Hostages Taken, Then Released at Clinton N.H. Campaign Office

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Friday November 30, 2007 · 2:00 PM PST

2007/11/30 · 14:00

A man described as having a bomb strapped to his chest took four hostages at Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, NH. The most recent reports are that all the hostages have been released and New Hampshire police are now negotiating with him for his safe surrender.

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Tuesday November 27, 2007 · 3:50 PM PST

2007/11/27 · 15:50

Washington --- With a nervous eye toward plummeting campaign contributions and dimming chances of retaking power in the ’08 general elections, the GOP Congress, in a rare and dramatic parliamentary maneuver yesterday had voted 250-1 to officially ally itself with the Dark Lord of the Underworld. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), a presidential candidate, was the sole dissenting vote.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made use of the never before invoked Senate Rule 666 to lock Democrats, pages, aides and the media out of the halls of Congress. Frustrated reporters, blind to the Satanic proceedings, could only surmise what transpired behind the doors guarded by Cerberus. But moans of the damned, marked by New York, Louisiana and Iraqi accents, got louder, reaching a blood-curdling crescendo between the cloture and final votes.

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Monday November 26, 2007 · 7:27 PM PST

2007/11/26 · 19:27

The Pearly Gates --- In a rare, surprising press conference, the Almighty Creator of the Heavens and the Earth set the record straight on the last two presidential elections.

"Is this thing on? OK, you ever see that Star Trek episode where the evil Kirk from a parallel dimension winds up on the Enterprise and gives William Shatner an even bigger reason to ham it up? There you go."

The Lord then explained how unfettered evil could be unleashed on the world in 2001 after eight consecutive years of relative peace and prosperity.

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What else are the "good" Republicans doing in Bizarro World?

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What else are the "good" Republicans doing in Bizarro World?

Reading bedtime stories to orphans.

1 vote

Working tirelessly to alleviate world hunger by putting James Sensenbrenner on a diet.

3 votes

Not confusing peer-reviewed science with allegorical religious dogma.

11 votes

Refusing to capitalize on disaster to fuck over poor, powerless people.

18 votes

State of The Nation (with poll)

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Tuesday November 13, 2007 · 3:27 PM PST

2007/11/13 · 15:27

When I see an idiot in high station I will add such terrors to his elevation as I can. I will put as many thorns in his crown as the leisure that I can snatch from the pressure of other pleasures will permit me to weave in. And neither the deprecation of his friends nor his own retaliatory lies shall stop the good work. - Ambrose Bierce

A necessary antidote to the toxic hateful stupidity of parakeet liners such as the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic and the National Review, The Nation covers political, social and cultural items of great interest generally snooted over by the corrupt, lazy and increasingly rightwing corporate boardroom-controlled media. And they hire and commission on spec some of the best and brightest liberal journalists in America such as the recently-departed David Corn, Jeremy Scahill, Naomi Klein, Max Blumenthal and others to author well-researched articles that ought to be of interest to all Americans.

However, I have to take exception to Ellen Chesler’s paean to Hillary Clinton in the 11/26/07 edition.

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What is it about Hillary Clinton's campaign that bothers you the most?

Her ties to Mark Penn and Burson Marsteller

Who finances her campaign, such as Harken Energy, Dubya's former employer

Who officially and unoffically works for her campaign (Terry McAuliffe, Alan G. Quashman, etc)

Her saber-rattling at Iran

Her refusal to apologize for her 2002 IWR vote

Her vote for the Kyl-Lieberman bill that allowed Bush to call part of the Ifanian gov'y a terrorist organization

Her health care bill that seems primarily concerned with killing the concept of a single payer plan and bloating the current health care industry

Waffling about Iraq, saying that we may need to stay well past her first term

The fact that she blew $42 million on a cakewalk of a Senate race to win back a seat that she never had the slightest intention of filling for more than two more years

Her insistence in general on not being pinned down for a definitive answer for anything

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What is it about Hillary Clinton's campaign that bothers you the most?

Her ties to Mark Penn and Burson Marsteller

2 votes

Who finances her campaign, such as Harken Energy, Dubya's former employer

8 votes

Who officially and unoffically works for her campaign (Terry McAuliffe, Alan G. Quashman, etc)

1 vote

Her saber-rattling at Iran

5 votes

Her refusal to apologize for her 2002 IWR vote

3 votes

Her vote for the Kyl-Lieberman bill that allowed Bush to call part of the Ifanian gov'y a terrorist organization

5 votes

Her health care bill that seems primarily concerned with killing the concept of a single payer plan and bloating the current health care industry

4 votes

Waffling about Iraq, saying that we may need to stay well past her first term

4 votes

The fact that she blew $42 million on a cakewalk of a Senate race to win back a seat that she never had the slightest intention of filling for more than two more years

0 votes

Her insistence in general on not being pinned down for a definitive answer for anything

32 votes

Fastened to a Dying Animal

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Thursday November 08, 2007 · 4:15 PM PST

2007/11/08 · 16:15

(Because if the Coen Brothers can rip off the bard of County Sligo, then so can I.)

