Archive for July, 2008

Better QOD

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who was your favorite teacher when you were a kid (not college)?

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Separated at Birth?

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Separated at Birth?

Charlie Copeland and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom

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QOD

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Is there statistical evidence that if everyone had a gun there would be less crime?  If so, wouldn’t the same evidence point to indicate the same conclusion could be found if no one had a gun? 

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Comment Rescue and Breaking News: The Unnamed Retirement Materializes

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Comment from the astute Sagacious Steve in the 62 District Strategy, Part II thread: BREAKING NEWS: And give Celia credit for once. She has posted that Rep. Pam Maier is retiring to move to Colorado with her husband for employment reasons. This becomes a distinct pickup opportunity for the D’s. http://www.delawaregrapevine.com/7-08maier.asp So who knows more? […]

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LiberalGeek Reports From the SEU RFP Meeting

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Sorry that I haven’t posted on this earlier, but my weekend was very enjoyable and made a long post difficult to write.  My schedule cleared at work on Thursday so I was able to break away for a few hours to get out to the public comment meeting for the RFP that the SEU is […]

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Breaking News! New Gun Slogan on the way! “Screw Self Defense, Blow your brains out! It’s your constitutional right!”

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Let’s be honest for a second, the self defense thing is going to wear off after a while.  At some point you can only peddle fear for so long.  As a capitalist slash republican slash free market slash gun lover I think by reading this that we have been trumpetting the “self defense” meme to […]

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BREAKING NEWS!!!!New GOP Slogan coming “WAR! It’s AWESOME”

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BREAKING NEWS!!!!New GOP Slogan coming  “WAR! It’s AWESOME”

Editor & Publisher: PINEHURST, N.C. A former Army medic made famous by a photograph that showed him carrying an injured Iraqi boy during the first week of the war has died of an apparent overdose, police said. Joseph Patrick Dwyer died last week at a hospital in Pinehurst, according to the Boles Funeral Home. He […]

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QOD

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If you had the magical ability to make a person that still supports Bush understand ONE thing, what would it be? 

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Pay attention. This is what we don’t want to do, or… All Hands on Deck

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The Republican Party is in trouble. I know this because I recognize the signs. They are acting like… well… Democrats. Conservative activists are preparing to do battle with allies of Sen. John McCain in advance of September’s Republican National Convention, hoping to prevent his views on global warming, immigration, stem cell research and campaign finance […]

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Book Club Last Call

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I posted a proposed date/time/location for the first book club meeting last week and have not seen who will be there for sure.  So this is the last call.  Will you be at The Lobby House in Dover at 6:30 on Thursday? If I get no takers, I may push it off a week.

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Campaigning for Vice President Biden

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Two weeks ago, on Face the Nation, Joe Biden tells the world he’d say Yes if asked by Barack Obama to be his VP: “If the presidential nominee thought I could help him win, am I going to say to the first African-American candidate about to make history in the world that, ‘No, I will […]

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Mat Marshall Leaves KHN Campaign

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Mat Marshall Leaves KHN Campaign

One of my sources has told me that the word out of Karen Hartley-Nagle’s Congressional campaign is that Mat Marshall has left the campaign. I don’t know the reasons for his departure, but my source says that he left of his own accord. I don’t know what this means for the KHN campaign, but I […]

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QOD

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How many times have you come here today hoping we had a new thread up?

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