Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Feb 8, 2012, 1:32 pm
Ok. I knew the Democrats in Minnesota were crazy. But who would have thought that the Republicans in our northern neighbor state were zanier than they are here in Iowa? While to say that I have doubts about his electability would be to put it mildly, I have always rather liked Rick Santorum. H...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Feb 7, 2012, 5:01 pm
A Federal Court of Appeals has ruled 2-to-1 that California's Proposition 8, outlawing gay "marriage," is unconstitutional. The ruling fairly summarizes the case for re-defining the most basic unit of human society in language which makes the radical- and frankly bizarre- nature of that argu...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Feb 6, 2012, 6:04 pm
You know: that Churches (oh, excuse me... churches) of Christ, the Disciples of Christ, and the others groups who came out of the Campbellite movement.
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Feb 6, 2012, 3:52 pm
A group of retired fighter pilots have written to Congress warning that the administration's planned military cutbacks will come at a heavy cost: American fighter supremacy. Here in Des Moines, the Air Force Reserve F-16 squadron which has been seen so often over the South Side since 9/11 will...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Feb 6, 2012, 3:34 pm
Nevada results: Romney 50.1%, Gingrich 21.1%, Paul 18.8%, Santorum 10%. Tomorrow Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri go to the polls. Gingrich is not on the ballot in Missouri; Santorum, as a result, will be the only credible "un-Romney" on the ballot, and is leading in the polls.The latest poll...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Feb 3, 2012, 6:03 pm
The Nevada Republican Caucuses are tomorrow, and the last two polls give Mitt Romney leads of 20% and 25% respectively over Newt Gingrich. The expected strong showing by Rep. Ron Paul (R- Utopia Planitia) apparently isn't going to happen- though according to the last poll he has passed Rick Sa...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Feb 3, 2012, 5:29 pm
The Susan G. Komen people have given in to pressure from the feminist Left and reversed their decision to de-fund Planned Parenthood. A shame. Now neither I nor millions of others who agree with Susan B. Anthony about abortion will be able, in conscience, to support the Komen organizatio...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Feb 3, 2012, 5:14 pm
Somebody ought to tell Ebeneezer "Lutheran" "Church" in San Francisco about this: Hell of a parament. And given the current theological orientation of the ELCA, very fitting. HT: Bad  Vestments
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Feb 3, 2012, 4:50 pm
Mitt Romney has admitted the obvious- that he put his foot in his mouth the other day by using words to explain that his focus was on the plight of the middle class which could be taken out of context to imply that he didn't care about poor people. Which has not, of course, stopped the Left fr...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Feb 3, 2012, 4:33 pm
January's unemployment rate was 8.3%- the lowest in three years. Debate has promptly broken out as to whether we have turned a corner in our national recovery from the Great Recession, or whether the news is less heartening than it seems A record 1.2 million Americans left the labor force in...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Feb 2, 2012, 5:00 pm
The morning after his victory in the Florida primary, Mitt Romney said the following: "I said I'm not concerned about the very poor that have a safety net, but if it has holes in it, I will repair them. We will hear from the Democratic party the plight of the poor, and there's no question it's not g...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Jan 17, 2012, 7:04 pm
It seems that Nancy Pelosi- like Donna Brazile and certain far right Republicans even more divorced from reality than usual- is saying that Mitt Romney would be easy pickings in November. Uh-huh. Tell it to the polls; Romney is the only Republican to lead the president for more than one...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Jan 14, 2012, 3:58 pm
I'm no particular admirer of the Denver Broncos. In fact, as a Bears fan, I wish they'd come up with their own colors instead of stealing ours. Nor do I go ga-ga over Tim Tebow's late-game heroics this season, which actually fall considerably short of the hype they've gotten. The jury is still out a...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Jan 13, 2012, 1:51 pm
Remember this oldie but goodie from four years ago? Mr. Obama is on pace to borrow $6.2 trillion in one term. That's more than all the presidents from Washington through Clinton combined. The national debt will, at the current rate, be raised by $2 trillion more in Mr. Obama's first term than...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Jan 13, 2012, 1:36 pm
