September 30, 2008
Category: Policy and Politics
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 9:09 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Policy and Politics
Obama's big bet on Nevada: a secret weapon for the Democrats may be the legions of Bay Area liberals who have been making weekend migrations to Reno to canvass for Obama. Although the Obama campaign was cagey about the numbers, Alise Moss, 53, a healthcare consultant from Sparks, Nev., who has hosted several groups of California volunteers at her house, claimed that on a recent weekend the campaign had 400 volunteers show up. "We love those crazy Californians," said Moss with a laugh. "California's navy blue, and they don't mind coming over here and knocking on doors, and all those...
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 12:39 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 29, 2008
Category: Policy and Politics
Jonathan Martin's Blog: In reintroduction, Palin to do more interviews and "tell her story" - Politico.com: Of concern to McCain's campaign, however, is a remaining and still-undisclosed clip from Palin's interview with Couric last week that has the political world buzzing. The [anonymous] Palin aide … revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions. After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases. There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence.I suppose there aren't many black...
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 11:47 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Policy and Politics
With a majority of Democrats in favor of it and a majority of Republicans against it, the financial bailout plan negotiated over the weekend failed in the House. Not being an economist, I can't say that the plan was good or bad, but the consensus of smart people I'm reading seems to be that it was good enough. Allowing it to fail was foolish not just because it created the largest drop in the Dow – bigger than that following the 9/11 attacks – but because the best excuse the Republicans could come up with for voting against it was...
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 6:59 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2008
Category: Policy and Politics
Max Blumenthal visits Palin's church, and discusses her endorsement by a latter-day Cotton Mather: Muthee gained fame within Pentecostal circles by claiming that he defeated a local witch, Mama Jane, in a great spiritual battle, thus liberating his town from sin and opening its people to the spirit of Jesus. Muthee’s mounting stardom took him to Wasilla Assembly of God in May, 2005, where he prayed over Palin and called upon Jesus to propel her into the governor’s mansion — and beyond. Muthee also implored Jesus to protect Palin from “the spirit of witchcraft.” The video archive of that startling...
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 8:14 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Policy and Politics
Sarah Palin was interviewed by Katie Couric: Couric: Would you support a moratorium on foreclosures to help average Americans keep their homes? Palin: That's something that John McCain and I have both been discussing - whether that (pause) is part of the solution or not. You know, it's going to be a multi-faceted solution that has to be found here. Couric: So you haven't decided whether you'll support it or not? Palin: I have not. Couric: What are the pros and cons of it do you think? Palin: Oh, well, some decisions that have been made poorly should not be...
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 6:02 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chatter
This Friday at 9, you have two thinks you can do. First, the first Presidential Debate. Unless John McCain chickens out gets lost in the Senate office he hasn't seen in over 100 days is so befuddled that he forgets whether Mississippi rejoined the Union decides that he can't both run for office and successfully govern. The debate begins at 8 Mississippi time (roughly a century behind the rest of the country), and will end when the viewers' eyes are bleeding, roughly two hours later. At which point, you can head over and get hammered by with Sciencebloggers. I'll be...
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 5:43 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 23, 2008
Category: Policy and Politics
In a move that would shock anyone asleep for the past 7 years, the EPA won't limit rocket fuel in U.S. drinking water: The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there's no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the country. EPA reached the conclusion in a draft regulatory document not yet made public but reviewed Monday by The Associated Press. The ingredient, perchlorate, has been found in at least 395 sites in 35 states at levels high enough to interfere with thyroid function and pose developmental health risks, particularly...
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 8:55 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Policy and Politics
A poll on the national economy found literally no one who thinks that the national economy is getting better. 0% Of course, they didn't poll John McCain, who is so out of it that he thinks the economy is pretty strong. Bear in mind here that 25% of Americans think the sun orbits the earth....
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 4:55 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 22, 2008
Category: Policy and Politics
A friend cc:ed me on a letter to his Congressman, and I think he's basically right about the Wall Street bailout. He writes Congress: Please say NO. The Bush Administration's proposed bailout plan is overly broad, vastly too expensive, and lacks oversight and control that is absolutely necessary. The plan should be rejected unless it is significantly modified. Under terms of the plan the Secretary of the Treasury can do anything he wishes with $700-Billion. Anything. No restrictions, no oversight by Congress, no review by the courts. As dangerous as our financial situation is, giving absolute power to one cabinet...
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