Very cool globalization

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Thursday April 16, 2009 · 1:25 AM PDT

2009/04/16 · 01:25

This isn't much of a diary. More of a heads up to something I found to be very cool and somewhat touching. My bro sent me this clip, and it's just too cool to not share. It's quite literally a world wide collaboration of the classic 'Stand By Me'.
Maybe it's old news, but it's new to me.

Stand By Me from David Johnson on Vimeo.

Have fun in Australia, mate

JoeWPgh

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Saturday August 02, 2008 · 10:23 PM PDT

2008/08/02 · 22:23

Just back from the watering hole - yes I imbibed. I'm old school on barstool politics - if you want to know what Joe-6pack thinks, pull up a stool and talk to him.

I do what I can to make myself clear in barstool politics. There are 2 basic rules: Neither one of us can change a gawd-damned thing. I honestly enjoy people who see things differently than me. Some don't really get that, but in all honesty, most do. So it was with some surprise, that one of my republican friends greeted me with "I'm moving to Australia - McCain sucks as bad as that nigger" Rough language, but such is barstool politics.

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Barstoll politics

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Barstoll politics

Finger on the pulse

7 votes

Irrelevent opinions of losers

9 votes

More beer, please

20 votes

Got any pie to go with that beer?

12 votes

Dear Hillary

JoeWPgh

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Saturday March 08, 2008 · 6:09 PM PST

2008/03/08 · 18:09

I have found your recent rhetoric to be unabashedly offensive. I am not a super-progressive, nor an extremist of any stripe. I am a moderate, pro working class, work-a-day schmuck who desperately would like a little bit of fairness and honesty from our federal g'ment. Naturally, I have found no allies of republican stripe.
I have always found you to be a likable, working representative of my ideals, despite the cacophony of AM radio screech monkeys.

But you have crossed a line that can never be overlooked. Your praise of John McCain, who stands for nothing less than 4 more years of Bush policy, as a distinguishment between you and your immediate rival is an insult from which I can not release you.
Let me give you a hint: Both you and Obama are now running against John McCain. Whichever of you runs better against him has my vote and my cash.
If you dally and focus your fight elsewhere, you're on your own.

Ms Clinton? As much as I admire you, you have offended me. If you think you will win this nomination, think of the cost. As it stands, as much as I admire you, you're on your own - not one red cent from my hard earned pay. If your ego demands John McCain over Barack Obama, so be it. The legacy is yours.

Jeb Bush hides out in a closet - really

JoeWPgh

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Saturday October 07, 2006 · 3:35 AM PDT

2006/10/07 · 03:35

Jeb came to Pittsburgh yesterday to attend a fundraiser for Little Ricky Santorum, the Pennsylvania Republican Senator from Virginia.

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, in town for a fund-raiser for Sen. Rick Santorum, had a close encounter with a large group of anti-Republican protesters as he was making his way to the Duquesne Club, Downtown.
It was about 4:15 yesterday when Mr. Bush met up with the protesters near the corner of Liberty and Sixth avenues. The protesters were marching to join other pickets already gathered in front of the exclusive club, a little more than a block away at 325 Sixth Ave.
Protesters said Gov. Bush blew them a kiss, acknowledging the crowd of about 30 chanting pickets that was made up of United Steelworkers and members of Uprise Counter Recruitment, a tour traveling through 22 cities to support anti-war efforts.

More below.
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Life immitates Python Sing-a-long

JoeWPgh

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Monday October 02, 2006 · 4:30 PM PDT

2006/10/02 · 16:30

One of the greatest comedic displays of decay was Monty Python's Lumberjack song. If you know it, you know what I'm pointing at. If not, google it.

I'll start it off with my own lame offerings. Add yours.
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I never asked to be a Democrat. All my life, I wanted to be a 'puplican.
(Curtain opens to the US House of Representatives) Read More

End of the line for Santorum's Green buddy?

JoeWPgh

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Friday September 15, 2006 · 8:09 PM PDT

2006/09/15 · 20:09

Saw this blurb from AP in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's update box, and it made me smile.

