Hilton vs Coulter: Hilton "wins"
Oi vey, it's come to this. Over the last couple of evenings, if you were strapped down to a chair and told "you have to watch an hour of TV tonight and your only choices are Coulter on Tweety's show...
View ArticleThe President's July 4th Message
Here's a blurb from President 26%'s July 4th message to a unit of the WV Air National Guard: "Our first Independence Day celebration took place in a midst of a war -- a bloody and difficult struggle...
View ArticleDavid Broder: Please Go Away
The WaPo chats of late have been rather innocuous. It seems the highly respected political reporters have finally figured out that anything they say that tips their hand regarding how they feel about...
View ArticleThe Katrina Promise: Animal Rescue
As we mark the second anniversary of one of the saddest episodes in our countries history, reflect on the appaling lack of leadership at the federal and local level in helping restore not only the most...
View ArticleHighway Searches: My Experience
Have you ever been pulled over by a law enforcement officer on a flimsy pretext used as cover to search your vehicle? I have. Ever wondered how you'd react? I have. Ever looked back on the experience...
View ArticleBlackwater Paid No Federal Taxes
The mercenaries looting the Federal Treasury know no limits. Yesterday, good ole Henry Waxman stated that the Blackwater mercenary company paid no Social Security, Medicare or unemployment taxes. The...
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Select A Candidate: Surprised?
Never been to Political Compass? Ever wonder about those diarist tag lines that have "-7.02, -6.79" or some other number (always with a minus sign before it)? Well, head on over and take The Test...
View ArticleAmerenUE.....Sucks
Don't every believe the "market will fix everything" asshats when it comes energy delivery in this country. Oh yeah, you didn't believe em. Lemme tell you a quick story about AmerenUE and how they...
View ArticleHonor? Integrity? Where Art Thou?
Hey y'all, remember back in 1999 and 2000 when then Governor Bush promised to restore "honor and integrity" to the White House? Yunno, after all those years of trashy Clinton behavior that ran the...
View ArticleNetroots: We Will Come Around?
The Washington Post today ran a piece on how the netroots isn't all onboard the Obama bandwagon. Written by Jose Antonio Vargas, it has the usual easy-to-write characterizations of the DFH's of the...
View ArticleSen McCaskill's reply to her Save AT&T Vote
I, like I'm sure many of you did, submitted a respectful but forceful letter to the junior Senator from Missouri regarding her vote against the Dodd amendment that would have removed retroactive...
View ArticleThe Industry's Take on McCain's Gas Tax Holiday
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has weighed in on McCain's proposed gas tax holiday. They are not happy.
View ArticleWhere are Top Comments?
I'm editing Diary Rescue tonight and am waiting on Top Comments to be posted. Is there a problem or was some decision made to not do them tonight because of the primary? Or perhaps you're waiting...
View ArticleI Just Saw the Oddest Thing
Everybody has seen at one time or another a "Calvin Pees" window decal. Yunno, the unlicensed image of Bill Watterson's cartoon character Calvin urinating on something that the vehicle driver cares to...
View ArticleHow Senator McCaskill Votes
The Netroots in Missouri has taken great issue with many of Sen Claire McCaskill's higher profile votes since we dumped money, time and effort into finally getting a Democratic Senator elected from...
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Sidekick? P.O.W.!!
If I may, I'd like to tweak Devilstower's After Hours liveblog post just a tad: A buddy of mine came up with the slight change. Neither of us caught the FP piece in time to post this in the...
View ArticleLess Popular than Anal Warts
It seems that President Inconsequential, as he prepares to pull a snow job address the public tonight about yet another massive disaster that's occurred on his watch, will do so with a 19% approval...
View ArticleWaPo Obnoxiousness: Steven Pearlstein
It's been a while since one of the exalted Washington Post reporters decided to let fly a broadside at the blogosphere. In fact, one gets the sense they've deliberately toned down their disdain for...
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The Campaign as a D&D Adventure
I wish this were mine. Nonetheless, it needs a broader audience, particularly for all you ole D&D geeks out there (I happen to be one). The original can be found:...
View ArticleBellwether My Ass
Well, over two weeks after the country elected Obama as the next president, we here in Missouri are ready to tell our electors to cast their quaint, electorally votes for the Senator from Arizona....
View ArticleAnother Bush Aide Indicted
Make that "former" Bush aide, in this case Felipe Sixto. Last week, he was charged with stealing at least $500,000 from a non-profit group, the Center for a Free Cuba (CFC). Get this: he was stealing...
View ArticleThe Economic Collapse and the Family Pet.
Steve Martin once said "you can never sing a depressing song with the banjo". This story might prove that axiom wrong. It involves what a person must feel when circumstances force them to give up...
View ArticleCheers & Jeers: Boss #176 Edition
From: Boss #176 To: C&J Employee Relations Team Subj: Mr InPortlandMaine's Employment Outlook We have been made aware that Mr InPortlandMaine could find better paying work outside Teh Orange. While...
View ArticleMore chat stupidity at the Washington Post
There's a new slew of political reporters at the Washington Post who are again providing great tidbits of their thinking when it comes to their profession and how they cover the White House. From...
