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See, now that's just funny.

Big, long, important speech by Al Gore. Too damn long to quote here, but it's in its glory on DailyKos. My favorite part of the transcript. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/16/131254/468

I've eaten all of those you have YAS except squirrel. Also have eaten horse, which was quite good. Had the chance to eat rattle snake but it didn't look good. So I passed.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Jan 16, 2006 -> 01:23 PM) I think it's funny--hey immigrants: learn english! Then it's: Haha, look at how the immigrants speak english. Soxy: I heart you.

I loves me some good oratory. The dude's name is David Englin, Delegate to the Virginia State Assembly.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3587652.html New poll in the Houston Chronicle for DeLay's Sugar Land district. Oh yeah, this poll is slanted in who answered.

That wouldn't be a problem for you?

The filibuster probably won't happen. Not because the Dems don't think it couldn't work, but more because there was nothing that came out in the wash to justify it.

Finland is pretty.

By the way, the NSA - from what I understand isn't necessarily wiretapping suspects - but people that may or may not have a connection to someone who might be suspected of possibly being involved in terrorism. And, opinion polls are still bulls***. The law is the law is the law. And it ought to be respected. If this story had come out about what Bill Clinton was doing in 1998, how do you think the Republicans would have reacted. Would the DEMS have circled the wagons around Clinton? Maybe. Maybe not. I know, at least, I wouldn't have.

YAS, I think its entirely your perception. The RNC doesn't really have a recognizable face. The DNC does. But neither chairman shapes the party. Dean is responsible for one major change in the Dem party, the party is shifting to a more populist and grassroots approach. His comments on policy, don't always reflect the actions of the Dems. But it does fire up his base, and gets peoples boots on the ground. And its manpower, not just money, that wins elections.

Of course there is. Their hidden agenda with this plan is to win back Congress. Of course, that isn't really a hidden agenda, is it?

Here's a plan for something the Democrats would like to do. Not too detailed, but its from Harry Reid's op-ed in the Houston Chronicle. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl...outlook/3584174

72% of Americans feel that a President should wiretap American citizens with a warrant only. So there.

Kennedy did win the popular vote but just barely. Had 120,000 votes gone Ford's way, Carter would have won the popular vote but lost the electoral college in 1976. Bush would have won the popular vote but lost the electoral college in 2004 too. And I've actually said here, I would rather Kerry have won, but I would rather Kerry had won in the popular and electoral mandate. The last thing I wanted was having a Kerry electoral college victory and a popular vote loss.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 13, 2006 -> 03:11 PM) I can't tell you how much I agree with that statement. The radical left turns me off to the Democrats so very much. A centrist Democrat would almost certainly get my vote. No offense, but that's like saying that I'll never vote for a Republican because of Pat Robertson, or Tom Coburn, or Mullah Dobson. I may be a Democrat, but I don't let someone else in the party change my vote for who I think is the best candidate. Oh yeah, and the only time I ever voted straight party line, it was GOP.

I hate the electoral college. Always have. I'm a big one person-one vote guy.

Please, they have so sold out. Honestly, if you don't like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! you automatically lose your indie cred.

I'm really torn as to whether to shop there. It's not cheap - that's for sure. But they're right on so many issues. Yet, they treat their employees like s*** and unionbust. If I'm shopping at Whole Foods, I'm doing it for social reasons - not for price or even necessarily selection. So this wind power thing has got me on the fence about going back....

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Jan 13, 2006 -> 12:38 PM) Howard's show won't be syndicated to the Fm dial because, as it currently stands, broadcasters are subject to be personally fined for indecency. So, even if he edited his Sirius shows, complaints from the watchdog groups that hounded him would leave him open to being fined again. I don't see him allowing that to happen. Also, it doesn't make much sense for Sirius to allow one of their only marketable shows to effectively compete against their product. I'd listen to Howard on one day delay. I already got the show 1-3 hours later living in Chicago and Arizona. It was never live for me. Stations in large markets could sell Howard so they kept him, fines be damned. If they didn't, Infinity radio would have s*** canned Stern and made him sit out his contract from the day he signed with Sirius. In a year, when everyone but Sirius listeners forget about Stern, he'll be back on radio - on a day delay, edited down and most likely not at all a controversy. Stern got dropped by Clear Channel because Infinity charged ridiculous amounts of money to clear him from market to market, and the sales of his show locally were not performing as well as they thought it could. So it made sense to use the ruse of fines as a pretext from dropping the show. In Grand Rapids, carrying Stern cost over $300,000 a year plus adspace to Infinity radio. In Tampa, it's a safe bet that the cost was more than a half mil. Plus adspace. It's simple economics. You could get a morning team in Tampa for under 250, and have all 16 minutes an hour of commercials to sell, rather than the 10 or 12 you got with Stern. So you might be charging 450 or 400 a minute rather than 500 at first for the new morning show. Your overall profitabilitywould increase potentially because even though you may be charging 20% less per commercial, you have 25% more capacity and a 50% reduction in operating expenses. And much less controversy.

Did you know that Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch are good friends? I just remembered some 60 Minutes thing from ten years ago where they talked about it. First time I ever remember Kennedy having serious Whiskey Nose.

I would think its a real big deal if someone claimed membership to a group who's sole purpose was keeping his alma mater white and male - bragged about it to get a government job in 1985 (which is only 21 years ago, and helped lead to his first judicial appointment) - and now claims to not even remember the group exists or that he was even a part of it. If he never was a member (which it turns out he wasn't), he lied on his resume for political purposes and Notre Dame footballl coaches have been fired for the same thing. Sorry, but I hold my Supreme Court justices to a higher standard than Notre Dame football. This shows a willingness to lie for political purposes and the kind of lie he makes would show where his allegiance lies. If he was a member, rather than eschew or even downplay his membership when he applied for the position in 1985's Reagan administration, he trumpeted it. One year after the organization had been disbanded and disgraced as being a racist and chauvinist organization. Rather than claim it a mistake of his youth, he chose to highlight it as a reason why the government should employ him. Again, I'm not sure I want someone of that ethical character in the Supreme Court. And that's why that subject is or should be fair game in a Supreme Court hearing.

You know this thread reminds me of the episode of All In The Family where Archie wanted to get his grandson baptized but Meathead and Gloria didn't want to get their son baptized so Archie was watching the baby and gave him an "emergency baptism." Except I enjoyed watching that show and this thread, not so much.

Good Times was a spinoff of Maude you know. Starring Bea Arthur. That should explain my knowledge of this wonderful 1970s sitcom.

If only. It'd go right next to my Best of Maude DVD.