Hello, a quick note that I deleted the 2nd story about Rahm being terminateddeletedrubbed out tossed from the ballot in Chicago, posted by Gorb. It was a duplicate.
I've also moved all Olbermann stories to Home Front: Culture Wars, and filed them under 'seedy politicians' (Fred doesn't have a category for raving douche-bags). Take note for any future postings concerning Mr. Keef, and thanks.
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i'm picking the pack too. however based on the serious degradation in Rogers performance post the peppers cheap shot, the steelers have a strategy available that Harrison may not be able to help himself from taking. take a couple 15's early for unnecessary roughness and mostly neuter the Pack pass attack.
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BTW: has 0bama picked anything that wasn't a looser or a lemon?
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well lessee there was....um.... and.....no, that's not right....and uh...OH! Keeping the Bush> policies on Gitmo and UAV death from above?
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I think this guy knows as much about sports as I do about ballet...
Rahm Emanuel was taken off the ballot for mayor of Chicago today by an appellate court panel. The panel disqualified him on a 2-1 vote due to the residency standard to run for mayor.
Emanuel's attorneys are expected to use the dissenting opinion to appeal the case to the Illinois Supreme Court. CBS2 news account here.
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Not a good day for Obywon in Chi-Town. First he predicts the Bears to win. Then there's his endorsement (and his 'strong-arming' of the local political machine, so I've been told) of Sr. Emanuel.
Heck, he even sent a former president to campaign for this guy and lean on the locals. Although, that act might have been a bit much, even for Chicago politics. Possibly enough to even sway a judge or two.
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as of a week ago or so the other candidates with significant polling were
Carol Mosely Braun (former Senator and widely considered both corrupt and incompetant)
Gery Chico (long time crony of Richard M Daley the previous mayor but with some minor accomplishments as a former School Board President and as partner in a law firm). He ran against Barack O. in the 2004 primary for Senate.
Miguel del Valle (current city clerk, formerly a State Senator and for the past few years, a minor crony of Governor Quinn).
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Makes it tough on Rahm. Even if the Illinois Supreme Court puts him back on the ballot it'll be hard for him to win. Some voters will be confused while others will decide 'screw it' and vote for one of the others. The media will focus on this rather than on the campaign. Financial backers will hesitate to pony up more cash.
Gary Chico has been advertising aggressively. He splits the Hispanic vote 1:1 and the white vote 1:3 or so with Rahm. Braun gets most of the black vote, and the other chumbalones on the ballot haggle over the rest. If Rahm is out I'd guess that most of the rest of the Hispanic vote (~15% of the total) goes to Chico. The black vote is 40 to 50% of the total, and that's mostly Braun's. If the white vote mosts en masse to Chico he wins, otherwise Da New Mayor will be Carol Moseley Braun.
Just imagine saying that every day.
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Jeez, Steve. She's a racist loon, corrupt AND incompetant if I remember my 1980s-90s history correctly. Plus, doesn't she have some sort of lawsuit(s) because she didn't pay her bills (ever) on some property she rented from the city or is that one of the other fine 'mayoral candidates' down there?
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Illinois Supreme Court will start out divided on this. One Justice has a spouse who is a big Chico supporter, three are down-staters (read peasants to the Progressives)and two will be solid Rahm because they will be told to be solid Rahm. It's gonna be fun
Posted by: Bill Griling5080 ||
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[Iran Press TV] President Barack B.O. Obama says his State of the Union address on Tuesday night will focus on reducing the nation's deficit and creating jobs in the United States. Tell us more about the "shovel-ready projects" just waiting for an infusion of government cheese...
Obama gave an advance look at what he will ask congress at the State of the Union in a videotaped message sent to the organizers on Sunday.
He is expected to call for unity and cooperation as fights over the handling of the federal budget and the Democratic-sponsored health care overhaul are expected to brew.
"These are big challenges that are in front of us, but we're up to it, as long as we come together as a people -- Republicans, Democrats, Independents," the president was quoted by The Wall Street Journal as saying.
Wisconsin's 1st District Congressman Paul Ryan, who is the new House budget committee chairman, will deliver the Republican's response on Tuesday, following the president's address.
At the State of the Union address, the president lays out his legislative agenda for the year ahead.
The makeup of Congress has changed dramatically since Obama's last address as the Republicans made gains in the November midterm elections.
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I suspect he will propose some hare-brained scheme that preys on ignorance.
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..will focus on reducing the nation's deficit and creating jobs in the United States.
The only way to really cut the deficit is to cut spending, not playing accounting tricks like cutting imagined increases. The only way to create jobs without new programs and spending is to cut regulatory obstructions and governmental overhead that adds costs, shutdown the endless legal challenges to new works, curtail tort farming, and end the use of unreasonable and impossible standards for air, water, and species preservation. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
Instead we'll be handed another Con job selling swamp land in Florida.
