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  • Senatorial Sticks

    I've spent a lot of years watching Democrats get rolled on anything remotely resembling the public good and I expect to see quite a few more years of the same thing. That is because I see the public good from somewhere well left of the center. I understand that.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:12pm EST

  • Federal Tax Code Games - Supply Side Bull****

    At one time the top federal income tax rate was 95%. That immediately strikes people as wrong. It seems the federal government is trying to run solely on the backs of the wealthy and it seems like confiscation. It seems like this because people forget that the tax code is [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:54pm EST

  • Indugling In Teabaggery

    No, they're not kidding.



    I love the voice-over.

    You do have to ask yourself where these people were during BushCo.

    Well, he was white...' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:37pm EST

  • Of Kisses And Bows And Stupidity

    This is courtesy


    This is obsequious


    And we live in a nation with a large dumbass quotient. If you were curious about a representative one, Bush flack Andrew Malcolm goes stupid in LA Times. [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 2:02pm EST

  • Bewetters

    Because the last thing I'd do would be to subscribe to a blog run by idiots of the particularly partisan stripe; I have to bring this to you courtesy of John Cole at Balloon Juice. I don't like to poach wholesale from sites, but this is too ... something:
    [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:05pm EST

  • Republicans Scared Of Trials - Surprise!

    Sen Kit Bond (R-MO) finds it inappropriate, in fact a disaster for the Federal government to try Khalid Sheikh Mohamad in a NYC court. This on the basis that Mohamad will have the protections of law, in Bond's words - the rights - of criminal defendants. He sees it as' [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:48am EST

  • Doomed To Repeat History

    George Santayana is credited with the quote, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." This is indeed a pretty astute observation, it is also used in contexts where it is meaningless. History is not a collection of dates and names, battles lost and won; it is [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:57pm EST

  • Happy Veterans' Day Sen Coburn

    Sen Tom Coburn (R-OK) is a doctor, yes a medical doctor. He also postures as a fiscal conservative. Maybe it is no surprise that he put a personal hold on the Senate bill to increase VA coverage for disabled vets and their care-takers on the basis that how it is [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:57pm EST

  • The Confederate Party of Republicanism Believes ... What?

    I have a pretty strong handle on what I believe and what I think. I have been known to oppose some things pretty vehemently and to propose things. I am a member of the Democratic Party and I have a pretty general idea of what binds us together. Then there [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:08pm EST

  • Self-interest

    I've avoided this for a long time. This started as a discussion of whether laws were moral. I asserted that they were not and the rejoinder was that all laws flowed out of morality. I insisted that the use of force left that claim out and that what they are' [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 11:59pm EST

  • Confederate Party of Republicanism Resurgence

    Rep James Clyburn (D-SC) was asked today how the votes were coming on the House version of Health Care Reform. He said things were working out well, and when asked if there had been any changes in the situation he responded, "Well, we picked up two votes today." Those two [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:06pm EST

  • How Long Will Steele Last Now

    RNC Chair Michael Steele has a job description.

    When he was asked to assess the claim made by conservative blogger Erick Erickson at RedState.com -- a grassroots driving force behind Hoffman’s candidacy -- that conservatives scored a victory last night, Chairman Steele could not have disagreed more firmly.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:58pm EST

  • We Hold ... That Boehner Is An Ass

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
    Anybody recognize this quote? House Minority Leader Boehner sure doesn't, he stated in public in' [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:06pm EST

  • Afghan Victory Looks LIke ... What?

    Let us start out with who is playing in Afghanistan, there is the US/NATO faction, the Kharzi government (?), India, Pakistan, AlQaeda, Taliban, Iran, and every other big player in geo-politics. Everybody seems to have a hand in mucking up the works and really very few have Afghans' well being' [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:38pm EST

  • How Do You Do This?

    Sure, it's water not marriage

    Or is it?

    How would you feel about drinking from the other fountain? Superior?

