cassandra_m
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm
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Tom Carper Tele-Town Hall Tonite
Senator Carper is apparently holding a telephone Town Hall tonite — there was a message waiting for me on my phone last night providing a heads up that they would call. And we had a tip from one of our contributors that he had gotten the same call.
Senator Kaufman Live Chat at the NJ TODAY
Senator Kaufman will be taking questions via live chat at the NJ at 3:30 TODAY.
Late Night Video — Inspiration Edition
Weird, but you can’t look away: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wRkzCW5qI[/youtube]
UPDATE 3: Sports Betting Appeal Hearing
Most of you know that today is the day that the State of Delaware and the NFL, et al show up in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to try again to roll back the State’s plan to parley bets only until the court case is settled in December or so.
The New Wingnut Lie — Death Books for Vets
Have you heard about this one? An ex-Bush appointee, Jim Towey — one in charge of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under BushCo (!) — writes an op-ed in the WSJ painting a booklet that provides some guidance on end-of-life planning and claims that it deliberately steers vets towards death.
This would be, of course, wrong. The HuffPo has some great info on this, but the first thing you should know about Mr.Jim Towey and this current jihad of lies is this:
Absence of Journalism
One of our frequent targets of derision is The News Journal — from their inexplicable and often wrong keeper of the Delaware Way Mr. Ron Williams, to some of their very shallow reporting of local politics — this is a paper that doesn’t seem to know from the “paper of record”
Bill Maher Covers the Health Insurance Debate
Smart, funny and some of the language is NSFW. Dana Gould really hits the heart of what passes for the debate on this right now — lots of yelling a spittle on whatever the wingnut fear and resentments are and then there are the people just trying to take care of themselves.
President Obama Highlights a Favorite Cause of Bloggers
At his Town Hall at the DNC the other day, President Obama took notice of how dysfunctional the media’s role has become:
Late Night Video — Quentin Tarantino Edition
The thing to know about QT movies is that the language is brutal and definitely in the NSFW or probably little kids category. That said, this is a video essay from Matt Zoller Seitz that is quite good — showing how his characters use language to best and dominate each other:
Support the Billionaires
Make sure you watch this all the way through the credits — nicely done! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHVwrCzRUX0[/youtube] h/t Bob Cesca, who also notes that one of the organizing tenets of the C Street “Family” is: about a Calvinist interpretation of the New Testament as a divine mandate for the acquisition of wealth, and government ought to be […]
Late Night Video — Performance Enhancing Genie Edition
Baseball Superstar Accused of Performance-Enhancing Genie Use: Baseball Superstar Accused of Performance-Enhancing Genie Use from The Onion!
Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Road Trip & Miscellany Edition
A bacon-themed road trip? Surely you jest!
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