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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Democrats don’t blink

Friday, February 15, 2008

The House Democrats have had a spine implant. After the craven performance of the Senate they have redeemed their party and the nation, at least temporarily, by telling Bush to shove it on FISA. to the surprise of the White House, they didn’t “blink”, as they’ve done so often in the past. Now they’re going […]

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Whatever it is, they’re against it

Friday, February 15, 2008

I stand by my position that the Congress has very little business holding hearings on Roger Clemens steroids use, when it is unable to rein in the Bush dictatorship. That being said, I must say that doing so may have given the Democrats a little insight into how they can get the Republicans to complete […]

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Independent Thinking

Thursday, February 14, 2008

The Courant has seen fit to give one Robert Thorson a weekly column on its op-ed page. Mr. Thorson is a geology professor at UConn, so he presumably knows a lot about rocks. Unfortunately, he writes about politics, at least he did today. One must wonder why the Courant sees fit to give this person […]

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Good news

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Donna Edwards wins her primary in Maryland. This may convince a few Congressional Democrats that there’s a price to be paid for becoming a captive to corporate interests..

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Why should I care whether Roger Clemens took steroids?

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Every Red Sox fan knows that there is no worm more low than a former member of the Boston Red Sox who voluntarily plays for the Yankees. Besides that, even when he was on the team, Roger Clemens was a gold plated [your choice of private body part here]. So, I have very little sympathy […]

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Something happening here, take two

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

I’m always suspicious of newspaper articles composed of man in the street anecdotes, but if this article from the (UK) Independent is accurate, then we may be in for a November election that even the Democrats can’t lose: In the wealthiest suburbs of Virginia, a quiet revolution was under way yesterday as life-long republicans switched […]

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Shame 2.0

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

The last time I used this title for a post, it was to bemoan the Democrats (including Joe Courtney’s) craven attempts to appease the unappeasable by voting to censure Moveon. This time it’s more serious: the Senate of the United States has voted to sanction lawbreaking by a wide margin, voting against Chris Dodd and […]

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That’s the way you do it

Monday, February 11, 2008

Charter Revision Commission meeting tonight, so I will merely pass on these videos that are all over the net by now. This is great stuff, beating up on McCain instead of each other. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gwqEneBKUs[/youtube] And here’s another: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUKINg8DCUo[/youtube]

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A Tale of Two Theatres (and a movie)

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Last night my wife and I, and another couple, decided to go to Pawcatuck to the corporate owned Regal Cinema Stonington 10 Cinemas to see Atonement. Yes, that’s right, there are 10 theatres. If we assume, conservatively, that each can hold 200 people, that means that at any given time there could be quite a […]

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Filling your Ipod

Saturday, February 9, 2008

This software (TubeTV) is pretty cool, so I thought I would pass the word. It’s totally free. It will download and convert any youtube video (I think it works on other types of internet video too), convert it to Ipod format (some other formats as well) and put it in your Itunes Library. You have […]

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