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  • Let's Call In Fed Up

    My family and yours are struggling.

    We and/or our neighbors are in peril of losing our jobs.

    We and/or our neighbors have already lost billions in retirement investments and home equity.

    The suicides piling up, the homeless shelters our better towns try to provide, the overwhelmed [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:03pm EST

  • The Rape of America

    If you're like me, you sorta do and you sorta don't understand why Wall Street and significant parts of corporate America are implicated in the destruction of the American middle class. You sorta get what all these high-level finance shell games have to do with unemployment, home foreclosures, closed schools [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 2:26pm EDT

  • Republicans for Rape

    Ya, so I'm a little late with this, but surely there's somebody besides me who missed this latest GOP marvel.Check out TYT for some background.

    So let me get this right. The party of law 'n order is for law 'n order except when they interfere with bidness. [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 9:38am EDT

  • AZ Republican Rep Calls Obama "Enemy of Humanity"

    From Salon's War Room today:

    Republican congressman: Obama "enemy of humanity"
    "Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., has always been a little skeptical of President Obama. Skeptical enough, in fact, that he flirted with the Birther movement for a while, and even considered filing a lawsuit before the election in order'" [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 10:52am EDT

  • Uninsured Texas Fill Free Houston Health Clinic

    This is evil funny.

    Texas is probably the reddest state in the Union, and lookee here: "One out of every three adults in Harris County is now uninsured and Texas ranks the worst among the 50 states in healthcare coverage, according to the U.S. Census. The National Association" [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 2:57pm EDT

  • "I don't need you to tell me that I'm amazing!"


    This is Brava. This is her history. Her story is triumph over every adversity, with a loving heart.http://www.wildchihuahuas.blogspot.com [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 10:54pm EDT

  • A Perfect Storm, Part 3: The Killings Begin, or, Hamlet Redux

    Buried in the back pages of The Washington Post, this bit of trivia:

    Census Worker Found Hanged

    A part-time Census Bureau field worker was found hanged in Kentucky Sept. 12 with the word "fed" scrawled across his chest, according to a law enforcement source. Bill Sparkman, 51, [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 2:56pm EDT

  • A Perfect Storm, Part 2: "The Last Time Right-Wing Hatred Ran Wild Like This a President Was Killed"

    That being John F. Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas, of course.

    I've been thinking a lot of Kennedy and Dallas as I've watched the increasingly violent rhetorical attacks on Obama be unfurled. As Americans yank their kids of class in order to save them from being exposed [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2009, 10:02pm EDT

  • A Perfect Storm: Part I

    Twin incidents in the early 1990s – Ruby Ridge and the Waco Branch Dividian assault –inadvertently played directly to the “black helicopters” and virulently anti-Left mindset of the survivalist, neo- patriot, Christianist, militia Far Right, and may have triggered the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

    [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 9:34pm EDT

  • Another Boondoggle in the Works

    Requiring every American to have health insurance, and offering a federal subsidy to Americans who can't afford to buy health insurance.

    That's what Senator Max Baucus's long-awaited health care bill will do.

    There wouldn't be a public option.

    I haven't thought about this insurance' [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 4:05pm EDT

  • Bottom Feeding

    Parse the evening news commentary. Like CNN. The airwaves are hot with the Joe Wilson story. He's "an American hero to many." It will probably "do him good" in his Republican district. "It's going over well in the heartland." Joe raised $200K!

    Yeah?

    Well, Joe's opponent,' [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 8:21pm EDT

  • Ted Kennedy, Presente!

