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From the monthly archives:

March 2009

GOP: Please Big Guv'mint….Interfere

March 31, 2009

Lots of stuff happening.
The American President cuts loose the CEO of General Motors. Wingnutland flaps its wings.
Abu-Zubaydah has proven, again, that torture isn't effective and only produces phony information.
But it's time to talk about the Norm Coleman-Al Franken battle for the senate seat of Minnesota. The election was held almost 5 months ago and [...]

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This Week's WTF Moments

March 28, 2009

Hard to believe….
“The public loves Joe the Plumber,” the spokesperson for the anti-EFCA group Americans for Prosperity, Mary Ellen Burke, claimed to me. “They see him as a role model.”
Chicago Tribune's, looking-for-entertainment-in-news, reporter, Frank James, on Obama's "boring" presser….
This was just plain boring and too predictable. The same colleague says the problem is [...]

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Laugh-a-thon

March 27, 2009

I have been thoroughly enjoying the Chinese firedrill, Keystone Kop, routine by the minority Republicans. It's been a real gas. I predicted long ago that the one good and positive accomplishment of George and Dick would be the total destruction of the Republican Party.
I just never knew how humorous it would turn out to be.
Yesterday's [...]

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Gunrunning Nation

March 26, 2009

1:42 CBS video……Gunrunning Across the Border

Hillary on Mexico's drug gang violence….
"I feel very strongly we have a co-responsibility," Clinton told reporters, adding: "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers [...]

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The Boss

March 25, 2009

Ya' know how employees will chatter away about the boss when the boss isn't around? Those chattering employees are oh-so-sure that they know more than the boss and are happy to explain to fellow workers, whenever the boss is out of earshot, how they would do things differently and how the boss is clueless and [...]

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Laughing Matters

March 24, 2009

Immediately following Sunday night's appearance of President Obama on Sixty Minutes, I told the Mrs. that Obama's smiling would be the Villager story dominating Monday's "news" cycle.
Politico….
Even his awkward laughter highlighted an issue Obama has faced dating back to the campaign, a sense that he sometimes is too “cool” and detached to fully grasp the [...]

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The God Report: Israel's "Religious War"

March 23, 2009

Last week I blogged about the Pope's astonishly out-of-touch statement about AIDS. Pope Benedict said that "condoms increase the problem" of AIDS in Africa.
Here are a few international responses to what the Vicar said…
A New York Times editorial said the pope 'deserves no credence when he distorts scientific findings' about condoms.
A French foreign minister [...]

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Looks Like Change To Me

March 22, 2009

I have been mildly amused over all the conservative criticism of President Obama about how he has wilfully and cynically violated his own new lobbying rules. (See Sunday's AP piece entitled, "President learning campaign and reality can clash.") Same old, same old, they say. As any honest critic will agree, it's the trend of the [...]

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The God Report: Blasphemy in Philly

March 21, 2009

The United States is a place where silly, medieval, religious beliefs don't determine our laws. We're free from the unenlightened nonsense often witnessed in backward countries like, say, Iran, whose silly embarassment of a government includes an "Office for Promotion of Virtue and Prohibition of Vice." Can you imagine? And who could forget the barbarian [...]

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Squawkboxed

March 20, 2009

I like CNBC's Mark Haines, anchor of "Squawkbox". I used to watch these guys every day, and Haines was a seemingly fairminded, knowledgable, and likable guy. Watch this 1:30 segment where Mark Haines and Democratic representative, Brad Sherman(D-CA), duel over taxing AIG bonus babies…

Mark Haines, mistakenly in my opinion, asked this question…"And what do the [...]

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