This is not what I bargained for (UPDATED 3x)

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Wednesday December 09, 2009 · 10:56 AM PST

2009/12/09 · 10:56

I look on my TV, and I see Joe Lieberman smiling. Markos Molitsas tells me that Republicans are smiling. Insurance companies are still going to still make money.

I am simply flabbergasted!

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Who will you support for president in 2012?

60 votes Vote Now!

Who will you support for president in 2012?

Sarah Palin

9 votes

Tim Pawlenty

0 votes

Newt Gingrich

1 vote

Mike Huckabee

3 votes

Ralph Nader

2 votes

Cynthia McKinney

3 votes

Mitt Romney

2 votes

Rudy!

1 vote

Ron Paul

2 votes

That Lying, scheming so-called "president" we have now

33 votes

John Edwards

4 votes

Payback is a Dog in Heat

JohnGor0

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Wednesday March 26, 2008 · 10:23 AM PDT

2008/03/26 · 10:23

Short diary, and please let me know if it's been diaried already.

ESPN story here tells how Dale Petroskey resigned Tuesday as president of the baseball Hall of Fame after its board's executive committee found he "failed to exercise proper fiduciary responsibility."

You know who Dale Petrovsky is, don't you?

Kriss Kross says "jump"

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Favorite Baseball Movie

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Favorite Baseball Movie

Bull Durham

9 votes

Bang the Drum Slowly

1 vote

Fear Strikes Out

1 vote

Major League

3 votes

Damn Yankees

0 votes

The Natural

5 votes

Field of Dreams

5 votes

The Bad News Bears

4 votes

Pride of the Yankees

1 vote

MLB's 2005 Major League Champs DVD

1 vote

A League of Their Own

7 votes

The Warriors

0 votes

Cobb

0 votes

8 Men Out

2 votes

Summer of Sam

1 vote

Why is our Media addicted to Idiot News?

JohnGor0

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Wednesday January 02, 2008 · 9:50 AM PST

2008/01/02 · 09:50

I know that the primary season kicks off this week. I just thought some could use some levity, a departure from the Obama/Edwards/Hillary sucks because XYZ for a minute.

Reading the headlines at MSNBC, one's eye is usually drawn to the sensationalistic. Sometimes, the human interest leaps off the page. Sometimes the human interest is so ridiculous, it really calls for a little deeper reading.

Leap, please.

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What would you do upon finding that check?

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What would you do upon finding that check?

Start practicing the signature

0 votes

Walk into the bank and demand the money

2 votes

Return it to the writer

6 votes

Return it to the Payee

3 votes

Tear it up and throw it out

6 votes

Put it in the mailbox

4 votes

Call the police

2 votes

Go right to the gambling boats

0 votes

Nibble the corners

1 vote

Call Rush and tell him. Only he can make sense of this

1 vote

Call Dr. Laura and ask her what to do. Cry alot.

1 vote

Cry

0 votes

Try to convince the guy who works at the McDonald's to cash it for you

0 votes

Call a reporter from MSNBC. This has feature story written all over it.

1 vote

Enlist in the Army

1 vote

Where's the Tort Reform Outrage?

JohnGor0

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Wednesday August 08, 2007 · 10:37 AM PDT

2007/08/08 · 10:37

Here's a new one. The airlines are trying to compel the CIA and FBI to testify in order to make the US government take on more culpability for 9/11. This is in an effort to protect themselves from lawsuits.

There must be some entity that scours legal case files to find that rare lawsuit where someone sues a McDonald's for getting fat. They must be hard to find, because I would bet most silly lawsuits get thrown out before even going before a judge. However, Somebody files papers to sue United Airlines because they missed a birthday party in Seattle, and it gets broadcast all over our journalistic world. Liberals and Conservatives, alike, deride the half-witted greed of frivilous lawsuits that are rare, and usually don't even get past the clerk.

Hold my hand and jump...

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Which tort reform legislation would you like to see enacted?

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Which tort reform legislation would you like to see enacted?

Capping consumer awards

5 votes

Ending virtual personhood for corporations

35 votes

Forcing suing corporate entities to pay all court costs, no matter the outcome

2 votes

Limiting awards against non-corporations to $500

0 votes

Clown suits for corporate lawyers

5 votes

Force all media to deride every single corporate lawsuit, regardless of merit

1 vote

CEO and entire board must be present for each filing, or else suit is dropped

1 vote

Other (Please Specify Below)

2 votes

Correspondence with a "Journalist", or "Does this Crucifix Make Me Look Fat?"

JohnGor0

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Sunday July 29, 2007 · 2:26 AM PDT

2007/07/29 · 02:26

Okay, Atrios posted some content on this article by Anna Marie Slaughter today. It's a puff piece about how we all need to eschew partisanship and make everything work together, because, you know, the country really needs to pull together.

