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gold!

memo…

To: Barak ObamaFrom: 1boringoldman Re: Energy Independence In the past, the United States has done some amazing things with science in a crunch. In World War II, the collection of scientists in the Manhattan Project certainly got the job done. When the Russians sent up a Satellite, DARPA, another scientific think tank, got our Satellite […]

memo…

To: Barak Obama From: 1boringoldman Re: The Presidential Race Stop talking about John McCain! Stop responding to John McCain’s "charges," "slurs," "comments," existence. Talk about your vision, values, and policies. If you must talk about your opposition, talk about the Republicans – Bush, Cheney, their Wars, their dirty tricks, their ignoring the economy. Don’t be […]

VEEP…

Potential Running Mates Barak Obama John McCain Evan Bayh Charlie Crist Joseph R. Biden Jr. Lindsey Graham Hillary Rodham Clinton Mike Huckabee Tim Kaine Bobby Jindal Sam Nunn Joseph I. Lieberman Jack Reed Tim Pawlenty Edward G. Rendell Rob Portman Bill Richardson Tom Ridge Kathleen Sebelius Mitt Romney Mark Sanford John Thune I guess that […]

deja vu…

NEARLY 600,000 OHIO VOTERS MAY BE DISENFRANCHISED Based on publicly available information nearly 600,000 eligible voters could be placed on a caging list and challenged on Election Day, which could then result in their removal from the voter rolls without due process, in accordance with Ohio law.  Ohio counties with largest numbers of returned notices […]

the real deal…

Ken Doll in Lust When it comes to politicians and sex, our expectations are not all that great. Human nature being what it is, there will continue to be adultery no matter how many instructive scandals they’re exposed to. But you really would think that by now they’d know how to make a decent public […]

the truth is hanging on [overseas]

Whispers of a Watergate for Bush Published: August 11 2008 03:00 | Financial Times  –  London The response in the US to startling new allegations that the White House directed the forgery of evidence to support its case for the war in Iraq has been surprisingly muted so far. The charges may be false, of […]

undermining the human experience…

( life andpolitics )

As a child 30 year old, I went to the 1972 Munich Olympics. At the time, I was a reluctant draftee in the Air Force, living in England where I was stationed in the early days of my marriage to a sports nut. So off we went to Munich with a fist full of tickets […]

“angry, mercurial, petulant and self serving”…

Sticky Fingers McCain Does It Again John McCain is an angry, mercurial, petulant and self serving man who believes that John McCain is entitled to say, do and take whatever John McCain wants and John McCain needs. In this regard, he has no honor, and no shame. From pilfering Iraq policy from Obama, to foreign […]

vetting Suskind…

Emptywheel » Habbush’s Freedom Fries Forgeries The Left Coaster: A Whole Lot of Habbush, It Seems Emptywheel » Not a Question of If, But Who, Forged the Letter The American Conservative » Suskind Revisited Froomkin » A White House Forgery Scandal? Emptywheel » Once Again, Forgeries? Ron Suskind: The Way of the World Transcripts Terror […]