    In the end, the reason I'm a Democrat and not a Republican--never a Republican--is that the orientation of my party is outward, to ensure the wellbeing of all, and forward, to achieve the promise of the future.
    The letter from Senator Edward M. Kennedy referenced by the President in Wednesday' [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 5:02pm EDT

  • Liberatarians and Republicans: Prove It

    The other week I was considerably annoyed to hear a reasonably young lawyer opine that the public option would create a nanny state. The public option would provide health insurance, for a premium, to those who can't get it now. The conversation also included Switzerland, which our young lawyer was' [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 7:59pm EDT

  • Help Shut Joe Wilson's Big, Fat, Boorish Republican Mouth

    Republican Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina, you're a bona fide member of the US Right wing, and you're a boor. But, oh, sorry. That's obviously redundant.

    An address to the American people by the President of the United States before a joint session of the United States Congress' [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 2:58pm EDT

  • Then and Now

    I ran across this while I was cleaning out my trusty day timer thingy. It's got zip lockable pockets into which I put my stuff. So I was rummaging in my stuff to see if there's anything in there that time and experience have transcended when I ran across this [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2009, 6:01pm EDT

  • It's Yours to Save or Yours to Lose

    I'm sitting here watching the country nose-dive into the latter-day equivalent of the Dark Ages, wondering how in the hell we got here.

    For anyone with any historical depth vis a vis the US of A--that would be anyone who is at least 40, has an interest in' [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 8:05pm EDT

  • Protecting Our Stuff

    Did you hear that the "Today Show" has hired Jenna Bush? What a pitiful, miserable, gilt-laden, zirconium studded, steaming pile of crap. Glenn Greenwald has a great, great piece about it on Salon. Read it.

    Why are American conservatives so vicious? Were they all born into the [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2009, 8:29pm EDT

  • Brava's Spirit

    Another side of Brava -- taken the day before her amputation surgery, July 2009.http://www.wildchihuahuas.blogspot.com [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 4:57pm EDT

  • Brava Raffle Correction

    I spoke too soon. Please look on any gift to Brava's fund as a simple gift. You will not be entered in a drawing for the painting. The reason? We do not yet know enough about AZ gaming law to set up a raffle, and we do not want to' [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 12:26pm EDT

  • Brava: The Story of a Miracle


    Brava (shown here the day before her surgery) touches everyone she meets. People seem to recognize her huge spirit and enormous courage, and are drawn to her. Her eyes are so soft and loving, and she is so receptive to people that she’s like a four-legged [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 8:47am EDT

  • Seth, Day 2

    This is Seth. He's doing a lot of sleeping this morning. That rescue bidness is tiring! In a minute, we'll be heading up to Deer Creek Animal Hospital for Seth's medical check-up. Paul's handling the details by phone from British Columbia.http://www.wildchihuahuas.blogspot.com [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2009, 10:35am EDT

  • Fetching Seth

    The shelter at Casa Grande is down a lonely stretch of I-8, the interstate that connects Tucson to San Diego. The desert rises slightly, in a modest regime of foothills on the south side, to my left, and levels into a vast plane on the north. Either direction, saguaro cacti [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2009, 10:48pm EDT

  • So Much Bull, So Little Time

    In addition to everything I said in the earlier post on Sotomayor, it occurs to me that the giant smear of regurgitation known as the Republican Party is also attempting a sleight of hand, a bait and switch. Whereas Sotomayor herself never said her empathy is limited only to other [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 10:10pm EDT

  • Whites Only, Men Only

    Listening to Southern Senator Jeff Sessions blast USSC nominee Sonia Sotomayor for applying empathy and personal life experience in her role as a judge is a first-rate immersion in GOP intellectual dishonesty.

    I agree with the definition given at that link, which says in part: Intellectual dishonesty [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2009, 2:41pm EDT

  • Arizona Bites Again

    I read today of a measure pending in AZ that would allow official inspection of a private kennel upon a written complaint. I sent the article around to a local dog list and received this bit of enlightened genius (in part) in response: It is clear, though, that there is [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2009, 7:30pm EDT

  • Church Outlaws?

    Interesting discussion going on here. Seems that the Methodist Church of Great Britain is banning members of the British National Party (BNP), which is a whites-only political party, from joining the denomination.

