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  • How to get them to cover Climategate

    Don Surber

    Like most of its American counterparts, the Canadian Broadcasting Company has been reluctant to cover Climategate. I guess that’s that American hegemony we keep hearing about. One man decided to take matters in his own hands. I don’t encourage it because it makes Climategate sound like 9/11 Truthers. But it was amusing. Hat tip: [...]
    Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:29am EST
    by Don Surber
  • Name that girl

    Don Surber

    Number of comments: 5
    Name that calendar girl. It’s… Sarah Heath Palin. Must be a recent photo. No glasses. It is in a 2010 Calendar being sold at Cafe Press. Looks authorized. Meanwhile, Judith Warner at the New York Times: “I got a lesson in civility, grace under pressure and general human fellowship recently from, of all people, [...]
    Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:59am EST
    by Don Surber
  • CNN’s scoop on Menugate

    Don Surber

    Number of comments: 10
    CNN, the least-watch cable news channel in America, has the story that will break the White House wide open. No, it was not that Van Jones is a Maoist and a 9/11 Truther. Fox News broke that. No, it was not that Anita Dunn is a Maoist. Fox News broke that, too. No, [...]
    Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:20am EST
    by Don Surber
  • Wal-Mart beats union — in Canada

    Don Surber

    Number of comments: 5
    The Supreme Court of Canada has “endorsed the view that no legislation obliges an employer to remain in business,” and ruled that Wal-Mart indeed can close a store after its employees unionized. The cort voted 6-3 in upholding two lower court rulings that said Walmart did not break Quebec’s labor laws [...]
    Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:59pm EST
    by Don Surber
  • Gatecrashers met Obama

    Don Surber

    Number of comments: 15
    The photo. Well sure. Why not? They met Ambassador Arun Singh. This is not a little joke. This is a security breach. Heads. Should. Roll. The Associated Press report: WASHINGTON — A White House official says the Virginia couple who attended a state dinner without an invitation met President Barack Obama in the receiving line. Michaele and Tareq Salahi [...]
    Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:01pm EST
    by Don Surber
  • Bureaucrats stop green projects

    Don Surber

    Number of comments: 11
    The San Francisco Chronicle reported today: “Delays have hit more than half of the big solar, wind and geothermal energy projects under development throughout the state, according to a recent government report… As a result, California probably won’t meet its goal of getting 20 percent of its electricity from renewable [...]
    Posted: November 27, 2009, 3:12pm EST
    by Don Surber
  • Black Friday

    West Virginia Blue

    by:  btchakir

    Today is Black Friday.

    It has only been in the last couple of years that stores gave actually referred to "Black Friday" in their post-Thanksgiving-sale ads... There was a time that they didn't really want you to know that it was the point on the fiscal calendar when they went' [...]

    Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:01pm EST
  • Because the right

    Balloon Juice

    Number of comments: 10

    Bobo (link fixed) has a piece today about Bruce Springsteen. Shorter Bobo: I really love Bruce Springsteen and feel that I learned from listening to his stories of “teenage couples out on a desperate lark, workers struggling as the mills close down, and drifters on the wrong side of [...]

    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:57pm EST
    by DougJ
  • Just Lucky Timing, I Guess

    Balloon Juice

    Number of comments: 10

    The Irish government releases a report on sex abuse in the Catholic church:

    But rather than helping the victims, the church was concerned only with “the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the church, and the preservation of its assets,” said the 700-page [...]

    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:46pm EST
    by John Cole
  • Long Live the Fifth Column

    Fifth Column

    I read an interview with John Cole of recently, where he said of his popular (and great) blog Balloon Juice that “One thing is for sure, had I known it would turn out this way, I would have chosen a different name.” The regulars here probably remember that I didn’t name [...]
    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:43pm EST
    by Hippie Killer
  • The Thanksgiving Sandwich

    Balloon Juice

    Number of comments: 10

    And now, the best lunch of the year: the Thanksgiving sandwich.

    Take a baguette, cut it open and add some slices of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, cranberries, and top with some gravy. That is right. You are putting stuffing and gravy inside tasty bread. Wrap it in tinfoil, throw it [...]

    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:02pm EST
    by John Cole
  • Open Thread

    Balloon Juice

    Number of comments: 4
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    Matt S, Fly Fishing for Bass.

    JR, The Mall.

    Email me a link to your one or two favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put up favorites in open threads. Send a [...]

    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Tim F.
  • Shopping Madness

    Balloon Juice

    Number of comments: 10

    How many of you actually intend to go shopping today?

    *** Update ***

    What I thought. Most of you are like me and could not be dragged kicking and screaming near a store today. Which reminded me- do any of you remember a couple years back when there was an online call [...]

    Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:02am EST
    by John Cole

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