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NEW BOOKS BY POLITICIANS WE CARE ABOUT

By Richard Day on Fri, 02/12/2010 - 11:42pm |

ile links Meet the latest Abraham Lincoln biographer: Bill O'Reilly. The Fox News host and best-selling author is working on "Killing Lincoln," a history book that will take readers "into Ford's Theater and into the mind of Lincoln's assassin, John...

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GOVMENT

By Richard Day on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 11:56pm |

File links I was having a wonderful tete-a-tete with Doomer this morning and even Q chimed in. I was thinking of the repubs and govment and all that crap. Today the repubs will speak of the Demcrat party. They just...

THE PLEBS

By Richard Day on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 11:44pm |

Missy has some of us thinking of a an old leader in Café. Lux was his handle. You can see Missy's blog here: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/b/a/barefoot/2010/02/lux... All she was doing was highlighting one of Lux's posts from '08 when I first...

MAY DAY

By Richard Day on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 9:06pm |

Okay, let's see what I got here. Once upon a time there was a Lieutenant colonel François de La Rocque. It was 1930 in Paris, and La Rocque becomes the leader of a group of WWI veterans who were...

DUGFUCKNOW MUST BE DESTROYED

By Richard Day on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 11:19pm |

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides with the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through...

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TO BLEED OR NOT TO BLEED

By Richard Day on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 10:01pm |

File links I watched some good movies this week end. I was particularly intrigued by The Client. This is a film set in the South and one can never go wrong with Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon...

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PSYCHOPATHS FOR PERRY

By Richard Day on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 9:51pm |

ile links You realize I have not done a Rush Limbaugh blog for a long time. This is the closest I have come in a long time. Auntie Sam sent me this gem today: Jake Gibson of Fox News' Liveshots...

ARIZONA HEAT

By Richard Day on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 3:17pm |

Arizona is our 48th State. We finally decided to render unto it statehood in 1912, fifty years after it had become a territory and a hundred years before it would become a permanent penal colony. It is part of...

GROUNDHOG'S DAY

By Richard Day on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 10:12pm |

Size of this preview: 800 × 599 pixels To tax (from the Latin taxo; "I estimate", which in turn is from tangō; "I touch") is to impose a financial charge or other levy upon a taxpayer (an individual or legal...

AS GOOD AS IT GETS

By Richard Day on Sun, 01/31/2010 - 5:10pm |

THE JOKER I have basic cable. If I had money, I would still have basic cable. It is on as background 'music' most of the time. A lot of people at Café just say to hell with TV...

SWEET HOME ALABAMA

By Richard Day on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 4:58pm |

Now we turn to another state located in the deep, deep South; Sweet Home Alabama. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHsDa9_HSlA Prior to the civilized Europeans who eventually brought cotton and football and the testaments of the lord to this god forsaken place,...

IOWA; THE SQUARISH STATE

By Richard Day on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 1:20am |

Samuel J. Kirkwood, founder of the Iowa Republican Party, abolitionist, and Iowa's Civil War governor. Iowa is one of those squarish states. Its eastern boundary is, of course, the grand ole Mississippi. Its western boundary is determined by the Missouri...

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TEXAS: If You First Don't Secede; Try, Try Again!!!

By Richard Day on Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:10pm |

Metadata SAM HOUSTON"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe Ah Texas. What a state. Senator Cornyn represents the state in its finest traditions...

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GOIN' TO CAROLINA

By Richard Day on Sat, 01/23/2010 - 10:09pm |

File links Jonnienohands gave us a link today; a link to the truth; a link to injustice; a link to the America I despise. There has been some outrage over KeithO's outrages recently. He goes too far some think....

ROMEO & JULIET & BINARY ROMANCE

By Richard Day on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 10:34pm |

Claude Lévi-Strauss Kitts is one of "tomorrow's people," a group whose missing or ruined body parts are being replaced by devices embedded in their nervous systems that respond to commands from their brains. The machines they use are called...

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THE CULTURE OF POVERTY

By Richard Day on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 11:07pm |

Matt Taibbi is always an interesting voice when he appears on cable news and more than an interesting read. Last week or early this week he chose as his topic David Brooks. It is a good read but I...

Where Have All The Gwaveyahds Gone?

By Richard Day on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 8:19am |

There are seven clear signs of depression; every Psych 101 student knows this. So does every Life Channel viewer. Well, so does every View viewer, but that is a subject for another day. These are my experiences with depression:...

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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, MLK & ROSA PARKS

By Richard Day on Mon, 01/18/2010 - 11:07pm |

Rosa Parks in 1955, with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the backgroundI was talking about history as a concept...

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REFLECTIONS

By Richard Day on Sun, 01/17/2010 - 10:26pm |

This week as we begin with a Federal Holiday in honor of one of my great heroes; it is certainly time to reflect. As we reflect, we should wonder what is this all going to mean in...

THE GOOD OLE DAYS

By Richard Day on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 11:54pm |

Paul Harvey Paul Harvey receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 The Whole Duty of Man Ecclesiastes 12; 9-119 ¶ And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and...