Sail on, brother: Leonard Cohen's words could not be more on point today.

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Thursday November 10, 2016 · 7:18 PM PST

2016/11/10 · 19:18

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 06: Singer/musician Leonard Cohen takes the stage to perform at Radio City Music Hall on April 6, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

Democracy is a messy, ugly thing. But its promise is the best we have, so we must sail on.

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Devil's Triangle - Wake County has 66k vote flip from 2008 in favor of Romney

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Tuesday November 06, 2012 · 7:57 PM PST

2012/11/06 · 19:57

North Carolina remains close, with Mitt Romney leading by about two percentage points statewide, or 60,000 votes, with half of the vote counted.
Almost all of Mr. Romney’s advantage can be explained by one county, Wake County, in North Carolina’s Research Triangle. President Obama won it by 64,000 votes in 2008. This year, Mr. Romney leads by 2,000 votes so far.

— Nate Silver

One county accounts for nearly all of Romney's advantage? How is this even possible?

Merkley 48 - Smith 47...but good news

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 9:45 PM PST

2008/11/04 · 21:45

45% returns so for, but there is great news!

ONLY 28% OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY HAS REPORTED!

ONLY 59% OF WASHINGTON COUNTY REPORTED!

ONLY 21% OF LANE COUNTY REPORTING!

Breakdown can be seen HERE.

Bad news for Smith:

74% of Tillamook reporting.

75% of Linn reporting.

87% of Yamhill reporting.

Looks like a Merkley win.

Forget McShame, Palin, Ayers: Asian Markets Tank

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 12:51 AM PDT

2008/10/10 · 00:51

It is time to stop the hand-wringing over the fact-less, baseless scare-mongering unleashed at the McShame circle jerks. As RandySF has suggested, all this crap is backfiring on the morons.

IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPIDS! Even Republicans are scared shitless as the credit dries up, banks horde cash, and thousands lose their jobs. The politics of fear work only when you are able to exploit the people's greatest fears. Guess what? Ayers ain't it. The tanking economy is now more frightening than a gay wedding at a terrorist camp.

And things are about to get a lot worse.

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 2:31 AM PDT

2008/09/02 · 02:31

Well, well, well....

It didn't take much digging to discover yet another I-want-to-be-elected-so-I'll-spew-the-current-party-line Republican flip-flop.

It seems Sarah Palin, who is NOW for drilling in ANWR, was previously AGAINST more drilling.

A search of the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman's archives brings us this choice quote from soon after she was appointed to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in Feb. 2003:

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Sunday March 16, 2008 · 5:41 PM PDT

2008/03/16 · 17:41

We are on our way to a VERY bad day for markets all over the world in the light of Bear Stearns selling to JP Morgan for a measly $2 a share.

The Asian markets (Japan, Korea, Aust, NZ) are already down near or over 2% in the first hours of trading.

(well, the numbers are getting worse as I type)

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What are you going to do Monday morning?

279 votes Vote Now!

What are you going to do Monday morning?

Dump all my stock and buy live cattle.

16 votes

Laugh. I have no stock.

93 votes

Sleep in. I don't have a job.

54 votes

Trade my cash for gold - the creepy British lady in the commercial was right all along.

31 votes

Jump out the window with my golden parachute - and hope it opens.

9 votes

Buy an apple cart.

75 votes

Nataline Sarkisyan's Family Asks DA to Press Murder Charges

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Friday December 21, 2007 · 10:59 PM PST

2007/12/21 · 22:59

Our effort to save her were heroic, yet Nataline Sarkisyan died tonight only hours after Kossacks helped to force CIGNA to pay for her liver transplant.

Original effort yesterdayand here

The Guardian notes:

The family of a California teenager plan to sue her health insurer which refused to pay for a liver transplant until hours before and she died on Thursday night.

Her family's lawyer, Mark Geragos, will ask the Los Angeles district attorney to press murder or manslaughter charges against Cigna HealthCare, arguing that the firm "maliciously killed" Nataline Sarkisyan by its reluctance to pay for her treatment. The company reversed its stance after protesters called for a rethink, but the decision came too late.

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Friday February 09, 2007 · 12:17 AM PST

2007/02/09 · 00:17

Salon today has posted a stinging review of how the Bush Administration in general and the Justice Department in particular have been secretly expanding executive powers through the manipulation of the standard practices of hiring US Attorneys to fill vacant positions.

The Justice Department's firing of US attorneys working on sensitive cases is not news here, but Salon may be the first spark of a fire rising in the MSM:

Under any circumstances, the Bush administration's sudden, explicitly political dismissal and replacement of United States attorneys in judicial districts across the country would be very troubling -- both as a violation of American law enforcement traditions and as a triumph of patronage over competence.