    OK I'm a bit more than the sad I mentioned in the previous post... [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:44pm EST

  • Maine, Another Loss Of Humanity

    I had some fears about the outcome of the the Question 1 in Maine with this initiative happening in an off-year election. Motivated base voters come out and it is difficult to persuade the ordinary voter something like this matters to vote on. This resulted in another "direct democracy" vote [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:50am EST

  • Biblical Interpretation - Hmmm

    Matt Taibbi has a Goldman Sachs spokesman making a statement regarding - well, you figure it out:
    “The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:36pm EST

  • So, What Do These Elections Mean?

    There were elections Tuesday, as you may have noticed. There was bad news in Maine for same sex marriage, and NJ and VA elected Republicans as Governors. These were the big talking points on the NEWS. There was a lot talk about what this means for Democrats. Funny, the two [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:52pm EST

  • Faux Version Of A Poll

    Some kind of a Faux Poll

    YOU DECIDE


    Would you support health care reform legislation if it did not contain the government-run insurance option?

    Absolutely. Congress should stick to legislating laws and regulations, and let the free-market system work.

    Probably. I’m still unsure whether [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 10:25pm EDT

  • Faux News ... News???

    Thanks John Stewart

    The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cFor Fox Sake![www.thedailyshow.com]Daily Show
    Full Episodes    Political HumorHealth Care Crisis

    Do you suppose the MSM will put away its fainting couches and clutching pearls?

    Nah [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 2:46pm EDT

  • Gov John Baldacci's Same Constitution

    Governor John Baldacci (ME-D) is campaigning against M1 to reverse the legislated same sex marriage he signed. He was not a supporter of same sex marriage two years ago. He has had, essentially, an epiphany consisting of the realization that the lack of congruence between marriage and civil unions creates [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 6:35pm EDT

  • More Republican Purity, Please

    Politics is about doing what you can do, ideology is about what you want. There is a difference. In order to get things done you have to get the votes, whether in an election or in legislation. Our favorite lizzard Newt has pointed this out to some of his "compatriots" [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 1:33pm EDT

  • I'm The Most Important Person - Joementum

    The Baucus debacle made Olympia Snowe as 1/40th of the Party Of No the most important person in the room. For some types of people such a thing is an untenable prospect, like say Joe Lieberman's supposed position on Health Care Reform.

    Just to be clear, I think' [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 12:41pm EDT

  • Rental, 2010 Mustang Convertible

    The initial rental was a 2010 Corvette Convertible, the necessity of carrying three people brought that idea to a halt. The Mustang seats four fairly comfortably, provided those in the rear aren't real tall. This car had slightly over 1K miles at time of rental. I have never had a' [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 2:05pm EDT

  • Faux News Persecution

    The latest round of lying dissembling Republican propaganda arm Fox News horseshit is that the Obama administration tried to exclude them from a press opportunity with Treasury official Kenneth Feinberg. That would be rather unseemly even in the face of the behavior of that organization, it would be if [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 10:10am EDT

  • This Is Florida

    To be more exact this is Sand Key, FL just outside Clearwater. We are here to get my son Matt married off. The wedding is in Bartow as is the new home of the bride, Emily, and the groom. Matt's soon to be in-laws own a beach condo for get' [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 2:51pm EDT

  • Eighty Mile Pictorial Harley Tour Of NorthEast Oregon

    This is one of my favorite shorter loops out of Baker City, Oregon with its apex at Union, Oregon and returning to Baker City about 2 1/2 hours later. The route is Oregon 203 to Union and Old US 30 back to town.

    This is all two lane blacktop [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 12:40am EDT

  • There Are Not 41 Republicans In The Senate

    But then, you knew that didn't you?

    So what's up with HealthInc and Investment Banks and all that?

    Ahahahahahahaha - sucker' [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 12:10am EDT

  • A Moody's Rating In One Hand And Crap In The Other

    ...And what do you actually have? According to McClatchy you've got two handfuls of very smelly crap (I know that's spelled/pronounced differently). Now some people trust these agencies to do something a bit differently than this:
    As the housing market collapsed in late 2007, Moody's Investors Service, whose investment' [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 11:39pm EDT

  • The 1st Amendment And Dickheads

    Just so we all know what the heck it is that I'm talking about, here is the text of the 1st Amendment:
    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the' [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 10:52pm EDT

  • A Wet Snowy Hunt Thoughts - Without Bucks

    October 3rd was opening day of buck mule deer rifle season and it got off to a pretty lame start, a blown tire and inoperable jack. Once that was straightened out I managed to get myself into the mountains, which were in the process of getting six inches of very [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 8:55pm EDT

  • No Rams - Waaaaaa!!!!

