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Another GTL Guest Column: ?A Tale Of Two Libraries? ? By Mike Hatcher
2009-10-06 04:57:00 THIS IS A GUEST COLUMN CONTRIBUTED BY MIKE HATCHER, a.k.a., “MIKE 300 SPARTANS“ *** A Tale Of Two Libraries I live just outside of Austin, Texas. There are 23 public libraries in Austin and at the one on Steck Ave. there are 3 signs giving about half of the best parking spots to, as... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
On Letterman?s Non-Apology & Media Double Standards
2009-06-12 09:52:00 it seems the only problem David Letterman finds with his derogatory reference to the Governor of Alaska and his joke about an athlete raping her fourteen-year-old daughter was not that he may have said something inappropriate, but that it caused some people to get upset with him. In his brilliant dissection of Letterman’s non-apology, Victor Davis ...
By: GayPatriot
David Miliband Statement Exposes UK Double standards on Terrorism
2009-01-16 21:25:00 David Miliband Statement Exposes UK Double standards on Terrorism Posted using ShareThis &-#160;
Bland Jive: Andrea Mitchell Verbally Fisted
2008-06-10 16:16:00 NBC promotes former South Carolina beauty queen Amy Robach to Saturday "Weekend Today" hostess. TV NewserNBC/MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell forced to apologize on-air yesterday for calling West Virginians rednecks. Redneck coal-dusted newspaper wretch: "Thank You, Andrea Mitchell, For The Ready-Made Column" Bristol Herald J. Todd Foster: "You might be a gold digger if you marry a Fed chairman older than your daddy". "Where is Walter Cronkite when you need him?" Disgusted CNN viewer on political and media whores pretending they're hip with the Obama "fist bump". CNN "A Brief History Of The Fist Bump" TIME magTIME gets away with what Fox News E.D. Hill is pounded for: likening the American hand jive with a similar Arab terrorist hand gesture. Media Matters
By: Chickaboomer
Why Clinton Lost (And Why Obama Just May Win Big In November)
2008-06-09 01:15:00 In “The Things They Carried,” a short story about a platoon of soldiers during the Vietnam War, author Tim O’Brien describes in detail what the soldiers carry as they plod through the war. Aside from the weight of their equipment (mosquito repellent, weapons, first aid kits, etc.), the men carry with them the love for ...
Why Clinton Lost: Too Soon a Bulldog
2008-06-09 01:14:00 All day today, the contributing editors will be offering different takes on why Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic primary despite having started as the prohibitive favorite. These essays approach the question from differing angles and are not for the most part mutually exclusive, but attempt to address specific pieces of the complexity of this massive, ...
Midday Open Thread
2008-06-09 01:14:00 A massive fire has destroyed much of the Texas governor’s mansion in downtown Austin. Authorities are trying to determine the cause of the fire. Former (and likely future) Republican presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee, saved the day at a North Carolina GOP fundraiser yesterday: The former Arkansas governor performed the Heimlich maneuver on Robert Pittenger, Republican ...
Why Clinton Lost: She didn?t channel supporter passion.
2008-06-09 01:14:00 All day today, the contributing editors will be offering different takes on why Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic primary despite having started as the prohibitive favorite. These essays approach the question from differing angles and are not for the most part mutually exclusive, but attempt to address specific pieces of the complexity of this massive, ...
Why Clinton Lost: Change and the Bush legacy
2008-06-09 01:14:00 Hitting the “Smite” button on the whole Bush legacy As Hunter has pointed out, Hillary Clinton lost the nomination for a variety of reasons and in a variety of ways, some of them seemingly counter-intuitive. For example, as the presumptive front-runner, she adopted a hyper-cautious strategy that offered voters a president-in-waiting more than a candidate. Voters ...
Why Clinton Lost
2008-06-09 01:14:00 Only a few short years ago, it was taken as a given that Hillary Clinton would be, in 2008, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. It was presumed to be inevitable; we were deluged with assertions that she was the frontrunner long before any true campaigning started, before any votes were cast, ...
Open Thread for Night Owls & Early Birds
2008-06-09 01:14:00 I’ve just watched for the second time the good parts of the exquisite video put up in Alyosha Popovich’s Diary, Don’t mess with Bill Moyers (vs. O’Reilly Factor). You shouldn’t miss it. But now I’m torn between wanting so very much for Bill-O to accept Moyers’s invitation to spend an entire hour on his show and ...
