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By: Bookworm Room » More on Tom Campbell and Israel

Bookworm Room » More on Tom Campbell and Israel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:43:44 +0000

[...] about Israel, and the responses are more nuanced and less hostile than other reports indicate (see my earlier post, for example). Please check it out. The best voter is a fully informed voter. Share With [...]

By: suek

suek — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:05:56 +0000

Are you limiting this to “interesting”? How about “outrageous“???

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/02/09/tracking-your-taxes-park-pork/

By: suek

suek — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:58:14 +0000

Heh. Wonder how he would refer to “Col. Somebody”, should the occasion arise…!
I must admit – I’ve never figured out how “colonel” ended up being pronounced “kernel”…

By: suek

suek — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:56:33 +0000

““Corpse-man” is just the gilding on the lily of Obama’s disconnection from the world of true communication and real values.”

More than that – remember back somewhere…I think it was during his campaign…when he was going on about we ignorant non-globally minded Americans and the fact that so few of us spoke a second language? This little blooper indicates to me that he himself has had somewhat limited exposure to English, and even less to French. English is a difficult language because it absorbs words from other languages, and often that inclusion means absorbing the pronunciation from that language as well. This mispronunciation says worlds about his lack of familiarity with the military, but it also says worlds about his narrowness of education.

By: jj

jj — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:48:47 +0000

To (indirectly) address your second paragraph.

I am – as I imagine most of you are – in more or less constant receipt of “surveys” from the national Republican Committee, the Republican Party, the GOP, the state party, and sundry other branches of the party tree. These things purport to be in search of my opinion on a variety of issues, and they always end with an invitation for me to become a donor. I’m sure you all get them on a regular basis, too.

So I printed up some stickers, and when I come to the end of the survey, and the last question asks me if they can rely on me as a donor, I check the “no” box, and affix my little sticker that says: “You are welcome to my opinions – you get none of my dough. When you were in charge you were every bit as bad as the Democrats. In fact you were arguably worse – because from you we expected better.”

My attempt to wake them up. I would not like to see the Tea Party split the Republican vote, but maybe it’s time. It’s happened before: Lincoln and his cronies had to croak the Whigs and create the Republicans from thin air to straighten out their thinking. The Republicans need to wake the hell up, remember who they are supposed to be, and begin making some sense. They seem not have noticed, but their voters do actually have expectations, and don’t just vote the label the way Democrats do. They better wise up to that, and they better do it fast. They cannot count on their constituency through thick and thin, whether they perform or not. Their constituency – unfortunately for far too many of them (McCain, Graham, Snowe and Collins spring instantly to mind) – seems to know how to read.

By: suek

suek — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:43:43 +0000

Excellent article, though long.

http://wolfhowling.blogspot.com/2010/02/dont-ask-dont-tell-dont-change-yet.html