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Sunday January 31, 2010 · 12:01 PM PST

2010/01/31 · 12:01

Here we go again. Republics are encouraging violence against people who disagree with them. See for yourself. It's the facebook page for the Republic Party of Washington Co., in Oregon. They're in the suburbs of Portland.

The red figure is holding a gun to the head of the blue figure, because it thinks the blue figure is a socialist. Oregon republics are upset because the voters chose to raise taxes on the wealthy and large corporations by passing Measures 66 & 67 this past week. (You didn't hear much about that on the national news did you? Not like the voters of Massachusetts. But I digress.)

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Sunday July 20, 2008 · 1:51 AM PDT

2008/07/20 · 01:51

An article on Netroots Nation has already been posted on the Austin American Statesman's website. It's as bad as you'd expect.

Gore's surprise visit highlights Netroots conference.

It's full of preconceived notions and bad writing. The residents of Austin should demand better from their newspaper.

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Saturday March 04, 2006 · 8:11 AM PST

2006/03/04 · 08:11

A group attemping to get "Support Our Troops" licence plates sold in 41 states have had their efforts halted in Washington. It seems once the WA National Guard started asking specific questions about how the money would be distributed, it didn't seem like such a good idea after all.
LINK

From the Columbian, Vancouver, WA

Saturday, February 25, 2006
By KATHIE DURBIN, Columbian staff writer
OLYMPIA -- A House committee tabled a bill to create a "Support Our Troops" license plate after the head of the Washington National Guard blasted the proposal, saying it failed to guarantee that a single penny from sale of the plates would go to help Washington veterans.

Oh, yeah, there's more... Read More

Articles edited for White House approval?

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Monday February 27, 2006 · 3:57 PM PST

2006/02/27 · 15:57

More and more bloggers (Firedoglake, AmericaBlog) are noticing changes being made in online articles without any explanation from the paper. Here's one more for the pile.

Last August, when Cindy Sheehan was camping in Crawford, a local paper ran a Washington Post article about Bush's refusal to meet with her. One sentence caught my eye:

[Columbian (Vancouver, WA), Sunday August 21, 2005]

Wow, what kind of delicate flower is our Commander in Chief if he can't stand to see protestors? So I go to the computer to get the online version of the article for an easy cut and paste, and surprise, surprise. The article had been changed. Now it said:

The president had made it clear, going back at least to a California railroad swing during his 2000 campaign, that he does not care to meet with protesters or to reward them.

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Coffee, Abramoff and Bush-Oh, my!

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Sunday January 15, 2006 · 2:32 PM PST

2006/01/15 · 14:32

Oh, my. This is getting good.
Newsweek

Jan. 23, 2006 issue - Ohio Rep. Robert Ney personally lobbied the then Secretary of State Colin Powell to relax U.S. sanctions on Iran. Who asked him to? A convicted airplane broker who had just taken the congressman and a top aide on an expense-paid trip to London, NEWSWEEK has learned.
{snip}
The Iranian airline deal shows how the Abramoff case is already expanding into a broader investigation into D.C. lobbying practices. Ney was introduced to Winfield by lobbyists Roy Coffee, a former legislative aide to the then Gov. George W. Bush, and David DiStefano, who had previously been Ney's chief of staff.

...more after the fold... Read More

Julie Myers and the OIC

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Saturday October 15, 2005 · 10:03 AM PDT

2005/10/15 · 10:03

Julie Myers has been nominated to run ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement). She's the niece of Gen. Richard Myers and is married to Michael Chertoff's chief of staff. The most intriguing part of her background to me was her role in Kenneth Starrs's OIC investigation of President Clinton. Myers is mentioned a few times in Susan McDougal's book, The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk. These are excerpts from that book, with explanatory comments in brackets. Read More

The Wingnut Personality Test

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Sunday July 17, 2005 · 6:04 PM PDT

2005/07/17 · 18:04

There's an interesting article on personality tests in the Seattle Times.

Ok, it's really about employers using these things, but hear me out. There are five main categories this particular test examines, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness to new experience.
That last one measures The Wingnut Factor.

