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Daily Archives: December 5th, 2007

A political forecast

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Let me be the first to predict that Mike Huckabee will not suffer as much from freeing a dangerous rapist who went on to murder two women than will Giuliani for using New York taxpayer dollars on maintaining his mistress.Most of the press is still in the first stages of love with Huckabee as the […]

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Bush exposed again

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

There must be a backstory to all this. Sure, Bush lies all the time, but how often does the White House basically admit it: CNN reports: President Bush was told in August that Iran’s nuclear weapons program ‘may be suspended,’ the White House said Wednesday, which seemingly contradicts the account of the meeting given by […]

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An unpredictable wrinkle in Iowa

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

1% more Conscious has an interesting post on something of which I was unaware. Iowa caucus goers vote their top two choices. The second place votes of those who voted for the bottom tier candidates (Biden, Richardson, and, alas, Dodd) are added to the top tier candidates. I agree with IC’s conclusion, those votes are […]

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Bad Behavior behaves badly

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

When I tried to log on to my site today, I was not allowed to enter, on the grounds that I had been identified by my spam catching plug-in (Bad Behavior) as a person who had engaged in malicious behavior on the site. This seemed rather unkind, since after all it is my website. Technically, […]

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This attack on corporate America brought to you by Wal-Mart

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Yesterday my wife and I went to the Stroll in Mystic, and stopped in to see Dan Curland at the Mystic Disc. Dan told us that he has had to concentrate more on selling vinyl these days. Downloading is part of it, but a large part of the problem stems from monopolistic or semi-monopolistic practices […]

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