    No, I'm not kidding. Rush:
    it's not about the St. Louis Rams, it's not about me. This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone' [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 5:34pm EDT

  • I'm Sorry Texas, You've Got Perry

    Really Texas, I'd feel sorry for you except you gave us GWB and you wanted Rick and now it looks as though he's actually a murderer. Strong? He directed the killing of a man it certainly begins to look as though should have lived and that Rick knew that when' [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 6:33pm EDT

  • Olympia Who ?

    One one fortieth of the GOP Senatorial caucus voted to move the Baucus abortion out of Committee and that one one fortieth is real important? That was 10% of the GOP representation on the long stalled Finance Committee that voted to move on and now it is called bi-partisan support. [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 5:11pm EDT

  • Keep America Safe ... Um

    Liz Cheney has hooked up with Bill Kristol to form a non-profit (I've got a bridge...)called of all things, "Keep America Safe." Now I am not a fan reader of Bill Kristol but I am familiar with his record on issues concerning national security - wrong going on massive fail.' [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 3:42pm EDT

  • Mess With Us And We'll F**k You Up - AHIP

    Association of Health Insurance Providers today, on the eve of the Baucus Bill vote in the Finance Committee, released a report commissioned from Price Watershouse Coopers that says the HealthInc bunch will raise rates 40% and then 70% and then 110% at the end of 10 years. I think [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 8:07pm EDT

  • A Gay Speech By The President

    There sure has been a lot of steam and noise since the President spoke to HRC regarding the gay agenda. I'm not even going to bother to link to the critiques, if you read the 'net you know about it. I will point out that I've even heard GOP operatives' [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 4:51pm EDT

  • Death Merchants

    As Keith Olberman noted in his extraordinarily good special comment last night, health care is about death. It is a major facet of our avoidance of that inevitable consequence of life. Very many people are very afraid of that ending. That fear can lead to all kinds of strange behavior, [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 7:56pm EDT

  • A Harley, Chilly Weather, Rain, 350 Miles

    What the hell is the matter with me? I ask that because I mostly enjoyed it. If it were a matter of public policy I'd call it a GOP kind of thing, but it was...necessary. Harley Davidson built a very cool motorcycle with the Screaming Eagle Springer Soft Tail but' [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 7:40pm EDT

  • When The Two Live Brain Cells Stop Talking

    John L Perry writes in NewsMax (I will not give them link credibility) :
    "There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the “Obama problem.” Don’t dismiss it as unrealistic."
    I have no idea what evidence there is for this, other [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 6:29pm EDT

  • What's In A Name?

    The Senate Finance Committee voted down the Rockefeller Public Option Amendment 15-8 and the Schumer Amendment on the same topic 13-10 and this brings forward the question above. The name Finance should tell you who the big players are and who owns enough Senators to blow this one away. If [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 6:20pm EDT

  • Motor Home Adventures Or How Not To Act Around Things Bigger Than You

    If you've been following along the Adventure Series you are aware that the land whale is pretty big. Let me be a touch more specific, loaded weight is just under 20,000 pounds and I look down at the roofs of lifted full size pickups and make direct eye contact with' [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 10:16pm EDT

  • Motor Home Adventures Or How To Ruin A Perfectly Good Drive

    The maiden voyage began, Baker City to a point about 60 miles north of Vancouver, WA for my brother-in-law’s birthday. A surprise birthday party was the object. We rolled out with me, wife, and Gus the Pyrenees as the crew. Up on the freeway I was a bit disturbed by [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 10:03pm EDT

  • Motor Home Adventures – How To Spend Money And Time Having No Fun

    A couple weeks ago my wife and I bought a new (to us) motor home – called by owners of such things, a motor coach. The unit is a 29,000 mile 1998 Dolphin 36 foot Class A, a bus style on a Chevrolet truck chassis with a tag axle. An [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 9:55pm EDT