FLIP is not just one of Mrs. Wilson's boys.

JohnGor0

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Tuesday July 10, 2007 · 6:40 PM PDT

2007/07/10 · 18:40

Story here.

If someone already diaried this, I will happily change this into a Rick Bayless cooking tips diary.

However:

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One shovel, one swing:

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One shovel, one swing:

Donald Rumsfled

3 votes

Condi Rice

2 votes

George Bush

5 votes

Dick Cheney

23 votes

Sen. Vitter

1 vote

Rudy!

0 votes

Mitt!?!

0 votes

Ron Paul

1 vote

Kos (be careful)

2 votes

JohnGor0

0 votes

Brownie

1 vote

Gonzo

2 votes

Other (Please enter below)

0 votes

Hillary Trounces All in Hypothetical Matchups

JohnGor0

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Tuesday April 10, 2007 · 7:33 PM PDT

2007/04/10 · 19:33

In a new Gallup Poll, via politcalwire.com, we find that Hillary trounces the competition in their latest poll. Hillary has 39% support compared to Barack Obama's 19%, John Edwards 15% and Al Gore's 14%. Al Gore has stated repeatedly that he is not running for president. All other candidates, including Wesley Clark and Al Sharpton, neither of whom are running, are in single digits.

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Which undeclared Democrat would get your vote for prez?

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Which undeclared Democrat would get your vote for prez?

Jack Carter

13 votes

Diane Feinstein

21 votes

Kathleen Blanco

3 votes

Harold Ford

7 votes

Joe Lieberman

7 votes

Rod Blagojevich

10 votes

the late Coleman Young

12 votes

Zell Miller

9 votes

Hillary - Lennon love child?!?!?

JohnGor0

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Saturday January 27, 2007 · 10:24 PM PST

2007/01/27 · 22:24

Made you look. This is a drunken blow-off Saturday night music diary.

What was the most exciting musical discovery you made in 2006?

I walked into the world section of Virgin Records on Michigan Ave. in Chicago, and heard a wonderful song. I asked what it was, and was told it was "O Filosofo" by Jorge Ben. I walked right over and bought "The Definitive Collection", which I have since bought 6 more copies to give away as gifts. "Zumbi" and "Pais Tropical" are two of the most beautiful songs I have heard in my life.

Oh, jump.

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Who'da thunk?

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Who'da thunk?

Jorge Benjor

0 votes

Shonen Knife

0 votes

Kanye and Common

2 votes

Madvillian

0 votes

John Legend

2 votes

OK Go

0 votes

Juggy D

0 votes

Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm

0 votes

Gilberto Gil

2 votes

People Under the Stairs

0 votes

Esquerita

0 votes

Leaf Hound

0 votes

Cornershop

0 votes

I made a racist friend today

JohnGor0

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Thursday January 18, 2007 · 10:22 PM PST

2007/01/18 · 22:22

I work in downtown Chicago, worked late, and caught a cab home tonight.

After a little back and forth, I asked my cab driver where he was from, and he proudly said he was a Muslim from Bangladesh.

Please hold my hand and jump...

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You have a shovel. You get one swing.

78 votes Vote Now!

You have a shovel. You get one swing.

George Bush

22 votes

Dick Cheney

31 votes

Alberto Gonzalez

7 votes

Condi Rice

1 vote

John Ashcroft

1 vote

John McCain

3 votes

Ahmed Chalabi

0 votes

Satan

3 votes

Mike Ditka

3 votes

Other (<i>Please Specify Below</i>)

7 votes

Whistle-Blowers caused the Holocaust

JohnGor0

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Sunday June 19, 2005 · 8:45 AM PDT

2005/06/19 · 08:45

I'm sure there are thousands of examples of this in the last month alone, but this one made me snap.

Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote an article that is listed under a banner that says, "NEWS". The news she wishes to relay is that it's really bad when someone points out the attrocities that are being committed in our name, and we should hope they never come true.

Please read the article, and reply to her accordingly.

My response is after the leap. Read More

Canseco: Bush Must Have Known

JohnGor0

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Sunday February 06, 2005 · 10:34 AM PST

2005/02/06 · 10:34

In exerpts from Jose Canseco's upcoming book, Canseco charges that he actually shot steroids into Mark McGwire... Read More

FEMA kids Tsunami game

JohnGor0

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Thursday January 20, 2005 · 8:59 PM PST

2005/01/20 · 20:59

Our compassionate conservative leader has a game here for children to play and understand the horrific loss of life and the complicated reconstruction effort by having one put a fish back in the ocean and a boot in the garbage can in this wonderfully sensitive flash game.

Check it out. Then pray that there is a hell so G.W.B. can spend eternity there.

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