As I watched Keith Olbermann on MSNBC last night, they ran through a series of emails Sarah Palin sent to McCain staffers during the campaign that discussed things like her appearance on Saturday Night Live and her interview with “The Perky One”, Katie Couric. It was funny and all, watching her get lambasted for lying by the very douchnozzles we […]

Freshman Representative from MI-07 Mark Schauer had a grueling schedule Friday and Saturday last week. He held four town hall meetings in two days to discuss the House’s health care reform bill and to answer questions from his constituents. Schauer, who narrowly defeated the odious fundamentalist über-conservative Tim Walberg in 2008, is in a tough district. While it contains a […]

A few days ago, I wrote a diary for the Daily Kos that’s part of a series I call “Forays Into Freeperville” where I got to the Free Republic and cull out some of the most over-the-top, insane comments I can find. It’s not hard to find them, of course, and I suppose a bit of my soul dies each […]

I’m on so many goddam email lists. Some how I managed to stay on MI-08 Representative Mike Roger’s list. He’s often viewed as a “moderate” Republican but he’s anything but. This morning, his latest email graced my inbox and in it, he takes measure of H.R. 3962, the House bill to reform health care insurance in this country. No, I […]

A little kitteh boxin’ for your viewin’ pleasure: And in THIS cornah… I’m just sayin’…

I love Halloween but I’m not much of a punkin carver. However, I love looking at them. Here’s a bunch of the coolest punkins I could find on the web. Well, except this one. It was taken by my wife: From her Flickr page: I’m posting this in honor of my father whose favorite holiday was halloween. Every year until […]

Cross-posted at DK Greenroots. After Hurricane Katrina, tens of thousands of families from Louisiana and Mississippi, displaced by the storm that destroyed their homes, were placed in trailers provided by the federal government. Almost immediately calls began to come in to FEMA complaining about breathing problems and other maladies as a result of staying in the trailers. It turns out […]

Fifty votes to pass a bill out of the Senate. That’s what we need. We don’t need fifty-one. We don’t need sixty. We need fifty. Vice president Biden would cast the tie-breaking vote and the bill moves on. We have sixty Senators that are in the Democratic caucus but we can lose ten of them and still pass a bill. […]

Finally, the truth about Rick Astley revealed: [Source] I’m just sayin’…

This week Democrats in both houses of Congress started down the road of stripping exemption from antitrust laws from the health insurance industry. This has them all adither. From the Associated Press: Responding to the day’s developments, the industry said the legislation was based on a misperception of existing law. “We believe that health insurers have not been engaging in […]

Ocote Soul Sounds: Check ’em out. They are HOT! Dueling flutes?! Oh yeah.. I’m just sayin’…