  • I Am Aware Of All Internet Traditions

    One of my favorite blogs, Balloon Juice has added a Balloon Juice Lexicon with the expressed purpose of allowing newbies into the inside language. You need to have experienced both the postings and the commentary to appreciate where this is coming from. I wouldn't call the experience exactly' [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 11:25pm EDT

  • Racism Or Not

    President Obama may not want race to be a part of defining opposition to his Administration and politically I agree that he's better off not engaging it. That may be politically sensible but being that doesn't mean a thing about accuracy. If you look at Teabaggery the entire absence of' [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 10:23pm EDT

  • Discussion With Joe Finder

    I didn't like Joe Finder's NYT OpEd and he challenged me to give him space to defend himself. I have done so and what follows is our discussion, uncut and unedited. It is a bit long as blog posts go, but that is how such a thing as [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 9:58pm EDT

  • Upcoming, The Joe Finder Debate

    Joe Finder didn't like what I had to say in regard to his article and offered, both here and in an email, to debate it so I offered up a methodology he agrees with. I have noted to Joe that considering the impact of this blog and its general distribution' [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 4:05pm EDT

  • NYT OpEd Descent Into WSJ Land - Update, Noted Author Disagrees

    Updated Below

    Thriller writer Joseph Finder pens another example of the NYT attempting to match the Op-Ed stupidity level of the WSJ. Finder is distressed that the DOJ doesn't like torture.

    EARLY in 2002, Eric Holder, then a former deputy attorney general, said on CNN that' [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 3:42am EDT

  • Dogwhistles? Hell, Bullhorns

    H/t John Cole @ Balloon Juice. (BJ comments are raucous - you been warned)

    Rep Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) Michelle and President Obama, "Uppity"

    Sen Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) "I think he's gonna have to express some humility based on what we've seen around the country this'" [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 12:39am EDT

  • The Republic Under Assault


    First it was GW Bush bailing out the bankers, John Sydney McCain had to suspend his campaign and dash to DC to help out ... er ... be there. Plutocracy was skidding into a ditch, well, not really - just a little zig once the [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 10:30pm EDT

  • Back To School Socialist Indoctrination

    Let's do a little historical revisionism, John POW McCain wins the 2008 election. After seven months of duelling with Democratic majorities President POW decides to give the kiddies starting the school year a morale boost to encourage them to do well in school. As Pres. John gets ready to give [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 9:01pm EDT

  • Painting The HealthInc Whorehouse

    SF Gate got this somewhere:
    "Can you believe these congresspersons with lifetime free medical benefits saying how the rest of Americans don't need guaranteed health care?" asks Janice Hough. "Sort of like guys on their second and third wives voting against gay marriage."

    Congress is working up to' [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 10:27pm EDT

  • You're Not A Libertarian

    Top 10 Signs You're Not a Libertarian has soooo much good in it that I'm saying no more. [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2009, 1:01pm EDT

  • NYT OpEd Descent Into WSJ Land

    Thriller writer Joseph Finder pens another example of the NYT attempting to match the Op-Ed stupidity level of the WSJ. Finder is distressed that the DOJ doesn't like torture.

    EARLY in 2002, Eric Holder, then a former deputy attorney general, said on CNN that the detainees being' [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2009, 11:43am EDT

  • Mackey's Irish Pub and Restaurant - Commitment To Excellence

    A couple months ago while I was attending the High Desert Motorcycle Rally in Ontario, OR I stumbled across a place run by Shawn Grove and his wife Angie called Mackey's. As I rumbled by on the Harley I heard live music and swung in. Sean made a point of' [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2009, 11:14pm EDT

  • The Alternate Universe

    You may have noticed a lack of posting lately, there is an actual reason ... er ... excuse. What passes for news, other than Sen Kennedy's death has been some sort of degeneration into debates between reality and an alternate universe. There are various versions of health care reform bills [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 2:04am EDT

  • Sen Ted Kennedy Is Gone

    The news just came in that Ted Kennedy has died. This isn't a real big surprise given the nature of brain cancer but it has come rather suddenly. Whatever happened at Chappaquiddick and whether or nor he paid a full price for it, one thing is certain - he has' [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 10:35pm EDT

  • Negotiation For Dumb Asses, er, Donkeys

    Negotiation is warfare by other means, seriously. You bring the big guns right from the get-go. You stake out the ground you want and fight for it, and because it is warfare you know going in that you will suffer losses. The units you will lose aren't soldiers, they're your [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 12:03am EDT

  • Republican Health Care Reform

    If you've paid attention over the past three years the Republican Party suffered stunning losses, to the stage where they are now a pointless minority in the House and have only 40 Caucus votes in the Senate. Stunning is the accurate word, or you'd think so.

