The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Lil' Commander Palin

    By kgb999 on Wed, 09/03/2008 - 12:09am |
    A couple of days ago, I came across this piece on the AK national guard.  It seems Palin has decided to give the national guard commissioner a promotion to Supreme General of Alaska (but only in Alaska).  This has some...

    QUIT HITTING SUBMIT!!!!!!!!!

    By Ripper on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 8:27pm |
    Thanks to the assholes who don't understand the server is slow and will record their post EVEN IF THEY RECEIVE A SERVER 500 ERROR message!I worked for hours on my post only to see it nearly disappear from the Recent...

    Twilight's Last Gleaming: The Risk of McCain

    By Ripper on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 7:06pm |
    And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow upon his head, and his face as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire— Revelation 10:1NightfallOne autumn evening, when...
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    Notes from the outskirts of the hurricane

    By wws on Mon, 09/01/2008 - 11:50pm |
    Emails from my son:Just letting you know I am here.  About to weather the storm,  out of the danger zone.Wow, Ma, what a night. It’s  Waterworld.  Winds very high and relentless.  We are losing some of the dock.  No surge...
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    What Obama said

    By acanuck on Mon, 09/01/2008 - 6:51pm |
    Barack Obama today (via Ben Smith at Politico):"I have said before and I will repeat again: People's families are off limits. And people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov....

    I'm Done, Too

    By Ripper on Mon, 09/01/2008 - 4:53pm |
    I'll return when the balance of discussion on this blog returns to public policy and McCain. Till then, I'm with Nathan. And, no, I won't be replying to comments, either.In the meantime, I leave you with some food for thought...

    Masturbating Minds Want to Know

    By Ripper on Mon, 09/01/2008 - 3:54pm |
    So here we are with the fate of the world in our hands, a nation at war and in the midst of economic hardships galore, a Democratic presidential nominee destined to make history and a Republican opponent who would bestow...
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    Stay on message: We can't afford four more years of Republican misrule!

    By oleeb on Mon, 09/01/2008 - 3:35pm |
    Okay, so Palin is a wingnut with little experience, a genuine extremist pro-lifer and so on.  So what?  Her incompetence speaks for itself.  Democrats, and the Obama campaign in particular, need to make sure they don't forget their winning message...

    McCain only NOW sending 8-person team to Alaska to vet Palin

    By Wordie on Mon, 09/01/2008 - 3:54am |
    Yep, you read that right. From Andrew Halcro's excellent blog on Alaska politics, comes this:Vetting the Veep...post announcementThe campaign of John McCain has sent a staff of eight people into Alaska to conduct background checks and vetting on Governor Sarah...
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    Only In America...

    By stillidealistic on Sun, 08/31/2008 - 8:32pm |
    Only in America...Obama is an amazing candidate. There are so many reasons to vote for him that listing them would take up way more space than I should take up, and besides, you know them all already.McCain is a senile...
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    What You Can Do For Your Fellow Americans on the Gulf Coast

    By wws on Sun, 08/31/2008 - 7:51pm |
    As dire as the consequences were for stunned Gulf coast residents in the aftermath of Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina, they are going to be worse, this time,  after Hurricane Gustav. That is because the insurance companies who were so criminally...

    What Does Palin Mean for the Democrats?

    By Ripper on Sun, 08/31/2008 - 6:52pm |
    Is John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin really the "game changer" he says it is? Not if Obama's campaign is smart enough to game this out and see where it all leads.With his choice of Palin, experience fades as McCain's...
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    Palin , "Troopergate", and more important questions about her candidacy

    By Barth on Sun, 08/31/2008 - 3:44pm |
    Josh continues to want to beat this horse, so to speak, and, maybe there is something there, but I suspect not and attacking her for this plays into the hands of those trying to bill their ticket as "reformers."As can...

    Police Raid Activists Ahead of GOP Convention

    By Ripper on Sun, 08/31/2008 - 4:20am |
    Police armed with automatic weapons raided at least six buildings in Minneapolis and St. Paul used by activists and seized a bus carrying others in what one attorney for the National Lawyers Guild called "unwarranted" acts of "preventive detention" to...

    Strawberries

    By Ripper on Sun, 08/31/2008 - 1:17am |
    John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin begs a burning question: Is McCain too risky to ever be president?I would submit the answer is "Yes."Palin's biography has already circulated among the blogging community, so I will spare you the...

    TO ALL BLOGGERS: Policy, NOT Misogyny

    By Ripper on Sat, 08/30/2008 - 11:39pm |
    If you are using misogyny to advance your arguments against  John McCain's choice of running mates, you are giving disaffected women every reason to withhold their votes or use them for McCain/Palin.DON'T do it.Write about Sarah Palin's lack of foreign...
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    Sarah Palin has Hot Librarian Vibe for Late Night Host.

    By mageduley on Sat, 08/30/2008 - 11:33pm |
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh-lW2opLyQ&feature=relatedThe above clip is from the Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS over a year ago.Craig has been waiting for his citizenship to come through. Until then he has had a few state governors offer him honorary state citizenship. Sarah...
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    No Wonder McCain Thinks She's Qualified!

    By stillidealistic on Sat, 08/30/2008 - 5:29pm |
    No wonder John McCain thinks Sarah Palin is qualified to be Vice President. On March 5, 2000 explained to Tim Russert why he was not interested in being George Bush's running mate."The vice president has two duties. One is to...
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    VPILF is McCain's New Coke

    By oleeb on Sat, 08/30/2008 - 12:56am |
    As emotional as politics can be I try to always make judgements based upon observation as opposed to feeling or my on wishes.  As a Democrat, I have had to hone this skill over the years because of the frequency...

    Sarah Barracuda — Expanded Repost

    By Ripper on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 8:05pm |
    The most salient point for Democrats to consider about John McCain's new veep, Sarah Palin, is that her looks are deceiving. She is fiercely partisan, charming and politically ice-cold and calculating.Exuding what the Anchorage Daily News, in a 2006 profile,...

    Palin Slogans Open Thread

    By Ripper on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 7:00pm |
    Ready on Day 2,923Putting the C*nt in Country FirstAn American Who Understands Alaskan Foreign PolicyAll the Cheney Without the DickA Heartbeat Away From ImpeachmentPolitics Is a Beauty PageantMeeting the Challenge of Global Swimsuit CompetitionThe Credible Bitch...

    The Great Palin Scrub - Open Thread

    By kgb999 on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 5:42pm |
    Boy the purge is happening fast and furious!!!!!  Open thread to document the articles/videos being taken down, and links to archived copies....

    Sarah Barracuda

    By Ripper on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 4:52pm |
    The most salient point for Democrats to consider about John McCain's new veep, Sarah Palin, is that her looks are deceiving.Exuding what the Anchorage Daily News, in a 2006 article, called an "almost Clintonlike" warmth, former beauty queen Palin has...

    McCain's REAL Short List

    By Ripper on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 3:28pm |
    While John McCain's team was faking out the media suggesting that Mitt Romney, Joe Lieberman and Tim Pawlenty were under consideration for McCain's veep pick, the real short list was a closely guarded secret.Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin won the day,...

    McCain / Palin - First public appearance.

    By kgb999 on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 3:27pm |
    Take a look  It goes just about how you'd expect!This is going to be waaaaay too fun!!!!...

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