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Nov 27, 2009, 11:30 pm
News so ridiculous that they had to sneak it in over a holiday weekend: New Group Tries to Convince Cheney to Run in 2012. I suspect this is one of those End of the World in 2012 cults who believe hum... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2009, 9:25 am
Reports that the Bush administration was trying to blame the 9/11 attack on Saddam, and that they ultimately went to war without evidence of WMD, are hardly news. Reports from the Iraq War Inquiry in ... Comment - Like
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Nov 26, 2009, 2:04 am
This year we can be thankful that George Bush is no longer president. Comment - Like
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Nov 25, 2009, 9:06 am
Posting will be more erratic while traveling over a long Thanksgiving Weekend. I should be on line intermittently to at least add some links to stories of interest. Comment - Like
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Nov 25, 2009, 9:02 am
Bush apologists typically deny the degree to which George Bush undermined our national security and placed us a far greater risk of terrorist attacks. Now’s here is the ultimate revision of hist... Comment - Like
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Nov 25, 2009, 8:45 am
The right wing noise machine has fabricated a mythology around Acorn which has little to do with the actual organization. Editor and Publisher has reviewed both the truth about the stories about Acorn... Comment - Like
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Nov 25, 2009, 12:54 am
The New York Times looks at the increasingly common path of going from hospital to bankruptcy court:
The legislation moving through Congress would attack the problem in numerous ways.
Bills in both ... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 6:28 pm
The New York Observer reports that Meghan O’Hara, who has worked with Michael Moore on previous documentaries, is working on a documentary about the controversy over George Bush’s military ser... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 12:44 pm
Conservatives love to play the victim, even when they are engaged in denying the rights of others. A group of conservative religious leaders have issued the Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christi... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 10:09 am
A few days ago I posted a report on sales of merchandise with the logo: “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8.” While this might look like an innocent suggestion, reading the full verse in cont... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 11:01 pm
There were two special events in genre television this week, with one turning out to be excellent and the other horrible. I’ll start with the Doctor Who special, The Waters of Mars. As it does n... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 10:24 pm
The Cylons had a plan. So does Glenn Beck, which he promises to reveal here. We have to wait until August 28, 2010 for the full plan to be revealed. We have been warned.
I expect to see two similarit... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 8:09 pm
One of the most heavily visited old posts on the blog is about the possibility of Amy Sherman-Palladino returning to do a movie of The Gilmore Girls and possibly reveal the four final words she intend... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 7:38 pm
“They made a porn movie about Sarah Palin and the same actress, Lisa Ann, played me in the porn version of 30 Rock. Weirdly, of the three of us, Lisa Ann knows the most about foreign policy.R... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 5:29 pm
Blog traffic has really shifted in ways I can’t explain recently. Starting in late September there was an abrupt decline in traffic which persisted for over a month, and then suddenly things app... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 3:12 pm
Senator Carl Levin of Michigan has suggested a tax on upper-income earners to pay for more troops for the war in Afghanistan. I suspect he did not note how the Democrats lost many independent voters i... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 2:57 pm
It appears that the Democrats now have the sixty votes necessary to keep consideration of the health care reform bill alive. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas is the 60th Senator to agree to at least keep t... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2009, 7:36 pm
Right wingers who hate Obama have come up with a subtle way to advocate killing the president in public. The Christian Science Monitor reports:
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Nov 19, 2009, 7:00 pm
PETA is using posters of Keeley Hazell posing nude for their anti-fur campaign. They are bound to get them plenty of attention:
Posting of these pictures does not represent endorsement of PETA. Pos... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2009, 4:14 pm
The House health care reform bill restricts abortions to get conservative votes. Now it turns out that conservatives also got something slipped into the Senate bill–funding for abstinence-only p... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2009, 2:42 pm
The New York Daily News reports that authoritarian war monger Rudy Guiliani plans to announce that he will not be running for Governor of New York as many have speculated. They report that instead he ... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2009, 12:25 pm
Fox has been embarrassed again for using old video to exaggerate turn out at a recent event. Sean Hannity was recently caught doing this. The Swamp reports on the latest case:
FOX has done it again... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2009, 9:03 pm
The full text of the Senate health care bill is now on line. It is 2,074 pages. I don’t think I can handle reading through all of this and watching all six hours of the remake of The Prisoner ... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2009, 8:42 pm
TV Guide reports that Aaron Sorkin (Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip) will be returning to television:
Sorkin tells TVGuideMagazine.comthat – like his previous series Spor... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2009, 6:04 pm
What a relief. The remake of The Prisoner is over. Now I can catch up on Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars, Monday’s episode of Heroes, and then later watch Glee.
