Archive for October, 2005

Schumer’s Perpetual Talking Points

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Someone hit the repeat button on Sen. Charles Schumer’s iPod:
“Dividing the country”. Isn’t that the same exact thing he said about Justice Roberts AND Harriet Miers? Whoever is typing up the talking points at the DNC needs a crash course on how not to make the memos sound a like.
The Rosa Parks link was a […]

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Kennedy’s Pendulum

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The GOP has a side-by-side comparison of Sen. Kennedy’s evolving (dare one say “growing”?) opinion of Judge Alito. In the press release Kennedy went on to say:
After insisting that Harriet Miers shouldn’t even get a hearing because she couldn’t prove she was extreme enough, the far right has now forced the President to choose a […]

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Alito Nominated

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Hooray! President Bush got his act together. Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito has been nominated to replace Sandra Day O’Connor. The conservative spin is Alito has a first-rate mind is more qualified than Chief Justice Roberts. In a blast e-mail Ed Whelan said, ” By any objective criteria, it is doubtful that there is anyone […]

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Current Reading: Two Lives

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Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music possesed enough emotional depth to connect with me like few books have. I may never get around to diving into his massive A Suitable Boy but I am enjoying his latest Two Lives. It’s a love letter to his late aunt and uncle. They both lived through the tumultuous times […]

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Blast from the Past

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This Digg post reminds me I have an Osbourne-1 sitting in my basement. Anyone want to make an offer?
“First Laptop Ever”

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*Sniff*

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Michele has shut down A Small Victory. She’ll need to focus on writing her novel. I hope we seen ASV again.

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Painful to Watch

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Can the Packers please pull Ahmad Carroll? He can’t cover anyone, and when he tries he’s committing a penalty. Is Joey Thomas that much worse?
UPDATE: What’s also painful to watch is Brett Favre treating the football like trick-or-treat candy. Hand it out here, there, and everywhere.
UPDATE II: Favre has passed John Elway for second […]

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Message from the Afterlife

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Make your own Einstein picture.
[via the Commissar]

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Saddam Can Only Blame the Man He Sees in the Mirror

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The United Arab Emirates and the U.S. agreed with Saddam weeks before the Iraq War to let him to go into exile in the UAE.
UAE President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan made the proposal for Saddam to go into exile at an emergency Arab summit just weeks before the U.S.-led war began in March 2003.
But […]

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Go Old School

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Target will be selling old-fashion (Yikes! I’m too young to write that) arcade cabinets.
Each unit plays 12 of the original arcade versions of the most popular Midway® games including: Defender®, Defender® II, Robotron®, Joust®, Bubbles®, Splat™, Sinistar®, Rampage®, Rootbeer Tapper™, Wizard of Wor™, Timber™, and Satan’s Hollow™.
Damn it! I want Beer Tapper, not the prohibitionist […]

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Libby Indicted

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Do you smell that? That’s Scooter Libby as toast.
Lying to investigators and to a grand jury is a crime. Those who commit it should be prosecuted and punished. There’s no need for me to defend Libby. If I did what he’s accused of doing I’d be going to jail. No pity for Libby.
The indictment deals […]

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Carnival of the Badger #11

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Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger…

Before embarking on this week’s carnival you must, must open this website into another browser. It’s required background music. Soon I will be petitioning the government to make it Wisconsin’s official manic song. The kids at UW-Madison would love it in between detox sessions.

Mushroom, mushroom!

Dad29 takes on Aurora Health […]

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Miers Withdraws

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No more Harriet Miers to kick around:
Under withering attack from conservatives, President Bush ended his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court Thursday and promised a quick replacement. Democrats accused him of bowing to the “radical right wing of the Republican Party.”
The White House said Miers had withdrawn her name because […]

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CoB this Evening

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Expect the Carnival of the Badger this evening. While I’m working today I’ll try to think of some special touches for the plethora of submissions I received.

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Organizing Against Miers

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David Frum started up Americans for Better Justice to oppose the Harriet Miers nomination. Mona Charen, Linda Chavez, and Virginia Postrel are all on board.
They already have a commercial. The tone is good. They’re not bashing the President or Miers supporters. This has the potential of really being a full-blown conservative schism. A lot will […]

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