Archive for August, 2006

Charlie’s Show Prep #163

Anti-Bushies in Pittsville, WI got a referendum asking voters if President Bush and Vice President Cheney should be impeached.
Commutes got a tad bit shorter last year. [via digg]
Ooo! I want Canadian socialized health care so I can wait over four months between a doctor’s referral to treatment. A significant proportion of Canadians are dissatisfied with […]

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State Elections Board Raps Green over PAC Money

Filed under Wisconsin

Rep. Mark Green got rapped by a partisan vote on the state elections board and ordered to give up $468,000 in political action committee donations he transfered from his federal campaign account to that for his race for governor.
The Doyle campaign is using the board’s decision to tar Green, making him look as sleazy […]

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Couric Photoshopped

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I didn’t figure the petite Katie Couric needed any photoshopping done. But her CBS people did a fantastic job. She looks pretty slim in this AP photo. They took off a bunch off the waste and the neck.
“CBS Magazine Slims Down Couric in Photo”

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Charlie’s Show Prep #162

Filed under Wisconsin

Former State Department official Richard Armitage admits to being Robert Novak’s source that Valerie Plame was a CIA officer. Can we please leave Scooter Libby alone and shut down Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation?
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board is tired of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s egotistical temper tantrum.
Some of Air America’s highest ratings this spring were […]

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Free from Blogger

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Chris at Spotting Horse 2 has thrown off the shackles (and occasional outages) of Blogger and moved to WordPress.
I hope to be joining him in the near future.

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Charlie’s Show Prep #161

The NY Times publishes a fear-mongering economic story that workers are more worse off than in decades. It just happens the Times failed to look at other data. Russ Roberts takes them to task. Stephen Bainbridge calls is “lazy journalism.”
There was a Katrina video Congress didn’t want you to see. A good case is made […]

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At Least Al Gore Accepted Defeat

South of the border the Leftist Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has organized protests that disrupt Mexico City. All because he didn’t get the most votes in July’s election. He thinks he was robbed and everyone’s in on the conspiracy, even the electoral tribunal that today rejects most of his charges of voter […]

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A Scary Lineup of Potential House Chairman

Filed under Politics

In politics you have a better chance of winning when you’re for a candidate rather than again the opponent. (That may be Rep. Mark Green’s downfall against Gov. Jim Doyle.) However, the idea of Reps. Barney Frank, Charles B. Rangel, and the ancient John D. Dingell as chairmen of House committees gives me the chills. […]

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Van Hollen Crime Lab Ad

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J.B. Van Hollen uses his lead in campaign funds to put out a new television ad that goes right after Peg Lautenschlager’s state crime lab mess.

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Let’s Play Some Fantasy Football

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I have three spots open in my fantasy football league. We have a corps of regulars, most are veteran webloggers. Most of us at least pretend to know what we are doing, and the league winner gets bragging rights in the blogosphere. [Audience ooos and ahhhhs.] Although few have ever bragged about their championship. (That’s […]

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Charlie’s Show Prep #160

A plane crash skit during the Emmys when that morning a plane crashed in Kentucky. Oops!
Can any Democratic candidate beat Rep. Paul Ryan? No.
A car ferry war is being waged on Wikipedia. The open-source encyclopedia is like any source. Reader beware.
Jack Bauer gets his Emmy.

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Released Fox News Journalists Were Forced to Convert to Islam at Gunpoint

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The Holy Jihad Brigades that held Fox News correspondent Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig don’t have much faith in the power of their own religion. The forced the two journalists to convert at gunpoint:
“We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint,” Centanni told FOX News. “Don’t get me wrong here. I have the […]

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Christopher Hitchens Flips Off Bill Maher’s Audience

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Christopher Hitchens doesn’t give a damn who he ticks off. He says what he thinks and mocks those who deserve it. On Bill Maher’s boring HBO version of Politically Incorrect, Real Time, Hitchens made the case that Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the one who wants World War III. Maher’s audience preferred ripping on President […]

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Our Dark Secrets

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Ladies and gentlemen, let me remind you that all of us have something in our past that, if known, would have others seriously questioning our integrity. Greg Mitchell has, Mary Katherine Ham has, Mary Katerine’s father has, even I have. The only difference is Mitchell told the whole world.
Sorry, you get no hints or any […]

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Just Add Two Letters

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A pet peeve of mine with Republicans is calling their opponents members of the “Democrat” Party instead of the “Democratic” Party. The latter is correct and more polite since it is the name of the party. Every time I hear it used by Republicans and their supporters I shake my head knowing how petty and […]

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