Syzdekistan

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Both McCain and Clinton have proposed a summer tax holiday from the federal 18.4 cent per gallon gasoline tax. This is a stupid idea that just panders to the public upset by high gas prices. Don’t these candidates have economic advisors? Lowering the price of gasoline will increase demand and since supplies are tight, prices […]

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The local paper reported today that the “Nation’s Worst Governor” is going to charge Steve Fossett’s widow $687,000 for search expenses incurred when Fossett went missing in September in a small plane. This is utterly ridiculous on the part of Gibbons. Yes, I know the state is in poor financial shape. However, I believe that […]

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Over 85% of ballots cast in tomorrow’s hotly contested Pennsylvania Democratic Party Primary will be on machines that are hackable, prone to failure, and unverifiable. One blogger describes the election equipment used in Pennsylvania to be “faith based” because there is no paper trail to determine if the votes have been accurately recorded and counted. […]

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Here I am, flipping through Boing Boing (the online equivalent of Hot Wife’s reality television watching) and saw this illustration from Denver’s Westword (it’s an illustrated guide for the Democratic National Convention delegates):

Since Hot Wife used to work for Dina Titus in the Nevada Senate, I pointed the picture out to her.
She looked at […]

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The Bush administration has given very few species protection under the Endangered Species Act. In fact, only 59 species have been listed during the seven years of the Bush administration and those listings were due to court orders (environmental groups end up suing the US Fish and Wildlife Service or National Marine Fisheries Service to […]

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Now that the economy is tanking, let’s turn in our old coins for brand new petroleum based coins.

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Barack Obama gave an amazing speech on race today. He has been under fire in the media for some of the sermons that his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, has given. First of all, I don’t think we should judge a man by the speeches of his pastor. Secondly, we had a Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee who […]

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Marc Andreessen is a businessman and software engineer who wrote some of the first web browsers and co-founded Netscape. In early 2007, he got to spend some time one-on-one with Barack Obama and came away with an extremely favorable impression. (Link).
Smart, normal, curious, not radical, and post-Boomer.
If you were asking me to write a capsule […]

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Louis makes some good points about “The Surge:”
Statistically speaking, the surge had little or no effect in the time it was working–the drops in casualties came after the Mahdi Army called a cease fire. There were peaks and valleys during the surge, but the lasting decrease in violence came only after the cease fire had […]

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