's the drugs, cops, and constant scandal. However there's got to be some kind of ...4 weeks ago
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A Regular Amish Insurrection - I'm pretty sure this might happen again. Creating a facebook page for my new dog might not be enough ventilation during this mix of trying and untrying t...
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But It's Part Of My Charm! - Damn, I just realized I haven't posted anything here in six months. Time flies when ya sober up and work six and seven days a week. I just hit two fuckin...
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Cancer - Boom. On Friday, 5/30/14, I found out I had a Stage 4 lung cancer. People in my condition have about a year to live on average, and treatment is now limited...1 month ago
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WTF? - Ok so besides the FBI,CIA,NSA, DHS, we now have armed agencies including but not limited to IRS,NOAA, yep the weather people,of Course Border patrol howeve...2 months ago
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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 III2 months ago
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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...2 months ago
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Burned out...toasty, working on staying tasty - well...I sure haven't written anything here in a bunch. They call it, 'visually' impaired. Hd this laptop set up with great big letters and stuff, and with...2 months 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...3 months ago
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Some of Trend Kitchen Home Design Photos - Many of Kitchen Home Design Photos you can find online and many best design you can make as your design ideas. The photos above are some sample of best Trend...
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Outdoor Inspiration: 7 Awesome Backyard and Patio! - Spring is here and it's time to enjoy the outdoors! If you have a charming backyard or a gorgeous garden, make sure it has comfortable seating so that you ca...
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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...4 months 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...4 months ago
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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...5 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...6 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...8 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.9 months ago
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION…OR UNDER DESTRUCTION… - OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. NUNLY’S IN THE MOOD FOR CHANGE!9 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...1 year 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* l...
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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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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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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. ...2 years 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 ...2 years 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 ...3 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 found here, and the name is changed to *Leftwing Nutjob*..which is what it should be a...
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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 ...3 years ago
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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 ...4 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 ...4 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...5 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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