It can be accurately said that Iraq is no country for old men. In the estimate of Just Foreign Policy.org, we have either directly or indirectly caused the deaths of over 1.1 million Iraqis, many of them young men and children who will never be privileged to grow into old men. They will never have the chance to bounce their grandchildren on their knees and tell them how much better off they were under a tinpot dictator like Saddam Hussein than they ever were under the Crusadin’ Decider.

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Wednesday November 07, 2007 · 5:04 PM PST

2007/11/07 · 17:04

That would be Markos Moulitsas and Bill Maher, who both made steaming piles out of themselves on last Friday’s Real Time because they both sincerely believed that poor, bitchslapped Hillary stumbled only once during the presidential debate the Tuesday before last.

And that was her waffling on driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants, a campaign issue manufactured by MSNBC whose importance is a bump up from UFO’s and Halloween costumes.

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Tuesday November 06, 2007 · 4:28 PM PST

2007/11/06 · 16:28

Call Congressman Dennis Kucinich what you will: Hobbit. Keebler Elf. Leprechaun. Tinfoil-hatted flying saucer enthusiast. Fringe candidate. One thing that you can’t call him is Dennis the Menace. And you Hillary, Obama and Edwards supporters are partly to blame for that.

Dennis Kucinich is like a brand of health food cereal that you guiltily slink past in aisle four. From at least a cardiovascular standpoint, you know damned good and well that those boxes of twigs, burrs, brambles and thistles are the healthiest breakfast food you can eat. So saith all those anonymous doctors and nutritionists that we also ignore.

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Sunday October 28, 2007 · 9:50 AM PDT

2007/10/28 · 09:50

Typically, my views resemble that of Dennis Kucinich's (57) moreso than anyone else. The candidate who shares my views the least? Just as typically, John "Incomiiiiiiing!" McCain (3). So at least I know that I'm not going crazy.

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5700 Carrots on a Stick

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Friday September 14, 2007 · 6:18 AM PDT

2007/09/14 · 06:18

(Crossposted at Welcome to Pottersville, B@B and Out of Iraq Blogger's Caucus.)

That’s about what I’d call Bush’s speech tonight.

What kills me is how Bush is completely blowing off the healthy skepticism he heard in Congress on the 10th and 11th regarding the efficacy of his "surge" and is assuming because Petraeus and Crocker announced that the surge is working, well, by golly, it must be working and we can continue apace.

This part is so fucking divorced from reality, it ought to be getting alimony and even child support from it:

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Tuesday September 11, 2007 · 7:52 PM PDT

2007/09/11 · 19:52

(Crossposted at Welcome to Pottersville, Brilliant at Breakfast and Out of Iraq Bloggers Caucus.)

Brit Hume checks his talking points emailed from Karl Rove before his Fox News show airs.

On this, the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks, let us remember and never forget the lessons of 9/11 as taught to us by the Truthiness Giver Brit Hume:

No constitutional right is too sacred, no civil liberty too precious to throw on the junkheap like a spare carburetor part or closet like an ugly Christmas present as a direct result of your leader falling asleep at the switch.

Lower Manhattan, after 2191 days, is still scarred by a deep pit where the WTC once stood and it's still Bill Clinton's fault. It always will be Bill Clinton's fault.

It was never about the oil. Well, hardly. Until now, anyway.

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Monday September 10, 2007 · 8:06 PM PDT

2007/09/10 · 20:06

To you, Gavin, and my still-unborn grandchild, I am sorry that I have failed you.

I have failed you for not, as the wise philosopher once advised, leaving the world a better place than I had found it. When I was younger, stronger and more idealistic, it seemed so much easier to pull off.

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Tuesday August 14, 2007 · 7:49 PM PDT

2007/08/14 · 19:49

On the 13th, the day Karl Rove had announced his resignation as Chief White House Strategist, Ron Fournier from the AP had written a deeply disturbing article that, as far as I can see, has gotten no feedback from anyone on our side of the blogosphere. At least, if anyone’s addressing it, they’re not getting to the heart of the matter.

The article states that 40 Democratic consultants, party chairmen and so forth are worried that Hillary’s skeletons will come dancing out of the closet and send Republican voters to the polls in droves.

OK, let me switch gears here for a minute and I promise this is all germane to the point that I’ll get around to making:

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What's the best way to attract and field quality Democratic candidates?

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What's the best way to attract and field quality Democratic candidates?

Draft them with petitions, emails and blogs.

7 votes

Attend town hall meetings and political rallies and address concerns near and dear to the progressive heart.

10 votes

Remind them of what the last six and a half years have been like, including the 110th Congress.

7 votes

Kidnap prominent liberal bloggers and force them to run. Kos in '08!

4 votes

Threaten potential candidates with Newt Gingrich.

3 votes

Threaten potential candidates with Hillary Clinton.

12 votes

Threaten potential candidates with Ralph Nader.

1 vote

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