Rep. John Lewis’ Speech to the Washtenaw County Democratic Party

By on October 4, 2009 in Democrats, John Dingell

Rep. John Lewis – Washtenaw Country Democratic Party Annual Dinner
October 3, 2009

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TRANSCRIPT:  I’d like to thank my brother John Dingell for those kind words of introduction. The chairman of the state party, the county party, all of the honorable elected officials, all of you wonderful, smart, beautiful and handsome Democrats. I must just tell you that it is a great pleasure to be here tonight to spend some time with my friend John Dingell and his lovely wife Debbie and it’s always a pleasure to visit Democrats in this great state.

You know that I’ve prepared a speech and I don’t think I’m going to follow it but maybe I’ll follow it a little bit.…


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Where Eclectablog gets most of its hits

By on October 1, 2009 in Bloggety Blah Blah Blah, Things That Make You Go Hmmm

This is just effed. You wanna know what generates the most traffic on this site? It’s from the raunchy picture found in a blog entry I did during the campaign last year called “Cindy McCain Gone Wild!!!” It shows two women in a sexually-explicit position (clothed but simulating…stuff) who are participating in the Miss Buffalo Chip “beauty pageant” at the Bikers’ Meet in Sturgis, South Dakota.

The one that then-candidate John McCain said his wife Cindy should enter.

Seriously.

If you look at the top referrers to my site, most of the time it looks like this:

It’s unreal. I get most of my traffic from people doing Google image searches on things like “Miss Buffalo Chip”, “biker rally girls” and “biker rally photos”.…


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Obama and Dems to Republicans: Sayonara, Douchebags

By on October 1, 2009 in Bwahahahahaha, Republican-Fail, Republicans

From the Washington Times:

[House Minority Whip Eric] Cantor said Mr. Obama initially asked for Republican help on health care, but Republicans have heard nothing since they offered their ideas.

“No matter what the cry is from the White House, no matter what the president claims, they have not engaged with us,” he said.

“The White House at this point has shut down, as far as any kind of engagement. I think that the last time that we as a Republican leadership were at the White House was in May, and that’s when they called us in at the beginning of the health care discussion so that they could get our ideas,” Mr.…


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Liberals are angry, deranged lunatics

By on October 1, 2009 in Bwahahahahaha, Republican-Fail, Things That Make You Go Hmmm

And we don’t want to be happy. So says Rush Limbaugh.

Oh, and by the way? Nobody is dying because they don’t have health care insurance, despite evidence to the contrary

I’m just sayin’…

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Meanwhile, back in the Senate: a decent climate change bill!

By on September 30, 2009 in Green Energy, Politics

Today is the day that Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer will release the Senate version of the so-called Cap-and-Trade bill, their version of the bill Representatives Waxman and Markey got passed in the House earlier this year. And, surprise, surprise (really!), it’s stronger than the House bill.

The Washington Post got a sneak peak at a nearly-completed version of it and the news appears to be good.

This legislation appears to do a few things the Waxman-Markey bill did not:

  • Make it easier for businesses to purchase carbon offsets by increasing the number of offsets by 40%
  • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% from 2005 levels by 2020 and 83% by 2050
  • Help ensure that the price of carbon will not exceed $28 per ton (the “carbon collar”)
  • Emphasize transportation efficiency
  • Ensure that the EPA continues to be able to regulate the emissions from coal-burning power plants

It’s getting some very good reviews.…


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Ken Burns’ National Park series PERFECTLY timed

By on September 28, 2009 in Uncategorized

Cross-posted at Daily Kos.

I watched the first installment of the gloriously filmed and narrated Ken Burns series “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” last night. As a major supporter of the National Parks system, I have been eagerly awaiting this since I first learned of it.

NOTE: Here’s a link to last night’s episode HERE.

From taking my four-year old son backpacking in the Smoky Mountain National Park to proposing to my wife in the Nordhouse Dunes National Wilderness Area and from getting married on the shore of Lake Michigan in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore to spending our five-year anniversary in the Grand Island National Recreation Area, I have literally spent many of the best moments of my life in these bastions of socialist beauty.…


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Baked Stuffed Jalapeno Peppers – RECIPE

By on September 27, 2009 in Uncategorized

This was first posted at an earlier version of this blog in 2007. Today, we’re going to process 100 jalapenos into these remarkably awesome stuffed peppers so I thought that I’d repost it. Enjoy.
At long last, I’m finally getting this recipe up. We do HUGE amounts of these at once but the recipe is for 15-20. The photos are from last year’s harvest and marathon pepper stuffing event. A Microsoft Word version of the recipe (sans photos) is HERE.

These “poppers” are baked, not fried. They are unbelievably delicious. I highly recommend them. You can also use the filling to stuff Roma tomato halves which is equally delicious.…


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Lansing, Michigan ACORN office closed after receiving threats

By on September 26, 2009 in Things That Make You Go Hmmm

The Lansing State Journal reported yesterday that the ACORN office in Lansing, Michigan is closing its doors after receiving a threatening phone call (H/T Eric B. at Michigan Liberal):

An angry voice mail laced with a racial epithet was the final straw for Carrie Guzman.

An anonymous caller to the local Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, office, left the message. No complaint was filed with police, but the office will close next week…when Guzman, the local ACORN financial justice coordinator, thought she could no longer guarantee a safe working environment for her volunteers, she decided it was time to call it quits.…


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