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    What a Sincere Apology Sounds Like

    Don’t care what politicians do in their personal life.  In my perfect world, none of a politician’s or celebrity’s personal life would ever be reported.  But we do not live in that world.  Cenk Uygur appropriately points out that Governor Sanford left out a couple of things in his apology.

    I [Cenk Uygur] can begin to forgive Sanford if he gives this apology:

    I am so sorry [...]



    Democrats Eat Their Own

    Harry Reid

    As expected, the US Senate stopped Roland Burris from lawfully taking his Senate seat this morning.  The Democrats cannot stand up to Bush or Cheney.  They cannot stand up to the Republican MINORITY. They cannot stand up to Joe “Kneepads” Lieberman. But they sure as heck can stand up to one of their own.  I would not even believe this was [...]



    Sociometrics

    lthough I am a native Washingtonian, Seattle born, I knew nothing about Vancouver until I came here in 1992. It did not take long for me to appreciate why some people–including native Vancouverites–refer to Vancouver as “Couve Holler” or “Vantucky”. In the apparent establishment, such as it is, the same names, associations, backgrounds and networks kept coming up over and over. And in this [...]



    it’s not nice to speak ill of the dead

    So I’ll let others do it for me. First, Henry Hyde himself, to Salon in 1998:

    The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions. Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr. Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended…

    According to Cherie Snodgrass (now Hancock), Hyde:

    called her “my heathen,” because she wasn’t [...]



    my first experience with seething, white-hot, nauseating political anger

    I was politically active long before I went to law school, an in my pre-law incarnation as a reporter I’d had plenty of exposure to the peculiar narcissism and hypocrisy of politicians.

    But the Anita Hill hearings, during my first year at U of O Law, was the first time I wanted to reach through the teevee and throttle someone. Two someones, actually: Orrin Hatch and [...]



    Forgotten principles

    Here is where this came from. Be assured it is not the bs you get from fox news, that is if there is anyone out there reading this who is still being brainwashed by them.

    Forgotten principles

    by Leon Fisher, Unknown News
    February 7, 2007

    I would like to express my disappointment with those of my generation who have sold out to the same corrupt institutions they had [...]



    Aw, geez

    Hypocrisy anyone?

    As Governor Mitt Romney explores a presidential bid, he has grown outspoken in his criticism of illegal immigration. But, for a decade, the governor has used a landscaping company that relies heavily on workers like these, illegal Guatemalan immigrants, to maintain the grounds surrounding his pink Colonial house on Marsh Street in Belmont.

    The Globe recently interviewed four current and former employees of Community Lawn [...]

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