Rick Santorum compares same-sex marriage with polygamy. Granted, Santorum's logic isn't syllogistically sound in the comparison he makes here between the two. It doesn't follow that if you can marry anybody you want, you therefore can necessarily marry any number of people you want. But that...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Jan 13, 2012, 1:33 pm
Ron Paul meets his only rival for his base in an epic confrontation. The libertarian from Utopia Planita is confronted by Vermin Supreme, who- like Paul himself- ran previously, in 2008.  Supreme's platform: No flying monkeys in the streets of New York! Do something about the weather! Compu...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Jan 13, 2012, 1:31 pm
A Jehovah's Witness Christmas:
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Jan 11, 2012, 1:45 pm
A new CBS poll shows Mitt Romney leading President Obama by two points. That's the good news. The bad news is that the same poll shows Ron "Blame America First" Paul trailing the president by only one point. But not to worry. Once again, once the American people generally become aw...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Jan 11, 2012, 11:42 am
... there are actually more extremist goofs on the voting rolls in the ... The New York Times projections (based on the average of the polls, ... we all know, has no effect on the subsequent direction of the ... sad to say, is a dead man walking. The best-qualified candidate ... in twenty y...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Jan 9, 2012, 4:06 pm
(FUN FACT: In Iowa, there are six times as many pigs as people.) Rick Perry ought to get a grip. His sour grapes about the "distorted" caucus process and how he is looking forward to participating in an "actual primary" miss the point. The reason for his lack of success wasn't the shortcomings...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Jan 9, 2012, 3:45 pm
A New Hampshire PAC supporting Rep. Ron Paul (R-Utopia Planitia) is running a web ad showing Jon Huntsman's adopted daughters Gracie (who was born in China) and Asha (who was born in India), asking "American values- or Chinese?" It concludes with a picture of Huntsman dressed as the late Chinese di...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Dec 14, 2011, 3:25 pm
... latest poll here in Iowa has Ron Paul trailing Newt by only one point, with Romney five points in back of\the former Speaker. ... ,   ideologically unusual wing of the Iowa Republican party showing up in force on caucus night. Romney, of course, is rooting for ... Carolina, and Flo...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Dec 13, 2011, 4:51 pm
Rasmussen's latest New Hampshire Primary poll has Romney up ten points over Gingrich. Romney has 32% to Newt's 22%. Ron Paul is third with 18%. Jon Huntsman is fourth, with 10%. Meanwhile, another Rasmussen poll shows pretty much what I've been saying on this blog: Mitt Romney is simply ...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Dec 12, 2011, 2:34 pm
... (if ironic) story about an American woman of, er.... progressive inclinations marooned in ... in the United States fostered by Christian fascists. Wherever we look, ... see the Right (and specifically the Christian Right) painted as dangerously totalitarian in ... ought to be painful ...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Dec 12, 2011, 2:30 pm
I take back everything I said earlier this season about Blackhawks' backup goalie Ray Emery. The dude's record so far is 6-1. Corey Crawford is 12-7.Despite a respectable won/loss record,  I'm afraid Corey has been a bit of a disappointment to me thus far this year. Good to know that the Good...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Dec 12, 2011, 12:45 pm
All he had to do was fall down. The Bears were leading Denver 10-7 with less than two minutes left in the game. If Barber could have simply stayed on his feet for, say, five seconds, and then fallen down, Caleb Hanie could have taken a few knees and it would have been over. Unfortunatel...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Dec 12, 2011, 12:22 pm
I watched the Republican candidates' debate over at Drake Saturday night.  A great deal of attention was given Newt Gingrich's comment the other day that there is no such thing, historically, as a Palestinian people. Needless to say, such a remark by a potential president of the United States creat...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Dec 12, 2011, 11:05 am
So asks the theologically...er, extreme Lisa Miller about the Right Reverend Mariann Budde, Washington, D.C.'s new Episcopal "bishop." The answer is "no." First, it is doubtful that anybody can save the Episcopal church. Even the Good Shepherd cannot save sheep so determined to flee fro...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Dec 10, 2011, 3:47 pm
If the Iowa Caucuses were held today, Newt Gingrich would win in a walk. He is far ahead in South Carolina and Florida. He is closing the gap in New Hampshire. He's way ahead nationally among Republican voters. At the moment, he appears to be the most likely Republican nominee for president in 2012....
