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Reagan's '80s
(some of us remember)
Pol-ly-an-na
The Literate Electorate
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starbucks...refugee for protesters - who knew? usually there are protesters against the big green coffee machine...but this time, in turkey, it opens up its doors to protesters. usually big co...
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Late Late Night FDL: Shatner Sings - *William Shatner* -- *F*ck You*, on *Lopez Tonight*.47 minutes ago
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The World Is Less Peaceful In 2013 - Just before the brutal crackdown in central Istanbul by Recep Tayyip Erdogan's authoritarian regime in Turkey, Vision of Humanity released their 7th ann...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on The Tribe That Rubs Shit In Their Hair ™ - From Mr. Coates, last week: "If you are not around people who will look at you like you are crazy when you make stupid claims about other people's exper...
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Swastika or Confederate flag: which is worse? - Not long ago some doof got nailed by the justice system for showing up at a court hearing in a Nazi uniform. You wear the Nazi uniform, you put on a swastika...3 hours ago
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DasGov: "You Can Trust Us to Do the Right Thing." - (From here) When you drill down through the bullshit, rationales and rhetoric defending the NSA's hoovering of essentially everything that goes across the...4 hours ago
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Punked Again - Another fine mess they’ve gotten into Well, Duh: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday starkly warned Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) ...4 hours ago
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Happy Hour News Briefs - News on the rocks Get off the cross, “Dr. Chaps” (!!!) Gordon Klingenschmitt. Someone needs the wood. Racist harpy Phyllis Schlafly tells us that immigrant...5 hours ago
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The Republican Party's Food Plan for the Poor? Soylent Green and Human Feces Sandwiches - The Republican Party's Dickensian fantasy made real in Age of Obama America continues forward. Their "War on the Poor" is turning into a route. The crass a...5 hours ago
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Ode to Darrell Issa: The Fool on the Hill - Rep. Elijah Cummings looking a tad skeptically at Rep. Darrell Issa-- and for good reason From The Atlanta Constitution Blog: U.S. Rep. Elijah Cumming...
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When twerking goes wrong. - *"Short hair like Nia Long Loose one she don't need a loan She start twerking when she hear a song The stripper pole her income We get trippy and then some ...6 hours ago
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No Help There - House Republicans appear to be coalescing around an attempt to kill immigration reform. But they're not getting any help from this CBO study, requested by ...8 hours ago
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Billy Bishop Toronto City (aka Island) Airport, Toronto, ON - Whenever I fly, my first choice is out of the Island Airport. It's a 10 minute/$15 cab ride to get there from home rather than a 30 minute ride/$50 cab ri...
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Malaka Of The Week: Michael Burgess - Things take a literal turn with this week's malaka of the week honoree, GOP Congressman Dr. Michael Burgess of Texas. He used to be an OB-GYN and used his,...11 hours ago
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In The Days Before Polyamory - You can't be mine And someone else's too Someday you'll find I've been a friend to you I don't believe that life's worth living I gave you all there was w...12 hours ago
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“U-T San Diego” Joins Over-The-Line in Fight Against “Free PB” Group - U-T Editorial Blasts Pacific Beach Group as "Spiteful" and Urges Filner and Goldsmith to Save OTL With all the crises in the world and at home here, the edi...12 hours ago
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The New Young Atheists - *I read a interesting article in The Atlantic on atheism and the young people, mostly ex-Christians, who've come to embrace it. * * **This isn't about the f...15 hours ago
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Tuesday Open Thread - *South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white. * [image: Thabo Mbeki] Thabo Mbeki Born June 18, 194218 hours ago
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Team Single Jingles: Man UP Monday - I'm going to share with you today a little bit of information about testicular cancer. As part of Team Single Jingles, my duty is to convince you to feel u...
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Columnist Wins Several Major Awards - Democratic Daily columnist Walter Brasch has recently won several state and national awards for work published in 2012. Against statewide competition, the ...1 day ago
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debt ceiling delayed, May’s retail sales and industrial production, April’s job openings & turnover - just so you don't forget, we still have an inane debt ceiling hanging over our heads. whereby the Treasury is prohibited from issuing additional Treasury...2 days ago
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House Republicans Using Fake IRS Scandal To Defund Affordable Care Act - ...this is the beginning of a generational battle... "Repeal ObamaCare" is going to be the battle cry for Republicans for the next 20 years or longer ~ T...2 days ago
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IT’S ALL ABOUT THE DAD’S TODAY…. - EVERY DAD DESERVES A SPA DAY…… AND A NICE DINNER…. HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO ALL THE NICE DADS. IT’S SUNDAY SO I WON’T SAY ANTHING ABOUT THOSE DADS WHO AREN’T ...2 days ago
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Alabama State Boy Scout Leadership Email Respects "Courage" Of Churches That Evict Scout Troops - Judging by this email sent to scout masters & sponsors this week, Alabama's state Boy Scout leadership seems a bit less than committed to full inclusion....3 days ago
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A Space Emission - Russian scientists jammed a group of lizards, mice, gerbils, and other animals into a space capsule and blasted them into orbit for a month. They wanted to s...
