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Friday March 26, 2010 · 1:00 AM PDT

2010/03/26 · 01:00

I don't mind half the stuff Republicans get away with. Look how far it has gotten them. A black Democratic President, a minority in the House and almost a super minority in the Senate. Way to go!

I don't mind a vocal minority, but when that minority turns violent and criminal, enough is enough. We must not equate running for public office with running for your life. We must not let the minority intimidate the majority. That is not democracy; that is tyranny.

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Wednesday February 03, 2010 · 11:44 PM PST

2010/02/03 · 23:44

Just having a little fun with news copy. What if the military were discriminating against Republicans instead of gays? What would that conversation sound like? What if we took a New York Times news story and inserted "Republican" instead of gay or lesbian? I think it would sound pretty funny. Here, I did the work for you, the switches are in bold:

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Saturday January 17, 2009 · 10:22 AM PST

2009/01/17 · 10:22

What would FDR say about our current crisis? We can't ask him, but we can ask his grandson!

Frank Roosevelt, aka Franklin Delano Roosevelt III is a 70-year-old economics professor at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., just north of New York City.

Frank Roosevelt, has Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research, an M.A. in Economics from Columbia University and a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.

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Sunday November 16, 2008 · 10:44 AM PST

2008/11/16 · 10:44

There is not much comment, nor a diary that I can find, that points out this story, the lead on the Washington Post home page:

BAGHDAD, Nov. 16 -- After months of painstaking negotiations between Baghdad and Washington, the Iraqi Cabinet on Sunday approved a bilateral agreement allowing U.S. troops to remain in this country for three more years.

The accord still needs approval by Iraq's parliament, but the Cabinet vote indicated that most major Iraqi parties supported it. The Iraqi government spokesman portrayed the pact as closing the book on the occupation that began with the U.S.-led 2003 invasion.

"The total withdrawal will be completed by Dec. 31, 2011. This is not governed by circumstances on the ground," the spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, told Iraqi reporters, pointedly rejecting the more conditional language that the U.S. government had earlier sought in the accord.

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Wednesday November 12, 2008 · 12:39 AM PST

2008/11/12 · 00:39

Wow, this is the extreme silly season for the GOP, isn't it? First, they tell us that this ia still a "center right" country after it voted for a black man with the Muslim middle name who is a radical socialist who palled around with terrorists. Now, they tell us that Bush is not a conservative.

No, really. I have proof right here:

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 11:04 AM PST

2008/11/05 · 11:04

The first one I heard about was on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell interviewing Kathleen Parker: This is the Newseek article they quoted:

At the GOP convention in St. Paul, Palin was completely unfazed by the boys' club fraternity she had just joined. One night, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to her hotel room to brief her. After a minute, Palin sailed into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair. She told them to chat with her laconic husband, Todd. "I'll be just a minute," she said.

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Sunday October 05, 2008 · 10:54 PM PDT

2008/10/05 · 22:54

I'm not sure that this has been talked about, but as Sarah Palin starts to surface, her higher profile might not be good for her own party. Which, of course, is good for the Obama campaign.

First, of course, we have her statement on Friday to Friendly Fox News:

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Saturday October 04, 2008 · 9:53 AM PDT

2008/10/04 · 09:53

Hard to believe, but there isn't any decent left-wing radio to listen to in New York City, so I'm stuck with the wack-a-doodle right-wingers on WABC.

So Larry Kudlow is holding court this morning. The man is clearly worried. He apologized to his audience for pointing out that Obama's poll figures have been above 50 percent for 9 straight days and this means trouble for McCain.

His prescription for McCain is to call for tax cuts that would lead to job creation. He says that calling for spending cuts - what he calls "root canal Republicanism" and government reform is not working.

Then a caller calls up and says that McCain has mentioned Al Gore as a possible Treasury secretary!

Update: Kudlow also says that going negative won't work for McCain. He rightly points out that the economy is the issue and job creation is the way to go.

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 12:03 AM PDT

2008/10/02 · 00:03

We've seen enough of Sarah Palin's act to know what she is all about.

She's into gibberish. Her answers to questions consist of free association. Like a psychology test.

There are bits of talking points, half completed, which devolve into nonsense. Sentences start and they just stray and then trail off. Thoughts collide with one another. It's as though she loses her train of though between words.

I'm trying to remember where I've heard such disjointed conversation. I remember a comedian, Professor Irwin Corey, famous for his "Less equals more" argument.

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Friday September 26, 2008 · 12:17 PM PDT

2008/09/26 · 12:17

Yes, it's hard to find. It's the last 2 graphs of an AP in which Sarah Palin tries to explain her remarks to Katie Couric about Russia. And doesn't.

This article notes that Palin visited the memorial to the World Trade Center victims. The AP then notes Palin's connection to the disaster:

Palin's parents went to New York in January 2002 to help control the rat population in Staten Island's Fresh Kills landfill as part-time contract workers with the Agriculture Department, her mother, Sally Heath, told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Their task for two weeks was to control the rats so that they did not disturb the debris from the World Trade Center that was being brought there and searched by forensic teams for human remains.

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 12:23 AM PDT

2008/09/24 · 00:23

Well, well. A day after coming out against the Democrats and charging them with holding up the $700 billon bailout, look at what the New York Post is reporting tonight:

The FBI has four major US financial institutions in its crosshairs for triggering the potential collapse of Wall Street and the need for a $700 billion federal bailout plan, law-enforcement officials said today.

Citing potential fraud charges, the feds are probing mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., and insurer American International Group Inc. - while focusing on the heads of the financial institutions, sources said.

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Tuesday September 16, 2008 · 7:14 AM PDT

2008/09/16 · 07:14

I don't know why this isn't out there.

From Wikipedia:

In the US, the Glass-Steagall Act, initially created in the wake of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, prohibited banks from both accepting deposits and underwriting securities which led to segregation of investment banks from commercial banks. Glass-Steagall was effectively repealed for many large financial institutions by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999.In the US, the Glass-Steagall Act, initially created in the wake of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, prohibited banks from both accepting deposits and underwriting securities which led to segregation of investment banks from commercial banks. Glass-Steagall was effectively repealed for many large financial institutions by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999.

Which led to the current crisis

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