But as the story behind these strange decisions unfolds, a familiar theme is emerging. Again, the White House and the Justice Department have been exposed in a secretive attempt to expand executive power for partisan purposes. And again, their scheming is tainted with a nasty whiff of authoritarianism.

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Tuesday June 27, 2006 · 4:12 PM PDT

2006/06/27 · 16:12

Brother and Sister Kossacks, we are in trouble.

While we have been bathering on about the cost of the war on terror, the Republicans, led by the brilliant political mind of Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), have outflanked us.

It seems the war could easily be paid for if the IRS would only do the obvious - collect back taxes from PIMPS!

Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, wants the Internal Revenue Service to chase after pimps and sex traffickers with the same fervor it stalked gangster Al Capone for tax evasion.

Go ahead, Kossacks. Bang your collective heads on the table of shame! How could we have missed this?

Grassley, R-Iowa, would hit pimps with fines and lengthy prison sentences for failing to file employment forms and withhold taxes for the women and girls under their command.

Hit pimps? Grassley, you are a master of irony. We bow to you.

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Was Bush Arrested for Drugs in 1986?

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Friday June 03, 2005 · 3:16 PM PDT

2005/06/03 · 15:16

Strange things were afoot in Midland, Texas in 1986.

Radar Magazine reports that a certain George W. Bush, Jr. was arrested for the vague charge of "unlawful practice of medicine."
But THIS George W. Bush, Jr. on the indictment has a birthday that is month's apart.

Dubya's Double Trouble?

Since George W. Bush's first presidential campaign, journalists have been trying to verify reports that the president was once arrested on a cocaine posession charge. Now, for the first time, court records obtained by Radar may be able to shed some light on the mystery. Filed in 1986, the same year that the president claims to have given up drinking, the documents clearly show that a George W. Bush Jr. was convicted in a Midland, Texas court on a vague "unlawful practice of medicine" charge. Only thing is, it appears to be the wrong George W. Bush."

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Hillary is the Dems hope in 2008? Egads!

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Tuesday March 29, 2005 · 3:07 PM PST

2005/03/29 · 15:07

Well, to be fair, Dems weren't exactly planning on taking Texas in the next presidential election. But the fact that in the Texas Hillary is equated with Hitler does not bode well.

Take this example of tit-for-tat Hillary-pillory: Texas Hates Hillary

The campaigns of Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, widely expected to be opponents in next year's GOP gubernatorial race, are taking political shots at each other over apparently friendly relationships with liberal Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Last week, Perry's campaign circulated a video that showed the conservative senator speaking kindly of Clinton, and now a 1993 letter has emerged in which Perry called Clinton's health care reform efforts "commendable."
"It's a double standard. It's the ultimate in hypocrisy," said Hutchison campaign manager Terry Sullivan.

Texas Hates Hillary Read More

Florida numbers vs 2000 - something is wrong

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Wednesday November 03, 2004 · 2:22 AM PST

2004/11/03 · 02:22

2000 2004
Bush 2,912,790 Bush 3,836,216
Gore 2,912,253 Kerry 3,459,293
Nader 97,421 Nader 32,035
Other 40,193 Other 28,382

= 7,355,296 (2004) - 5,963,657 (2000) = 1,392,639 new voters (99% precincts counted, no provisionals or absentees).

So, we have 1.39 million new voters, and Kerry loses by 376,923 votes? Thus, he lost an overwhelming majoirty of them, or he lost an overwhelming majority of regular voters - much, much more than Gore lost.

We have 77,197 fewer third party votes, but Kerry loses the vast majority of these?

Exit polling numbers show that Kerry had more Hispanic and Cuban support than Gore did, and Kerry lost?

Most exit polls in Florida showed Kerry leading, yet he loses by a massive 5%? Read More

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Sail on, brother: Leonard Cohen's words could not be more on point today.

Devil's Triangle - Wake County has 66k vote flip from 2008 in favor of Romney

Merkley 48 - Smith 47...but good news

Forget McShame, Palin, Ayers: Asian Markets Tank

Palin for Oil Co. using up their EXISTING leases - oops, she meant DRILL DAMMIT

Asian Markets Falling Fast (updated)

Nataline Sarkisyan's Family Asks DA to Press Murder Charges

UPDATE: Specter aide responsible for provision to expand exec powers

REPUBLICAN OFFENSIVE! Grassley leads charge against PIMPS!

Was Bush Arrested for Drugs in 1986?

Hillary is the Dems hope in 2008? Egads!

Florida numbers vs 2000 - something is wrong