Sunday Talk - Lime Green Jello Edition
2008-06-09 01:14:00 Full Lineup, Full Unity and McSame mockery below…
Open Thread and Diary Rescue
2008-06-09 01:14:00 This evening’s Rescue Rangers are vcmvo2, jlms qkw, Got A Grip, Shayera, joyful and Avila as editor. Please take a moment to help one of your fellow Kossacks attend Netroots Nation in July. Lithium Cola has the details in Netroots Nation Scholarships and the Hope of the Web. Mentarch cites a newly declassified report on the ...
Indicted Saudi investor in Harken Energy gets $80 million Pentagon contract
2008-06-09 01:14:00 Gretchen Peters reports that the Pentagon has awarded an international fugitive, shadowy Saudi financier Gaith Pharaon, an $80 million contract to supply jet fuel in Afghanistan (h/t Ron Beasley). Pharaon is a fugitive from the FBI as well as the subject of investigations by France and Italy. The contract to supply jet fuel to American bases ...
Change and the Bush legacy
2008-06-08 19:14:00 Hitting the “Smite” button on the whole Bush legacy As Hunter has pointed out, Hillary Clinton lost the nomination for a variety of reasons and in a variety of ways, some of them seemingly counter-intuitive. For example, as the presumptive front-runner, she adopted a hyper-cautious strategy that offered voters a president-in-waiting more than a candidate. Voters ...
Why Clinton Lost
2008-06-08 19:14:00 Only a few short years ago, it was taken as a given that Hillary Clinton would be, in 2008, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. It was presumed to be inevitable; we were deluged with assertions that she was the frontrunner long before any true campaigning started, before any votes were cast, ...
BlogPulse Top Videos for Jun 06, 2008
2008-06-08 17:01:00 http://media1.clubpenguin.com/a-rtwork/catalogue/clothing_0806.-swf (citations) http://graphics8.nytimes.com/pa-ckages/flash/politics/20080603_-MARGINS_GRAPHIC/margins.swf (citations) YouTube - Big Ideas: Don’t get any - ‘Nude’ by Radiohead (citations) YouTube - Interactive card trick (citations) YouTube - John McCain TV Ad - Safe (citations) YouTube - Sexism Sells — But We’re Not Buying It (citations) YouTube - Through the Fire and Flames TTFAF FC 100% 987,786 (citations) YouTube - Clinton Supporter Thrown Out of Rules ...
Open Thread for Night Owls & Early Birds
2008-06-08 13:13:00 I’ve just watched for the second time the good parts of the exquisite video put up in Alyosha Popovich’s Diary, Don’t mess with Bill Moyers (vs. O’Reilly Factor). You shouldn’t miss it. But now I’m torn between wanting so very much for Bill-O to accept Moyers’s invitation to spend an entire hour on his show and ...
Does ?The Detroit News? Know Somehing that we don?t know?
2008-06-08 08:00:00 Not Photoshoped: I thought the Dems were already unified with Al Qaeda… Maybe their just trying to iron out their minor differences. h/t: Schlussel
Sunday Talk - Lime Green Jello Edition
2008-06-08 07:12:00 Full Lineup, Full Unity and McSame mockery below…
Open Thread and Diary Rescue
2008-06-08 07:12:00 This evening’s Rescue Rangers are vcmvo2, jlms qkw, Got A Grip, Shayera, joyful and Avila as editor. Please take a moment to help one of your fellow Kossacks attend Netroots Nation in July. Lithium Cola has the details in Netroots Nation Scholarships and the Hope of the Web. Mentarch cites a newly declassified report on the ...
Indicted Saudi investor in Harken Energy gets $80 million Pentagon contract
2008-06-08 07:12:00 Gretchen Peters reports that the Pentagon has awarded an international fugitive, shadowy Saudi financier Gaith Pharaon, an $80 million contract to supply jet fuel in Afghanistan (h/t Ron Beasley). Pharaon is a fugitive from the FBI as well as the subject of investigations by France and Italy. The contract to supply jet fuel to American bases ...
MA-Sen: Republicans humiliated once again.
2008-06-08 07:12:00 Jim Ogonowski in Massachusetts was one of the top NRSC recruits for this cycle. An Air Force veteran and brother of one of the pilots who died in the 9/11 tragedy, Ogonowski lost a surprisingly close election for the U.S. House in 2007 to Democrat Niki Tsongas. Ogonowski’s six-point loss to Tsongas, whose husband was the ...
