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From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Beacon's Douglas Schoolmarms Obama

November 30, 2008

The Beacon's Michael Douglas puts on his stern, and haughty schoolmarm face in today's column. Douglas asks, "What is the Obama mandate for change?" Please take the time to read what Mr. Douglas wrote. It is representative of the scolding establishment Villagers who always admire their own thinking, while at the same time conveniently avoiding [...]

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"They're Savages"

November 28, 2008

Remember when the 43rd president of the U.S., immediately following the largest attack on American soil in September, 2001, told the citizenry that if they wanted to do something for America in light of this historic attack….they could "go shopping?" Remember that?
This morning Americans went shopping. Like starving hogs rushing to the troughs…..this is what [...]

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Thanksgiving 2008

November 25, 2008

Andy Rooney said the other night on 60 Minutes that Thanksgiving was the only true American holiday. I suppose July 4th would also qualify, but in my opinion, American or not, Thanksgiving is the best holiday. And I think this year it will be especially so. The only thing that matters in this thing we [...]

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We Can't Learn

November 24, 2008

Salon.com quote from a July, 2008 article
"If we know this much about torture, rendition, secret prisons and warrantless wiretapping despite the administration's attempts to stonewall, then imagine what we don't know," …..
"You have to go back to the McCarthy era to find this level of abuse," says Barry Steinhardt, the director of the Program on [...]

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Prophets And Charts

November 22, 2008

The Villagers, acting a bit more insane than normal, have a very serious, perhaps fatal, case of the vapors going on over Hillary and the Secretary of State position thingy. I'll be expressing my views about this soon after Obama's cabinet picks have been officially announced…..but until then….
On November 6th, The Reverend blogged this…..
"Obama's win [...]

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Taking O.J.'s Place

November 21, 2008

I see five Algerians were released from the American gulag…..
For the first time, a federal judge today ordered the release of alleged enemy combatants from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling that the government had provided insufficient evidence to continue their detentions.
Glennzilla takes it from there….
The five men ordered released [...]

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Chuck Hagel: "The Know-Nothing Element"

November 19, 2008

Yesterday, the spineless Democrats in the Senate voted to reward Joementum Lieberman (I-CT) for his work campaigning for Republican Party candidates, specifically, Holy Joe's work for John McCain and his Stuntwoman Sidekick, Sarah Palin. By a wide margin, Senate Democrats voted, by secret ballot, to embrace a political turncoat and re-award him his chairmanship of [...]

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Are Conservative Freakshows A "Utility"?

November 18, 2008

The Akron Beacon Journal's favorite conservative writer, Charles Krauthammer, rubbed me the wrong way when he bloviated up this horsepucky in my Sunday edition….
The Bush administration sees the $700 billion rescue as an emergency measure to save the financial sector on the grounds that finance is a utility. No government would let the electric companies [...]

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Post Election Theocon Report

November 17, 2008

'Come unto me all those who are heavy laden with Obama bumper stickers.'
A Fairfield woman whose car was adorned with celebratory signs for President-elect Barack Obama is furious that a priest singled her out during Sunday morning Mass and ordered her to leave.
Elizabeth Caster admits her Toyota Sequoia was parked in a loading zone outside [...]

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Bailout Plan Review & W's Favorite Game

November 15, 2008

I've been thinking about this $750 billion dollar holdup of the Treasury. I have come to some tentative conclusions.
I know from 8 years of Bush-Rove-Cheney that this administration does nothing without having two goals in mind. The primary goal, as was confirmed by Scott McClellan, is always political. Once a cockamamie plan was settled [...]

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