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Dec 10, 2011, 3:18 pm
...what you can find at WalMart... HT: Drudge
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Dec 8, 2011, 2:34 pm
What took so long? Baseball stat guru Bill James regards Ron Santo as the eighty-seventh best player and the sixth best third baseman ever to play the game. Santo's statistics were better than most of the third basemen already in the Hall. He was a perennial Golden Glover and All-Star; for a ...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 31, 2011, 2:04 pm
Back in 2008, two Lutherans writing under the pseudonyms Athanasius and Chrysostom wrote a new 95 Theses addressing an emergency in the life of the Church fully as grave as that addressed by Martin Luther in his theses of October 31, 1517. While the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod now has leadership ...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 30, 2011, 4:46 pm
... and by assenting to God's remission; though, to be sure, he may grant remission in cases reserved to his judgment. If his right to grant remission in such cases were despised, the guilt would remain entirely unforgiven. 7. God remits guilt to no one whom He does not, at the same time, hum...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 30, 2011, 4:33 pm
When I was a kid back in Chicago, trick-or-treating was for Halloween. Here in Iowa, for some reason they do it on some other night somewhere around Halloween, called "Beggar's Night." It varies from town to town, but here in Des Moines, it's tonight. Anyway, in memory of those chilly (but fun...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 30, 2011, 4:20 pm
A while back, I did a post about Pravda's concession that Soviet cosmonauts died before the USSR succeeded in putting Yuri Gagarin into orbit and returning him safely to earth. Now further information has emerged about Soviet space failures- and all I can say is "Wow." At the time, the...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 30, 2011, 4:00 pm
Herman Cain and Mitt Romney are in a virtual tie for the lead in the Iowa Caucus battle, according to a new poll by the Des Moines Register. However, Cain leads Romney by 17 points among those who say that they are certain to participate in the caucuses, and holds a 3-to-1 lead over the forme...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 29, 2011, 4:09 pm
It's been an exciting post-season for the Pestilential Ruddy Fowl, and my hat is off to them. Their dramatic victory in Game Six of the World Series was one of the greatest games in Series history. And their consistency and success in the arbitrary crap shoot that is the modern MLB postseason does t...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 29, 2011, 3:22 pm

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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 28, 2011, 5:33 pm
Fascinating. Depressing, and certainly not surprising. But fascinating, nonetheless. Mrs. Obama questions the legitimacy of Republicans publicly espousing their religious beliefs and expressing opinions which differ from hers, and in so doing claims that it is they who are seeking to lim...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 27, 2011, 6:09 pm
First, it was Screaming Yellow Theatre. Then, it was Son of Svengoolie. And now, Svengoolie rides again- this time nationally, on MeTV. He even has his own website! Generations of Chicagoans have been both amused and bemused by the combination of rubber chickens, bad horror movies, worse joke...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 27, 2011, 3:44 pm
Here is a good article on the best qualified candidate for president- in fact, the best qualified candidate to run for president since George H.W. Bush. He would undoubtedly be the hardest Republican for Barack Obama to beat. He reeks of integrity and genuineness, and what he has to say makes...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 25, 2011, 12:45 pm
A  New York Times-CBS poll has confirmed once again what seems to be the general consensus: among  pundits:: that Herman "If You're Unemployed It's Your Own Fault" Cain leads the pack in the race for the GOP presidential nomination next year. Recent polls are divided as to whether Cain or ...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 24, 2011, 2:24 pm
The Bears nearly managed to blow it at the end (it was 21-5 at the half), but they hung on for a 24-18 victory over Tampa Bay at Wembley Stadium in London yestersday. Matt ("All Day") Forte rushed for 145 yards and a touchdown in becoming the first NFL player since 2004 to break the 1,000 yard barri...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 24, 2011, 1:48 pm
He's the one who won't put save your house unless you're old enough to accept him as your personal fireman and ask him into your home.
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 22, 2011, 4:31 pm
The magazines have made the Sharks and the Caps the favorites to win the Cup. Paddy Power- the Irish betting site- makes it the Caps and the Pens, with us third. We're 10/3 favorites to win the Western Conference, with the Sharks and Canucks at 4/1. Odds to win the Stanley Cup: Capitals 6/1 &#...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 22, 2011, 1:50 pm
President Obama has decided to play into Iran's hands and risk the dearly-bought victories of American arms in Iraq by totally withdrawing from the place by tne end of the year. The reason, sources say, is an inability to reach agreement with the Iraqi govenment to grant the kind of legal immunity t...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 21, 2011, 5:18 pm
So says Roger Kimball. And I agree with him. All you have to do is read their signs to see that these people are badly in need of medication.. Next to this crowd, the Tea Party looks positively sane. And yes- the "occupiers" are indeed anti-business and anti-captialism. Their denials make it ...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 21, 2011, 12:53 pm
The Onion, a satirical internet newspaper, is running a story headed "Bears Somehow Proud of Beating Vikings." If Bears fans were in need of perspective- which we seldom are, since our team is so good at putting themselves in perspective after briefly raising our hopes- this story might well p...
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 21, 2011, 12:23 pm
Gotta love that Corey Crawford. Antti who? We're back, folks. Here come the 'Hawks!
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Robert W. posted an article on Watersblogged! - Oct 20, 2011, 5:04 pm
According to Rasmussen, Herman ("If you're unemployed, it's your own fault") Cain now leads the pack in Iowa. But the real story may be that Mitt Romney is running a reasonably close second in a state whose Republicans and Democrats both tend to congregate around the zany end of the spectrum. ...
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