Archive for March, 2008

Candidates’ Midnight Deadline

Filed under Politics

Today is the last day of the first quarter so campaigns are trying to squeeze as much cash out of their supporters to pad their 1Q reports. Here are a few Republicans who could use your help:

Wisconsin’s John Gard
Minnesota’s Sen. Norm Coleman
New Hampshire’s Sen. John Sununu
Oklahoma’s Sen. Jim Inhofe
Sen. John McCain (Only because I want […]

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Harry Reid Confused by “Voluntary” Tax

The saying goes: “Only two things are certain: death and taxes.” With April 15 upon us in a few weeks it’s hard to believe paying taxes is voluntary. Yet, that’s what Sen. Harry Reid tried to tell Jan Helfeld.
Reid is confused by what he means by “voluntary.” Paying income taxes isn’t voluntary. If we earn […]

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Hope.net Hacked; UPDATE: Likely Just a Prank

The nastiness in the Democratic race has reached cyberspace. The Obama campaign bought hope.net only to have some hackers vandalize the page and add links to Sen. Clinton’s website.
The text reads:
Spread the word!
Barack Obama has not security on his website!
Will his administration have no security?
Where it says “Paid for by Obama for America” it reads, […]

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Would You Date a Liberal?

Filed under Culture

Would you let let politics get in the way of a relationship with the opposite sex? That was one of the questions John Hawkins asked some conservative webloggers. Their answers were mostly “no.” Michelle Malkin’s commenters mostly said no and equate liberals with idiots.
I haven’t dated die-hard liberals or conservatives. There were other things besides […]

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Garfield Minus Garfield

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Is Garfield better without Garfield? I haven’t read the strip in years. The weblog’s description is hysterical:
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and […]

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Obama’s New Politics Not So New

Chunk by chunk Sen. Barack Obama’s Presidential brand of being above partisan politics is collapsing around him. The New Political Man has been caught fibbing about how far to the Left he is or claimed to have been in the past:
During his first run for elected office, Barack Obama played a greater role than his […]

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Fans Boo President Bush

Classless: That describes all those who booed President Bush at the Washington Nationals’ opening game tonight.

The Breitbart video is much better.
[via Hot Air]

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Data Factories

Filed under Tech

In promoting Earth Hour Google failed to look at itself in the mirror. Der Spiegel reports buildings loaded with computers are a big waste of energy. The search giant is mentioned for how electricity costs and access to cooling water have determined the location of one of its data centers:
It is no coincidence that search […]

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Merkel Boycotting Olympic Opening Ceremony

France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy threatened last week to boycott the Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing in response to China’s crackdown of unrest in Tibet, but Germany’s Angela Merkel will do it:
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, yesterday became the first world leader to decide not to attend the Olympics in Beijing.
As pressure built for concerted western […]

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ThinkProgress Apologizes for McCain Mistake

ThinkProgress’ error and correction about a recent Sen. John McCain speech made it onto Fox News.
TP did the right thing by quickly addressing their error. It’s all part of the blogosphere’s ability to publish and correct in an instant.
“Left-Wing Blog Issues Apology to John McCain for Inaccurate Attack - Video 3/28/08″

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From Weblog to Book, the Saga Continues

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Stuff White People Like goes from clever weblog to book deal in weeks. Publishing success for something like this is far from sure:
It will be difficult for the publisher to make a profit, said Sara Nelson, editor of Publishers Weekly. Doing some back-of-the-envelope math, she figured Random House would have to sell about 75,000 copies, […]

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Ted Thompson: Executive of the Year

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With all the griping and complaining I heard from some Packers fans over the years I’m rolling over in laugher now that general manager Ted Thompson has been named NFL GM of the Year:
Ted Thompson, the Green Bay Packers’ general manager, has been named NFL executive of the year by Sporting News.
Thompson’s three-year effort to […]

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Google.co.uk Goes Black

In an example of symbolism over substance Google turned its home back to black to support Earth Hour. That’s a campaign asking people to turn off their lights for one hour on Saturday to promote energy conservation. One. Measly. Hour.
To actually save some energy Google could shut down one of its energy-eating data centers. […]

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Dean Calls McCain’s Military Service Opportunistic

Dr. Howard Dean, the gift that keeps on giving. In response to Sen. John McCain’s latest video Dr. Dean offered this backhanded compliment:
While we honor McCain’s military service, the fact is Americans want a real leader who offers real solutions, not a blatant opportunist who doesn’t understand the economy and is promising to keep our […]

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Taking it Out on the House

Filed under Economics

With the rise in home foreclosures we find stories of the financially-strapped trashing the homes they can no longer afford:
Cruising the wreckage of the Las Vegas property market every day in his silver Cadillac Escalade, the 38-year-old Mr. Carver has developed a connoisseur’s eye for pointless destruction. Vandals who break into empty houses often smash […]

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