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POST PARTISAN!

By Richard Day on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 1:33am |
La Vérité "Truth" by
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GROUNDHOG DAY

By Richard Day on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 1:30am |

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Groundhog Day 2005 in Punxsutawney

Main Stream Media just reported (6:30 AM CT) that the Groundhog saw his shadow today and that means that there will be at least five more weeks of winter (it used to be six weeks, but with global warming and all!) and billionaires will continue to fund people like Newton Gingrich.

So the more things do not change, the more things stay the same (what?).

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INSIDER TRADING AND CONGRESS

By Richard Day on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 9:32pm |

Detail from Corrupt Legislation (1896) by Elihu Vedder. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, (audience boos) and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain't on the table," West said. "Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America...

Following cheers, West added, "Yeah I said 'hell.'"

Moments after the quote was mentioned on Twitter, former Reid spokesman Jim Manley responded via his own Twitter feed: "Me to allen west. You first asshole.

How did we reach such a level of discussion that there is no agreement as to the starting point of discussion between the red and the white, the conservative and the liberal, the republican and the democrat?

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RYAN LIZZA'S NEW YORKER ESSAY ON OBAMA & POLEMICS

By Richard Day on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 4:41pm |

Herbert Hoover

I wonder sometimes if we are not really fighting the old arguments present during WWII and even prior to that war!

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THE DAYLY WEB LINES OF THE YEAR (SO FAR!)

By Richard Day on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 9:25pm |

MILLER'S GRIZZLED LANGUARS

I recently came upon some strange strange lines on the internet; from Huffpo to National Geographic to Alternet to...!

There is no reason; no logic in this presentation.

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THE NEWT AND CICERO

By Richard Day on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 9:46pm |
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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THE PACKAGE

By Richard Day on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 7:46pm |

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Sangreal.jpg

He sat recalling past sins; not capable of recalling past victories.

What victories for chrissakes?

It was then he knew, he absolutely knew that his mood had taken over his thought processes.

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