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- Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon Celebrate Operation Smile
- Im endorsing Jeff Merkley for US Senator for Oregon
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- CNN Lets Clintonista Denounce McCains Hypocrisy on Hamas
- 'Wanted' Officially Goes Viral
- PLEASE watch the season finale of tonights Moonlight
Electability Watch
Obama vs. McCain by the numbers: There are 247 days left of the Bush administration. There are 171 days to Election Day. .
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Hans Von Spakovsky: Buh Bye!
http://www.crooksandliars.com/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ hans-von-spakovsky-buh-bye/LA Times: President Bush’s contentious nominee for the Federal Election Commission removed his name from consideration Friday, potentially ending a stalemate that had paralyzed the agency. Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department official who never had Democratic support to win confirmation, withdrew his nomination, saying it was time for the protracted deadlock to end.
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“Mayor” Wilder retiring
http://bearingdrift.com/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ mayor-wilder-retiring/Former Gov. Douglas Wilder, America’s first African-American governor, has decided not to seek re-election as mayor of Richmond. Since Wilder’s term as governor, candidates seeking elected office, have always sought his endorsement.
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Electability Watch
http://www.reachm.com/ amstreet/ archives/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ electability-watch/Obama vs. McCain by the numbers: There are 247 days left of the Bush administration. There are 171 days to Election Day. . The rest of the numbers are based on the most recent poll taken in each state, with Obama matched against McCain. Electoral votes of Obama vs.
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I’m endorsing Jeff Merkley for US Senator for Oregon
http://www.reachm.com/ amstreet/ archives/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ im-endorsing-jeff-merkl…For people unfamiliar with Oregon politics, being a political insider here is not anything like being an insider in Washington DC. For one thing, our state legislature only meets for a few months every other year. It’s a true citizen legislature, the pay is quite low, so most of the people who run for the state lege do so out of a genuine commitment to public service.
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Epiphany Watch, Peggy Noonan Version
http://www.reachm.com/ amstreet/ archives/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ epiphany-watch-peggy-no…I don’t know if Peggy Noonan ever read any of Bob Altemeyer’s study of the authoritarian personalities that are the heart and soul of the conservative Republican political infrastructure, but sometime in the last several months of reading the scribbling on the White House walls, she’s reached the
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Hey, Huckabee, Know What That Loud Sound Really Was?
http://satiricalpolitical.com/ ?p=1832“I GUESS IT WAS GOD STRIKING ME DOWN.” [Story here.]
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First Daughter Jenna Pregnant: Bush Warns Against ‘Appease-iotomy’
http://satiricalpolitical.com/ ?p=1829“GOD HELP US IF HER OBSTETRICIAN IS A MEMBER OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY — NEXT THING YOU KNOW, THE IRANIANS WILL BE TAKING OVER THE SUEZ CANAL … AND HER BIRTH CANAL.”
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MSNBC's Shuster: Bush's Remarks 'Intellectually Grotesque and Dishonest'
http://newsbusters.org/ blogs/ lyndsi-thomas/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ msnbcs-shuster-bushs…The 9a.m. hour of Friday’s MSNBC News Live featured only slanted coverage of President Bush’s remarks to Israel's Knesset including “Hardball’ correspondent David Shuster’s characterization of the President’s remarks as “clearly an intellectually grotesque and dishonest statement.” Shuster also
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When the weird get going
http://www.reachm.com/ amstreet/ archives/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ when-the-weird-get-goin…Al Giordano demonstrates how Democratic Derangement Syndrome has been made manifest lately. (Btw, keep track of the percentages cited by the woman on the left. I’m not sure what her name is. I call her ‘One Hundred and three”.
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Three reasons…
http://www.askdirect.ie/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ three-reasons/Three reasons to support the Irish Hospice Foundation - our latest campaign for the Irish Hospice Foundation. 1. So seriously ill children receive the best palliative care available, at home with their families. 2. To encourage all Irish hospitals to take on the Hospice approach to end of life care.