2 fatal shooting accidents in Baton Rouge in 3 days. LA Legislators: No new gun laws! (updated)

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Tuesday January 22, 2013 · 1:07 PM PST

2013/01/22 · 13:07

Baton Rouge's local paper, the Advocate, reports fatal shootings daily. But today is especially bad. How bad? Screen shot of today's news below the orange squiggly.

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Thursday August 20, 2009 · 12:59 PM PDT

2009/08/20 · 12:59

Physician: Check

Practiced medicine both before and after the advent of Medicare: Check

Provided primary care to patients who had lost their health insurance: Check

Professionally and personally acquainted with our local Republican member of Congress (also a physician), and thus uniquely positioned to effectively knock down said Congressman's anti-health care reform, pro-corporate talking points: Check!

There's no way for me to adequately sum up the good doctor's words, so follow me over the fold and I'll let him speak for himself:

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Monday August 10, 2009 · 11:32 AM PDT

2009/08/10 · 11:32

I'm a liberal, born in Europe and raised in the northeastern U.S., now living in the deep South. This often makes me feel as if I'm some kind of space alien, left here when my mothership went back to the homeworld without me. This morning, however, that feeling was especially pronounced when I opened to the opinion page of our capital city newspaper, and found my name appearing as the first two words of an unhinged "Obama is the anti-Christ" rant.

Follow me over the fold for the full dose of the crazy, and my pro-health care reform letter that touched it off:

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Thursday March 05, 2009 · 6:47 PM PST

2009/03/05 · 18:47

Thank you to all for your support and good wishes for the people of Bozeman. For those who asked about local charities, I've posted some links at the bottom of the diary. Thanks again.

"It’s a crater", is what one of the firefighters said to my brother today at lunch. My brother, a chef, owns a catering business and lunch deli near downtown Bozeman, Montana. Today, his customers included emergency personnel working the scene of a massive explosion that leveled four businesses on Main Street this morning.

More over the fold--

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 · 7:55 PM PDT

2008/10/22 · 19:55

Update: Thank you so much, everyone, for your kind comments. My Mom read them too, and was very touched and thankful. She is working on two books about her WWII experience, and seeing that people enjoyed reading a story about her, will give her writing another shot of momentum. Thanks again.

After reading enamore22's recommended diary "Obama Resoles His Shoes While Palin Spends $150K", I immediately sent the link to my 76-year-old Mom. She and my Dad live in the great swing-state of Montana and are already big Obama supporters. But I knew she would love the "Obama shoe story" because of what it says about the Senator: "In a world where so many do without, don't use up more than you need."

Follow me over the fold to find out how the lack of shoes as a child, was one of the experiences from which my Mom learned this important principle...

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 11:15 AM PDT

2008/10/08 · 11:15

My open letter to Senator McCain, with a note and action item at the end.

Dear Senator McCain:

After last night’s town hall debate, I noticed that you and Mrs. McCain spent only a few minutes mingling with the audience, before you quietly left. Meanwhile, Senator and Mrs. Obama remained in the venue, chatting and shaking hands with audience members, taking pictures with them, and signing autographs.

The fact that you were so quick to take your leave of people whose votes you presumably hope to win suggests to me that you have, whether consciously or unconsciously, already ceded the race to Senator Obama. This would not be an unreasonable thing to do, since despite the increasing viciousness of your campaign the polls are slowly but relentlessly moving away from you, with one state after another slipping into Senator Obama’s column.

As your fellow American, I therefore respectfully call upon you to finish the last weeks of this campaign with the dignity and honor you once held in the eyes of so many; so many who have since become bitterly disappointed in you as we have watched you sell that dignity and honor to the merchants of sleaze and smear.

(Continues below the fold)

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Thursday May 22, 2008 · 12:43 AM PDT

2008/05/22 · 00:43

I should know better by now than to think I have seen every outrage of which Hillary is capable. In her continuing effort to try to delegitimize the nomination of Sen. Obama, Hillary today compared the unsanctioned Florida primary to the recent election in Zimbabwe, perhaps because her recent attempts to compare it to the 2000 recount debacle, failed to get enough traction with the superdelegates. But I'm sure comparing the DNC with the Mugabe regime will make them come around!!

That's it...this time I've really had it. Really. More than I had it yesterday, and the day before. Find out about the silly, probably kind of immature thing I did, over the flip:

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87 votes Show Results

This primary season has made me

87 votes Vote Now!

This primary season has made me

Angry, anxious, or frustrated

32 votes

Eat more junk food

3 votes

Start drinking, or drink more

4 votes

Say/do things I would not want others to hear or see

6 votes

More than one of the above

18 votes

All of the above

13 votes

What?

11 votes

Obama's New Politics vs. "Bitter-gate": What Has Been Seen, Cannot Be Unseen

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Sunday April 13, 2008 · 1:24 PM PDT

2008/04/13 · 13:24

While reflecting on the Clinton campaign since Iowa, and thinking about how the latest bit of manufactured outrage she is peddling fits into the established pattern, I have arrived at some conclusions. I believe there are three things the Clinton campaign consistently gets wrong, and that "Bitter-gate" will turn out to be no different.

More below the fold:

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Monday April 07, 2008 · 9:08 PM PDT

2008/04/07 · 21:08

I knew I should have gone to the Vitter town hall when I got that card last week! See what I missed, below the fold:

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98 votes Show Results

Vitter will:

98 votes Vote Now!

Vitter will:

Stay right where he is, because IOKIYAR.

23 votes

Get the boot as part of Gov. Jindal's efforts to clean up Louisiana government.

7 votes

Resign after more hookers surface.

8 votes

Win re-election in 2010 regardless of whether any new hookers surface or not, because IOKIYAR.

24 votes

Retire after one term to "spend more time with his family".

36 votes

James Carville fleeing DC -- what's up with that?

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Saturday March 29, 2008 · 1:53 PM PDT

2008/03/29 · 13:53

Longtime Clinton political operative James Carville appears regularly on CNN to make the case for his candidate, arguing why the race is not over, how she can still win, and of course, famously calling newly-minted Obama endorser and superdelegate Gov. Bill Richardson, a "Judas".

But in the meantime, the $3.9 million DC-area home he shares with his wife, GOP-insider and former Darth Cheney counselor Mary Matalin, is on the market.

h/t lgcap

What's up with that? (More under the fold)

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315 votes Show Results

Carville-Matalin's leaving DC means:

315 votes Vote Now!

Carville-Matalin's leaving DC means:

Carville knows Clinton campaign is over

57 votes

Matalin knows Republican brand is toast and so is McCain

6 votes

They both know it's over/toast

140 votes

They know real estate market is only going to get worse

8 votes

DC housing market is HOT-- lots of about-to-be former Republican congresspeople will be looking for bigger homes when they get their big $ lobbying jobs!

14 votes

They really do just want their kids out of the DC fishbowl

6 votes

Any combination of the above

61 votes

This means nothing. Go away, you Obamabot

23 votes

LA-06: More good news for Dems! (Update 3, final results)

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Saturday March 08, 2008 · 8:40 PM PST

2008/03/08 · 20:40

Okay, it’s not quite the magnitude of tonight’s earth-mover in the IL-14. But given how Republican this district is, these numbers can’t be doing anything to ease the heartburn the GOP must be feeling this evening.

Details under the fold:

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Saturday February 02, 2008 · 11:27 AM PST

2008/02/02 · 11:27

Well, this will certainly help convince Louisiana voters to support lifetime-Democrat-recently-turned-Republican John Kennedy in his campaign to unseat our state’s Democratic senior Senator, Mary Landrieu – NOT!

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