A revisit...admittedly late...of that first debate.

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Thursday November 08, 2012 · 3:30 AM PST

2012/11/08 · 03:30

There has been a thought percolating in my brain about that first debate. Since we are now "safely in the clubhouse", I would like to see if that thought might have any basis in reality. I certainly understand this is a moot question, and I held off on discussing this purposely so that it would be moot. The thought is that, with the first debate being such an out of character performance, could it have been a purposeful strategic gamble? Follow me over the orangeness for why I think this and why it may have been one of the best moves to pay off in this campaign.

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Walking a mile in their shoes

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Monday May 28, 2012 · 4:44 PM PDT

2012/05/28 · 16:44

There are a couple of proverbs that I have generally tried to build my life around. "I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet" I first saw this proverb in a Robert Heinlein book and it really says a lot about how a change of perspective can change your outlook on your own situation. The second is also shoe-related (oddly enough, for the most part. I couldn't give a rip about shoes) and it is "Never judge someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes". I am sure there may be a healthy debate in the comments about the source of these sayings, but universal truths need no sourcing, they just are. Follow me over the cheeto for my reasons in attempting to "walk a mile" in someone else's shoes.

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Thursday February 16, 2012 · 9:39 AM PST

2012/02/16 · 09:39

In possibly the best argument for a regulated, free market versus absolute free market, I refer you to this from my local news.

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for those who have issues pulling up the link, the short story is that many Children's Hospitals, and pharmacies are facing a critical shortage of the chemotherapy drug, Methotrexate, a generic drug that helps to save 90% of children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia(ALL). The Problem? Methotrexate is a generic with no profit motive (cost $1.58 a vial), so the main supplier of this drug in the US market suspended production in November, and hospitals now have about a 2 week supply. The requested action? For now please visit Cure Search for Children's Cancer to send a letter to your Congress critters. Over the jump, additional details on both this story and reasons this occurred.

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Monday February 13, 2012 · 2:34 AM PST

2012/02/13 · 02:34

One of the themes I have seen developing in this GOP primary season is a greater "purity" than in past elections. The Mittster's hard swing to the right, Newt reinventing himself...again, Rick "eewww, don't Google that" Santorum blatant play to the evangelicals. Another theme has been the "ascension" of Saint Ronnie to demigod status. If an alien were to listen to the candidates alone, you would almost believe that Ronald Reagan were the only Republican president of recent memory. Now, if you're 18 you may just barely remember the Clinton years, but being of an older vintage (Douglas Adams answer...and if you get the age from that, congrats you get to wear the geek cap for the day.) I know that Republican presidents have outnumbered Democratic presidents 5 to 3 in the last 40 years.
One of my main thesis this political season has been that no Republican president of the Twentieth Century (including Ronald "Trees" Reagan) would have survived the primary process of today's GOP. So, I decided to take a look. Originally, I was not going to include any Republican president prior to 1901, due to the swapping of political identification that appears to have started with Theodore Roosevelt, but to provide some context, I did go back to the first president of the Grand "Old" Party. Jump over the intaglio for some of my thoughts on this.

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Friday December 23, 2011 · 4:12 PM PST

2011/12/23 · 16:12

Very quick intro as CNN is Reporting only that

Rick Perry won't appear on Virginia's primary ballot after submitting petition without enough signatures, officials say

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You've gotta be kidding me!

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Saturday December 03, 2011 · 12:28 AM PST

2011/12/03 · 00:28

Only in America.

Flying fashionistas with a thing for the Second Amendment may want to leave their gun-themed purses and other paraphernalia at home, lest they be flagged as a security risk and miss their flights.
As she was flying home after the recent holiday weekend, Virginia Gibbs' gun-themed purse was flagged as a security risk by Transportation Security Administration officials at the Norfolk, Virginia, airport.

If you follow the link and see the photo, yep that there is a depiction of a gun.

the 17-year-old says she was told that the purse "was a federal offense because it's in the shape of a gun. I'm like, 'a design on a purse. How is it a federal offense?' "

Well, this young girl may not realize this, but this prohibition goes back to before the TSA. Just like making a joke about having a gun or explosive, within hearing of a security officer, is also a federal offense punishable by fine and prison time. Follow me over the strange orange swirly for a real life incident.

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Wednesday June 02, 2010 · 4:08 PM PDT

2010/06/02 · 16:08

Dear Jan,

I am certainly sorry if anyone has compared you to Hitler's daughter. This was certainly never my feeling, although the law you signed and trumpeted, as originally written, would have led and still very well will lead to a "Papers please" attitude from Law Enforcement. The law itself has been debated beyond belief and as I am certain that the law is prima facie unconstitutional this letter is not to enumerate the problems with SB 1070.
The reason for the letter follows below.

RiverCityMadman

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Monday March 01, 2010 · 5:01 PM PST

2010/03/01 · 17:01

There was a great deal said about the mercifully small tsunami's for Hawaii. And the almost nonexistent one for Japan. Rush, however took the cake today. You just know if the pill popping blowhard could get anything about science right...but, noooo.

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Monday June 15, 2009 · 9:21 PM PDT

2009/06/15 · 21:21

About three weeks ago, long before the DKos Smokeout date was decided, before I knew that Bill's wonderful Michael was going to celebrate a year, I chose June 15 2009 as my quit date. Due to my work schedule, the fact that I am using NRT (patches) and when I lay this weary head on my pillow my last cigarette was at 3am 6/15/2009. My second daughter's third birthday gift to her and my early Father's Day gift to me. The significance of Father's Day, addiction and me, how my day went and my plan for the next 8-10 weeks, after the jump.

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Wednesday December 03, 2008 · 9:02 AM PST

2008/12/03 · 09:02

Governor Bill Richardson dropped out of the race for President fairly early on. His endorsement of Barack Obama came at great personal risk, due to his longtime friendship with the Clinton's. When the Cabinet appointments started coming down, I first thought State or even Treasury would be the reward for his endorsement. Both President-elect Obama (that feels sooo good to say) and Gov. Richardson may have out-thought me. Follow over the fold for why.

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Thursday May 01, 2008 · 9:13 PM PDT

2008/05/01 · 21:13

The Pegasus Parade is the oldest event of the Kentucky Derby Festival, it is the second highest attended event of the Festival, leaving the Derby and the Kentucky Oaks aside. It is a place to see (celebrities like Bobby Flay, Willard Scott, Kynt and Vyxen of Amazing Race fame) and be seen.

It is the being seen portion I am interested in for this diary.

RiverCityMadman

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Tuesday February 19, 2008 · 6:53 PM PST

2008/02/19 · 18:53

I am an Obama supporter, have even filed at this point to be an Obama delegate, in Kentucky. However, I have voted for the democratic nominee in every election since I was old enough to vote. For the record, in the general that has been Dukakis, Clinton, Clinton, Gore and Kerry. I will be the first to admit the candidate I supported in the primary(other than 1996 when Bill Clinton was a fait accompli) has never won the nomination. Same for the record disclosure:Jackson 88, Tsongas 92, Clinton 96, Bradley 00, Edwards 04.
While I find much of her rhetoric lately distasteful, discounting wins by Barack Obama as meaningless, disparaging the Democratic (and other) voters in those states, while pressing to add delegates that were punitively stripped for states knowingly violatig party rules, Hillary Clinton would be miles better for this country than a McCain administration would be on a number of fronts.

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