Boo hoo...Cardinals' post-Beck implosion continues

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Sunday September 12, 2010 · 1:58 PM PDT

2010/09/12 · 13:58

On August 28, St. Louis Cardinals' Manager Tony LaRussa and slugging first baseman Albert Pujols shocked baseball fans across the country by appearing at Glenn Beck's now infamous "I Have a Scheme" rally in Washington DC.
Pujols, apparently at La Russa's urging, appeared before the rally of some 90,000 Tea Party Activists and Beck supporters to accept an "award" from the Fox News host, purportedly for his humanitarian efforts through his Puljols Family Foundation.
On the date of the rally, Pujols was vying for the National League's triple crown and the Cards were within two games of the lead in the National League's Central Division.

Today... not so much.

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Thursday July 29, 2010 · 5:21 PM PDT

2010/07/29 · 17:21

As the buzzards begin to circle over the career of one of America's most powerful and longest-serving African American Congressional Committee Chairmen, Charles Rangel, it's interesting to speculate on how he must feel looking back on his extraordinary life. As the Rush Limbaughs, Sean Hannitys and Glen Becks of 2010 line up to denounce him for his (apparent) ethical lapses, he must be having a really bad day... Or maybe not...

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Saturday December 20, 2008 · 7:25 AM PST

2008/12/20 · 07:25

Michael Connell was killed Friday night when the Piper Supercub he was piloting crashed three miles short of an Akron-Canton Airport runway. He leaves behind a wife and four children.

Connelly, 45, of Bath Township, is considered to be one of the Republican Party's top computer experts. He led the companies that designed websites for the GOP and a virtual who's-who list of republican political leaders including President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, as well as national organizations. Connelly developed a host of federal government software and data management systems. Connelly is also said to be a close confidant of the Bush family.

Earlier this year Connell was subpoenaed to testify in an Ohio federal court regarding voter fraud just days before the November presidential election. His alleged intimate knowledge of White House and Capitol Hill email systems has been a hot topic of conversation for Washington insiders regarding the Karl Rove/White House email scandal.
http://www.ohio.com/...

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Saturday November 01, 2008 · 8:57 AM PDT

2008/11/01 · 08:57

For the forth time in the last five presidential election cycles, Arnold Schwarzenegger has headlined a last-push GOP rally for the Republican candidate in Columbus, a city which, for reasons explained below, holds him in high regard. On each prior occasion, they filled the venue-- most recently the 20,000 seat Nationwide Arena-- to the rafters. But this time...not so much.

Buried in the Columbus Dispatch article covering the event:

"...the McCain rally drew about half of the 20,000 who filled the arena for Bush four years ago. About a quarter of the arena, which holds 18,100 for Blue Jackets games, was curtained off and large swaths of bleacher seats were empty...".

That's gotta hurt!

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Friday August 01, 2008 · 7:35 PM PDT

2008/08/01 · 19:35

While far-off pundits pontificate and spinmeisters spin, there's a quiet campaign going on in the Ohio countryside: The Barack's Barns project.

Barack's Barns

A volunteer artist looks on.

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Saturday June 07, 2008 · 5:49 PM PDT

2008/06/07 · 17:49

Like many, I have been duly impressed by the sheer resilience of Hillary Clinton's quest for the presidency. After a shocking defeat in Iowa, and a string of eight straight losses in February, she pressed on, undaunted, in the face of seemingly impossible odds. Using her formidable, oftentimes- flawless political skills, she persevered; racking up impressive victories in key states while keeping her campaign moving forward by the sheer force of her personality. And when, with the passing of the seasons, it became clear that her heart-felt dream would never be realized, she exited the stage with grace, dignity and self-sacrifice befitting her noble cause.

If this brief narrative sounds familiar, it should. It is the stuff of our Great American Western mythology. In many ways, Senator Clinton's campaign- and her gracious exit therefrom- casts her in the role of an iconic Western hero.

