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May 18, 2010
Hoisted from Comments: SomeCallMeTim Reports from Portland
SomeCallMeTim:
It's Like Ra-a-a-a-ain on Graduation Day!: Ha! We've only had dribs and drabs of sun, and last week the weather catchphrase was 'March weather in May - unusual, but not unheard of.' Also, don't forget that 'sunbreaks' was popularized here in the Willamette Valley decades ago, as a way to celebrate 2 minutes of sun or very bright clouds on an otherwise thick gray blanket day in November-midJune.
[I wouldn't wish this weather on the Bay Area - I have fond memories...
Department of "Huh?!"
Newt Gingrich:
Newt Gingrich: The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did...
Fox News:
Fox News: Gingrich said that he stands by his argument that the "secular-socialist machine" represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union...
As I have said before, no American patriot has any business giving money to, working for, or voting for these clowns who run the Republican...
Exit Polls Say MItch McConnell's Faction of Republicans Is Going to Lose...
Mitch McConnell could have spent the past three and a half years (i) trying to make American government work, and run for re-election as the can-do Minority Leader who helped make America work and made sure that all the moonbatty things the Democrats wanted to pass were amended and modified so that as passed they are actually good for the country.
Mitch McConnell could have spent the last three and a half years (ii) trying to keep American government from working, and run for re-election...
Oh, excellent! A meeting where the most important person ...
Oh, excellent! A meeting where the most important person has a hard deadline and this we have a hard closing time!
Winston Churchill Liveblogs World War II: May 18, 1940
Winston Churchill: May 18, 1940:
Former Naval Person to President Roosevelt:
I do not need to tell you about the gravity of what has happened. We are determined to persevere to the very end, whatever the result of the great battle raging in France may be. We must expect in any case to be attacked here on the Dutch model before very long, and we hope to give a good account of ourselves. But if American assistance is to play any part it must be available soon.
May 17, 2010
links for 2010-05-17
RB: "More jobs might be created this year than during George W. Bush's entire presidency"
Paul Krugman: Et Tu, Wolfgang?
PK: "With a unified currency, adjustment to differential shocks requires adjustments in relative wage.... At this point, wages in Greece/Spain/Portugal/Latvia/Estonia etc. need to fall something like 20-30 percent relative to wages in...
Why We Need a New and Very Different Opposition to the Democrats than We Actually Have
Thoreau watches Tom Campbell pretend to be a wingnut:
Damnit! § Unqualified Offerings: Once upon a time I remember Tom Campbell saying vaguely sane things about drug policy. That’s more than you can get from most politicians in either party, especially those who aren’t on the fringes with Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. So I was all set to vote in the GOP primary in a few weeks (as a registered independent I have the option to vote in a major party primary here). And then I read this...
Why We Need a New and Very Different Opposition to the Democrats than the One We Have
William A. Galston and Thomas E. Mann:
The GOP's grass-roots obstructionists: For decades, the operational core of bipartisanship in Congress was the overlap between the parties. Through a long process triggered by the politics of the 1960s, that core has disappeared.... What The Post's editorial missed, however, is that these developments have not produced two mirror-image political parties. We have, instead, asymmetrical polarization.... More than 70 percent of Republicans in the...
The Sun on the Meadow Is Summery Warm...
We need another, very different, center-right alternative to the Democrats--not the alternative we have now.
Paul Krugman:
Going to Extreme: Utah Republicans have denied Robert Bennett, a very conservative three-term senator, a place on the ballot, because he’s not conservative enough. In Maine, party activists have pushed through a platform calling for, among other things, abolishing both the Federal Reserve and the Department of Education.... [P:]ower within the G.O.P. rests with the...
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