Posting History for MeMeMeMeMe
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| 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 |
| Obama Pushing Back, Big Time Greg Sargent at The Plum Line has a sneak preview of Obama's speech on the economy later today in ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/02/2010 | 903 | 642 | 10 | 106 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| BP Partner Throws Them Under the Bus Dear BP: everybody hates you now.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/18/2010 | 127 | 230 | 4 | 102 |
| 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 |
| Obama 'Stunned' At How Out of Touch Boehner Is The Democrat's political prospects may not be at their brightest point at the moment, but the GOP just keeps ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/30/2010 | 432 | 441 | 1 | 113 |
| 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 |
| Surprise! Sherrod Video Was Heavily Edited [FULL VIDEO ADDED] FULL VIDEO AT BOTTOM
You've probably seen the video of USDA employee (now ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 07/20/2010 | 1107 | 697 | 13 | 1149 |
| 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 |
| Stephanie Miller Comes Out Oh well, sad news for us straight guys and potential "future husbands". But good ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/13/2010 | 45 | 47 | 2 | 229 |
| Blagojevich Holdout Juror Target of Wingnut Wrath It's well beyond the point where you can make this shit up. First they lapped our satire, and now they've lapped our worst estimates of how low they could sink. From John Cole ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/19/2010 | 50 | 38 | - | 42 |
| "Every time Boehner opens his mouth, we're going to mention it" The looming election seems to have sharpened the focus of White House messaging considerably. The diary title is directly from a White House official quoted ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/13/2010 | 47 | 40 | - | 49 |
| 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 |
| The Stuff Harry Reid Is Made Of
Pictured: Harry Reid's essence. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/23/2010 | 35 | 9 | - | 38 |
| Fox Breaks Out the Dog Whistle. Again. (Page now scrubbed)
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It's ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/28/2010 | 178 | 302 | 3 | 420 |
| CNN's Rick Sanchez Could Be History [Audio] This is rather troubling to me, as I have considered CNN anchor Rick Sanchez to be one of the saner voices on cable news [ Edited to add: "sane" being a very relative term on cable news ]. ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/01/2010 | 206 | 75 | 1 | 85 |
| Fire Dept. Goes Galt, Watches Home Burn [Video] I got yer Pledge to America right here :
The conservative vision was on full display last week in ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/04/2010 | 87 | 67 | - | 195 |
| Thousands Protest Mormon Anti-Gay Hate in Utah [ACTION] Just in case you hadn't heard, there was a huge protest in Salt Lake City tonight: |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/07/2010 | 63 | 70 | 1 | 150 |
| Things You're Not Hearing from Democrats Today
You aren't hearing talk of secession :
Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/03/2010 | 39 | 48 | - | 66 |
| 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 |
| Last Word I got the last word. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/12/2011 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 44 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 'Scuse me while I whip this out | MeMeMeMeMe | 05/01/2011 | 26 | 27 | - | 193 |
| We Shall Overcomb: Trump Cancels Letterman Appearance Well, for anybody that thought Donald Trump was going to take his recent series of setbacks gracefully, you ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/02/2011 | 266 | 447 | 2 | 3759 |
| Snowball Launches Bid for Hell Newt Gingrich is planning a big announcement this Wednesday:
Former House ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/09/2011 | 16 | 7 | - | 112 |
| The Statute of Liberty
Are you ready for an American history ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/01/2011 | 14 | 20 | - | 108 |
| 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 |
| Republican AZ Senator Points Loaded Gun At Reporter As Raw Story so aptly puts it, "A freshman Arizona state Senator may be in need of some gun ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 07/11/2011 | 66 | 50 | - | 342 |
| 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 |
| Desperate: Rush Kisses Off Advertisers, Begs Audience to "Hang in There" Looks like he's accepted the inevitable, and is basically telling his advertisers to go to hell. Via Media Matters , here's the latest from today's show:
This show is about you. It's not about the ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/05/2012 | 194 | 248 | 4 | 3850 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| ZEE-ROH Zee-Roh. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/05/2012 | 13 | 10 | - | 227 |
| '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 |
| When Obama Calls a Late Night Press Conference | MeMeMeMeMe | 09/17/2012 | 15 | 35 | - | 382 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Holy Crap, Martin Bashir: Romney "More falsehoods than the Father of Lies" Call it what you will... brutal takedown , evisceration, gutting, whatever. MSNBC's Martin Bashir has a few things on his mind. From the video:
Romney: I've got five boys. I'm used to people saying ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/11/2012 | 92 | 209 | 2 | - |
| Carbon Unit Josh Romney at Debate
Prepare to initiate jump to applause subroutine. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/17/2012 | 12 | 17 | 1 | - |
| Nate Silver: "Gallup vs. the World" For those of you who respect Nate Silver (and I think most of us do, even when the analysis he brings is less than promising for our side), you're going to love what he has to say today about Gallup : |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/18/2012 | 20 | 43 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Following polls and GOTV are not mutually exclusive activities Just thought I'd get that out there. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/26/2012 | 3 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Reason #26 to be optimistic: Nate Silver rises to 77.4% [+bonus good news] Wed. AM Update : Wang rises! Sam Wang's prediction now at 318 electoral votes, see below.