    So this raises again the question, what is the proper role of a Christian denomination when [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2009, 2:46pm EDT

  • Musings on The Family's Values

    That pillar of conservative Christianity, Sen. John Ensign, had an affair. With a staff member. The wife of another staff member. And then his mommy and daddy paid the staffer and her husband $96,000. Only out of concern for their wellbeing.

    It happens every day. Is it [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2009, 10:13am EDT

  • Rhinestone Curtains

    What to make of the nearly two-week media extravaganza since Michael Jackson's death on June 26? I'm looking for balance relative to other global events, proportion relative to their gravity, fidelity to the American public, and seemliness--quaint concept, I know--with respect to death, grief, sorrow, and loss.

    I'm [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 1:56pm EDT

  • PA State Sen. Eichelberger: "We're allowing them to exist."

    From John Morgan at The Pennsylvania Progressive:
    "State Senator John Eichelberger says 'we're allowing [gay and lesbian couples] to exist' in a recent radio debate. Today twenty of us confronted him with petitions asking for an apology and he steadfastly refused and ducked behind security so as not'" [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2009, 8:43pm EDT

  • I Love It When a Plan Comes Together

    From AlterNet: "On Saturday, Pat Buchanan hosted a conference to discuss how Republicans can regain a majority in America. During one discussion, panelists suggested supporting English-only initiatives as a prime way of attracting 'working class white Democrats.' The discussion ridiculed Judge Sotomayor for the fact that" [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2009, 8:58pm EDT

  • New Chi on the Block

    This is Gus. Have you ever seen a more photogenic dog? Gus is our new Chihooeyhooey. We have Gus because the Yuma Humane Society sent out an APB recently begging state rescuers of any breed to help out with an overflow of dogs. Like a fool, [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 10:53pm EDT

  • Back

    I'll be amazed if anybody's still here after my unexcused absense, but I'm going to pretend you're there anyhow. I'm humoring myself.


    OK, I admit it. I haven't posted much lately partly because I've been up to my eyeballs in rescuing abandoned Doberman Pinschers, and partly because [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 6:29pm EDT

  • We The Un-People Salute SCOTUS

    So, now that the California Supreme Court has ruled that a disinformed majority of voters may declare that some of the people are second-class citizens without equal constitutional rights, what's next? Can any majority now withhold anything it pleases from any minority? If not, exactly where was the line drawn? [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2009, 5:56pm EDT

  • Specter the Weather Vane

    Arlen Spector's decision to leave the Republican party and join the Democrats means most, I think, in the context of US voting trends overall.

    When he noted that he couldn't hope to win in a PA Republican primary, Spector merely confirmed what we all know. The Republican Party [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2009, 1:06pm EDT

  • Another Day, Another Guy Goes Berserk

    Where did we lose the notion of honor? There was a time when men killed THEMSELVES when they despaired. Or killed only each other in Ire Rampant, as on the occasion of a divorce "for cause," or attempted bankruptcy.

    Not now. No longer. Now the Thing to Do, [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2009, 9:31pm EDT

  • Could You Just Die, Already?


    "Bar Bush learns that her nurses in ICU were relocated to Houston after Katrina...."
    From Dependable Renegadehttp://www.wildchihuahuas.blogspot.com [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 11:42pm EDT

  • The Post-Consumer Society

    My wife, Catherine, says that the difference between this depression and the last one is that this time, we're entering the post-consumer society. It isn't going to get back to the way it was. There's no there there. We're zooming past mallworld, on a trajectory somewhere to a place Americans [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2009, 9:19pm EDT

  • Potpourri

    I probably have no readers left, and it's my own damn fault.

    One thing about me: When I take the plunge, I take the plunge. Ever since I started rescuing stray and abandoned Dobermans on January 6, I've been doing little else. It can't be helped. There's learning, [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2009, 6:21pm EST

  • Did You Hear What I Heard about the Paulson Bailout?

