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| opie, andy, richie and the fonz It's gone viral -- a friend saw it yesterday -- so apologies if I'm repeating someone.
This is a nice comforting way to get the baby-boomers to laugh -- and vote Obama.
kudos by the way, to ... |
8th cousin | 10/24/2008 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| What Hath Newt Wrought Keith Olbermann asked the question tonight... and I paraphrase, "What kind of a country have we become when a disabled woman telling her story is heckled at a townhall meeting?" Ladies and Gentlemen, |
8th cousin | 09/03/2009 | 22 | 9 | 1 | 6 |
| Blue Maryland on track to stay blue In 2006, there was a poll in the last week leading to the election indicating that Then-Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R) and Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley (D) were tied. Turned out they weren't. This year, ... |
8th cousin | 10/29/2010 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 29 |
| Spontaneous Celebrating in the Nation's Capital There is dancing in the streets tonight in Washington DC... both official DC and Local.
When the nets called it for Obama at 11pm EST (poll closing time on the West Coast), people poured into ... |
8th cousin | 11/04/2008 | 7 | 11 | - | 2 |
| The stimulus is working already! Not kidding. There's the provision in the just-signed stimulus bill that allows you to take state sales tax off your income tax -- if you buy a car. (Thanks, Sen. Mikulski! I'm told she slipped it ... |
8th cousin | 02/17/2009 | 38 | 18 | - | 14 |
| Why We Need to Make Something America doesn't manufacture much anymore.
We all know and have lamented the outsourcing of our jobs... Over the years, in part, because of NAFTA, employers, in search of larger profit margins, ... |
8th cousin | 03/30/2009 | 15 | 1 | - | 3 |
| They've already killed the economy.. Now, the oil barons are trying it again. Though I studied economics in college, it was so long ago that it was all theory-- no econometrics. Therefore, I offer my apologies to Bonddad and Jerome a ... |
8th cousin | 06/03/2009 | 9 | 11 | - | 62 |
| here's my health care story I can't call it a horror story -- because it happened 14 years ago... and because of luck in a couple of places. Maybe I can call it my-there-but-for-the-grace-of-God story.
My dad was diagnosed ... |
8th cousin | 08/18/2009 | 4 | 7 | - | 1 |
| funeral for a public option Did you see Keith tonight? he did a segment with Lawrence O'Donnell, who provided some very cogent analysis of the Nancy Pelosi squishiness on the public option.
I didn't like what he said -- I ... |
8th cousin | 09/08/2009 | 30 | 1 | - | 2 |
| I'm starting to see a pattern I've been hoping against hope now that Labor Day's here, President Obama will bring HOPE back....that he'll listen to people OTHER than the cautious "let's replay the 90's" chorus of Rahm, Robert ... |
8th cousin | 09/06/2010 | 14 | 4 | - | 20 |
| SMALL victory It's short because it just got posted at the NY Times... and I saw it on DU.
The president will take a hard line on extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich.... He's decided NOT to take the ... |
8th cousin | 09/07/2010 | 8 | - | - | 17 |
| Infuriated I am -- and I shouldn't be -- I am a practicing Catholic who watches the shenanigans at Mass through eyes squinted with cynicism. I know the difference between Man-made church law and God-made ... |
8th cousin | 10/07/2012 | 6 | 19 | - | 144 |
| storm panic I'm usually pretty blase about storms -- but this one is different..and I'm panicking for a different reason than the people filling their gas tanks (done it), buying water (we're stocked) and bread ( |
8th cousin | 10/28/2012 | 19 | 2 | - | - |