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Meanwhile, back in the real world: Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives in civil lawsuits accusing them of fraud. The cost was a closely guarded secret until last week, when the companies and their regulator produced an accounting at the request of Congress.
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What a bunch of BS. Yeah, he'll probably make a push for more Green, Union jobs. He isn't going to do anything that's actually good for the economy and he certainly isn't going to cut Federal spending. I mean, what's he going to say, everything I've worked for and spoke about up until this point was a joke?
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01/24/2011 12:48 Comments ||
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Midnight Basketball Golf
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01/24/2011 15:17 Comments ||
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Why does this remind me of a fat man talking about the need to cut back on his eating habits at an all-you-can-eat buffet?
[The Nation (Nairobi)] A reinvigorated US President Barack B.O. Obama seeks to solidify a reshaped image as a builder of compromise and promise an intense job building drive in his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Obama will step up at 9pm (0200 GMT) in the House of Representatives for a speech which could define his battle with newly empowered Republicans, as the 2012 presidential race begins to stir.
The annual showpiece, with its repeated ritual standing ovations, offers a president a rare chance to set the political narrative by speaking directly to voters in a way the fractured media climate rarely allows.
Mr Obama previewed this year's speech in a web video sent to members of his grassroots political network.
"My number one focus is going to be making sure that we are competitive, that we are creating jobs not just now but well into the future -- that is going to be the main topic of the State of the Union," Obama said.
Mr Obama is riding new momentum after slowing Republicans following their mid-term election triumph and tracking towards the centre ground and the independent voters he needs to win for re-election.
His approval ratings which suffered amid the grinding economic crisis, have ticked up to the low 50s as he begins to plot his re-election bid.
Mr Obama also made his most direct connection with Americans yet, when his soaring call for civility stilled a row sparked by an Arizona shooting rampage.
Although the economic recovery is speeding up, many Americans are still struggling, with unemployment at 9.4 per cent -- a potential area of political liability for Obama.
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Mr Obama also made his most direct connection with Americans yet, when his soaring call for civility stilled a row sparked by his fellow progressives after an Arizona shooting rampage.
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For me his voice holds the harmonic resonance of a dental drill. I neither want to listen to him, look at him, or now that he has been half castrated, to hear about his agenda other than how it has been thwarted.
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This article is from a Kenyan newspaper? Sounds like they're cheering for their favorite son.
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01/24/2011 11:20 Comments ||
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I will NOT be watching his Lying, Propaganda filled spewing.
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01/24/2011 11:33 Comments ||
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A big speech is exactly what he needs! After all, his speech to the Olympic Committee in Copenhagen helped Chicago win its bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, and all those speeches on health care rallied public support behind the popular Afforable Care Act, and his campaigning for Ted Strickland and Lee Fisher and Martha Coakley helped them all win in 2010, and ...
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Obamanomics is based on the economic theory of Kenyanism -- grass huts for everyone!
...Were here at the Pennsylvania Progressive Summit, with @Spedwybabs and I coming in from Illinois, and @drdigipol coming from D.C. The three of us were sitting around the table at lunch Saturday talking about Comcast firing Olbermann, and I dont even know who said Maybe we should draft him for a Senate race, but ninety minutes later the Draft Keith Olbermann page was up, the @DraftOlbermann Twitter account was rolling, and the Draft Keith Olbermann DailyKos account was registered. Coming soon: mugs, t-shirts, bumper stickers, buttons, postcards, murals, samplers, stained-glass windows, coloring books, tattoos, ...
Tomorrow the Olbermann 2010 web site will go live, pointing at the Facebook page. Holy &#$%@, he's running in last year's election! That can only mean that Keith Olbermann has invented a practical working method of time travel! Talk about yer "burying the lead!"
Were using our full set of campaign tools but they wont go active until we get a little downtime while were in D.C. Ive invited the wardogs to come out and play and a couple of them have already expressed interest. The effort has, after eight hours, 227 Facebook fans and 120 Twitter followers. (or, roughly, about a third of his loyal viewership at PMS-NBC) My favorite joke just after he was canned was about how his viewer was so upset...
Ive got messages back from folks with Facebook groups that have five digit subscriber counts indicating that theyll help. This effort will get its legs under it very shortly....
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Joe Lieberman announced he's not running for re-election. That means open season.
If a self-aggrandising, pseudo-Vietnam-combat-vet like Blumenthal can get elected in Connecticut with all his foibles and campaign foul-ups, it's not a far stretch to think Olbermann has a chance.
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Rahm Emanuel was taken off the ballot for mayor of Chicago today by an appellate court panel. The panel disqualified him on a 2-1 vote due to the residency standard to run for mayor.
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