HARRISBURG -- The Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate has too few valid signatures to qualify for the Nov. 7 ballot, a lawyer for state Democrats told a judge yesterday.
A review of Carl Romanelli's nominating petitions has found more than 29,000 invalid signatures -- which would leave Romanelli about 2,900 short of the 67,070-signature threshold he must meet to remain on the ballot, said the attorney, Clifford Levine.

If the Dem position pans out, it's clearly the end of the line for Romanelli's fake campaign. Read More

How Low can he go?

JoeWPgh

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Friday April 07, 2006 · 6:09 AM PDT

2006/04/07 · 06:09

Wow! What a great article to wake up to. We're well aware of Bush and the repub's sinking approvals. We wonder how low they can actually go. This AP-Ipsos poll makes wonder if there's a floor for them to hit.
The grim details after the jump. Read More

EPA Chief to get thrown under the bus?

JoeWPgh

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Thursday January 19, 2006 · 12:17 PM PST

2006/01/19 · 12:17

Here's an AP article from this morning that's quite damning of Bush's environmental record. Yeah I know. Dog bites man...Bush wags dog, whatever. Still, I'm surprised that it hasn't been raised here.
Ex-heads of EPA blast Bush on global warming
Republicans, Democrat say president is neglecting environment

WASHINGTON - Six former heads of the Environmental Protection Agency -- five Republicans and one Democrat -- accused the Bush administration Wednesday of neglecting global warming and other environmental problems.

a 5-1 ratio is bi-partisan under the most generous circumstances. I suppose Scottie McGibberish can paint this as a partisan attack, but if so, it's obviously a partisan, republican attack. Read More

Saddam trial judge plans to quit

JoeWPgh

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Friday January 13, 2006 · 3:53 PM PST

2006/01/13 · 15:53

Freeance and peeance are still on the march in Iraq, it appears. From Reuters:

"He wants to withdraw," the source said of Rizgar Amin, who is to preside over the next hearing on January 24. "He will oversee the next sitting and then announce his reasons for withdrawing."
Asked why the Kurdish judge, based in the northern city of Sulaimaniya, wanted to pull out of a trial that has made his face familiar around the world during long days of television coverage, he would say only: "It is too difficult."

JoeWPgh

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Monday September 05, 2005 · 10:28 AM PDT

2005/09/05 · 10:28

The Carpetbagger points to this must read essay in yesterday's WaPo. It's quite good, and then it quotes Linda Chavez:

In New Orleans, "you are dealing with the permanently poor -- people who don't have jobs, are not used to getting up and organizing themselves and getting things done and for whom sitting and waiting is a way of life," says Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity and a former head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.

That's not code for anything. What she's clearly saying is: Niggers are a lazy lower class of humanity whose troubles are strictly of their own making.

It's no wonder this admin would abandon the poor in NO. It's intelligent design. Or maybe call it Faith Based Darwinism. The math is simple: The more poor that die, the more rich you have. They're pitching in to help with the concept of natural selection, and it's not costing the taxpayers a dime.

But Chevez is not done:
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Defining G.W. Bush

JoeWPgh

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Sunday August 14, 2005 · 5:53 PM PDT

2005/08/14 · 17:53

This is a rant.
Occam's Razor tells us that the simplest explanation is likely the surest. And though Bush's recent polls give us reason to hope for a reasonable future, the very idea that 40% of us has any faith that Bush, the Lessor could conduct a 4 car (non military) funeral is something that defies comprehension. Read More

OK, poll freepers

JoeWPgh

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Sunday June 05, 2005 · 9:17 PM PDT

2005/06/05 · 21:17

The Discovery Channel is running a show to determine the "Greatest American" It one of those viewer/voter deals that is all fluff and little substance. Perfect for a good old fashioned freeping. I missed the first round voting (you did too, if this is the first you've heard of it!)

It is now down to 25. As you might imagine, some of the survivors are worthy, some are frivolous, and others are downright offensive.

Roster and lobbying below the fold.
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