Christie asked Cuomo to back off investigating Fort Lee. In mid-December.

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Thursday January 09, 2014 · 11:27 AM PST

2014/01/09 · 11:27

In what seems like ages ago in the Chris Christie Gina Close-a-your-bridgeda scandal saga, the WSJ reported something that looked exceptionally fishy at the time; that Christie had talked with Andrew Cuomo and asked him to get Patrick Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, to back off investigating the Fort Lee bridge closure.

Mr. Christie, a Republican, complained in a private phone call to Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, that Patrick Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was pressing too hard to get to the bottom of why the number of toll lanes onto the bridge from Fort Lee, N.J. was cut from three to one in early September, according to this person. The lane closures occurred without notice to local authorities, officials have said, and snarled traffic for a week in the small borough on the Hudson River bluffs.

According to the WSJ story, that phone call was the week of December 12.

Yeah. Kind of makes Christies little press "performance piece" this morning look like the firehose of lies that it actually was.

Among the mounting stream of evidence that shows Christie knew damn well what was going on, this one would seem to be the final nail in the coffin.

And it's very easily proven ... if Governor Cuomo has the backbone to be a proper partisan and put his boot on Christie's neck.

He doesn't have to do it personally. Heck, the WSJ would be HAPPY to report the facts if they just got the nod ... they're the ones with the connections to "a person familiar with the matter," which by the sound of it has to be someone in Cuomo's office anyway.

Ball is in your court, Andy. End Christie's political career.

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Sunday October 06, 2013 · 11:38 AM PDT

2013/10/06 · 11:38

Last night, Miley Cyrus hosted SNL, and while you can imagine the relatively lame VMA references that dotted the show, one of the best skits was a video of John Boehner and Michele Bachmann (Miley) doing a hardcore Hip Hop version of the government shutdown.

If you haven't had your fill of blinged-out GOPer dance party moves, twerking Bachmanns, Uncle Sams blowing smoke from their crotches, Max-Headroom Reagans, you need to laugh at the video below the dKos scrunchy (head's up: NSFW):

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Boehner in tights was so last season

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Bachmann wasn't sexualized enough

62 votes

it needs more cowbell

353 votes

Uncle Sam wouldn't be seen dead partying with these fools

556 votes

Foreign Policy: "U.S. Had Intel on Chemical Strike Before It Was Launched"

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Friday August 30, 2013 · 2:38 PM PDT

2013/08/30 · 14:38

Geez, this is more than a little disturbing ...

American intelligence agencies had indications three days beforehand that the Syrian regime was poised to launch a lethal chemical attack that killed more than a thousand people and has set the stage for a possible U.S. military strike on Syria.

This has got that Labor Day Weekend "Friday News Dump" smell to me.

More after the hump ...

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Saturday June 01, 2013 · 8:02 PM PDT

2013/06/01 · 20:02

I got a hankering for a bit of old school music today (started with listening to the B-52s and Lipps Inc. yesterday), and I ran across an old undergraduate memory.

It was 1985, and I was partying with a bunch of people I used to swim with while an undergrad---good mixture of students, some folks in their mid-20s, and a pretty even split between men/women. Not too much sexual tension, just good-timing friends enjoying themselves together. We ended up at a guy's house after hitting the bars for a few hours, drank most of his beers and the stuff we had brought, and we were just at that magic point in a party where either it peters out or catches fire.

Doug, the guy who owned the house, throws on the Commodores 1977 self-titled album and goes straight to "Brick House."

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Monday May 27, 2013 · 1:08 PM PDT

2013/05/27 · 13:08

Memorial Day is the day that we remember the soldiers who never got a chance to be Veterans. These are the men and women who died in service to our country.

This is always a sad, thoughtful day for me. Living in Mississippi, I am surrounded by the horrible evidence of the human cost of the Civil War. There isn't a small town around in my neck of the woods that doesn't have a confederate cemetery. In fact, the nearby town of Columbus—a beautiful little place that managed to be one of the few in Mississippi to survive the war without being burned to the ground—is one of the couple of towns in the US that started remembering war dead from both sides of the Civil War: the first Memorial Day. It was originally called "Decoration Day" in Columbus, and the story of the local women decorating graves with flowers from their gardens was said to have inspired Francis Miles Finch to write his famous poem "The Blue and the Gray."

