We have reached endgame

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Thursday September 20, 2012 · 9:44 PM PDT

2012/09/20 · 21:44

Endgame: the late stages of an activity, when previously gained advantages are played out, and few surprises remain. In chess, it is often marked by an emptier board, as many of the more powerful pieces have been eliminated.

I saw something that made me realize we have reached the endgame.

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Friday April 27, 2012 · 11:20 AM PDT

2012/04/27 · 11:20

It was a year ago that the White House released the long demanded "long form" of President Obama's birth certificate, silencing all critics and reminding Orly Taitz that her ill-gotten 15 minutes were up.

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Wednesday April 11, 2012 · 7:51 AM PDT

2012/04/11 · 07:51

In this morning's speech on the Buffet Rule, President Obama spoke of one of his predecessor's campaign for a equitable tax rate for CEO's and their secretaries. Of course the punchline was (and I paraphrase here, as the words were just delivered) that the wild-eyed, socialist, tax-raising president was Ronald Reagan. Then he delivered the more important line:

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Thursday February 16, 2012 · 9:39 AM PST

2012/02/16 · 09:39

True "Friend of the DailyKos", "The Colbert Report" suspended taping for last night and tonight's episodes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

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Tuesday October 18, 2011 · 5:15 AM PDT

2011/10/18 · 05:15

I am in New York for a few days of mixed business and pleasure. When I mentioned to the trimgal that I would be dropping by the occupation zone, she insisted, "Don't you dare get arrested. You have to pick me up at the airport on Tuesday." I assured her I could behave.

I got to the Park at about 4pm, and walked around a bit, drinking in the chaos in action.
I have been reading on and off about the movement, and how decentralized, and even schizophrenic it was. Now that I saw the people gathered, it was reinforced twenty-fold.

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Thursday April 15, 2010 · 7:36 PM PDT

2010/04/15 · 19:36

Today at noon, I visited the Tea Party Tax Day rally-o-rama in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I arrived about 15 minutes after things had started, parked about three blocks away, and was already seeing a small stream of folks moving away from the site. Fearing I had missed all the fun, I hustled down to the site to see if there was any rally left.

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Thursday November 05, 2009 · 7:51 AM PST

2009/11/05 · 07:51

Expanded from an Open Thread Comment, but probably still not a full diary.

Remember, remember, the fifth of November,
As teabaggers and dumb birthers plot.
With no sign of sanity
She conspired with Sean Hannity
Behold what the guano she wrought.

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Tuesday September 15, 2009 · 6:54 PM PDT

2009/09/15 · 18:54

Today as I was driving, I tuned into Sean Hannity for a dose of "Know thy enemy." Hair-tearing as it always is, it is fun to listen to their insanity on open display. But today, in the process of finding other things to hold against the Constitutionally elected President and his administration, Sean did a nice flip.

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Wednesday August 12, 2009 · 2:37 PM PDT

2009/08/12 · 14:37

It is painful to watch. The rage that she showed yesterday is exposed as totally underinformed. She was the one who ranted against Arlen Specter (Specter-PA): What will you do to restore the country to the intent of the founders?

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Wednesday January 07, 2009 · 11:08 PM PST

2009/01/07 · 23:08

On a number of diaries since October, there has been a recurring theme that sets the writers and commenters nigh on to giddy. They envision a future set of events and see it as the best possible outcome. But they are not looking far enough into the future, and are not using our "resources" to their best possible effect. If you want to hope for an ideal, try this.

Hope and wish and pray and even work so that Sarah Palin does not get the Republican nomination for President in 2012.

Look below for my logic.

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 7:21 AM PST

2008/11/04 · 07:21

I am a twenty-seven member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, a medieval recreation/re-enactment/living history group. Every six months, each kingdom (a one to ten state regional group) holds a Crown Tournament, where through armored combat with rattan swords we choose our Prince and Princess, who will shortly become our King and Queen. Our Kingdom held such a tournament this past weekend in St. Louis. I posted a version of this essay for some of them to read, but thought you might enjoy it here. I have altered it slightly for this audience, reducing some of the "inside language". I will note that there is a general agreement to keep modern politics out of our medival discussion, thus the first paragraph.

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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 8:58 PM PDT

2008/10/21 · 20:58

In his "The Word" segment tonight entitled "Fantasyland" Colbert sent us a hidden message. While discussing the immanent threat of cartoon characters voting, he demanded we use the time-tested method of distinguishing between humans entitled to vote and cartoons, who are the threat to the very fabric of democracy.

We must drop an anvil on their heads (Acme brand of course). If a bump rises from the head of the suspect, around which fly tiny birds, then clearly the vote-stealer is a cartoon. If the skull is crushed, then the poor unfortunate may vote (and host Fox and Friends).

It was almost subliminal, but I caught it. Did you?
Stephen Colbert is begging us to throw them
an anvil. Acme brand, of course.

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