The Kiss Float needs a home.

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Monday August 02, 2010 · 5:39 AM PDT

2010/08/02 · 05:39

My son and I created it for the July 4, 2006 Boombox Parade in Willimantic, Connecticut. It became both a symbol and a distraction during the Democratic Primary between Ned Lamont and Joe Lieberman.

Since then it has been kept dry and covered on the loft of our barn, and is in good shape. Its armature is made of wood and the form is chicken wire, with skins are composed of newspaper and wallpaper paste. It remains painted as it was then. A ‘Petty Cash’ bag was constructed later, in the same manner. The deck is black and mounts atop the sides of a pickup truck bed. It has five or six signs, the original "Connecticut Bloggers" was painted over.

My family and I are exiting our home in September. If you’d like to own the Kiss Float, email me at writetodadnow@yahoo.com. The best adoption offer, assuming I receive any, will be determine on Friday, August 13. It must be picked up in central Connecticut by August 27. I will help you mount or load it.

Best,
dad

run the IOC officials down their 'i-beam slalom'

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Saturday February 13, 2010 · 5:27 AM PST

2010/02/13 · 05:27

unpadded steel i-beams along a luge track, brilliant. a fix likely less cost than one commercial spot. let the games begin! here we are now, entertain us.

The IOC's thrill-seeking devotion is boundles s - and reckless. For months, the IOC failed to see the red flags concerning the danger lurking on the sliding course at the Vancouver Games. The leaders didn't listen as lugers complained that Canada had not allowed them enough practice time on a course its designers called the "most challenging track in the world." They didn't pay attention when one of the sliding track's curves -- No. 13 -- was dubbed '50-50' by bobsledders because that was the chance of crashing on it. They didn't make a note when one luger after another was unable to get down the track unscathed in practice runs this week. "To what extent are we just little lemmings that they just throw down a track," Australia's Hannah Campbell-Pegg told reporters Thursday. "I mean, this is our lives."

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Saturday September 06, 2008 · 7:33 AM PDT

2008/09/06 · 07:33

I do not claim to know ALL men but I do know some and perhaps I know myself a little bit better after considering how I and (some) other men have responded to the introduction of Sarah Palin. "She’s hot!"

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Monday January 21, 2008 · 6:43 AM PST

2008/01/21 · 06:43

While John Edwards is speaking and fighting for the middle class and those mired in poverty and Barack Obama is calling for a United America, Bill and Hillary Clinton are employing a divide and conquer strategy that we most often associate with Republican politicking and the opposite of what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched for and preached against.

Surrogate after surrogate from the Clinton campaign has been sent out to nip away at Sen. Obama and to tweak voter’s fears and insecurities. The opportunity that Dr. King and many others provided us with, to have both a woman and a black man running serious campaigns to become president, have been damaged by the Clinton’s in their quest for presidency at all and any cost.

It is true that the Clinton’s have been strong advocates for the black community. However this does not give them the right to exploit it and us. It does not give them wiggle room as they or their folks chisel away at Barack’s name, his youth and even his blackness. It does not afford them the allowance to play and pray on our differences and on our weaknesses.

Senator Obama hopes to unite us for the collective good. Senator Clinton appears to want to divide us for our own good or perhaps for hers.

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Monday October 16, 2006 · 11:08 AM PDT

2006/10/16 · 11:08

Hey, folks! The Kiss Float is looking for help to stay floating . . .

The Kiss Float is on the road again! We would like to keep it mobile from now until election day but, we have come to the painful realization that, in fact, we are not made of money.
Please consider helping the cause by making a small donation to help defray the cost of gas and the constant need for minor repairs and touch-ups to keep Joe and George looking their very best.
Also, stay vigilant and keep us posted of events where you feel the float may be needed. It has alot of ground to cover from now until November 7th.

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Friday July 15, 2005 · 7:07 AM PDT

2005/07/15 · 07:07

[unknown source] shares/discusses Wilson and wife with Rove

[unknown source] tells Miller, who tells Novak. (early reports said Miller told Novak)

Novak confirms Miller's story with [unknown source].

Novak calls Rove. Rove confirms story ("yeah I've heard that too"). Novak provides Plame's name to Rove and under cover status.

Miller does not run with the story

3 days later, Rove wanting the story run, tells Cooper. Rove does not say the name "Plame" but does provide leak KNOWING her name and under cover status.

Cooper will not run with the story

3 days later Novak runs with the story (a story that no one else would)

The NYT/Novak piece suggests that Rove did know Plame's name and that she was a CIA officer, under cover, 3 days before Rove told Cooper.

Rove may not have disclosed the name "Plame" to Cooper, but he did say Wilson wife, KNOWING that she was a CIA officer under cover.

[unknown source] The second senior administration official source is described "no partisan gun slinger" according to Novak (could this describe Libby?)

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run the IOC officials down their 'i-beam slalom'

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