    Did I hear MSNBC's financial guy this morning say that the Paulson multi-billion Christmas gift to Wall Street actually includes a provision that would make it hard, if not impossible, for these incompetent thieves to pay back the US taxpayer?

    Will anybody ever haul Bush, Paulson, Rumsfeld, Pearle, Wolfowitz,' [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 12:32pm EST

  • Valet Parking at the Scottsdale Conference Center and Resort

    This is Cath's new Prius, courtesy of a valet at the Scottsdale Conference Center and Resort. That occurred on the night of January 17. Today is February 9, and she still doesn't have her car back. Not that the folks at the Scottsdale Conference Center and [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2009, 1:33pm EST

  • Life in Arizona for Latinos and Queers

    Oh, please join me and other gays and lesbians as we grovel in appreciation. We've been granted the "right" to pay the city of Phoenix $50.00 so that we have the right to visit each other in hospitals, nursing facilities, etc.

    It's the Domestic Partnership Registry. Yay. [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2009, 8:41am EST

  • Memo to Cheney: EF Off

    Dick Cheney is INSANE, a LIAR, a TRAITOR, a FEAR MONGER, a PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIC, a MEGALOMANIAC, and most of all, a YESTERDAY, HAZBEEN, ROTTEN-HEADED OLD MAN. GO. LEAVE. DIE, YOU MISERABLE OLD BASTARD.http://www.wildchihuahuas.blogspot.com [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2009, 6:39pm EST

  • Doing Two Things At Once? Here's a Thought

    From approximately the first third of Obama's campaign, I've been concerned about the "bipartisan" strategy. Now, with the appointment of Judd Gregg, I'm more concerned, and the reason is because bipartisanship takes two. Otherwise it's a fool's errand.

    Judd Gregg wants to abolish the Commerce department. Fine with' [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2009, 3:26pm EST

  • What a Difference a Day Makes

    Who knew when I got involved in Doberman rescue that it would consume my life? Not me, that's for sure. And that's where I've been.

    It's hard to write with dogs all over you. Right now there are our four and two rescues here. That's a lotta dawg.' [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2009, 3:52pm EST

  • NEVER Get a GE DECT Digit 6.0 Cordless Phone

    Model 27909 EE1 just sucks. That's $80.00 worth of suck, too.

    Item: It weighs, looks, and feels like the high-tech equivalent of a tin can.

    Item: The manual says to install the battery pack in the back of the handset. Fine. Only there's no way to [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2009, 5:03pm EST

  • In My Dreams

    Do they teach this in obedience? Agility? Utility? Anywhere???
    Thanks to my pal Sally for this LOL!http://www.wildchihuahuas.blogspot.com [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2009, 7:09pm EST

  • Nurse Removes Woman's IUD "on Conscience"

    So you go in to have the IUD adjusted, and the nurse arbitrarily and unilaterally decides you shouldn't have an IUD at all and yanks it. See George Bush's "provider conscience" regulation. It's real, it's here, it's horrible, and it's happening in the US of A. Unbelievable, outrageous, and true. [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2009, 8:56pm EST

  • In My Real World . . .

    Woke up this morning musing about the events in my personal life over the last couple of weeks.

    Whatever I did for Floozie, Floozie did for me. I've gotten really interested in dog rescue, to the point that I hope to play at least a small role in getting' [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2009, 5:45pm EST

  • And Oh, Wasn't it Wonderful?

    OK, I cried from 10:30 a.m. on.

    I never, ever, even in my wildest hopes and dreams in the late 1960s, imagined this day. My soul is stirred in greater hope and faith in my country than at any time since Lyndon B. Johnson sadly assumed the responsibilities [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 11:02am EST

  • President Barack Hussein Obama

    "Thank God Almighty, Free at last!"http://www.wildchihuahuas.blogspot.com [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 10:07am EST
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