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Dem Convention Floor Vote? 2008-07-14 21:25:12 -supporters-want-floor-vote/As I mentioned recently, there's an escalating call for a floor vote at the Dem convention. Interesting. Anybody seen Hillary's husband lately? I wonder what he's been doing to occupy his idle hours. Read more:Convention
, Floor
Northern Trust and Obama - Questions 2008-07-14 20:58:39 -watch-files-senate-fec-complaints-against-barack-obama-over-questionable-mort"It appears that due to his position as a United States Senator, Barack Obama
received improper special treatment from Northern
Trust resulting in an illicit 'gift' which has a value of almost $125,000 in interest savings," Judicial Watch wrote in its U.S. Senate ethics complaint. "Judicial Watch therefore
Brett Favre on Greta Tonight 2008-07-14 17:37:21 He'll be breaking his silence in regards to his hopes for the 2008 season: it tonight at 10 PM ET on that evil Fox News. (psst... Brett
... the Bears could use a quarterback). Read more:Favre
, Tonight
No Timetable for Iraq Withdrawal 2008-07-14 14:58:20 Once again, Obama has boarded the wrong train: will he spin this latest matter? Like he has been spinning his position on The Surge? "It won't work. It did work. It didn't work. It might have worked." Read more:Iraq
, Timetable
Why Do We Let Them Lie? 2008-07-14 14:18:42 Robert Novak's column of July 12th included this statement:McCain, who was on the campaign trail, was absent June 26 when the Senate fell one vote short of the 60 needed to pass a bill ...(The bill in question is irrelevant to what I'm about to say.)I'm sick and tired of see this "60 votes needed to pass a bill" lie. The requirement for 60 votes is to "invoke cloture," or
Seriously? 2008-07-14 14:12:58 “ [McCain] said, ruefully, that he had not mastered how to use the Internet and relied on his wife and aides . . . to get him online [sic] . . . “They go on for me,” he said. “I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.”
Um. How hard is that?
The Republicans seem to have thought it a good idea to nominate a guy who has ten houses, but Read more:Seriously
Under Appreciated 2008-07-14 13:49:35 I'm scheduling a second run of last week's 'Caption This'... I felt that only 3 comments didn't do it justice:-meanderings/2008/7/9/caption-this.html
Minnesota Senate Race Takes a Turn to the Weird 2008-07-14 13:34:34 Former Minnesota
Governor Jesse Ventura hints that he might jump into the state's Senate
race:In an interview on National Public Radio, former Gov. Jesse Ventura hinted strongly that he was considering running as an independent against Sen. Norm Coleman and Al Franken.At one point in the interview, Ventura said, "I run because it angers me ... All you Minnesotans take a good hard look at all Read more:Weird
Fed Closing the Barn Door 2008-07-14 11:40:53 The Federal Reserve laid out a slew of new regulations governing home mortgages.Of course, they don't kick in until October 2009, with one being delayed until 2010.None of these do anything to ease the current crisis, and you can bet that lenders will push everything they can under the wire before the new regulations go into effect next year. Where was all this foresight a year ago (or even
Another American Icon Into Foreign Hands 2008-07-14 11:24:51 Anheuser-Busch will be purchased outright by Belgium's InBev. InBev is already the world's second largest brewer, behind only (I think) South Africa's SABMiller. If approved, the acquisition of AB will make InBev the world's largest brewer and the fourth-largest consumer product company.I note that this is apparently a cash deal, with AB stockholders receiving no holdings in InBev. The Read more:American
, Foreign
, Hands
One Piece of Offshore Drilling Puzzle Opens - Why? 2008-07-14 11:11:35 President Bush announced that he will rescind his father's Executive Order banning offshore drilling. After all the political to-and-fro specific to offshore drilling, the article closed with this: In his statement last month, Bush also renewed his demand that Congress allow drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, clear the way for more refineries and encourage efforts to recov Read more:Offshore
, Puzzle
Really Miss USA? REALLY!? 2008-07-14 06:28:24 At first I thought it may have been a hoax, and that would be the story today. However, after reviewing the flop over and over again (hat tip to my DVR for that), I ask all the pageant people of the United States.... can we find a queen who knows how to walk in a dress? Really:
Unbelievable! Instead of teaching my kids the valuable lesson of Read more:REALLY
Intellectually Challenged Candidate 2008-07-30 17:15:43 This is not the brain I want making decisions on the administration of the United States government.
As the guys at Power Line point out, Obama really needs to avoid saying anything that hasn't been written for him and put up on the teleprompter.
If I didn't already have such a low regard for his candidacy, I might actually feel bad for Obama when he embarrasses himself like th Read more:Candidate
Remember When 2008-07-30 13:42:03 Some of us are old enough to remember the days when unabashed patriotism and love of country were not considered corny or passe, much less denigrated.
