Archive for March 8th, 2009

On Being a Wingnut Meme

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I can’t say that I’m happy about becoming a wingnut meme as non-readers link to this blog from around the country, because wingnuts are, you know…nuts. Anyway, Hube has banned me – so here is the response to his post that I would have left in the comment section if he were not so terrified […]

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Definition of the Evening

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Definition of the Evening

Fascism- noun: 1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism

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Nationalized Citibank

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(Video NSFW people! Turn down your speakers or use earbuds.) The New F***ing Citibank – watch more funny videos Funny thing is that I had accounts with these people back in the day, and their operation wasn’t too different from this…..

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Reverse Skate

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qp-Gx9JylE&feature=related[/youtube]

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EFCA — Fearmongering CEOs Say The Sky Is Falling!

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOM0AMUqviY[/youtube] The sky isn’t falling, of course, and these CEOs make themselves look very silly comparing unions to Islamic Fundamentalists — but they wouldn’t be going all out with their disinformation campaign if this effort was, say, making sure that bank executives get their bonuses.   It is the Road to Serfdom, all right, and these […]

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Deep Inside Baseball Thought

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Harry Reid Sucks 

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Dems Have Nothing To Lose In The Limbaugh War

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Dems have nothing to lose in the Limbaugh War because this fight isn’t about us.  It’s about Republicans. Seriously, we have nothing to lose.  If Rush wins (and he’s clearly winning so far) then he becomes the leader of the Republican Party.  However, if the GOP succeeds in putting Rush in his place then they […]

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What I just read

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What I just read

A while back when I was actually working Nemski had a bunch of you list some books that I should read. I have read quite a few so far or when they aren’t available at the library I have read the books by the authors you suggested.  I recommend you all taking a look at […]

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Teh Awesome

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What you are about to watch and listen to are unrelated Youtube music clips put together and made awesome. Check out more at Thru You. h/t Big Ink

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Read All About It in the Sunday Papers

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El Somnambulo digs up the good stuff so that you don’t have to: President Obama proposes outreach to the Taliban in a wide-ranging NYTimes interview: Mr. Obama pointed to the success in peeling Iraqi insurgents away from more hard-core elements of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a strategy that many credit as much as the increase of […]

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Financial News You May Have Missed This Week

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There is alot of interesting stuff being written by folks who are not exactly part of the cable news shouting match or who are talking about long term effects of this crash that may be useful. These are some of the best I read this week: NYT piece discusses something I’ve been pointing out for […]

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Free Dumb of the Press

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Good thing we have a liberal media, because I’d hate to think what the NYT would find print worthy if it was conservative.

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