    Nope. They out [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 11:44pm EDT

  • TexAss for Texassans

    Texas is supposed to have some pretty country and is rumored to have some sensible people left in the state. All that said, I'd rather gnaw my left leg off than live in that ... place. Starting from some place out of the plethora of reasons to stay the hell' [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 10:56pm EDT

  • Public Option Not A Big Deal?

    There is now considerable talk that the public option in health care reform is not a big deal. It seems that no CPoR will vote for something with it and a chunk of Democrats called Blue Dogs (sons a bitches) won't. Some kind of co-op idea is being floated or' [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 5:00pm EDT

  • Why A Drag Race Diary?

    Since I left Wednesday for racing I've been Internet disconnected and bereft of news sources I'd consider worth posting from. I had time on my hands and the lap top so I thought I'd give a short of what was going on with my past time. I've followed the blog [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 1:10am EDT

  • Night Fire Day Four

    Time trials for Pro began about 9:30 AM and I was near the front and went red on the launch. I am unsure what went wrong with that one, I thought I left at the right time. My guess is that I went into the beams too deep. Once again [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 12:57am EDT

  • Night Fire Day Three

    The day started at 8 AM with Heavy Time Trials and my class Pro went at 9 AM with me early in the pack. The car seemed to slip only a little at the launch and the 1.78 sec. 60 foot bore that feeling out and the ET was a [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 12:56am EDT

  • Night Fire Day Two

    Woke this morning to find the left rear dead flat, the slow leak from Day 1. Aired the tire up and went on the plus side to ensure air in the time trial. Not so good, the car went down the track wobbling. By the time I pitted I had [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 12:54am EDT

  • Night Fire Day One

    Something else could have gone wrong, but that would probably have involved a car upside down. I was asleep at the switch on the light first time trial, I’m surprised someone didn’t kick the car and point out the object wasn’t to park at the staging light. A bad light. [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 12:52am EDT

  • Night Fire Racing Diary, Pre-parking

    The 2009 Nightfire Race starts Thursday August 13, 2009 but participants have the opportunity to camp on site and to enter the track on Wednesday from noon until 8PM. It seemed to me to be a good idea to take advantage of this since I live 150 miles from the [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 12:46am EDT

  • Later 'Gator

    I strongly doubt there'll be WiFi at the track so even though the trusty laptop is going along - you may get nothing - for days. So I'll see you when I see you.

    I've got drag racing to do.

    Firebird Raceway Boise, ID' [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 1:25am EDT

  • Sarah and the GOP's Version Of Civility

    On Friday August 7th Sarah Palin posted the following paragraphs:
    As more Americans delve into the disturbing details of the nationalized health care plan that the current administration is rushing through Congress, our collective jaw is dropping, and we’re saying not just no, but hell no!

    The Democrats [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 10:11pm EDT

  • What Is Bipartisan Politics

    Somebody Googled that and the kind people at Google put "Chuck for..." up first. So lets fire up the way back machine and dial it to Jan 22, 2007 and get to Bipartisan Politics and see what the Chuck of yore had to say. Other than having the Wrong [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 2:48am EDT

  • Kitty, Lap, Apropos Nothing

    Marlin knows her place in the scheme of things and I'm good for a lap perch whenever she thinks it important. My opinion or occupation at the moment (lap full of laptop, whatever) is completely irrelevant.

    ****click pic for full size****


    Why yes,' [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 12:57am EDT

  • Racing Shoes

    For years I've drag raced the '62 ChevyII Nova on DOT slicks on steel wheels and using the street 215R60-15s mounted on Cragar SS on the front. Lots of unneccesary weight where it does harm.

