Who else is ready for some cliff diving? I was wondering if this was a sentiment shared by others of my ilk. All this talk of fiscal cliffs seems to be a bit overdone. Maybe it’s just election fatigue and crisis fatigue setting in, but I find myself struggling to work up any great amount […]
November 1, 2012
Reblogged from mykeystrokes.com: “… And I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.” — Richard Mourdock, GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate Life is sacred. That, Mourdock would later insist, was what he was trying to say last week during a debate […]
October 6, 2012
Reblogged from mykeystrokes.com: What began last week as a trickle—a report from the Palm Beach Post that the Florida Republican Party was cutting ties with a firm that turned in "questionable" voter-registration forms in one county—has now grown into a pretty ugly flood. Turns out the Florida GOP paid the firm, Strategic Allied Consulting, to […]
September 27, 2012
Reblogged from The Last Of The Millenniums: While everybodys getting all excited by the polls showing President Obama WAY UP, this is happening on the ground. The 'new' Republican Party. If they can't suppress your vote, they'll just change it. 'Firm owned by notorious GOP operative Nathan Sproul, accused of destroying Democratic registration forms in […]
September 26, 2012
Reblogged from mykeystrokes.com: As often as not, parties nominate candidates for president that pretty much all their own partisans acknowledge are less than inspiring. Democrats were so excited about Barack Obama in 2008 partly because their previous two nominees, John Kerry and Al Gore, rode to the nomination on a stirring sentiment of "Well, OK, […]
September 16, 2012
The current story is that an ex-felon using multiple assumed names such as Sam Bacile, on probation with a restriction against using the internet, produced an offensive film that has been used to stir up revolt and as a possible cover for Al Qaeda to attack embassies. Random horrible actors were used, and many lines were dubbed over […]
August 3, 2012
This isn’t actually true if we’re speaking about presidential elections generally and Mitt Romney and Barak Obama specifically, I want it to be true. Campaigns aren’t based on who has the better facts, but who has the better sounding lies. When it comes to lying, no one can possibly hope to compete with Mitt. He’s got a […]
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