Archive for June, 2008

Happy Father’s Day Joe

Filed in National by on June 15, 2008 4 Comments

It seems a growing number of people want Biden to be Obama’s VP. (h/t tommywonk) David Plouffe is a Delawarean so who knows. I have to think he is a long shot.

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QOD

Filed in National by on June 15, 2008 71 Comments

If you were stranded on an island, what 5 music albums would you have to have?

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I, for one, welcome our robot overlords

Filed in National by on June 14, 2008 3 Comments

Skynet is live.

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Blue-Gold Football Game Next Saturday

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I haven’t made much of a secret of the fact that I am always interested in helping out disabled children. When one of our regular readers asked me to post on the upcoming Blue-Gold game, I was almost embarrassed that I hadn’t thought of it myself. I went to one of these games years ago […]

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QOD

Filed in National by on June 14, 2008 5 Comments

When you stop to think, isn’t life really a joke? 

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New Republican Slogan: It’s Every Man for Himself

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Talk about jumping ship. The Times reports that with the GOP for once running seriously behind Democrats in campaign fundraising, Giuliani is offering to hold fundraisers for down-ticket Republicans. But with an important catch — he gets to keep part of the haul for himself. Geez, with friends like this… Party unity, anyone? Update: More […]

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QOD: Is it right to thank Mike Castle?

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Looking on the bright side of the complete debacle which the current administration has presided over, George Bush’s thuggish incompetence and has hobbled the Republican Party for the next 25 years. Bush, of course, could not have done it without the obsequious, cowardly, waste-of-space, milk-sop know as Mike Castle and the rest of the so-called […]

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Worst. Decision. Ever?

Filed in National by on June 14, 2008 18 Comments

McCain is making a play for the crazy-ass neocon vote again. On the campaign trail yesterday, he turned up the rhetoric about the Supreme Court’s decision in Boumediene v. Bush that detainees (which I think is an invented word) have the right to Habeas Corpus. The Supreme Court yesterday rendered a decision which I think […]

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Delaware Liberal Summer Book Club: It’s On

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on June 14, 2008 5 Comments

OK, I know some won’t like it, but we are going for Obama’s Audacity of Hope as the first book.  We will arrange for a date to get together (real or online) sometime after the 4th of July.  In a hat tip to Disbelief, I will commit to have the real meeting (if it happens) […]

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Bush Or McCain: On Women’s Health Issues

Filed in National by on June 13, 2008 2 Comments

My Dad sent me this video after reading the “I’m Voting Republican” post by Cassandra. We could make this an ongoing game of Who Said It? I love the format. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Z4dxjRv4g[/youtube] See how you do on the quiz.

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Tim Russert is Dead

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Tim Russert has died of a heart attack at the age of 58.  The long hours of this campaign season can’t have been healthy.

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Imvotingrepublican.com

Filed in National by on June 13, 2008 13 Comments

The argument is almost convincing: (click on this link if you want to see a bigger screen version) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQJ9Xp0xxU[/youtube] But given the up front and personal view we’ve all gotten of the repub agenda in action over the past several years, there are probably more (and better) arguments to be made. Post your take on […]

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Computer Problems

Filed in National by on June 13, 2008 4 Comments

Forced Vacation from blogging for me. Send me a smoke signal if anything interesting happens.

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