Yesterday, on the Keith Larson show on WBT-Charlotte, Keith was joking around with Hillary Clinton about putting he through to Rush Limbaugh.  To which Clinton replied, "I'd love to talk to Rush".

I've been keeping a Google spreadsheet of my own predictions in the Dem. Primaries Vs. Actual results, and they haven't been too stellar.  So I decided to take all of Kos' predictions and plug them in.  Here are the results so far: http://spreadsheets.google.com/...

I was at the Toyota Center last night to see Obama speak.  It was the second Presidential election rally I've ever been to - the first being Bill Clinton at Tranquility Park in '92.  And I was struck by something that happened right before Obama came out...

Journalism at its finest.  I hit the CNN.com homepage and came across a link to this story about yesterday's races.  The link text was also the headline:  McCain leads handily, Dems deadlocked after contests.

Now, if you were just skimming the headlines, how would YOU think the contests turned out yesterday?

Has it really been almost 2 months?  I must say, after the first couple of weeks, it wasn't too difficult avoiding the political blogs.  After I deleted them from my Feed reader, it was just a matter of replacing them other non-politcal feeds... or (gasp!) non-Internet activity.

One of the things I've done is, instead of listening to NPR or AAR, I listen to audiobooks in my car.  I try to mix it up with a bit of fiction, some classics, and personal development stuff.

So how uninformed am I?

Back story here.

It's a strange situation.  I've become so accustomed to reading my blog feeds every morning, that I find myself with extra time that needs to be filled.  I haven't given up on ALL blogs, though -- just politcal ones.  And even then, Dave Winer usually has a post or two a day about something political... but if I just avoid those, I'll be okay.

I've decided to try a little experiment:  I'm swearing off political blogs until January 1st, 2008.  However, I'm going to try and post quasi-regularly to dKos, and give updates as to what "regular" people are talking about.

While admiring [Ron Paul's] idealism, we believe that Paul's district gets punished, even with a GOP majority, when federal dollars are divided.
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Sklar's campaign has been about putting ideology aside and focusing on the financial needs of the district.

He points out that Galveston County has a tradition of representation by strong congressmen, such as Jack Brooks and Tom DeLay, who disagreed wildly on political philosophy but who were aggressive in pursuing federal dollars for the district.

This is a choice in approaches to government.

Our view is that Galveston County's interest would be best served by Sklar.

I'm no Shane Sklar insider or anything, but I (and a few fellow Dems in my area) try to help out in any way that I can.  But since I'm not in constant contact with the Sklar campaign, outside of the email list and various functions, I tend to rely on local newspapers and websites to get information on how it's going.  Sadly, that information is almost zero...

That anyone would utter anything even close to that is not only morally reprehensible, but just outright stupid.  Yet, that's what is has come to.  Many Republicans/conservative pundits have actually put themselves into the box of defending a child sex predator... and they seem to be convinced it's a winning move.

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

The audio is available in Real streaming format only... so I created a quick movie for YouTube here.  It has the 7 minutes of audio, with some pictures of Tehran fading in and out.  Please listen/watch.

Sometimes it feels like writing letters/making calls to my elected officials isn't enough to protest this horrible path it seems we're going down once again.  I wish I could grab everyone by the shoulders and shout "wake up!".

On Thursday, I believed the US government would do everything it could to get our citizens out of harms way, and quickly.  Well, it's 6 days later...

Bush's response: "If you want to figure out what the terrorists are doing, you try to follow their money," the president said. "And that's exactly what we're doing. And the fact that a newspaper disclosed it makes it harder to win this war on terror."

So -- prior to June 23, 2006 -- the terrorists didn't know that the US was trying to follow their money?  Well, maybe they did...

What activists like [Gov. Howard] Dean call the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is an aberration: the McGovern-Mondale wing, defined principally by weakness abroad and elitist, interest-group liberalism at home. That's the wing that lost 49 states in two elections, and transformed Democrats from a strong national party into a much weaker regional one.

While Mollohan's troubles threaten to become a major campaign problem for Democrats, Pelosi, of California, said in a statement that Mollohan decided on his own to step down and that she accepted his decision.

I know it's a small issues, but after reading this quasi-love letter to Rove, it just makes me think, "what are they talking about?"  If ONE Democrat with problems is going to be a major issue for other Democrats, how will the numerous Republicans with legal problems affect all the other Repubs?

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