This video gets pulled out and tossed around the internet from time to time, but its relevance never decreases.
Read more:Remember
, Remember When
Dem "Leadership" Condemns Coburn's Charity 2008-07-30 10:57:35 This is disturbingly childish on the part of the Democrats. Coburn has been giving them indigestion by fighting them tooth and nail, so to "get even" with him, the Dems have started this petty petulant little witch hunt.
Good luck to the Dems in trying to sell these charges.
-attack-sen-coburn-for-delivering-babies-for-free/
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Shhh! The Brits Know! 2008-07-30 10:51:33 The Brits
are skewering our MSM over the Edwards scandal. This should be very embarrassing for the cover-up artists who desperately wanted to hide this story.
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Obama Leaves Door Open For Reparations 2008-07-30 09:42:12 Foot-in-mouth time once again in Obama
's World.
But please, Senator, continue saying things like this. I guarantee it will help you win the election. No, really. Spread this message far and wide. People will flock to your side.
"I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most importa
It'll Be A Walk In The Park! - McCain 02-03 2008-07-30 09:14:38 John McCain
, 2008: "When I voted to support this war, I knew it was probably going to be
long and hard and tough, and those that voted for it and thought that
somehow it was going to be some kind of an easy task, then I’m sorry
they were mistaken. Maybe they didn’t know what they were voting for."If he knew, back before the war began, that it was "probably going to be long and hard and tough,"
"Oppositology" 2008-07-30 07:44:31 Big Media Matt has a couple of worthwhile paragraphs on John McCain’s awesome superpowers, as explained by one of those Alan Combs-type “liberals” who are the reason no one likes liberals (those incoherent jerks).
Meanwhile, despite the McCain campaign announcing to much fanfare awhile back that it would employ no foreign agents or federal lobbyists, McCain’s campaign manager tells Ka
Let's Fail in Iraq - Obama 2006 2008-07-30 06:34:29 This is Obama
from 2 years ago. Let's play this video for every fence-sitting voter, and see which side they choose.
Hint: We Americans historically like winning things. We do not like losing. Nor do we like people who tell us we can't win and should give up.
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A Little "Light" Satire From Our Allies 2008-07-30 05:29:57 The British (some of the foreigners Obama cares so much about impressing) are not so quick to accept the glitz and flash and superficiality of the Obama campaign. This barb has been posted as a transcript before, but still deserves a place as a worthy video:
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Pakistan: The Obama Doctrine At Work? 2008-07-30 05:04:00 According to VOA and other media reports, Pakistan
i officials believe that an al-Qaeda weapons expert was among the casualties of a missile attack in that nation's tribal area of South Waziristan, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Furthermore, they have effectively accused the US of launching the attack from within Afghanistan; senior Pakistani military officials have warned US Central C Read more:Obama
Higher Education and Examples of the Peter Principle 2008-08-14 20:35:04 This story beggars belief. Well, given the collapse of common sense and the rise of mindless PC dogma on campus, perhaps it's very believable.
-and-the-phillistines
I have always assumed that institutions of higher education should be run by smart people. They used to be, back a few decades ago, but something has gone terribly astray.
Foolish bureaucrats of the limited co Read more:Education
, Examples
, Higher
, Peter
, Principle
Shooting Oneself In The Foot 2008-08-14 15:17:54 (hat tip to TPM)McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds:"In the Senate, Barack Obama has voted in lockstep with President
George W. Bush nearly half the time, including the Bush-Cheney Energy
bill which gave close to 3 billion dollars in new giveaways to Big Oil
– a terrible policy that John McCain opposed," said McCain spokesman
Tucker Bounds.OK, stay with us here...your task is to reconcile the above "
Another Cheating Scandal - Why Bother Holding the Olympics? 2008-08-14 13:47:16 The Olympic Games have become nothing but a sick joke, with politics being injected, continuing doping scandals, etc. And now this.
Looks like China, that paragon of national virtue, has been slipping underage athletes into the competition. If so, it's a case of child abuse, first and foremost. It's also cheating, a gross violation of the spirit of the games, or Read more:Cheating
, Olympics
, Scandal
Still More Presumption From McCain 2008-08-14 13:13:29 "The situation in Georgia remains fluid and dangerous. As soon as
possible my colleagues senators Lieberman and Graham will be traveling
to Georgia. They're both members of the Senate Armed Services
Committee. I hope that other members of the Armed Services Committee in
the Senate will go together."He's sending his surrogates to Tblisi? OK, folks, this is presumption in the extreme, an Read more:McCain
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