Archive for December, 2008

Happy Christmas Eve….Donviti Style

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I opened my mail box, My heart was a twitter, What did I find but this exquisite letter:

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Comment Rescue: El Somnambulo will only say this once

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Maybe we can excommunicate people who refuse to repent in big public ceremonies? He is really getting sick and tired of serious threads (and this is one) being hijacked by local locos with personal scores to settle. If this site is to realize its potential, then the powers-that-be would do well to find a way […]

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40 Years Ago Today

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40 Years Ago Today

“Earthrise” was taken by the Apollo 8 crew on Christmas Eve 1968. This was the first image of our planet from deep space.

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U2 – I Believe In Father Christmas

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When Your World Turns Upsidedown

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Over at Own the Sidewalk, Maia is very concerned that her dog, the dog of a passionate liberal blogger, may . . . . gasp . . . . be Republican! I have long harbored the suspicion that my dog may be a Republican. Consider the evidence: She is unfailingly loyal, even when I fail […]

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Why Obama Looks So Buff…

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Take a look at the competition.  Fair warning: I can’t decide what looks worse, Nancy Reagan in a bathing suit (pre-mastectomy) or the untimely picture of Bill Clinton and the sea of temptation.

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Nat King Cole – The Christmas Song

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Judy Garland – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

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Hube Makes Me Laugh

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Stupid blogging 101 The professor is in.

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Deep Public Health Thought

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Rich people who decide not to get their kids vaccinated for measles, mumps, and rubella are moronic losers who should be exiled to Siberia.

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Yawn, Blago Transtion Report Release

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Nothing to see here as the Transition Team release its Blago Report. It will take you no more than ten minutes to read it. The most interesting thing I got from the report is the name of the new White House Counsel, Greg Craig — boy did his parents have a sense of humor. Let’s […]

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This just happened to fly under the radar

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h/t dark-wraith… A top level Republican IT consultant who was set to testify in a case alleging GOP election tampering in Ohio died in a plane crash late Friday night.   and gee look… The Republican consultant accused of involvement in alleged vote-rigging in Ohio in 2004 was warned that his plane might be sabotaged […]

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Follow the money trail

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European nations have begun intensive discussions both within and among their governments on whether to resettle detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a significant overture to the incoming Obama administration, according to senior European officials and U.S. diplomats. The willingness to consider accepting prisoners who cannot be returned to their […]

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