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Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Considering our fate in Afghanistan …

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Yet Petraeus, whether intentionally or not, often waded into areas of dispute between Obama and McCain involving Afghanistan, negotiating with adversaries and other recent campaign controversies. Each time, the general either lent tacit support to Obama or denied tacit support to McCain.

The Washington Independent —Petraeus Talk Bolsters Obama.

Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Wow. Sarah Palin is doing a lot against this country. Not only is she inciting violence against a presidential candidate at her rally’s she also supported seceding from the United States!

Have You No Sense of Decency John McCain?

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

McCain will have to answer to this hate and fear mongering…

Look what he’s stirring up. It’s unreal. He’s giving the green light for all the wingnuts out there. Note to John McCain, atone now.

John McCain and Sarah Palin has stirred them up, calling Obama a terrorist and someone in the crowd yells “kill him”. [...]

Keith Olberman rightfully rips Sarah Palin

Monday, October 6th, 2008

I typically do not listen to him but he has been on fire lately and is on message here:

First to go…

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

JPMorgan Chase CEO paid $29M in ‘07

During 2007—one of the banking industry’s toughest years in decades—Dimon received a salary of $1 million, a cash bonus of $14.5 million, a stock award valued at $13 million when it was granted in January 2007, and perks worth $356,330, according to the bank’s proxy filing with the Securities [...]

A necessary step (Scripting News)

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

A necessary step (Scripting News)

The Grandfather of Blogging says:

On Friday I said that impeachment must become an option. More than that, it must become a fixture of American politics. We’ve now suffered through two two-term Presidents who had very little regard for our opinion of them. We need to get their attention, and the best [...]

July 16, 2006 Links of Note

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Tom Waits clips at NeedCoffee.com
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About Blingo

A chance to win prizes via your search activity… helps if you have a group of people. Social software written into a marketing scheme… interesting.
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I’m sold! Woodflame bbq looks like a great alternative to the big, ugly, old gas grill soiling our patio or clogging our tiny garage. Uses hardwood [...]

Citizen Action and Elections

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

HOTSOUP.com

I am less impressed with this top-down approach to creating citizen opinion than I am with Campaigns Wikia:

http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Campaigns_Wikia

...which is from the founder of WikiPedia. Besides, HotSoup gave me an .asp error on their little “tell us your opinion” widget. Bad mojo if you can’t handle setting up a simple web form. I tried [...]