No, I cannot afford your $100 political fundraiser.
To all the pols out there cluttering my mailbox, inbox and voicemail, save your money. What were you thinking? Don’t invite me to your fundraiser unless the ticket price is much more reasonable.
Please, take a lesson from Barack Obama. Make your fundraisers affordable for the average person. Forget [...]
Congratulations to Team Canada on taking Olympic gold in hockey Sunday in Vancouver.
Congratulations to Sidney Crosby on netting the winning goal in overtime.
Congratulations to the U.S.A. with the youngest team in the tournament, clinching an overtime bid with 25 seconds left in the third period.
With the exception of the Miracle on Ice (which I have [...]
Garry Meier played this bizarre Russian song on the air at WGN Radio 720 this week. WGN says, "We can’t quite figure out the lyrics, but then again, there don’t seem to be any."
I would agree. I don’t hear any Russian words at all in the song.
The Russian you see at the beginning is [...]
From the Sun-Times:
Speaking at the opening of a community health center in the West Side Austin neighborhood Saturday, U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) said it’s “unfortunate” that senate Republicans won’t join Democratic efforts to pass a health care bill, but that the Democrats are ready to go it alone.
“I think [...]
From Media Matters for America:
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks told blogger Mike Stark that African Americans were much better off under slavery. Franks, the most conservative member of the Republican caucus, who has in the past called the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision "the greatest holocaust in the history of mankind," is not new to [...]
I don’t know why this is a story, but, since the New York Times published it, for some reason it has caught my eye:
Former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney met for coffee in their first reunion since PresidentBarack Obama’s inauguration more than a year ago.
Bush and Cheney met Thursday in the Washington area, Cheney’s office said [...]
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Rep. Anthony Weiner goes off on Republicans, saying they are owned by the health insurance industry.
He’s right. American health care is not a business goal. It’s life and death. That’s it.
Watch the video, and let’s pass health reform.
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Rachel Maddow calls out Republicans who are being very deceptive about the so-called "nuclear option."
Republicans have used "reconciliation" to pass legislation many, many times over the past several years.
Watch the video, and let’s pass health reform.
Story from WKMG out of Orlando, Florida:
The animal rights group PETA said on Wednesday that it plans on using a billboard featuring Tiger Woods that says "too much sex can be a bad thing" to encourage pet owners to spay and neuter their cats and dogs.
The PETA, which the group said it hopes to [...]
From CNN:
A killer whale killed a trainer Wednesday afternoon at SeaWorld’s Shamu Stadium in Orlando, Florida, a public information officer for the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said.
The 40-year-old woman, identified by sheriff’s spokesman Jim Solomons as Dawn Brancheau, was in the whale holding area about 2 p.m. when "she apparently slipped or fell into the [...]
