Apparently the Boston Globe has a column wherein they set people up on blind dates, then ask them afterwards how they went.
OM**, The Horror!
The Horror!
Steven: We ordered a bottle of wine and shared antipasto. I hadn;t had swordfish for a while, so decided to try it. The food and service were both very good; the waiter was attentive.
Christine: Our children are of similar age, and my daughter is a diabetic and his son was just diagnosed with Source: dispatches from TJICistan RSS Feed
The Washington Post:
After enduring the CIA’s harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency’s secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood before U.S. intelligence officers in a makeshift lecture hall, leading what they called “terrorist tutorials.”…
Speaking in English, Mohammed “seemed to relish the opportunity, sometimes for hours on end, to discuss the inner workings of al-Qaeda and the group’s plans, ideology andSource: PoliGazette RSS Feed
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There’s an interesting angle on Brown’s surprise trip to Afghanistan in the Mail on Sunday this morning which has all the potential to blow up into a big incident.
According to the paper the Tory leader was forced to call off a trip to the country after discovering that the PM had beaten him to it.
The report goes on: “The Tory leader scrapped his own visit – which has been in his diarySource: Political Betting RSS Feed
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Before President Obama delivered his eulogy for Sen. Ted Kennedy today, the right was all worked up at the prospect that he might actually use the eulogy to promote the health-care reform legislation that Kennedy himself championed (see, e.g., Laura Ingraham filling in for O'Reilly on Fox Friday night).
You could just see them licking their chops and waiting to turn the eulogy into a Paul Wellstone-funeral-like "look howSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed
A new page has been created on The Peace Tree.
The latest page is, INNER DIALOGUE... It is what I imagine the subject to be thinking while they yammer on about whatever it might be that they're yammering on about...
Some probably think I should add myself to the list for an inner dialogue treatment, and I would, but my muse already says what's on my mind pretty much on a daily basis so it would be rather redundant to include myself... (tagged: inner dialogue)... Link found in menu Source: Peace, Social Justice and Truth for RSS Feed
From some site calling itself Opinionista:
The Footnote Speaks: What Would Mary Jo Kopechne Have Thought of Ted’s Career?
August 27th, 2009
We’re comfortable with moral relativism in this country — or, at least, we love us a good “sinned and redeemed” narrative. And, for the most part, we realize that there are few lives on which we can slap a “Good” or “Evil” label and expect it to be accurate.
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Ed Schultz goes through the poll numbers that show just how badly so many Americans are buying into the outright lies on health care/insurance reform that are being put out there. There needs to be a real debate about just what's actually potentially going into these bills where the public is going to end up on the short end of the stick and put at the mercy of the health insurance companies without the distraction of having to debunk this Source: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed
From the New York Post:
‘FORGETFUL’ CHARLIE FINDS ANOTHER 780G
By CHARLES HURT DC Bureau Chief
August 26, 2009
WASHINGTON — Embattled Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel — who is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee — failed to reveal personal assets totaling as much as $780,000 in financial-disclosure reports filed with Congress, records released yesterday show.
Democrat Rangel, the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and MeansSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
Crossposted from The Sanctuary
The Migrant Trail:
We Walk for Life
May 25-31, 2009
Our Vision:
The precarious reality of our borderlands calls us to walk. We walk together on a journey of peace to remember people, friends and family who have died, others who have crossed, and people who continue to come. We walk to bear witness to the tragedy of death and of the inhumanity in our midst. Lastly, we walk as a community, in defiance of the borders that attempt toSource: Man Eegee RSS Feed
CBC | About 2 years ago I noticed that the military in various countries, and especially in the Pentagon, were beginning to take climate change seriously. Now, it's the business of the military to find new security threats. It's also in their own self-interest, since they need a constant supply of threats in order to justify their demands on the taxpayers' money, so you should always take the new threats that the soldiers discover with a grain of salt. You know, never ask the barber whether Source: subrealism RSS Feed
I'm sitting here doing a little shopping online. I found a great coupon for 25% off and free shipping at Coldwater Creek, and then found some really great bargains in their online outlet. So picked up a few items and I'm ready to check out, when now I'm faced with another offer -- an additional 20 percent off if I open a Visa account with them. Since I only spent $50 today, that saves me $10. But I have to admit, I'm tempted to go back and pick up a couple of other things that I wasSource: RedStateBlues RSS Feed
This was the local townhall meeting here in my district known as the Illinois 10th congressional yesterday that for the most part was not very newsworthy other than so many people showed up that a second one has been scheduled which I will myself attend as soon as the details are released..