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one page picture book - For anyone who's wondered recently if I'm still drawing and painting, the answer is yes. Essentially, I'm still working on the story I mentioned a few mo...
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Ep 184 The Professional Left Podcast - The button below allows listeners to throw a contribution specifically towards the podcast. Thanks for your listenership and support! We really app...
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Message from Brother Jeff Degan - *Just for today I'll be **handing over das RANT *to* my brother, Jeff Degan. This is only the *second time that I have turned this site over to another wr...
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Leonardo DiCaprio Dating Much Younger Model - The actor and *Victoria's Secret Model Toni Garrn*, visit the palace of Versailles. obviously being a VS model is the fast track to getting an A List boyfr...
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Still alive! - Just wanted to say hi to all my friends out there! I am ok just getting through some hard times. Will be back before to long. To all you Spamming cocksucke...1 week ago
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why…freak out now !!! - about all the information that the NSA agency has been collecting data on Americans since the Congress and the Senate approved and passed the Patriot Act...1 week ago
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There Seems To Be Some Confusion - Let me clear that up for ya. H/T 90 Miles From Tyranny
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Organic Valley Grassmilk @ Whole Foods - Behold the mother of all milk.. *Organic Valley Grassmilk* has been available for almost a year now at Whole Foods. I picked up a half gallon carton about ...2 weeks ago
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Las Vegas A-Cafe to Host Talk by Organizer/Author Scott Crow Co-Founder of the Common Ground Collective at UNLV - The Las Vegas Anarchist Cafe will be hosting a presentation by Scott Crow, in Las Vegas at UNLV's Frank and Estella Beam Hall (room 105) on June 5th. The C...2 weeks ago
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Bilderberg Group meeting in Watford 2013 - Considering the guest-list, it’s absolutely astonishing that the in’s and out’s of what is discussed at meetings of the Bilderberg Group are never reported...2 weeks ago
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My observations on leadership - "Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confiden...3 weeks ago
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Bloggy update... - Hi Bloggy friends, hope everyone is being good, I have missed the ones who I don't see every day on facebook! So, lets see, we're having a beautiful Spring...3 weeks ago
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Louisyagera.com to be shutdown - I’m closing this website. It was started in 2005 as my diary of my journey with the Gateway Experience Course from the Monroe Institute. Over the years, as...3 weeks ago
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This Is The Trip, The Best Part - *The Doors*, *The Soft Parade*, 1968. R.I.P., *Raymond Daniel Manzarek*. ...and with that, *darkblack* goes on hiatus for a time - not that you might te...
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"SEQUESTER"?? YOU MEAN SCREW YOU, "ORDINARY PEOPLE". - CONGRESS CLEARS THE WAY FOR QUICK FLIGHTS TO AND FRO, BUT NOT A FUCKING BREATH FOR SICK PEOPLE, NOT FOR YOUR KID, YOUR GRANDDAD, YOU OR ME! FUCK OBAMA AND ...1 month ago
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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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The Bible and Comprehensive Immigration Reform - The Bible weighs in on immigration, thus bringing the influential weight of the centuries on the contemporary subject of comprehensive immigration reform. ...
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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...2 months 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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Splotchy Has Moved And Stuff - HEY I MOVED MY BLOG TO HTTP://WWW.SPLOTCHY.COM PEACE OUT3 months ago
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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...3 months ago
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Why I Never Post These Days - Gee it's kinda boring making political statements when your party is in control and the other party is doing such a good job of self destructing.3 months ago
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Exceptional Exceptionalism - What’s truly exceptional about America, it turns out, is the indifference we show to our compatriots, the absence of the kind of national solidarity more e...5 months ago
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There Comes a Time for Every Blogger… - The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks! - "All politics is local?" Nah, it's all corporate now. The Poobah is retiring. The post There Comes a Time for Every Blog...5 months 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]5 months ago
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Veterans Day - Funny how all of sudden everyone is proud of the veterans... everyone is proud to have served... everyone cares about those serving overseas... BULLSHIT. ...7 months 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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If They Ever Make an Exploding Segway - Bonnie should get the first one. Besides the fact that this commercial is as annoying as fuck, a clown who goes ripping down the aisles of a store on a S...
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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 ...8 months 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...9 months 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...10 months 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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 ...2 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...2 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...2 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...2 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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We’ve Moved! - Our new website is up and running. Check us out at http://awfullibrarybooks.net Don’t worry all of the old posts and comments moved with us!2 years ago
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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 ...2 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 ...3 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...3 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’...3 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...3 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...3 years ago
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Bye to Blogger.com! - I did it - I moved to WordPress. The new digs are: http://www.justaintrightblog.com I adore WordPress and have been working in development using it for man...3 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.4 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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