Bush?s Saturday Radio Address
2008-06-08 07:12:00 From today’s radio address by George Bush: Congress will soon vote on legislation to fund our troops serving on the front lines of the war on terror. …there is no reason for further delay…the bill must not exceed the reasonable and responsible funding levels I have requested… the time has come for them to support our ...
Republican Desperation
2008-06-08 07:12:00 On MSNBC we just got a taste of Republican desperation. This from Republican strategist Brad Blakeman: But one thing that really troubled me today, is I think Hillary did an outstanding job as an American. I have to say, leaving partisanship aside, I’m very proud of what she’s done for our country. And having said that, ...
Why We Are Winning In Iraq:
2008-06-08 01:59:00 Patiently, calmly, one terrorist at a time: US Casualties are now the lowest on record since the war began. This is the fate that has been met by thousands of Al Qaeda operatives that flocked to Iraq from around the world. If this trend continues, the Iraq campaign will have been proven an unprecedented success. Both ...
Hillary on Obama - Part 2384
2008-06-08 01:59:00 I will be posting Hillary comments on Obama from now until November:
Open Thread and Diary Rescue
2008-06-07 07:02:00 Tonight’s Rescue Rangers are SmokeyMonkey, ezdidit, vcmvo2, YatPundit and jlms qkw, with Got a Grip twirling in the editor’s chair. We offer two excellent action items tonight. jlms qkw requests that everyone write to a soldier in Free! Easy! (and no teeth) while Bendygirl urges us to prod our government to do the right thing in ...
Blurb this Book
2008-06-07 07:02:00 From the Senator who refuses to go away: In a live interview on NewsChannel 7 Tuesday night – Craig, 62 - told Dee Sarton that he is in the process of writing a book on energy - that will also talk about his time in Congress – and the events of the past year. “There will ...
There?s good money in reckless endangerment
2008-06-07 07:02:00 Treat a cut immediately and nobody benefits. Wait for gangrene to take hold and lots of people can cash in. That appears to be the Republican governing philosophy. Tommy Thompson’s firm has won an $11 million contract through HHS to track the health of some 5000 workers who were exposed to toxic air while cleaning up ...
Way Down In The Hole
2008-06-07 07:02:00 How badly might Sen. Clinton need help with her post-campaign debt? Badly: Clinton will likely seek help from Obama in retiring her massive campaign debt, which has swollen to more than $30 million, including $11 million she lent the effort, advisers said Thursday. The former first lady, who plans to bow out of the race and ...
Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread
2008-06-07 07:02:00 Sunday Kos Symposium: Why Hillary Lost For nearly a week now we’ve heard paid pundits and talking heads give their opinions about why Hillary Clinton, the “inevitable” Democratic nominee at the beginning of primary season, will not be facing off against John McCain in November. Now it’s our turn. Sunday Kos this week will be presented as a ...
The Punniest Store Names
2008-06-07 01:46:00 Some people might think local businesses with puns in their title are corny. Some might even go as far as to say they are ‘lame’ and ‘cringe-inducing’.- But personally, I always wanted to open an Indian restaurant called “Curry Your Favor”. And it is because of this desire that I salute the fine people of Best Week ...
Woman Fights High Gas Prices By Burning Gas Stations
2008-06-07 01:46:00 One woman in Danville, California is very attentive to the plight of the ordinary consumer. Diane Craig, 64, was arrested today on suspicion of premeditated arson and burglary after starting fires at two local gas stations and a Starbucks outlet. Local police say she used a fireplace log and a lighter to set the fires in bathrooms ...
Panic! At the Wall Street
2008-06-07 01:46:00 Today was a wild day on the Street. With jobless claims, record-breaking oil and a stock sell-off - it was one hell of a Friday. One of the funny things about Wall Street and the stock market is that dozens of well-intentioned analysts could be screaming about ‘overreactions’ and ‘throwing out the baby with the bathwater’, ...
Setting up the climate change issue
2008-06-07 01:01:00 The Lieberman-Warner climate change bill stalled in the Senate today, after a failed cloture vote tallying just 48 votes in favor of proceeding to debate. Actually, by the time the bill went down, it had become known as the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner bill. That’s a nifty little move that comes as a perk of chairmanship of the committee ...
Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
2008-06-07 01:01:00 From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Late Night Snark to put a cork in a helluva week: “Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has written a tell-all book, and it’s full of inside information about how the public was mislead prior to the invasion of Iraq. The title of the book? Stuff That Would Have Been ...
