Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
They haven't hit yet, but the American Red Cross can always use the help - and they do have a need with the voluntary evacuations for Gustav.
Please click here to go to their donation page.
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
I started a group over at Culture11.
Culture 11 is a new online/social network that was started by Bill Bennett, David Kuo, Steve Forbes, and more. Joe Carter of Evangelical Outpost is the managing editor.
Please stop by and check it out, sign up, and start going!
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
Obama's spokesman Bill Burton put this out this morning (via Huffington Post):
Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Excuse me?
Obama chose Biden for his foreign policy experience because Obama himself has none. Obama almost had ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
Fox News confirms with the McCain Campaign that the VP pick is indeed Alaska Governor Sarah Palin!
Yay!
Added: Happy Birthday Senator McCain!
Happy 20th Anniversary Todd and Sarah Palin!
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Yesterday, while watching Fox News, there was a segment about taxes and whose taxes would be higher and all that. Unfortunately I can't remember which show it was on and I didn't hit the record button on my TiVo remote...
One point of discussion was death or estate taxes. The Fox ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
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Kate at Electric Venom has confered upon me the lovely Arte y Pico award for just being me.
I need to link Kate since she awarded me the award. I also have to post the picture of the award, post the rules and give ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Of course the "big" story over the weekend was the choice of Joe Biden as Barack Obama's Vice Presidential co-candidate.
Obama's pick of Biden belies the "change" message he's been pushing. Biden certainly can't be identified as "outside the beltway", he's been in the Senate for nearly 6 complete terms.
Joe Biden ...
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Obama-Biden '08
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Okay, so now we've been told that the text messages will go out tomorrow morning at 10:00 am (I am assuming Central Daylight Time) and the big event at the Old Capitol Building in Springfield is now scheduled for 3:00 pm.
Earlier today there were four names out there in the ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
In Breathless Anticipation I noted that the media is stressing out over VP choices for both candidates.
For the past couple of days as the excitement is reaching a crescendo I've been thinking that the candidates themselves (and perhaps their picks, if the picks actually know who they are) are laughing ...
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