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| Markey to Deniers: Go Live on the Greenland Iceberg Saw this and thought it was too good not to pass along:
The Hill reports that on Saturday, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/09/2010 | 21 | 37 | 1 | 54 |
| Asimov Tells Moyers About the Internet This diary is presented with little comment. I apologize in advance if this 1989 interview of genius Isaac Asimov by Bill Moyers has been posted here before. I frankly didn't take the trouble to ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/31/2010 | 58 | 36 | 1 | 52 |
| LOL - Rotten Tomatoes on New Palin Film This will be short. You've probably already heard about the new documentary The Undefeated , all about Sarah Palin, written by Sarah Palin. She ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/29/2011 | 22 | 36 | - | 545 |
| Schwarzenegger's Coded Message I couldn't find anything very substantive to diary about today, so I thought I'd submit this for a few laughs. I certainly got a kick out of it.
It seems a California Assemblyman submitted an ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/28/2009 | 67 | 35 | - | 99 |
| When White Guys Attack Newt Gingrich , in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/18/2010 | 55 | 35 | - | 192 |
| A Brief History of Social Security The Social Security Act was passed in 1935. Benefits did not begin until two years ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/16/2010 | 42 | 35 | - | 103 |
| Latest Rightwing Complaint: Taxes Are Too Low No, that's not a typo. In their endless quest to put a negative spin on anything Obama does, the rightwing noise machine is now bitching about the following AP story, ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/08/2010 | 68 | 35 | - | 39 |
| When Obama Calls a Late Night Press Conference | MeMeMeMeMe | 09/17/2012 | 15 | 35 | - | 382 |
| Gun Marches Planned for Anniversary of Oklahoma City In what can only be described as rather unfortunate timing, a pro-gun group known as Second Amendment March is planning ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/30/2010 | 67 | 33 | - | 98 |
| New GNM-HRM Poll: Race Deadlocked A new poll conducted by Good News McCain Research™ on behalf of HorseRace Media has the national race tied, showing Mitt Romney trailing President Obama by only 20 points, within the poll's 30-... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/28/2012 | 22 | 33 | - | - |
| CNN Oh SNAP: O 48, R 40 [Update: CNN confirms Obama win by declaring it "a draw"] Just in from CNN :
BREAKING: Results of CNN-ORC post-debate poll of debate watchers. Who won debate? Obama 48, Romney 40. +/- 4.5% #CNNDebate
If this snap poll had the same heavily Republican ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/22/2012 | 66 | 32 | - | - |
| PPP North Carolina: Clinton +3, huge lead for Dems in early voting The latest from Public Policy Polling in North Carolina:
The Senate race is also close:
The Senate race remains very close with Richard Burr at 42% to 41% for Deborah Ross, and 6% for Sean Haugh.
PDF with full results. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/24/2016 | 64 | 32 | - | - |
| Break-ins and arson: STUNNING U.S. Attorney news [UPDATED] From Raw Story . See the disgusting details below the fold. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/01/2008 | 8 | 31 | 1 | 29 |
| It's Amazing What a Primary Challenge Will Do Senator Blanche Lincoln seems to have had a come to Jesus moment : |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/13/2010 | 33 | 31 | 1 | 62 |
| Real Financial Reform Just Got More Likely Three strong candidates for the Federal Reserve Board have long been rumored, but now President Obama ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/29/2010 | 9 | 30 | - | 36 |
| New Poll: Tea Party Going Nowhere Fast There are many interesting things to be found in a new ABC News-Washington Post ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/05/2010 | 32 | 30 | - | 660 |
| 'Register to vote' Google searches double after Obama speech Diary title shamelessly stolen from this story on MSNBC :
Google reported that searches for "register to vote" doubled nationwide in the moments directly following Obama's speech. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/08/2012 | 14 | 30 | - | 211 |
| Survey USA: Clinton +10 in Minnesota. No, Donald, you're not going to win Minnesota. From the article:
* One month ago, Trump led among independent men by 20 points, now that group is tied.
* One month ago, Trump led among all independents by 6, now trails by 5.
* One month ago, Clinton led among women by 15 points, now by 20. ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/29/2016 | 47 | 29 | - | - |
| The Scozzafava Purge: I Got Your PURITY For Ya The brilliant Roy Edroso of alicublog regularly does the dirty work that most of us shun: he actually reads the wingnutosphere. I mean ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/02/2009 | 54 | 27 | 2 | 47 |
| Notes to Self, by Sarah Palin | MeMeMeMeMe | 02/07/2010 | 38 | 27 | - | 32 |
| 'Scuse me while I whip this out | MeMeMeMeMe | 05/01/2011 | 26 | 27 | - | 193 |
| Just one more data point: Nate Silver shows *improvement* for Obama Updated just a little bit ago. Yeah, it's a teeny tiny incremental improvement, but still an improvement .