Openness to new experience: wide interests, imaginative, insightful, cultured, creative, broadminded

* High scorer: Believes in the importance of art
* Low scorer: Tends to vote for conservative political candidates

After I stopped laughing, it occurred to me this is the current crop of conservatives* entire problem. They have closed their minds to anything new.

...more after the fold...
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Cooney resigns

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Saturday June 11, 2005 · 1:35 PM PDT

2005/06/11 · 13:35

Yes, that Phillip Cooney, energy industry lobbiest turned environmental editor, has resigned.

EDITOR OF CLIMATE REPORTS RESIGNS
Philip A. Cooney, chief of staff to President Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, has resigned, White House officials said.

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PRO Estate Tax group

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Wednesday April 13, 2005 · 1:49 PM PDT

2005/04/13 · 13:49

Today the House is voting (right now!) on a bill to make the repeal of the Estate (or inheritance) Tax permanent.

I wanted to find anyone who knew how the Estate Tax works, and was in favor of it. Responsible Wealth is a good start. To belong to Responsible Wealth, you must be in the top %5 income bracket [not me], and these people are all in favor of the tax, support a living wage, and call for greater corporate accountability. William Gates, Sr. is a member (father of Microsoft Bill Gates).

Wouldn't you like it if these people were your bosses?

Lots of good reading here, folks. If you like the site, email some of the info & a link to your congress critters. Today's vote is only the House, it still has to clear the Senate. GO!

What do Terri Schiavo and Valerie Plame have in common?

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Tuesday March 29, 2005 · 5:13 PM PST

2005/03/29 · 17:13

A few things, believe it or not. The lives of Terri Schiavo and Valerie (Plame) Wilson have a few parallels. Both were teenagers in Huntingdon Valley, PA and graduated high school in 1981 (from different schools), then went to college.

Both got married and lived quiet lives until the rabid right decided the women would make handy punching bags for the conservative agenda. Read More

Gannon/Talon's complete lack of ethics

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Friday February 25, 2005 · 3:40 PM PST

2005/02/25 · 15:40

GannonGuckert and the other hacks at Talon copied many of their news stories from other sources. They were never attributed to the people or companies who actually did the work, and they had the nerve to slap a "copyright Talon News" at the bottom of the page.
Their volunteers posted stories from all over the world. Volunteers traveling overseas? I don't think so.

Here is an example of ethics in journalism. (I know you're reading this, JimmyJeff, you can't help yourself. So pay attention!)

WBTV fires producer for plagarism

Mark Washburn
TV/Radio Writer

WBTV fired a news producer for plagarism this week after discovering a report on Monday's 5:30 p.m. newscast contained two sentences copied verbatim from a story in Sunday's Charlotte Observer.

"It was a very short story," said Dennis Milligan, Channel 3's news director. "Two of the three sentences in the piece were directly copied."

LINK for the full story from Charlotte.com

It's obvious Talon was never a real news organization, and JimmyJeff should never have been allowed into the White House press room.

Daschle's residency questioned

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Friday February 11, 2005 · 2:58 AM PST

2005/02/11 · 02:58

Aug. 7th, 2003The issue of Tom Daschle's residency came up in an ad run by Club for Growth. They imply because he bought an expensive house (is there any other kind in DC?) that he no longer cares about South Dakota.

Aug. 13, 2003 Talon News put this on it's website:

August 2003 Google cache only-grab it now if you want it.

Daschle Claims Questionable Tax Credit for DC Home
By Jeff Gannon
Talon News
August 13, 2003

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Sen. Tom Daschle's (D-SD) new Washington home has been giving the Senate minority leader headaches of late. Last week, Club for Growth, the Washington-based, anti-tax group, began airing ads in South Dakota that imply the senator's "very, very, very big house" purchased in April for $1.9 million betrays his down-home image.

Now another controversy surrounding the palatial French colonial on Washington's exclusive Foxhall Road has emerged. A Talon News search of DC property records revealed that Daschle is receiving the homestead tax
credit.

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Cooney resigns

PRO Estate Tax group

What do Terri Schiavo and Valerie Plame have in common?

Gannon/Talon's complete lack of ethics

Daschle's residency questioned