What is tough?

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Sunday March 09, 2008 · 8:54 AM PDT

2008/03/09 · 08:54

MoDowd has a column today where she says that it's up to Obama to get tough on Hillary in order to win. She got tough on him in Ohio and appealed to older women, the ones who hold the house together while evidently men lose it. I had a conversation with one of these women that left me scratching my head and wondering, what is tough?

MichaelPH

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Friday December 14, 2007 · 3:30 PM PST

2007/12/14 · 15:30

Democrats Formally Apologize for Existing

Washington, DC (Goiters) The Democrats lead by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi made offical today their formal apology for existing.

"We offer a wholehearted apology, a mea culpa if you will for basically stealing the oxygen that could be going to the Republicans," Pelosi said, making herself as small as possible while she spoke.

"To add to what my unnecessary colleague said, I'd like to say, I'm truly sorry, truly utterly beside myself with sorrow at having to take up valuable space, especially in these post-9/11 times. I would like to just disappear, drop off the face of the earth if I could," Senate Majority "Leader" Harry Reid said.

MichaelPH

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Wednesday December 12, 2007 · 10:05 AM PST

2007/12/12 · 10:05

So, since when is the President of the United States working at a "need to know basis"? Is he as out of the loop as his father was supposed to be?
Why are the president's men (and women) keeping this man in the dark? Or is Cheney to be blamed once again?

ABC News' Martha Raddatz Reports: In an exclusive interview with ABC News President Bush said Tuesday he did not know about the destruction of CIA videotapes of detainee interrogations.

The President said he was told just a few days ago.

Ordered not to destroy the tapes, the CIA still went ahead with operation white-wash. Will heads roll?? I can't blame anyone for being cynical that once again, nothing will happen to these guys.

MichaelPH

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Friday October 26, 2007 · 9:40 AM PDT

2007/10/26 · 09:40

Breaking?!

We knew the Republicans were keen on the good ole' days, but this seems taking it a little too far.
From the BBC:

Russian President Vladimir Putin says US plans for a missile shield could precipitate a situation similar to the Cuban missile crisis of the 1960s.

MichaelPH

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Saturday October 13, 2007 · 4:27 PM PDT

2007/10/13 · 16:27

While Thailand, China and Chevron enrich themselves, the Burmese people are getting screwed. The Junta has forced them to attend government functions where citizens are compelled to support the government.

Now the Junta has arrested the leading activist:

Htay Kywe, a prominent student activist from an uprising in 1988, was detained overnight with three other people in one of the many raids still being conducted by police more than two weeks after soldiers were sent in to crush demonstrations.

The 39-year-old, a leading light in the so-called "88 Generation Students Group," had managed to remain at large since 13 of his comrades were arrested in a series of midnight swoops on August 21.

MichaelPH

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Sunday September 30, 2007 · 10:02 AM PDT

2007/09/30 · 10:02

You've never heard of Robert Lichfield or Alan Fabian because the media chose to cover Norman Hsu 1,252 times. One thousand two-hundred and fifty-two times for a man who ~~wasn't charged with a crime~~ was charged with a crime in 1992.

But his last name is Chinese!

MichaelPH

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Thursday May 17, 2007 · 11:30 AM PDT

2007/05/17 · 11:30

"I honk for peace" sounds as mild as one can get, right? It wouldn't pass muster on this website. Milquetoast and bland, even. However this gentle statement supporting peace got schoolteacher Deborah Mayer fired.

When one of Deborah Mayer's elementary school students asked her on the eve of the Iraq war whether she would ever take part in a peace march, the veteran teacher recalls answering, "I honk for peace."

Sure, it happened in Indiana. Must be those Red Staters, right? It could happen to you and me. Since, it turns out, the opinion that public schoolteachers do not have the freedom to speak as we wish has been written by the Federal courts.

MichaelPH

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Friday May 11, 2007 · 1:12 PM PDT

2007/05/11 · 13:12

Six years in Afghanistan and our military still has no idea how to approach Afghans. Why do we insist on kicking in doors where surely females are living? Rather than consulting with local leaders in Herat province we came in and evidently kicked in doors and asked questions later. When the locals objected to this cultural violation by waving and shooting their Kalashnikovs, our military called in air strikes.

BBC News:

Local officials say at least 21 people died when US-led forces called in air strikes against militants near Sangin.

MichaelPH

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Sunday May 06, 2007 · 7:41 AM PDT

2007/05/06 · 07:41

Hello Fellow Kossacks!

This is a weekly reference list of ACTIONs you can take. It takes only a moment to make a difference in one person's life.

Please join me in taking action today!

My new, humble blog. Please visit for updates.

Action below the fold...

MichaelPH

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Friday April 27, 2007 · 11:24 AM PDT

2007/04/27 · 11:24

Hello Fellow Kossacks!

Let this be a weekly reference list of ACTIONs you can take. It takes only a moment to make a difference in one person's life.

Please join me in taking action today!

Below the fold...

MichaelPH

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Monday April 16, 2007 · 7:14 PM PDT

2007/04/16 · 19:14

Plagiarism: it's such an ugly word, isn't it? But Katie Couric has crossed the rubicon of plagiarism with her commentary of 4, April. A producer has since been fired after the commentary which started with Katie telling a first person story. A lovely heartwarming tale of the old days when Katie had a library card. Can you picture lil' Katie with pig tails? Riding her pink bike to the library, card firmly her hand? Sad, to think that it's not true.

In case you missed it: In an April 4 video commentary posted on the Web, Couric mused about how kids are no longer as interested in local libraries as they once were. She even reminisced about getting her first library card as a youngster. But, as was soon discovered, much of the rest of the copy was lifted almost verbatim from a recent column by the Wall Street Journal's Jeffrey Zaslow.

Whoops!

Link to L.A. Times

MichaelPH

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Monday April 09, 2007 · 11:19 PM PDT

2007/04/09 · 23:19

The cities of Oxnard and Malibu California banded together for the last few months (years) to stop the planned Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal, the Cabrillo Station. Along with celebs (Malibu...) like Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry and Tanya, my wife! they all came out to say NO to a giant air/water polluter, a terrorist target extraordinaire right off the coast, with millions of citizens at risk. And guess what? They won!

Hundreds of committed citizens turned out tonight (Monday) to demonstrate and be a presence at the California Lands Commission meeting on whether to grant Aussie company BHP the LNG lease.

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