The Obscene Disrespecting of Senator Ted Kennedy

By on August 28, 2009 in Republican-Fail, Things That Make You Go Hmmm

Over at the Daily Kos, I have a semi-regular feature I do called Forays Into Freeperville where I highlight some of the brilliant inanity of a website called the Free Republic. The Free Republic is an ultra-conservative message board and the denizens of the site are some of the most vile and repugnant right wingers you’re likely to encounter anywhere. They are also pretty dumb.

Today, I ventured over there to see what they were saying about Senator Ted Kennedy who died this week from brain cancer. I was sickened by what I found. Below is what I put up on the Daily Kos this morning.…


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Vacation in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

By on August 28, 2009 in Eclectalife

Mrs. E and I spent all of last week in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We spent one night at the Blind Sucker Flooding State Forest Campground where we saw two bald eagles and a black bear.

We spent three absolutely fabulous days backpacking on Grand Island, a National Recreation Area where we had a campsite right on the beach of Lake Superior, picked wild blue berries and red raspberries for our desserts each night and rode our bikes over 30 miles.

We spent one night at the Rivermouth Campground in the Tahquamenon Falls, near Whitefish Point (where the Edmund Fitzgerald went down) where we saw another eagle and an osprey while kayaking.…


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Defeated last November, former U.S. Rep. holds health care town halls anyway

By on August 28, 2009 in Republicans

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post.

This is a follow-up to my diary on Tuesday regarding defeated former U.S. Representative Tim Walberg holding town halls in Michigan in an apparent crass use of the health care debate to launch his 2010 bid to regain his House seat.


Walberg listens to a supporter condemn health care reform

Last fall, one-term U.S. Representative Tim Walberg was defeated in a hotly contested race in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District. As I wrote in a Huffington Post piece last October, Walberg, who held a significant lead during most of the campaign, saw his lead evaporate and he eventually lost his seat to Democrat Mark Schauer, despite receiving an enormous amount of financial support from the ultra-conservative Club For Growth.…


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Universal Health Care For Dummies

By on August 28, 2009 in Uncategorized

Sometimes cartoons ARE better at explaining things. This video by Andy Lubershane does a spectacular job of spelling out what I think should be the painfully obvious reasons why universal health care for Americans is the way we should be doing things.

I’m just sayin’…

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“I Pledge Allegiance to the Shirt…”

By on August 25, 2009 in Bwahahahahaha, Republican-Fail, Republicans

You just can’t make this shit up. Via Windy City Watch:

llinois Republicans are a patriotic bunch.

They start their meetings with a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, the nation’s unofficial loyalty oath. And so it was last week when Republican Party leaders met at a Springfield hotel prior to attending Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair.

Republican county chairmen (party leaders, not county board leaders) held a meeting and prepared to recite the pledge. Oops. There was no flag in the room for them to face while reciting. What to do? Why, call on a fellow named Gene to come to the rescue.…


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The Blue Light Special is BACK!

By on August 25, 2009 in Uncategorized

Don’t ask me why but this makes me smile:

Attention, Kmart shoppers: The blue light special is back.

The venerable discounter is reviving the legendary sales tactic on Saturdays to bolster sales and lure shoppers who have migrated to other big box retailers, said Tom Aiello, spokesman for Sears Holding Corp., which owns Kmart.

Maybe it’s because of the Pavlovian response I have to the announcement that there is a Blue Light Special going on in aisle 3. Even at the tender age of six I got excited when a six-piece pots and pans set was discounted by $1.75.

I’m just sayin’…

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Big Oil Lobby plans astroturf campaign

By on August 15, 2009 in Uncategorized

I highly commend your attention to the DeSmogBlog blog entry “Leaked Memo: Oil Lobby Launches Fake ‘Grassroots’ Campaign”.

According to a leaked memo obtained by Greenpeace, the Big Oil lobby is planning an anti-climate change legislation astroturf campaign modeled on the one conducted by health insurance companies to combat health care reform. Event venues have already been selected and plans are underway to fund and execute “Energy Citizen” rallies across the country.

The event in Michigan is, apparently, September 3 in Livonia so we’ll need to be prepared to turn people out (more to come on that.) Please check out the blog and read the memo (PDF file) from Phil Radford at Greenpeace.…


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New Huffington Post Article – Made the front page!

By on August 14, 2009 in Republican-Fail, Republicans

For your reading pleasure:

County Commissioner Brings Swastika Sign To US Rep. Schauer Health Care Rally

I think I made this guy’s life rather difficult starting a bit before lunch today.

Good.

I’m just sayin’…

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