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A recommendation

Busy day tomorrow-and it will probably be a long one. So I am about to go to bed. However the S.O. and I found a great place to have REAL chinese dumplings in San Francisco. Not Chinese food fashioned...

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Important safety tip

If you are going to be a darling of the Teabagger nation charged with defending the Constitution. You might want to actually read it: WILMINGTON, Del. — Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell of...

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Getting it wrong.

No time to post today. Jumping in the car and driving through Carmel and the Carmel Valley. But just had to note this so you know where I stand on this-NPR got it wrong on Juan Williams. His statement...

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I should have stayed in San Fran one more day.

Then I could have seen all kinds of people go nuts because the S.F. Giants are going to the World Series. And the Yankees are not. So while its depressing as all get out to be back in Hicksville-there...

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Quote of the day.

Tea Partiers, in my close experience, are like drunks at the end of the evening. They make no sense, and you just want to get away from them. H/T to Mark Warren.

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Observations from the other side…..

Of the United States that is. I spent the last week in San Francisco and also a night down in Monterey. After just over a month back in the smothering existence that is life in Shopping Mall-it was...

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The 17 mile drive is like……

A box of chocolates-or a case of scotch. You never know how weird it will get. After seeing rather quickly the burg of San Francisco, the S.O. and I drove down to Monterey. (This being after our...

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I’m taking it back…….

Recently, I have seen several stories on TV about how “whore” is the new “ N”-word for women. Now a long time ago I pointed out that there was only one really bad word when it comes to women. So...

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October 25th……

Today is the anniversary of three different battles. The nostalgics and historically myopic among the blogosphere will focus on St. Crispin’s day. The more nautically minded will focus on the fact that...

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The way the poster should read……

Whenever I see someone post one of those stupid “Miss Me Yet” posters with the picture of the stupid man who destroyed the first decade of the 21st century for  America-I can’t help but think they have...

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Pretty cool…

Cost of self financing your own campaign? 149 Million. Cost of selling your soul to the Tea Bag nation? Pretty damn high. Allow your opponent to hijack one of your own ads to make a point? Priceless.

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Principled conservatism…………..

UPDATE: Here is how they do it. And in a note to my commenters-“most election law is state law”. We’ll skip any discussion of “curb-stomping” and how its all the victim’s fault-so therefore the stomped...

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World Series time.

Sitting here watching the Giants kicking ass and taking names. Barry Bonds or no-I’m just going to have to root for them. They play real baseball in the National League after all.

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An error of caution…

Martin Wolf of the Financial Times has a pretty good diagnosis of why the folks have lost track of the context when it comes to the economy. Obama was just too damn cautious when he needed to be bold....

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How she thinks……..

Richard asked me a while back-what the S.O. thought about life in America. I promised a response. To appreciate the way her little mind thinks-it is important to understand a couple of key background...

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Boy is this great!

Bottom of the eighth and the Giants are kicking ass again!

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And now for something you really are not going to like.

The creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle has passed away. Criticize us boomers all you want-but we had some great cartoons. Also, on a another sad note, James McArthur-he of the phrase “Book ‘em Dano!”...

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Good luck at the rally.

I’m not a rally kind of person-I don’t think they accomplish much save for a chance to get out and meet people. I especially am not a fan of rallies where people dress up in stupid tri-corner hats and...

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About Wikileaks……….

Anyone who has read a lot at this blog knows that I have been fairly consistent in my opposition to the Iraq War. I was opposed to it from the run up to it in 2002-and I remain of the opinion that the...

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Coolest campaign ads…..

Joe Manchin may be running away from the President like a screaming banshee-but he’s made some cool ads outlining the bleak future that awaits us. What is it with freaking laser beams and WV anway?

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