Finch captures the real human tragedy that Memorial Day was established to remember. One stanza reads:

These in the robings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood gory,
In the dusk of eternity meet:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgement-day
Under the laurel, the Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.

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Thursday July 26, 2012 · 10:27 AM PDT

2012/07/26 · 10:27

Oh. Lordie, Lordie. And so the headline pile-on begins across The Pond. When will it start in the U.S.?

Mitt Romney handed Barack Obama a priceless gift for the US presidential election campaign when the presumptive Republican nominee blundered on his first diplomatic outing by questioning whether London was capable of staging a successful Olympic Games.
In a move that astonished Downing Street, hours before it laid on a special reception for Romney at No 10 he told NBC there were "disconcerting" signs about the preparations for the Games.

One senior Whitehall source said: "What a total shocker. We are speechless."

Egad. An international incident within minutes of landing at Heathrow? And making big waves at papers like The Guardian?

Poor Willard. Now his entire trip has got a millstone around its neck; his every word will be measured and poked for veracity and tact.

Could. Not. Happen. To. A. Worse. Politician.

GBCW

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Tuesday June 28, 2011 · 7:51 PM PDT

2011/06/28 · 19:51

There is something very special about Goldey-Beacom College of Wilmington.

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When I think of GBCW, I think of

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When I think of GBCW, I think of

that other school in Wilmington, Gareth's Bagpipe College

7 votes

Goodbye CW network; I finally got tired of even watching you with the sound off

3 votes

Gooseberry/Blackberry Custard Walnut pie

15 votes

"people with very high apportionments of intelligence and education"

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Saturday September 12, 2009 · 3:25 PM PDT

2009/09/12 · 15:25

A friend of mine forwarded a letter he received this week that really made me take stock of who has been responsible for the economic catastrophe we are living through.

My friend does some really important work; he teaches middle school kids in rural Mississippi. He originally is from the east coast, but he and his wife have taken to becoming good progressive Southerners. I knew he had gotten an undergraduate degree from a small liberal arts college, though I didn't know where.

I do now, and I won't forget it.

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Went to one myself, and am proud to be a graduate

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Went for awhile, but moved on

19 votes

Never attended a liberal arts school

12 votes

Never attended, but have family members that did/do

9 votes

Adultery is a crime in South Carolina!

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Wednesday June 24, 2009 · 12:54 PM PDT

2009/06/24 · 12:54

Oh my Juicy Fruit, this is just too good to be true!

As in most of the fundigelical-est of the Southern states, there are many laws still on the books against all kinds of moral offenses and depravities. Most of which are now considered by society as private choices of consenting adults.

But not adultery in South Carolina!

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90+% Fundies aren't nothin' if not about retribution

306 votes

50+% South Carolinians could go either way

269 votes

20+% Southerners don't do shame well, and just want it to go away

1038 votes

0% IOKIYAR

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CONFIRMED with updates: Ted Kennedy collapses at luncheon

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Tuesday January 20, 2009 · 11:46 AM PST

2009/01/20 · 11:46

ABC is reporting that Sen. Kennedy was taken out of the luncheon following what appeared to be convulsions. Sen. Byrd was taken out after being overcome at the events.

Will update as info comes . . .

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Sunday November 09, 2008 · 4:30 PM PST

2008/11/09 · 16:30

Hey y'all . . . 60 minutes is doing a piece RIGHT NOW on Obama's campaign, with David Axelrod, Anita Dunn, David Plouffe, and Robert Gibbs.

(CBS) Not getting obsessed about Barack Obama's race was one of the secrets of the successful campaign to put the first African American in the White House, Obama's closest counselors tell 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft.

The president-elect's four top campaign aides, political advisors David Axelrod and Anita Dunn, campaign manager David Plouffe and press secretary Robert Gibbs, were debriefed by Kroft on election night for a 60 Minutes segment to be broadcast this Sunday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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Obama “Perpetrated a whitewash of our history”?

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Thursday August 28, 2008 · 8:47 PM PDT

2008/08/28 · 20:47

Is anybody watching Tavis Smiley right now? Julianne Malveaux was WAY yanked about Obama not actually saying Martin Luther King's name, on top of a bunch of other perceived slights. She actually said Obama "Perpetrated a whitewash of our history."

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