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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Groton Dems pass resolution-but this is really yet another rant about the spineless Dems

Saturday, January 26, 2008

I am proud to report that on Thursday our Groton Democratic Town Committee passed a resolution calling on our state legislators to require a special election in the case of a Senatorial vacancy. Based on the feedback we’ve gotten from some of those legislators there is no chance that our veto proof majority will pass […]

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Friday night Zappa

Friday, January 25, 2008

A couple of days ago I thought I’d try to find some Frank Zappa for a Friday night concert. What brought Frank to mind was this post on Americablog, that featured this video appearance of Frank on Crossfire. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc[/youtube] He makes them all look sort of stupid, doesn’t he? Zappa was a musical genius, but […]

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Choosing delegates

Thursday, January 24, 2008

A recent commentor asks about the way in which delegates are apportioned in the primaries. I did some digging, and here’s what I found. Start with state law: Sec. 9-473. Notification by party chairmen of delegates allotted. Not later than the fourteenth day before the day of the primary, the chairman of each party shall […]

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Documenting the lies

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The Center for Public Integrity has created a database of all the lies told by Bush, his puppeteers, and his cronies in the run up to war. Some of the pages seem to be blank, at least when I went there, but there’s still plenty of material. Take a walk down memory lane, look for […]

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New rules in the Senate

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Harry Reid teams up with Mitch McConnell to lecture Chris Dodd: only Republicans get to declare filibuster and win. Democrats, members of the majority party, members of Reid’s own party, have to actually filibuster. New rules: it takes 60 votes to get something Democrats want; it takes only 51 to get something Republicans want, and […]

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The choice

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Having trouble making up your mind between Obama and Clinton? Good reading at the New Yorker. Lot’s of arguments, pro and con for each. Food for thought, etc. I’ve decided to vote for Edwards, but I’m still wrestling with the Obama/Clinton choice because it does look like they’ll be the finalists. This article helps, though […]

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Who could ever have predicted?

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

We were cleaning up here at home recently, and I came across an old printout of an article from the Onion, to which I’ve referred before. It brought to mind a recent post about all those folks who keep telling us that nobody could have predicted this or that catastrophe. This article, entitled Bush: ‘Our […]

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Serious news aversion

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

From this morning’s Times: The ousted editor of The Los Angeles Times on Monday offered a scathing critique of the newspaper industry and specifically his longtime employer, the Tribune Company, arguing that cost cuts, a lack of investment and an aversion to serious news was damaging the business. (Emphasis added) Could this be? Could the […]

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Reagan, yet again

Monday, January 21, 2008

Lot’s of new developments on the Reagan front. Seems that Krugman doesn’t like Obama’s implied praise for Reagan either, for a reason similar to that offered by other commentators: that it reinforces a right wing narrative that we should be attacking. Meanwhile, despite Tim Russert’s spin, Hillary Clinton does not follow Obama down that path, […]

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Another cost of war

Sunday, January 20, 2008

According to a new report from the Pentagaon “1 in 5 American servicemen and women who have been in Iraq are coming back with brain injuries.”. The same report says that “17 percent of the soldiers returning to war could have a traumatic brain injury”. Presumably, the soldiers returning with TBI run a substantial risk […]

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