The timing of the meeting was somewhat strange considering it's daytime scheduling, which obviously prevented most day working men and women from attending, and I do hope that the next one isSource: Chicagoray RSS Feed
From the NY Times:
Gov. David A. Paterson is set to reject a sweeping overhaul of the state’s hundreds of public authorities that was passed by lawmakers last month but is opposed by the governor’s staff and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City.
The Paterson administration will ask the Assembly to delay sending the bill to the governor’s desk, officials said, and will try to devise a new version of the legislation before a special legislative session next month. ButSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed
From the NY Times:
The Bloomberg administration, moving to restart stalled development in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn, has picked a big housing and retail complex to receive $20 million in tax-exempt bonds financed by the federal stimulus program. The complex, City Point, would bring hundreds of apartments and a large shopping center to the eastern end of the Fulton Mall.
The city also selected a project to build a supermarket and shopping mall at Arverne by the Sea, aSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed
Having proved last year that Elvis Presley’s career started long before the Ed Sullivan Show“references in the Annals of Tacitus to a singer called Gyratus who sang popular songs including Tenere Me Ama, Non Adamare Non Possum and Nunc hic aut numquam. Unfortunately I am not sure we will ever determine whether Elvis is a reincarnation of Gyratus or if indeed he is immortal. Then again some things should remain within the realms of faith”Now we have proof positive that Michael JacksonSource: British Blogs RSS Feed
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There is no place like home - even for a newly minted Brooklyn millionaire.Waqas Mazhar, 19, won the New York Millionaire scratch-off game but will keep bunking with his siblings at his parents’ Midwood apartment. "I just don’t know yet what I’m going to do with the money," Mazhar said. "I just know I want to help my family and I want to stay living with them." Mazhar, who is earning his GED at Kingsborough Community College, picked up theSource: The Two Malcontents RSS Feed
REDSTATE MORNING BRIEFING
FOR AUGUST 13, 2009
Sign up to get the morning briefing by email here. HEALTH CARE BILL FACT OF THE DAY
Creating the Highest Federal Tax Rates in 20 Years
The “Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009? imposes a “surtax,” or income tax increase, on all Americans making $280,000 a year or more.
Under the bill, those making $280,000 ($350,000 for couples) will have their taxes increased by 1 percentageSource: Red State RSS Feed
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Rep. Chris Rants released the following in response to the ongoing national healthcare debate and the added costs it would bring to state government.
“Iowa taxpayers can’t afford the $630 Million increase in state spending that will be mandated under any of the three versions of Obama-care
The Virginian-Pilot, the largest newspaper serving Southside Hampton Roads, has an online presence at PilotOnline. There has always been content in the newspaper that didn’t appear on the website, most notably any op-eds not internally produced. For the most part, though, over the years, more and more of the printed material appeared online.
A couple of months ago, the Pilot made the decision to no longer produce columnists online. Not only did thisSource: Vivian J. Paige RSS Feed
Cross-posted from BismarckMandanBlog.com
While ambling through my favorite discount retailer this weekend, the front page of the Bismarck Tribune caught my eye. Actually, it was the headline seen above: “Conrad cleared, scolded”. Amazing…Senator Conrad has been under ethics investigation for months but our ever vigilant sycophant media in this state has refused to investigate it! Any reluctant acknowledgement of the affair, while a rarity indeed,Source: Say Anything RSS Feed
