Month: September 2008
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Alaska Knows Palin
(h/t TPM) Ok, so Alaska’s not afraid to call Palin out, why is the MSM? Just questions.
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Answers on the Copyright Flap
Last week there were several articles and blog posts alleging the McCain campaign was using artist’s intellectual property in violation of copyright protections. I decided to ask the people who would know, BMI and ASCAP. So far, ASCAP has not responded, but this morning I got a response from Jerry W. Bailey, BMI Senior Director,…
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My Story is Better than Your Issues
The Politico has front-paged a story that illustrates just how stupid John McCain and Sara Palin think we are. In McCain, Palin push biography, not issues we learn of the McCain campaign’s brazen strategy of “aiming for the gut, not the heads, of voters.” This can be a good strategy for a campaign that is…
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More Fun with Finance
In the wake of the big Fannie, Freddie bail out, announced Sunday, you would think that few companies would want to jump on the bandwagon. You’d be wrong. Ford CEO Alan Mulally thinks Washington is ready to give the big three $50 billion bucks. Apparently, willful incompetence does have it’s rewards. Now, this is a…
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The Flood
The past couple of days have been a flood of analogies, metaphors and other devices that neither fully express my frustration, not illustrate the situation with the Presidential race as I see it. The Republicans spent the last week pulling every old tired rabbit out of their hat; liberal media, tax and spend, family values,…
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Questioning Patriotism
One theme that has reared its ugly head since the beginning of the Presidential cycle is that of questioning the patriotism of particular candidates. More often than not, the subject of this theme has been Democratic Presidential nominee, Barack Obama. The most recent example of this was brought forward by Senator Jim Inhofe (R –…