• Nov. 6 forecast goes from 86.1% yesterday to 86.4% today
• Nowcast goes from 96.9% ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/04/2012 | 17 | 27 | - | 452 |
| "What I did do was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line" - Powell Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, has released an email exchange between Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton:
House Democrats late Wednesday released a full email exchange in which Colin Powell advised Hillary Clinton just after she was sworn in as... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/07/2016 | 19 | 27 | - | - |
| Another Palin Cashes In: What It's Really All About Bristol Palin has reached the age of majority, and as is customary in her family, it's time for her to start exploiting her celebrity : |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/18/2010 | 93 | 25 | - | 86 |
| Atlas Begged "For America to compete effectively, businesses must work with local, state and federal entities.''
That was our Galtian hero, John Aglialoro, producer and ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/27/2011 | 13 | 25 | - | 143 |
| Reid Eats His Wheaties: Calls GOP Tactics "anti-American" Whoa. We've been seeing a new and improved Harry Reid lately, |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/28/2010 | 20 | 24 | - | 27 |
| Meet the Minerals Management Service Today you may have heard that President Obama made some remarks about the ongoing oil spill. In ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/15/2010 | 15 | 24 | - | 42 |
| Whoa: Clinton up 4 in Alaska Never heard of this particular pollster before, and the sample size was only 400, but that may be a decent sample in Alaska.
Full report is here. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/29/2016 | 30 | 24 | - | - |
| BREAKING: Spain Moves to Europe, Becomes U.S. Ally Great news!
Spain, which until recently had been ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/13/2009 | 37 | 23 | 1 | 52 |
| Citizens United Freaking Out Over Kagan A couple of days ago, the diary Why Kagan Makes Sense: Citizens United made the case that Obama's litmus test for Kagan was the ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/11/2010 | 20 | 23 | - | 111 |
| South Carolina GOP Holds Nostalgic Gathering
This photo is from a gathering entitled "A Southern Experience", held by The National ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/18/2010 | 17 | 23 | - | 57 |
| MARIST NV: Obama 50, Romney 47. [More polls added] Overall a pretty good polling day for Obama. Would like to see Colorado less tight, of course.
NBC First Read :
The race between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney is locked ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/25/2012 | 132 | 23 | - | - |
| Trump Campaign and RNC Schedule a 'Come to Jesus' Meeting Politico is reporting that the totally-not-in-disarray Trump campaign and the RNC are going to have a serious talk:
Donald Trump’s campaign and top Republican Party officials plan what one person called a “come to Jesus” meeting on Friday in... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/11/2016 | 40 | 23 | - | - |
| GOP Candidates Got Some 'Splainin' to Do Thanks to this post at Balloon Juice , we've got a nice rundown of various GOP candidates looking like assholes on the Libya ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/21/2011 | 19 | 22 | 1 | 227 |
| GOP Chair: Obama Changes Non-Existent Speech...VICTORY!1! About a week ago, we all learned of the latest bit of ripe insanity to emit ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/07/2009 | 59 | 21 | - | 49 |
| Two More Senators Sign the Public Option Letter Add two more to the growing list: Debbie Stabenow (MI) ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/22/2010 | 31 | 21 | - | 31 |
| Ebert on the Prescott Mural If you have a few minutes, you might want to read this extraordinary essay by the ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/07/2010 | 6 | 21 | 2 | 30 |
| Whitehouse Amendment Fails - Usury Remains Legal This is disappointing :
The Senate has rejected a proposal aimed at lowering credit card rates by ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/19/2010 | 22 | 20 | - | 156 |
| Dear Mr. President: Make BP Pay More Than It Has! By now, we've all heard the news that BP has agreed to put a paltry twenty billion ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/16/2010 | 29 | 20 | 1 | 53 |
| I See BM You may have caught a brief mention of this in today's Midday open thread . Or maybe you just skimmed over it ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 07/07/2010 | 32 | 20 | 1 | 119 |
| The Statute of Liberty
Are you ready for an American history ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/01/2011 | 14 | 20 | - | 108 |
| That's it, we're done. We win. Barack Obama just won the election.
Bill Kristol has declared Mitt Romney the winner of tonight's debate:
Mitt Romney is more than holding his own with Barack Obama tonight.
That's Bill Kristol. ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/22/2012 | 16 | 19 | - | - |
| Joe the Plumber: Cub Reporter [with poll!] Samuel Joseph "Jimmy Olsen" Wurzelbacher has attacked a new career. And along with it, the future of satire.
