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Not News: Power’s Out In Pockets of NCCo
If you don’t have power, you can’t read this. If you have power, you don’t care.
Some Resolutions You Can Use, South Dakota Style
South Dakota Watch got started earlier on their New Year’s Resolutions, so early in fact that Todd Epp has written ten of them, Ten New Years Resolutions The Rest Of Us Can Use. My favorites are: 1. You know the way you are? Don’t be that way! Perhaps the greatest advice ever given from one […]
New Castle County’s Good Bond Rating
The News Journal reports that even though the forecast is dire for New Castle County’s budget, the county has received a triple-A bond rating from three Wall Street rating firms. Isn’t this kind of like a wife-beater telling you that you are a good husband?
United State of Pop 2008
This is the top 25 pop songs of 2008 as mashed-up by DJ Earworm. Though I probably know less than half of the artists (I am getting old), this video is quite cool. Well worth the five minutes of your time.
Happy New Year to Our Islamic Readers
Today marks the New Year in the Islamic calendar. Today is the first day of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar, which is lunar. “I hope that (before Allah) the fast of the day of Ashurah will be a source of forgiveness of the previous [year]” For more on Muharram visit Darulehsan, What […]
Another Breath, Another Lie
It’s the liberal blogger’s equivalent of shooting moose from an airplane. The Mudflats is all over Palin like a Republican politician on male prostitute. Today’s edition harkens back to Gov. Palin’s interview with the conservate blog Human Events. And this is a story that RSmitty will enjoy — it’s all about the weather. Veteran Republican political […]
Not News: Connolly Resigns
U.S. Attorney Colm Connolly resigns. Connolly is best known for being one of the lawyers that prosecuted Tom Capano. His resignation was expected.
A Loaded Rule Change
One of President Bush’s parting shots was an executive order a Department of Interior rule change to allow people to carry concealed loaded weapons into our National Parks, thus revoking a previous executive order ruling from . . . wait for it . . . President Reagan. Boom goes the dynamite. Before I address this […]
The Trouble With Bushie
This is a bit geeky, but today is the anniversary of the first ariring of The Trouble with Tribbles, one of the most famous episodes of the original Star Trek. If having being inundated by tribbles was the biggest problem Bush left us with, I’d be a much happier man.
How Dumb is Sarah Palin?
Okay, it’s the liberal blogging equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel, but Gov. Palin just extended Christmas a wee bit. Special thanks to the folks at The Mudflats for finding this gem. The interview with Gov. Pain took place over at Human Events. GIZZI: You made it clear in our interviews earlier this year […]
My Christmas Present
This was a present from my wife and my mother-in-law. They are doing their part in making up the deficit in the state budget.


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