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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Home on the Range

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Buffalo grazing at Bison Brook Farm in Preston.

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A little weekend music

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Last night my wife and I went to Burke’s Tavern in Niantic to hear our fellow Liberal Drinker Atul Shah’s band, Exit 72. I took a video of a song pretty much at random, I’m not really sure what it’s called. The young girl who pops up on the left at random moments is playing […]

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Friday Night Music-Benny Goodman

Friday, June 5, 2009

This week marked Benny Goodman’s 100th birthday. My wife is a big fan of Goodman’s, dating from her days as a clarinetist for the Oberlin High Marching Band. Here he is with Teddy Wilson, Tony Terran, Dick Nash, Eddie Duran, Al Obidenski and John Markham at the Aurex Jazz Festival in Japan, playing Sweet Georgia […]

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Amann’s big issue a bust

Friday, June 5, 2009

Speaking of tax breaks (see previous post), it looks like (who would have guessed) that one of Jim Amann’s talking points doesn’t bear close examination. The last time I saw our hapless (or is that hopeless) here, he was bragging about this efforts to make Connecticut Hollywood East. Apparently, he’s merely helped make Connecticut another […]

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Equality under the law

Friday, June 5, 2009

In this time of rising economic inequality there is another type of inequality that seems to be on the rise as well. Of course, maybe I’m merely being optimistic. Maybe this type of inequality has been with us always. This is reputed to be a country of laws and not of men, but that adage […]

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Dodd at the JJB

Thursday, June 4, 2009

CTBob posted Dodd’s JJB speech on youtube, and in the interests of spreading it around, I’m presenting it here:

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More from Dodd on the Banks

Thursday, June 4, 2009

One thing about being the head of the Banking Committee, you can make a lot of noise about things to which a lot of people can relate. Dodd is now warning the banks about gouging people with checking fees: DODD PUTS BANKS ON NOTICE ABOUT EXCESSIVE AND DECEPTIVE CHECKING ACCOUNT FEES WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator […]

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Reminder: Drinking Liberally Thursday Night

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

It’s that time of the month. If everyone who has promised to come, does come, we’ll have quite a crowd at our June Drinking Liberally get together. Remember, we never charge admission. Time: 6:30 or whenever you want to arrive. Place: Bulkeley House, Bank Street, New London.

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Max Baucus gets an earful-figuratively if not literally

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

This is interesting. Apparently the people of Montana, or at least those interested enough in health care to attend bogus meetings with Montana Senator Max Baucus, are not happy with the representation they’re getting on the issue from their senior senator. They turned out for “town hall meetings” in which Baucus appeared only on pre-taped […]

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JJB Dinner

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

My wife and I joined 4 other Southeastern Connecticut Liberal Drinkers at the JJB Dinner last night, where we ate really palatable food and listened to select politicians blather on. Actually, the featured speaker, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, gave a very entertaining keynote speech, capped off by an auction of his bolo tie for the […]

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