Update: The Waters of Mars was fa... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2009, 3:55 pm
Nancy Pelosi clearly knows far more than I do about getting bills passed. It is certainly possible that she knows what she is doing in attaching the Stupak Amendment to health care reform. Maybe this... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2009, 4:00 am
Warner Troyer interviewed Patrick McGoohan in 1977, discussing the meaning of The Prisoner. After watching the dreadful remake on AMC, this is a good reminder of the brilliance of the original: Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2009, 3:33 am
Well, I’ve now made it through all six hours of the remake of The Prisoner. It wasn’t easy. As a huge fan of the original I had to see this, but it was a real bore. I’ll probably wri... Comment - Like
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Nov 17, 2009, 6:33 pm
The picture of Sarah Palin on the cover of Newsweek has elicited some selective outrage from the right. In a post entitled Newsweek Photo of Palin Shows Media Bias and Sexism, David Brody begins ̶... Comment - Like
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Nov 15, 2009, 12:29 pm
While the Republican Party might have little meaningful to say on today’s issues, you have to concede they sure beat the Democrats when it comes to showing chutzpah. They are making a lot of noi... Comment - Like
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Nov 15, 2009, 9:18 am
While there was little which was truly pro-freedom in Ron Paul’s platform of mixing Republican social conservatism and states’ rights ideas with libertarian bumper sticker lines, the Paul ... Comment - Like
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Nov 14, 2009, 2:35 pm
I hope Saturday Night Live gets Tina Fey to come on tonight and play Sarah Palin doing a book interview (perhaps with Katie Couric). Comment - Like
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Nov 14, 2009, 10:13 am
Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rouge is coming out. Look for it in the fiction section of your local book store. Considering how many of my posts on Sarah Palin are devoted to debunking the falsehood... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 4:34 pm
A report from the Business Roundtable finds that health care reform will be good for business. They support much of what is in the health care reform bills but disagree on some points . They do not su... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 9:46 am
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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Nov 13, 2009, 8:36 am
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has admitted to being the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorists attacks, is to be tried by a civilian court in lower Manhattan. Trying him around the scene of the crime rai... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 11:27 pm
One of the ideas behind the Democratic heath care reform plans is to allow all Americans to have the type of choice which members of Congress have. John Kerry’s health care plan explicitly calle... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 8:31 pm
When presented with various options for Afghanistan but none were satisfactory, Barack Obama had the guts to do the right thing and demand more choices. This shows a tremendous difference for his pred... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 8:13 pm
Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs has become a controversial figure in the conservative blogosphere for failing to to along with their mass hysteria. The League of Ordinary Gentlemen interview... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 7:51 pm
Yesterday I posted a video clip of Jon Stewart showing that Sean Hannity had used video from an earlier political rally to make it appear attendance at a more recent rally opposing health care reform ... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 5:46 pm
The American Medical Association has recommended that the federal government change the classification of marijuana as a Schedule I drug to allow for its use under medical supervision. Schedule I drug... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 3:16 pm
My wife and I had lunch earlier and then ran into a book store next door. I primarily went in to pick up David Plouffe’s book on the Obama campaign, The Audacity to Win. I also wound up buying... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 2:11 pm
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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Nov 11, 2009, 10:21 am
A couple of days ago I noted a couple of the areas where Sarah Palin had her facts wrong in a recent speech. This included both her continued mischaracterization of the health care reform legislation ... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 12:28 am
If anyone is running Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, beware that a database from earlier on Tuesday had a false positive. Normally the program is very valuable in eliminating malware but sometimes it has f... Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2009, 4:51 pm
Above is the video of Barack Obama’s remarks at the Fort Hood memorial ceremony. The transcript is below:
We come together filled with sorrow for the thirteen Americans that we have lost; with ... Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2009, 11:29 am
Yesterday it appeared that Obama was willing to accept the Stupak amendment which would restrict funding of abortion by private insurance companies if this was the cost of passing health care reform. ... Comment - Like
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