Nate Silver's latest prediction , as of T-minus 6 days before the election, is a 77.4% chance of Obama ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/30/2012 | 262 | 324 | 3 | - |
| What happened? Where am I? I think I suffered some kind of blackout. It's like the last few hours just...disappeared. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/02/2012 | 124 | 67 | - | - |
| Pew: O+3 [And Nate adds his 2¢] O 50, R 47.
Obama Gains Edge in Campaign’s Final Days, 50% to 47% over Romney pewrsr.ch/Tsny9I twitter.com/pewresearch/st… — Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/04/2012 | 179 | 203 | 6 | - |
| PPP Virginia: O+4 Our final Virginia poll finds Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney 51-47 — PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) November 5, 2012
Bonus:
Our final Virginia Senate poll finds Tim Kaine leading George ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/04/2012 | 55 | 41 | 2 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Jimmy Carter's grandson strikes again You probably remember back in September when Jimmy Carter's grandson, James Carter IV, was instrumental in digging up and helping publicize Romney's 47% video . We all enjoyed the poetic justice of ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/13/2012 | 260 | 929 | 29 | - |
| New wingnut complaint: Obama is too Christian No, of course I'm not joking. Have you learned nothing? Satire is dead, and wingnuts continue to dance on its grave.
Drudge is flogging a column in Investor's Business Daily that whines about how ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 12/03/2012 | 106 | 127 | 1 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| "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 | - | - |
| Trump's birther event in its entirety | MeMeMeMeMe | 09/16/2016 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| GOP blames Obama for Congressional override of his veto (yes, really. Not a joke, I swear) Well folks, pack it up, head home and await the sweet meteor of death. We have reached peak “Thanks Obama”:
On Wednesday, Congress was so determined to pass a law to sue Saudi Arabia that it overrode President Barack Obama’s veto.
Let’s just... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/29/2016 | 25 | 38 | - | - |
| Breaking NYT: Yet another story of Trump sexual misconduct Nicholas Kristoff had originally scheduled this story for Sunday, but decided to move it up to today for obvious reasons:
JILL HARTH’S first concern with Donald Trump’s hands wasn’t that they were small. It’s that they were everywhere.
Harth... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/07/2016 | 229 | 269 | - | - |
| Harry F@cking Reid Preach:
In the name of decency, Republicans should admit that this deviant - this sociopath - cannot be president.
Please read the entire thing. It is beautiful. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/07/2016 | 13 | 45 | - | - |
| GOP office in NC firebombed. Trump responds about as you'd expect A GOP office in Hillsborough, North Carolina was firebombed last night:
A GOP office in Hillsborough, North Carolina, was firebombed overnight, with a swastika and the words "Nazi Republicans get out of town or else" spray painted on an adjacent... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/16/2016 | 273 | 152 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| U.K. Telegraph exclusive investigation: Donald Trump faces foreign donor fundraising scandal The UK Telegraph has done an exclusive investigation:
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is facing a fundraising scandal after a Telegraph investigation exposed how key supporters were prepared to accept illicit donations from foreign backers.... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/24/2016 | 17 | 43 | - | - |
| Wapo: Trump halts big-money fundraising, cutting off cash to the party Apparently Donald Trump is not done burning down the Republican Party:
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has effectively shut down his high-dollar fundraising operation for the rest of the campaign, a highly unusual move that deals... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/25/2016 | 186 | 219 | - | - |
| LOL, Newt Gingrich melts down on Fox News Not a terribly important diary, but I enjoyed the desperation of Newt Gingrich on Megyn Kelly’s show, struggling to steer the conversation back to Bill Clinton and away from Donald Trump:
As we enter the final two weeks, the desperation grows... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/25/2016 | 463 | 233 | - | - |
| New Quinnipiac Polls: TIED in GA and IA, up in NC and VA It’s actually Trump +1 in Georgia, but Quinnipiac is calling it a tie, so I’m going with their wording (Edited to add: they are tied in the head-to-head as opposed to 3-way):
Several new state polls have come out, and they all look good for... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/27/2016 | 79 | 49 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| PPP: Slew of good results for Clinton, Senate Only less-than-great news was in NC, where Burr is up by 3, and MO, where Blunt is up by 2. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/04/2016 | 414 | 267 | - | - |