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Monthly Archives: August 2008

What’s up with this?

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

I spent a good deal of time this morning searching the New York Times for coverage of Ron Suskind’s new book. After all, it still isn’t every day that we hear about a new impeachable offense coming out of this administration, though I have to agree we hear about them with depressing regularity. Nonetheless, Suskind’s […]

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Yawn! Another impeachable offense. I’ve lost count

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Is anyone surprised at the news that Bush told the CIA to forge a letter linking Saddam to Al Qaeda? I’d be more suprised if someone had established as fact that he hadn’t done it. Here’s another surprise. The Democrats will tut-tut and do nothing. I suppose an argument can be made that, at this […]

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Very generous McCain Supporters

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Remember when John McCain was in favor of campaign finance reform, before he became the biggest campaign finance cheater. First there was his gaming of the public finance system, now his supporters are engaged in blatant money laundering: Alice Rocchio is an office manager at the New York headquarters of the Hess Corp., drives a […]

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Good riddance, but what symbolism

Monday, August 4, 2008

From the Moscow Times: U.S. auto giant General Motors is negotiating with Russian automakers on a possible sale of the Hummer brand, Vedomosti reported Monday. Among potential Russian buyers are Oleg Deripaska’s Russian Machines, Vadim Shvetsov’s Sollers and Kaliningrad-based automaker Avtotor, the newspaper said. GM already has a Hummer assembly plant in Kaliningrad. GM is […]

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Reminder-Drinking Liberally Thursday

Monday, August 4, 2008

As always, the First Thursday of the month brings yet another edition of Drinking Liberally, Southeastern Connecticut version. The fun starts at 6:30 at the Bulkeley House, in New London at 111 Bank Street. We can all obsess about our various anxieties about the campaign. There’s sure to be some good old fashioned Lieberman bashing […]

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Who put Barack on the currency?

Monday, August 4, 2008

One of my most frequent commenters pointed out that John McCain put Obama on a dollar bill some time ago. So it would appear that Obama wasn’t just speculating when he said they’d be pointing out that he doesn’t look like other presidents on the currency: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDTJDv4hevU&eurl[/youtube] This line of attack would be truly baffling […]

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Losing it

Sunday, August 3, 2008

It’s pretty clear that this is going to be a dirty election. Obama has the choice of getting dirty, or losing. Just like Kerry. A modest suggestion. Suggest ever so subtly that McCain is, shall we say, losing it. At this point he appears to be already as senile as Reagan was when he left […]

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And it wasn’t so nice to call her a trollop, either

Sunday, August 3, 2008

So far as the mainstream press is concerned, this incident never happened, except apparently it did. Anyway, it’s a funny video (via Suburban Guerilla): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFCl3EUMHSc[/youtube]

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That’s “Yogi”, with a “Y”

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Yesterday took place the last Old Timers Day game to be held at the present Yankee Stadium. The front page of the Courant’s sports section (paper, not on-line edition) has a picture of an aged gnome identified as “Jogi Berra”. Jogi? Surely someone was asleep at the editor’s desk. I have decided to believe that […]

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Over the top; Jumping the shark

Saturday, August 2, 2008

John McCain’s latest ad compares Obama to the Messiah, or, I suppose, claims that Obama has been doing so. Am I missing something? The negative line at the end seems like an afterthought. In any event, since when does the Messiah have to prove he’s ready to lead? He’s the Messiah, after all. This whole […]

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