    ****click pic for full size****


    This view shows [...]

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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 11:44pm EDT

  • Republicans Or Confederate Party of Republicanism

    Rep. John Sullivan (R-Okla.)

    "This is a scary time in Washington," he said. "It's a very frightening time. I see Barack Obama is creating an enemies list of people who oppose this miserable health care plan. I think that's frightening. That's from a guy that can't even show a'" [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2009, 10:54pm EDT

  • Playing With Matches

    It may not come as a news flash that the economy sucks and some people are getting hurt quite badly. It is also statistically males that are losing most jobs and that the hits are hardest in manufacturing, construction, and lower management - jobs primarily held by mid-aged white males. [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 6:47pm EDT

  • Sixty Votes

    Did you vote for a Democratic Senatorial candidate who won? Did you think you'd accomplished something? When Al Franken was finally certified did you think it meant something? Well, all of that stuff added up to a Senate with 60 (D) members. And so?

    If you're a Democrat or [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 4:24pm EDT

  • Cutting Glen Beck's Dollar Flow

    It seems that Color of Change is having some success getting advertisers to back away from Glen Beck on FauxNews. They'd like some help with a petition to advertisers and since I'm offended by people making money from hate and fear I signed and I'm passing this on.[...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 2:17am EDT

  • Enemies List

    After all these years of watching the GOP and so-called conservatives get freaked out by one group or the other and stoking up fear and hatred of them, and the list is long, I got to wondering. Is there an actual lefty list, other than for some, gun owners? There [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 7:04pm EDT

  • Harley For AsiangrrlMN

    ****click for full size****


    My riding buddy George and I took a loop that included Union, OR where we took an iced tea break. Pictured are my Screaming Eagle Springer Soft Tail and George's Anniversery Deuce. The Deuce is a very cool bike, the' [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 6:33pm EDT

  • Rocks ... And Hopefully Not Roll

    If you were to take the Hereford/Unity highway over Dooley Mountain you'd ride through a lot of curves in timbered land and drop down into the valley to find this:

    ****click for full size****


    [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 11:27pm EDT

  • Crony Paychecks

    Try to wrap your head around this, Haliburton, KBR, and Blackwater (Xe - huh?) are still getting money from the US government even though their pals were dis-elected. In a nation operating reationally these criminal enterprises and their government enablers would be looking at the world through bars. If you [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 7:46pm EDT

  • Bipartisan Horseshit

    From Webster we have:

    Main Entry: bi·par·ti·san
    Pronunciation: \(ˌ)bī-ˈpär-tə-zən, -sən, -ˌzan, chiefly British ˌbī-ˌpär-tə-ˈzan\
    Function: adjective
    Date: 1895
    : of, relating to, or involving members of two parties ; specifically : marked by or involving cooperation, agreement, and compromise between two major political parties
    — bi·par·ti·san·ism \-zə-ˌni-zəm, -sə-\ [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 1:13am EDT

  • To Be Fair To Senate Democrats See Merkley and Brown

    In a recent post I cast doubt on the future of health care reform of meaningful proportions. Saying anything good about the GOP and Health Care is simply beyond me and anyone that is actually willing to look at the entire mess without junk prejudices. A bunch of Democrats are [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 11:42pm EDT

  • Keith Olberman Gets ... Upset

    I suppose that the best way to get KO to go off on somebody or something is to suggest that he's a corporate tool Details of a meeting between Newscorp and GE were leaked and it seems that Murdoch and Imelt agreed that a feud between BillO and KO was [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 11:00pm EDT

  • A "Little" Ride

    I took a little ride last week, Thursday I left for Gold Beach, OR which is 530 miles by odometer and got there late that night. I visited a friend Friday and left that afternoon for Salem. I did some cruising around the Salem area and returned home Monday. Total [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2009, 5:18pm EDT

  • Pictures By Request

    Bath time means a rather displeased rather large dog and if you 're wondering I did get pretty wet in the process of him getting wet. He doesn't mind getting wet, it is the hose he disapproves of.