Via Think ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 01/11/2009 | 56 | 18 | 1 | 21 |
| BofA and Wells Fargo Rush to Beat Wikileaks Looks like they're cutting a deal :
U.S. regulators may ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/25/2011 | 11 | 18 | - | 208 |
| Unemployment: Obama vs. Reagan The next time a wingnut starts shouting at you about Obama's poor employment record, you might want to share a few of these charts with them:
Reagan:
Obama:
Note the unemployment rate when each ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/05/2012 | 10 | 18 | 2 | 87 |
| But What Will We Tell the CHILDREN??? Okay all you gay marriage advocates, I've got one question for you: just how on earth do you think you're going to explain to young children the concept of same-sex marriage? How will they ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/11/2010 | 35 | 17 | - | 51 |
| GOP Nominates Someone Nuttier Than Angle You've probably heard of Sharron Angle . She's been nominated by her party to challenge Harry Reid for his Senate seat in Nevada. ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/22/2010 | 13 | 17 | - | 31 |
| Carbon Unit Josh Romney at Debate
Prepare to initiate jump to applause subroutine. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/17/2012 | 12 | 17 | 1 | - |
| Newt Gingrich Invites Porn Exec to "Intimate Event"
Above: Gingrich in a menage a trois . H/... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/11/2009 | 46 | 16 | - | 38 |
| Pardon me, but would you have any grey | MeMeMeMeMe | 05/08/2009 | 28 | 14 | - | 33 |
| And That's What Stupid Is All About, Charlie Brown! A Tennessee mayor was so upset at having "A Charlie Brown Christmas" preempted by Obama's Afghanistan ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 12/04/2009 | 25 | 14 | - | 55 |
| J.P. Patches, R.I.P. There may not be many readers here (especially at this particular time of the weekend) who know what this is about, but I thought I'd share it anyway :
SEATTLE —
Chris Wedes, the loveable iconic ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 07/22/2012 | 28 | 14 | 1 | 167 |
| Trump finally tells the truth... Talking Points Memo is reporting that Trump has finally agreed to three debates with Hillary Clinton:
“I will absolutely do three debates,” Trump said in a phone interview with Time.
He also made a promise that, for once, he is sure to... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/09/2016 | 10 | 14 | - | - |
| Smoking Gun: Vatican Ordered Cover-Up Advocates for those abused by Catholic priests may have just gotten all the proof they were ever looking for ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 01/18/2011 | 18 | 13 | - | 53 |
| SuperShallowEgotistWithMultipleNeuroses
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/10/2009 | 19 | 12 | - | 135 |
| Could Financial Reform Actually Break Up the Banks? It's a slim hope, but it's at least possible.
As mentioned in ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/21/2010 | 10 | 12 | - | 41 |
| Chuck Norris Special Offer: Desecrated Flags, Only $73.50! | MeMeMeMeMe | 09/23/2009 | 36 | 11 | 1 | 69 |
| Paging BruinKid... There better be a BruinKid diary in the works about tonight's episode of Bill Maher , because:
On his show tonight, Bill Maher squared off with Dinesh D’Souza, the face of a new anti-Obama ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/31/2012 | 22 | 11 | - | 220 |
| Tell me I'm worrying about nothing In a diary earlier today entitled Howard Dean on the Process Moving Forward , diarist lowkell quotes Howard Dean on NPR discussing ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/05/2008 | 85 | 10 | 1 | - |
| GOP State Senator Has Food Poisoning He ate some meat that's been hanging for years :
BUTTARS: I meet with the gays here and there. They ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/20/2009 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 120 |
| Support the GOP's Plan to Strengthen Wall Street Reform No, that's not a misprint. And I attest that I am of sound mind and body.
Just what, you ask, is their plan? |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/21/2010 | 8 | 10 | - | 20 |
| Curveball Admits He Was Lying Who could have foreseen , etc. etc.:
The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/15/2011 | 4 | 10 | - | 94 |
| ZEE-ROH Zee-Roh. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/05/2012 | 13 | 10 | - | 227 |
| Fox News is on it... Have no fear, Republicans, Fox News is here!
All ya'll wingnuts chill the fuck out...Fox has got this! |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/05/2012 | 12 | 10 | - | 161 |
| PPP National: O50, R48 Our national tracking poll finds Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney 50-48 based on interviews conducted Friday-Sunday: publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/11211… — PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/04/2012 | 24 | 10 | - | - |
| The Stuff Harry Reid Is Made Of
Pictured: Harry Reid's essence. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/23/2010 | 35 | 9 | - | 38 |
| Another very quick look at national polls Just a follow up on teacherken’s diary of yesterday, wherein he posted a tweet from Jeff Gauvin, who tweets out the state of national polling every day. Here is today’s edition:
The average of those 14 polls is exactly 9 points, down from 9.5... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/29/2016 | 33 | 9 | - | - |
| Question of the Day: Why is Economic News Always "Unexpected"? Seriously. Haven't you ever wondered that? |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/08/2010 | 19 | 7 | - | 23 |
| Snowball Launches Bid for Hell Newt Gingrich is planning a big announcement this Wednesday:
Former House ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/09/2011 | 16 | 7 | - | 112 |
| Can We Talk??? How silly has airport security gotten? This silly:
Joan Rivers was among the many travelers to get snared in the ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 01/05/2010 | 14 | 5 | - | 10 |
| Trump's birther event in its entirety | MeMeMeMeMe | 09/16/2016 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| Last Word I got the last word. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/12/2011 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 44 |
| Following polls and GOTV are not mutually exclusive activities Just thought I'd get that out there. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/26/2012 | 3 | - | - | - |