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Tuesday April 15, 2008 · 7:30 PM PDT

2008/04/15 · 19:30

Karl Rove emerged today from his malodorous lair, sharpened his teeth with a half-round metal file, and spoke before the Ohio Chamber of Commerce in Columbus, Ohio.
http://www.ohiochamber.com/...

The speaking engagement-- billed as a debate between Rove and former Georgia Senator Max Cleland-- was a close knit affair, with attendance carefully restricted to Chamber members, state legislators (largly of the Republican stripe) and numerous Gucci-shod lobbyists.

Max gave as good as he got, as always. But the REAL news, as dutifully reported by an undercover Kossak operative, is that the Turdblossom actually rolled out the GOP's new 2008 campaign theme.

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Sunday April 06, 2008 · 5:28 PM PDT

2008/04/06 · 17:28

Hey Boys & Girls...let's all tell UC- Berkeley what we think of Professor John Yoo.
We've seen his "work" at the Department of Justice-- torture memos, the green light for domestic spying-- you name it, John Yoo would crank out an official-looking memorandum which would invariably justify the most ungodly deviations from our constitutional heritage in support of Cheney and Bush's dreary, distorted world view. In the process he has set back America's standing in the civilized world by decades (if not centuries).

His reward?

A cushy tenured position at UC Berkeley's college of law.

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Sunday March 16, 2008 · 6:11 AM PDT

2008/03/16 · 06:11

Funny thing. Ever since the Obama campaign took flight in the snows of Iowa, I could pretty much rely on having one or two 'Barack Obama-is Koran-quoting, Imam- praising, rug- kneeling closet Muslim' emails in my queue every morning. (Like many of you, I've gone to some pains to stay in contact with several rightwing quasi-friends who are tapped in to the putrid sewer that is the rightwing internet community and they are oh so happy to forward their latest offerings to me in their mis-guided effort to enlighten me). One had a nice photo-shopped picture of the future Obama White House with a onion dome on it. (Get it? He'd erect a dome because he's a Muslim--Oh, the hilarity!). Another explained how gas prices under a President Obama would be $17 per gallon, because, you see, he's a Muslim and they're in control of all of the oil, and...I'm ROFL here!
But for the past three days...I've got nothing.

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Saturday October 13, 2007 · 4:59 PM PDT

2007/10/13 · 16:59

In case anyone's missed it, it now seems abundantly clear that the Bush Administration began paying AT&T and other major telecommunications companies to ignore FISA and commence surveillance of our domestic phone and internet communications only days after Bush took office in 2001, and well before the 9/11 terror attacks.
Qwest, the only telcom which threw up the bulls#!t flag and refuse to participate, immediately became the subject of over-the-top federal criminal prosecutions of its chief executives. These prosecutions are now beginning to unravel, and Qwest's defense attorneys (with the apparent tacit approval of the Federal Judiciary) are beginning to assemble a digital paper trail of both the Dirty Deeds themselves and the inevitable coverup.

Lookie here

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Thursday August 09, 2007 · 7:17 AM PDT

2007/08/09 · 07:17

Long a staple of Guillini campaign stump speeches and the incessant "History Will Be My Judge" ramblings of the President, now it seems the Democrats have adopted the venerable old saw: "...we haven't been hit on American soil since 9/11."

There's only one problem with this strained reading of our country's recent history.

It ain't true!

It ignores the reality of the October 2001 anthrax attacks.

And if you're as exasperated as I am when you hear this bunk...follow on.

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Tuesday February 13, 2007 · 5:06 AM PST

2007/02/13 · 05:06

If your son or daughter returned from Iraq with their life shattered by permanent, debilitating injuries, or if, God Forbid, they did not return from Iraq at all, you must be reading with growing angst of the actions of one Douglas Feith: the Neocon Likudite who --knowingly and deliberately it appears-- seeded patently false information into pre-war intelligence reports which induced Congress to support Bush's splendid little war in Iraq.

In the rightwing parallel universe in which this Administration currently resides, Feith's actions have been met with a "boys will be boys" shrug, and prosecution has been ruled out.

But in the real world, there's Qui Tam, or the Federal False Claims Act.

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