I’ve been avoiding blogging the Sherrod debacle for several reasons. Reason One: (And you’ve probably seen me post this personal philosophy before, though I get hammered for it every time I say it) The amount of truth in a story is inversely proportional to the amount of outrage it generates. Allow me to say that [...]
Jul
22
Itchy trigger finger
Category: OMGWTFBBQ!, Obama, Politics | 10 Comments
Jul
16
I don’t know if it’s a by product of channeling Chris Mathews for my new pet project of annotating Obama’s books on my Kindle so they’ll show up in the Amazon database but … I’m starting to fantasize about Andrew Breitbart even though I am totally, blissfully married to my own hot and oh so [...]
Apr
16
I filed an extension on my taxes, too. I have no photos of people demonstrating here in the Keys or in Miami. Where was I? First I went to work. I left the house at 5:00 am, got back to the Keys around 5:30 pm and then my husband and I went to a booster [...]
Apr
8
How far gone is Crist?
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The GOP is desparately trying to balance the budget in Florida and pull our asses out of the fire. I have to read between the lines of my local paper. There is an editorial today blasting the GOP for passing measures to address the spending: Witness what’s been happening this week as the House GOP [...]
Mar
7
An Island in accelerated decline
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(Alternate Title and more apt: The Progressive Party In Puerto Rico) Most Americans know less than nothing about the island 1000 miles to the south west of Florida, which is a possession of the United States and has been so since 1917 under Woodrow Wilson after the Spanish American War. (It’s not really a Common [...]
Feb
12
Beck vs Medina
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Did Beck deliberately tank candidate for Governor from Texas Nurse Medina with the 9-11 Truther question? No. Anyone who can’t come up with a straight answer as to whether or not the US Government under any President set out to murder 3000 or more people and injure countless more, wrecking the economy in the process [...]
Jan
29
Work with me here
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I listened to a little of Obama’s talk with the GOP at their retreat. I’m not going to be flip and ask, “Is he high?” He is. No. What I will do is explain what I heard, because I’ve heard it before somewhere and I think it was in school. I admit, I was a [...]