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 | I’m hoping it’s Obama – but he’s already given away the store in the form of tax cuts and striking family planning and the National Mall renewal from the bill. Maybe he just wanted to give the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves. I certainly hope so, because even if this stimulus bill works perfectly and creates/saves 4 million jobs, it won’t get [...] Today is Write to Marry Day, when like-minded bloggers are speaking out against Proposition 8 in California, and all of the other anti-gay marriage constitutional amendments and legislative initiatives past and present. While this may come as a shock to the Mormons and Catholics and Evangelicals behind Prop 8, either their god is completely ignorant of biology, or he’s the biggest practical joker [...] Yes, we hear that the rate of casualties among coalition forces has now exceeded those in Iraq, but we have heard nothing like this from the MSM. We have to get it from Rolling Stone: By the time we reach the town of Salar, only 50 miles south of Kabul, we have already passed five tractor-trailers from military convoys that have been destroyed [...] An example of corporate consolidation in the financial industry: In 1991, North Carolina National Bank (NCNB) bought C&S/Sovran and became NationsBank. Seven years later, NationsBank bought Bank of America for $64.8 billion (the largest bank acquisition in American history at the time) and became Bank of America. In 2004, Bank of America bought National Processing Company – a credit card services company – [...] I don’t watch much teevee, so my exposure to Sarah Palin has been largely audio. Every time I hear her speak, I’d swear it’s Julia Sweeney channeling Lynn Cheney. But really it’s just Tracy Flick, all grown up and ready to take over the world. Palin last night with Charlie Gibson (who at least from the transcript didn’t suck quite as much as [...] But then maybe it’s just god’s will: OTTAWA (AFP) — Two ice shelves in Canada’s far north have lost massive sections since August while a third ice shelf now is adrift in the Arctic Ocean, said researchers Wednesday who blamed climate change. The entire 50 square-kilometer (19 square-mile) Markham Ice Shelf off the coast of Ellesmere Island broke away in early August and [...] |      | ||||
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