I'm undecided.....convince me.

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Monday February 04, 2008 · 11:55 PM PST

2008/02/04 · 23:55

Yup, here it is 1249 am on SuperTuesday and I still can't make up my mind. I'm an early 40's male in health care with two kids and a third on the way. I live in Arizona so I'm on the frontline of the immigration arguments.

I love the hope and inspiration of Obama and the war opposition. I'm wary of the possibility that it's image and speechwriting over substance.

I love the experience and details-knowledge of Clinton. I'm nervous that she may be a divider rather than a uniter if she gets in office and that she may not match up as well against McCain.

Make me believe in somebody.....

Nukes for all my friends....but not for you

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Saturday December 09, 2006 · 8:16 PM PST

2006/12/09 · 20:16

In their last minute flurry before the final bell, the Do-Even-Less-Than-The-Do-Nothing-Congress-Of-1948 managed to sneak a few interesting things through the hopper. I haven’t had a chance to review everything that they tried to send under the radar yet, but one thing caught my eye this afternoon.

The House and Senate each approved a bill that reverses three decades of American anti-nuclear-proliferation policy by allowing the U.S. to send nuclear fuel for civilian use to India.

(more below)

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Monday November 27, 2006 · 9:36 PM PST

2006/11/27 · 21:36

I'm hoping that soon we will see the next chapter from OPOL. I'm waiting for the next stirring OPOL photo-diary that offers some hope or course of action. The one, that will incite collaborative productive thought, rather than arguments over the merits of photo-rhetoric.

I think it's pretty evident from the tip jars that he has a gift for bringing together a photographic montage that pushes the buttons of this crowd. He's done it before and will surely do it again.

(more thoughts....but no pictures.... below the fold)

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Sunday November 12, 2006 · 6:20 PM PST

2006/11/12 · 18:20

As you may or may not know, the pride of AZ-05, aka Foghorn Leghorn, also known as J.D. Hayworth, has not yet conceded the race to former Tempe Mayor Harry Mitchell.

Many Arizonans dropped off their early ballots at the polls on election day. There were also the usual number of provisional ballots, and by some counts, as many as 200,000 ballots statewide remained in need of counting after the numbers came out at the end of election night.

Numbers have been coming out on a daily basis as election officials work through the pile of paper.

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Gay marriage prop loses in AZ? A sea-change in '06

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Tuesday November 07, 2006 · 10:53 PM PST

2006/11/07 · 22:53

Having lived in Arizona for ten of the last 16 years, I was getting to think that I had the psyche of the state pretty well nailed down. Socially conservative with a hefty dose of libertarianism thrown in. A few pockets of liberalism scattered in Tempe, Tucson and a few other places. Lots of Mormons.

In other words, a place where something like our Proposition 107 would be a sure success. It was billboarded as the "Protect Marriage" initiative. It was shorthanded as the "anti gay marriage" initiative. All the right buzzwords for success in this state.

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What does your Robo-Republican- Representative say?

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Wednesday October 04, 2006 · 12:07 AM PDT

2006/10/04 · 00:07

With Mark Foley now resigned and in disgrace, the search is on to see how far this thing spreads, and how firmly united the GOP will be behind their leaders. People are scurrying for cover and pointing fingers already. At each other. At clergy. At children. At Democrats. At the media. At alcohol. At Clinton. I'm waiting to see them try to blame this one on al-Qaeda or on Iran. Anyway, with all of the public statements being made by the star players in this sordid tale, I wanted to know where my "fine" Representative stood on the issue. Prompted by Josh Micah Marshall at TPM, and his suggestion to get people on record, I decided to call my local Representative and see where he stood in his degree of support for Rep. Hastert as Speaker of the House. I'm currently saddled with JD Hayworth, so I wasn't really surprised by the answer I received.

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George Bush blew up my water heater

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Monday February 06, 2006 · 6:34 PM PST

2006/02/06 · 18:34

I have proof that there is an active surveillance program in effect. And while our government may be slow and inefficient in many things they do, in this case they acted very rapidly.

We had about nine other couples and their kids over to our house last week to watch the SOTU address and to play a drinking game while we shared our pain. The active surveillance program must have detected fairly quickly that there were a bunch of them durned liberals mocking the president and it swung into action post haste.

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Gay marriage prop loses in AZ? A sea-change in '06

What does your Robo-Republican- Representative say?

George Bush blew up my water heater