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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Weekend garden blogging

Sunday, June 15, 2008

A few pictures from the garden. This is June, so the roses are in bloom. As usual, clicking on a picture gives you a larger image. My wife says that foxglove is a weed, but I say a weed is anything that grows where you don’t want it, and this stuff is fine right where […]

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McCain vs. McCain

Sunday, June 15, 2008

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnb2IrsU1Cg[/youtube]

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Polish Pride

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Both of my sisters have sons who graduated, one from college, one from high school, this year. They decided to have a little joint celebration. Where better than a place where we could also celebrate half our heritage (one quarter and perhaps some minor fractions in the case of the kids): the Polish National Home. […]

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Time of War

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Recently the Supreme Court ruled, by the slimmest of margins, that prisoners at Guantanamo have the right to file habeas corpus actions challenging their incarcerations. In today’s Times, Jonathan Mahler, writes that in doing so the Supreme Court has bucked precedent: “The most important thing we do is not doing,” Justice Louis D. Brandeis once […]

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National Press Club to give forum to anti-Obama liar

Saturday, June 14, 2008

I’ve been away most of the day. Just got back and saw this article in my newsreader: A Minnesota man named Larry Sinclair has been going around the country spreading unfounded rumors about Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). Among other claims, he alleges that he and Obama used cocaine together and participated in homosexual acts in […]

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Friday Night Music-The Doors

Friday, June 13, 2008

I don’t think I’ve done them yet, and they’re certainly in the pantheon. And there’s a Connecticut connection. Wasn’t there that little incident in Connecticut? Actual footage below the main attraction. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri-44UZw7EE&feature=related[/youtube] Jim busted by New Haven’s finest: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htW4MCagbSg[/youtube]

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So many reasons to vote Republican

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Via Pharyngula, and apparently a lot of other places. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQJ9Xp0xxU[/youtube] We’ve got company tonight, so this is probably all for tonight.

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Josh Marshall on Joe’s future

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

In my continuing quest to lose my bet with MZ, I submit herewith a new video from Josh Marshall about everyone’s favorite cockroach: Joe Lieberman: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0HOKDIj5a8[/youtube] This is a pretty good explanation of the way things stand right now, and the (hopefully) probable course in the future. Of course, true satisfaction, sublime schadenfreude, can only […]

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New York Times: McCain is a New Style Candidate

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Can’t stop myself from commenting on this morning’s Times which tells us that 2 New-Style Candidates Hit Old Notes on Economy. The headline is repeated twice in the printed edition. Like him or not, no one can deny that Obama is a new style candidate, at least in terms of the way he has organized […]

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Yes we can

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Okay, I confess that I’m a softy and stuff like this gets to me. In this case I can blame it on my wife, who told me to put it up. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PJa3jaEVyM&feature=related[/youtube] I’m sure there’s a similar McCain inspired video out there somewhere.

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