Archive for August, 2009

Late Night Video: Awkward Rap

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From the Elegant Too, a rap about awkward situations. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nPeTfeFALk[/youtube] if you say, “how are you?”, i’ll say, “not much.”

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Paging Dr. Favre

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This evening before the Monday night game ESPN had on their scoll that Brett Favre thinks he may have cracked a rib, due to it hurting to breath.  NO official diagnosis has been made. How is that news worthy?  I’m so tired of this idiot.

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Liberal Media biass

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Jenna Bush on NBC Dan Bartlett on CBS Karl Rove on Fox Fran Townsend on CNN give me more

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Deep Question

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How can you not put a price on life and limb and still get tort reform?

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El Somnambulo to Enter 3rd Person Withdrawal Rehab

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El Somnambulo to Enter 3rd Person Withdrawal Rehab

Facing an intervention from his loved ones ostensibly concerned about saving him from terminal self-aggrandizement, El Somnambulo has reluctantly agreed to enter the Homey D. Clown Third Person Withdrawal Center in Iowa City, Iowa. You may remember Homey by his catchphrase of  “Homey don’t play dat”: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QhuBIkPXn0[/youtube] For years, Homey coasted on that Third Person […]

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Virginia Gov. race update – McDonnell too conservative for George Allen

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A few more highlights from WaPo’s article on Bob McDonnell – apparently McDonnell is too much of a theocon for racist former Governor and Senator George “Macaca” Allen: Republican friends who support McDonnell’s campaign for governor acknowledge parting ways with some of his more conservative views. Former governor and U.S. senator George Allen said he […]

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More Like This Please!

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A Republican Iowan tells Sen Grassley that Grassley’s constituents want a Public Option. This is very good on many levels and this ad will be running in multiple Iowa markets and DC.

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There’s More To Civility Than Not Using Bad Words

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There’s More To Civility Than Not Using Bad Words

I was going to ignore David Anderson’s post yesterday on “Culture,” but then he went and posted this nonsense – charmingly titled “Not everyone wants to be a slut.”  Seems that in David’s world there are only two types of women:  good girls and sluts.  Which shouldn’t be surprising given his sanctimonious rantings on the […]

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A Challenge

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I generally consider myself an optimist (a cynical, realistic, pragmatic optimist) but there is one subject that I’m a pessimist about. That subject is the environment. I’m not sure which of the multiple environmental disasters is going to strike first and I’m pessimistic about our ability to address them before it’s too late, if it’s […]

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Liberalgeek’s Revenge

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I was listening to some news this morning and someone commented that the banking stocks are back up to almost pre-crash prices.  I immediately remembered that I had been lambasted by Jason330 about my investment advice to him to buy Bank of America stock.  that was on February 20th when BofA was trading at $3.79. […]

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This Is Why We Need Health Care Reform

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Daily Kos points us to this story from a blog called Thus Spake Zuska. My sister is a member of the fitness club where that shooting took place. It was just chance that she was not there, and not in that fitness class, the night the shooting took place. My gratefulness for her safety has […]

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The Impact HR 3200 Would Have for Delaware

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Congressman Waxman’s Energy and Commerce Committee has complied a district by district assessment of the impact of HR 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. For Delaware (pdf):

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GOP Gov nominee in Virginia opposed contraception

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GOP Gov nominee in Virginia opposed contraception

AG Bob McDonnell, the GOP’s nominee for the ’09 Governor’s race in Virginia, is currently enjoying a modest lead in the polls; but what are Virginia voters going to make of this? At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell […]

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