    Just as a matter of [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2009, 4:20pm EDT

  • Idiots Are Still Idiots

    From the Comments:
    I do believe you have put 'your money where your mouth is' so to speak and admire you for getting involved but to basically call conservatives a bunch of 'idiots' is to do nothing more than make people that don't believe the way you do oppose you' [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2009, 2:37pm EDT

  • Chuck Is ... Tired and Disgusted

    As was noted in the previous post I am quite conscious of my lack of posting and also tired of the focus. This thing started out as a campaign site and turned into commentary and hopefully advocacy. Lately it's been about kicking the snot out of Republican stupidity - and [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 3:23pm EDT

  • Who Didn't See This Coming? Health Reform, Nah

    Health care reform has died messy deaths for over 50 years and it begins to look as though another fatality is in the offing. You could take the Republican stance and words from nearly any time in five decades as short sighted ideologically driven arguments have scared people stupid. We [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 2:22pm EDT

  • The GOP & The Birthers

    You'd really have to suspend disbelief to get involved in The Birther Conspiracy group. There are some things you'd have to ignore, like the entire Bush Administration - not to mention political animals like John McCain and Hillary Clinton with an entire boatload of money. Just to mention one item [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 12:08am EDT

  • Gasoline Powered 60 MPH Airconditioning

    Let's just say it's 95F and cooling off is the desired end of an activity.

    Let's take it a step farther and say that you own a Harley and live not too far from mountains and timber. A tank top, vest, and some gasoline will [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 10:08pm EDT

  • Pat Buchannon, Icon Of The CPoR

    Too bad the initials of the Confederate Party of Republicanism don't spell something rude. There have been times I've admired Pat's political insights without agreeing with his politics ... or racism. What he is up to now isn't politics beyond winding up the racists. Sotomayor followed established precedent and the' [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2009, 10:33pm EDT

  • Green Gone

    There was a point in using green backgrounds, it's been made and I found it uncomfortable to read so we're back to blue for my lefty Democrat stance.' [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 2:23pm EDT

  • Blog AWOL - Playing In Salem, OR

    Grand-baby Braden is the reason I disappeared from the blogosphere. I couldn't fit the laptop on the bike in a manner that I'd care for so I played and this waited.

    ***As always click pic for full size***


    Due to unforeseen circumstances I [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 1:42pm EDT

  • Sen Jeff Session (R-AL) Confederate Party of Republicanism

    It is a real shame to hold up an accent as emblematic of something particularly noxious, Jeff Sessions' Alabama accent put up all the almost dog whistles of racism while "questioning" Sonja Stotomayor. One could look at this statement as projection if it weren't for Sessions own failed hearings for [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 11:08pm EDT

  • Arlen?

    Rep Sestak is challenging (D?) Specter. I've spent some time trying to figure out how much of a loss to the Democratic Party Arlen going away would be. The GOP has a loon to run against one of the (D)s and I can't see Arlen having the incumbent edge in [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 12:43am EDT

  • Random Musings

    It seems Leon Panetta said in closed hearings that the CIA had misled the Congress, the CIA says it isn't their policy - OK, but did you do it?

    Palin quit out of ALTRUISM. Huh? It seems there were only 3 ethics complaints active.

    Ensign and Sanford were' [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 12:58am EDT

  • So, Would You Blog Or Do This

    C'mon, 4th of July weekend and a motorcycle rally or stay home and amuse 5 readers not out for the weekend? High Desert Motorcycle Rally in Ontario, Oregon.

    as always click pic for full size


    Now for other fireworks you could look to' [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 1:26am EDT

  • Update Breaking News - Michael Jackson Still Dead

    In fact deader, but still very much a factor in News circles - unlike important shit. It has given Rep King NY-R a chance to make a fool of himself, so all is not lost - though he needs little opportunity to manage to educate us as to why voting [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 1:18am EDT

  • When Quitting Ain't Quitting...Or Something

    I'll admit I've sat on the Palin resignation for awhile, partly because I was at a motorcycle rally and missed the news when it happened and since then...well I've wasted time trying to figure out what she was talking about.

    When I've heard "a higher calling" referred to it [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 11:35pm EDT
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