View ArticleDay 1: Million Bucks for our Shelter
My wife volunteers at the Central Missouri Humane Society, an open admission shelter. The shelter is participating in the Zootoo Shelter Makeover Contest in which the winning shelter gets up to one...
View ArticleDay 2: Million Bucks for our Shelter.
Yesterday, I diaried about a contest in which a shelter recieves up to one million dollars for a "makeover". The voting lasts one week so this is my daily reminder for you to vote if you haven't done...
View ArticleDay 5: Million Bucks for our Shelter.
Earlier this week, I diaried, here and here about a contest in which a shelter recieves up to one million dollars for a "makeover". The voting lasts one week so this is my almost daily reminder for...
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David Broder: The Quintessential Beltway Hack.
I know, you're thinking "we know this" but now it's official! Why? Because it's on Wikipedia and if it's on Wikipedia it must be true, right? In the words of Dave Barry "I am not making this up" or...
View ArticleKilling the Family Pets in the name of the War on Drugs
Video of a minor drug bust back in February is making the rounds on the internet:
View ArticleNegotiating with Republicans
Just stumbled across this from a link in the comments section at Balloon Juice:
View ArticleThe Community Spotlight Effect
Community Spotlight is a development of the original ‘Diary Rescue’ feature on the front page of DK3. Promoting good writing by emerging diarists was and remains the ultimate goal. However, the...
View ArticleThe Greek Debt Crisis: Of Mice and Cheese
Following the roller coaster ride that is the Greek debt crisis (and by extension, the Euro Zone debt crisis) can leave one more than a bit confused. One week the economic pundits and world markets...
View Article"Osama bin Laden is Dead and General Motors is Alive."
This is an amazing speech: The VP is addressing the 2012 Communications Workers of America's Legislative-Political Conference. His speech should remind everybody here of why we're here.
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National Eight Track Day!
Nothing like creating a day celebrating mediocrity in the consumer audio market. Ah, the good old 8 track. It was a very successful audio format for its day but the basic design was notoriously...
View ArticleClaire McCaskill Skips
Good ole Senator McCaskill, "my" senator. Once again, she shows just how clueless she can be: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/... Charlie Pierce puts it best (as always): Is there a Democratic...
View Article"Nobody Will Adopt A Three-Legged Dog" Part 1
So said I back in March 2006. Mrs grog and I, cat people poster children, were faced with the prospect of finding homes for a neighbor's two cats and his three-legged dog. Our neighbor was an elderly...
View Article"Nobody Will Adopt A Three-Legged Dog" Part 2
As told in the previous installment, we live in a small rural, unincorporated town in Central Missouri. We've taken in and fostered countless cats but one day, our path intersected with that of a dog...
View Article"Nobody Will Adopt A Three-Legged Dog" Part 3
As recounted in Part 1 and Part 2, Bozo the Three-Legged Dog had several lives before landing on our doorstep:1) Life with whoever abandoned him along the Osage River when he was about 2 years old.2)...
View Article"Nobody Will Adopt A Three-Legged Dog" Part 4
I've been telling the story of two "cat people" and our life with Bozo The Blind In One Eye, Three Legged Dog With A Chronic Skin Condition (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). I've talked about his many "lives"...
View ArticleTest Diary
This is a test diary to check on some coding issues. Will be deleted shortly.
View ArticleWendy Davis: Not Your Typical Harvard Law School Grad
We're talking about Wendy Davis:Meet Senator Wendy Davis from Generation TX on Vimeo.
View ArticleOn Being a Landlord
Or "The Accidental Landlords"Decades ago, a fellow liberal told me that nothing turns somebody into a screaming Republican faster than being a landlord; he likened it to succumbing to the dark side of...
View ArticleThe Homophobia of "Love The Sinner, Hate The Sin"
Fighting against the tide of public opinion, unsuccessful court cases and well, history, the Christian right can't always trot out Westboro Baptist Church's "God Hates Fags" when framing their...
View ArticleWhy I'm a Single Issue Voter
Back in my early days here at Teh Orange, circa 2005 so maybe not that early for many of you, I became acquainted with the term “single-issue ghetto”. It referred not only to many single issues that...
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Murder, Place and Descansos: Searching for Brandon Teena.
We have been honoring our dead since before “we were us” if some discoveries of Neanderthal burial sites hold up to scrutiny. Tombs, cemeteries and other monuments for the departed are features of the...
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Brandon Teena and the Humboldt Murders: 25 Years Later.
Today, well tonight, will mark 25 years since Lisa Lambert, Phillip DeVine and Brandon Teena were brutally murdered in a farmhouse just south of Humboldt, Nebraska. Culturally, far more has changed in...
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Voter Intimidation in Denver
Recent news reports have outlined how militia groups plan on being at polling places on Election Day. This is a reaction to the Current Occupant’s call to have them "monitored", which of course means...
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Denver's City Park and Road Closures -- A New Generation of White Entitlement...
Redlining and segregation of the commons. Sounds hyperbolic doesn’t it? Nonetheless, that was the reaction by the African-American community in the areas near Denver’s City Park when a group of...
View ArticleCommunity Spotlight: When Community goes far beyond the internet
Give it up for DrLori. For the last eight months, in true community spirit, she’s split the weekly Community Spotlight diary with Besame. She’s stepping back from this aspect of the Rescue Rangers, but...
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