John McCain avoiding Bush like the plague
2008-06-07 01:01:00 Once again, John McCain is avoiding being seen in public with George Bush: Sen. John McCain(R-Ariz.)will not attend President Bush’s fundraising dinner for congressional candidates in another indication that the GOP nominee is distancing himself from the man he wants to replace. It’s hard to believe that it’s only been three months since McCain, while at ...
Midday Open Thread
2008-06-07 01:01:00 John Edwards is openly dismissing any talk of him being on the Obama ticket: “I already had the privilege of running for vice president in 2004, and I won’t do it again,” Edwards told El Mundo newspaper. Sheriff John Green of Philadelphia has upset lenders by refusing to hold a court-ordered foreclosure auction. “More of ...
House and Senate Roundup, 6/6
2008-06-07 01:01:00 Senate Races NM-Sen, MA-Sen, IA-Sen, SD-Sen: The Las Vegas Sun has an article today documenting the utter and abject failure of Nevada Sen. John Ensign’s recruiting efforts this cycle. John Ensign has a terrible job, and it got worse this week. The party that once dreamed of regaining their majority in one quick election cycle has now ...
More ?judgment? from John McCain
2008-06-07 01:01:00 John McCain spends a lot of time telling people that only he possesses the right kind of judgment to be the next President of the United States. For example, last week McCain explained the judgement he used in 2002 in deciding to support going to war: I know why I supported [the war] because I believed ...
Popular vote
2008-06-07 01:01:00 Ugh. Mrs. Feinstein said she did not need to urge Mrs. Clinton to hold a meeting. “I didn’t urge anybody to do anything. I know it’s a natural instinct. People, particularly in this case because Hillary represents a very large block of voters — the largest ever for anybody that has come in No. 2, and ...
$45 Trillion Needed To Save The World
2008-06-06 19:39:00 Similar to the waning hours of a college frat party, the Earth’s ‘keg’ is almost kicked and we’re starting a collection to keep this party alive! The news today centers around a study just released saying we will need to spend almost $45 trillion in the coming decades to successfully cut greenhouse gases in half. The raised ...
McCain: Illegal Spying? I?m In!
2008-06-06 19:01:00 Both Greenwald and Ryan Singel have important posts on McCain and FISA. He’s been back and forth all over the issue since it’s become an issue, but now that he’s running for Bush’s third term, he’s decided he’d better go all in, not only on warrantless wiretapping, but on the theory of a unitary executive ...
McCain: Illegal Spying? I?m In!
2008-06-06 19:01:00 Both Greenwald and Ryan Singel have important posts on McCain and FISA. He’s been back and forth all over the issue since it’s become an issue, but now that he’s running for Bush’s third term, he’s decided he’d better go all in, not only on warrantless wiretapping, but on the theory of a unitary executive ...
Bush uses tortured American vets as pawns
2008-06-06 19:01:00 Is it possible to sink even lower? Remember this? Bush, December 28, 2007: I am withholding my approval of H.R. 1585, the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008,” because it would imperil billions of dollars of Iraqi assets at a crucial juncture in that nation’s reconstruction efforts and because it would undermine the foreign policy and ...
Bush uses tortured American vets as pawns
2008-06-06 19:01:00 Is it possible to sink even lower? Remember this? Bush, December 28, 2007: I am withholding my approval of H.R. 1585, the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008,” because it would imperil billions of dollars of Iraqi assets at a crucial juncture in that nation’s reconstruction efforts and because it would undermine the foreign policy and ...
It?s The First Non-Race-Baiting Smear of The Campaign Season! Congratulatio
2008-06-06 19:01:00 Tom Delay, Indicted Republican: Unless he proves me wrong, [Obama] is a Marxist. Hunter, Blogger: Unless he proves me wrong, Tom Delay lures children into his van with candy, gasses them to death with bug spray, and uses their powdered bones as an aphrodisiac when making love to all the animals at the San Antonio ...
It?s The First Non-Race-Baiting Smear of The Campaign Season! Congratulatio
2008-06-06 19:01:00 Tom Delay, Indicted Republican: Unless he proves me wrong, [Obama] is a Marxist. Hunter, Blogger: Unless he proves me wrong, Tom Delay lures children into his van with candy, gasses them to death with bug spray, and uses their powdered bones as an aphrodisiac when making love to all the animals at the San Antonio ... |



