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Get out there and BUY your job. What is WRONG with you people?

By Ramona on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 5:29pm | Politics

Yes, the mid-term elections are over and the crying jags have pretty much stopped, so, while I'm  shocked at the damage comfort chocolate has done to some people's butts. . .

. . . I have just one thing to say about the overall impact of the glorious orgy of wastage known as the 21st Century American Campaign for Public Office So's I can Live off the Public Dole Whilst Killing it for Everyone Else:   Humph!!! (and also "We'll just see about that, lads and lassies!")

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Michael Moore and Lawrence O'Donnell: Man, those Republicans! They get it!

By Ramona on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 9:17am | Politics

Oooh, that hurts. The two Democrats who still admit they're Democrats sittin' and jawin' about how Obama got it wrong and the Republicans got it right. 

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Give 'em Hell Harry's Mad Miracle

By Ramona on Fri, 11/05/2010 - 9:01am | Politics

For most of the 1948 campaign season, the only person who believed Harry Truman could win an elected term was Harry himself.  The politicians, the punditry, if not the entire country, thought poor Harry--who was not now and never would be FDR--was laughably unelectable. Not a chance in hell.

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24 hours w/o internet or cable the day before election: Hell on earth, or close to it.

By Ramona on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 10:56am | Personal

We've been on the road the last few days and now I'm sitting in a hospital cafeteria waiting for my husband to finish what I hope are routine tests.  Last night we stayed in a hotel that apparently didn't pay their cable bill because all I could get were local channels.  No political hashing and rehashing and regurgitating and explosive vomiting for over a day!

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Amid the Sturm und Drang, a Moment Sublime

By Ramona on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 9:41am |

This was a week of dizzying visuals--Christine O'Donnell flubbing a radio interview and then threatening to sue the station if they air it. A reporter being strong-armed and handcuffed for questioning a candidate.

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Still looking for the WikiLeaks Heroes

By Ramona on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 11:50am |

While nearly everyone in my world is cheering the release of a staggering 400,000 classified U.S documents by the website, WikiLeaks

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The GOP's big plan: Yell "taxes" in a Crowded Theater, Send in the Clowns, Boffo Box Office*

By Ramona on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 8:18am |

I woke up this morning with a mad, radical thought in my head: What if I'm wrong and those damned Republicans really are right?  What if, after all their clowning around, it turns out they actually have what it takes to allow us to pack up our troubles in our old kit bag and smile, smile, smile?

 

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Shut your damned Enthusiasm Gap and get out there and DO something

By Ramona on Wed, 10/06/2010 - 7:04pm |

We all know that certain people who make it a practice to depreciate the accomplishments of labor - who even attack labor as unpatriotic - they keep this up usually for three years and six months in a row. But then, for some strange reason they change their tune- every four years- just before election day. When votes are at stake, they suddenly discover that they really love labor and that they are anxious to protect labor from its old friends.
 

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Fox News and the C of C thank you for voting Republican. But don't call us, we'll call you.

By Ramona on Wed, 09/22/2010 - 8:05pm |

So, all you "Mad as Hell" people who idolize Fox "News" and their partners in crime, the Koch Brothers, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Republican Party, let's hear what you've learned from that bunch you've been following so religiously.  What's the plan?  What's mar

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Liberals for Obama: What a Concept!

By Ramona on Sun, 09/12/2010 - 7:26pm |


 Yesterday Maureen Dowd devoted an entire column to why her Republican sister is angry that she voted for Obama:

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