I know it’s difficult for employers to keep jobs open for an extended period of time, but it’s also unfair for folks to be dragged into a war and, when they finally return, find they have no job.
Sent To Iraq – Your Job Is Gone When You Return
When reservist U.S. Army Maj. Phillip Davis left his job as a dispatcher for a national trucking company a year ago because he was called up to fight the [...]
Tags: Iraq
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
He makes a pretty darn good case for his argument. IF you buy into the idea that the people who cared enough about the New Hampshire primary to stand in long lines didn’t care enough to be careful about how they marked their ballot. And that is about enough to wave me off from this argument.
Did ballot changes in NH give Hillary 3% points more?
A Stanford professor says changes in the way New Hampshire printed their ballots may have given Hillary 3% more of the vote and that this explains why the results were so unexpected yesterday. I do have to say that I’m getting really tired of reading about how screwed up our elections are. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to read this article and [...]
If that’s not enough for you, the folks over at Black Box Voting are getting all riled up again.
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
Absolutely. Hands down. Tough to top.
Two men wheeled their dead roommate along the street in an office chair and then tried to cash his Social Security check. The brains, they are not strong with these two. “David J. Dalaia and James O’Hare pushed Virgilio Cintron’s [...]
UPDATE: via my former boss, local video from WABC
Tags: Weekend at Bernie’s
Categories: Crime
Poor Chris Matthews. I can never figure out if he keeps putting his foot in his mouth intentionally (to attract attention) or if he’s really not the sharpest tack in the bunch. I’ll have to admit, it’s sometimes uncomfortable watching how the rest of the Morning Joe crew reacts to some of the things Matthews says..
Hours After Saying He’ll “Never Underestimate Hillary Clinton Again,” Chris Matthews Slams Hillary
Last night I watched the coverage of the New Hampshire primary results on MSNBC. I listened as Chris Matthews said, “I give her a lot of personal credit; I will never underestimate Hillary Clinton again.” As he said that, I thought to myself, “yeah right.” Well, “yeah right,” was right. As Greg Sargent points out today: “But [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton, Television
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Television
John Edwards is among the “other” candidates, still in the race. For now. But New Hampshire was not kind to Edwards.
I mentioned earlier that yesterday’s results in the New Hampshire primary were probably the worst of all possible outcomes for John Edwards, and not just because his 17% support was lackluster (both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama more than doubled Edwards’ vote total). I should probably flesh this out a bit. After Iowa, there was a [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, John Edwards
Categories: 2008 Election · Edwards
Well, there goes another history lesson, right out the window. And evidence of another administration living on lies.
U.S. admits Gulf of Tonkin was a hoax: says everything else is on the up and up
U.S. Officials are scrambling after the release of once-classified information that gave new strength to the rumor that the Gulf of Tonkin incident – which pulled the U.S. into war with Vietnam – was a hoax that never happened. “Whoops,” said [...]
Tags: Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam War
Categories: Politics
At really bad journalism. REALLY bad. Then, it’s Fox News. You’d expect anything different?
An inside look at how Fox News ‘reports’ the ‘news’
Yesterday afternoon, Fox News, which rarely breaks stories of its own, seemed to have a juicy campaign scoop — James Carville and Paul Begala, architects of Bill Clinton’s campaign victories, were leaving their jobs at CNN to help turn around Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. We’d heard quite a bit lately about a significant staff shake-up, [...]
Tags: Fox News
Categories: Television
Sometimes the sensibility of those who have been around for a while, those of truly understand the “system”, puts the rest of us to shame. An excellent example last night on MSNBC:
Primaries: Brokaw’s ‘Novel Idea’ For The Media
Just after 11 p.m., the MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann drew comparisons between the media’s pre-primary predictions and the infamously wrong 1948 headline “Dewey Defeats Truman” in the Chicago Daily Tribune. Tuesday’s mis-steps were not nearly as serious, of course. Still, immediately after Hillary Clinton completed her victory speech, television analysts began asking why the polls, [...]
Tags: Television, Brokaw
Crossposted at http://www.ivoter08.com and The Krile Files
Categories: Politics · Television
Enough politics. For the moment, take a break and chuckle a bit.
Ford spot delivers crazy monkey business
This Ford Ranger ad is billed by Jalopnik as “the craziest you will ever see,” and it actually lives up to the hype. If this is what tallying bananas entails, then it’s no wonder the guys in that song wanna [... ]
Tags: Television, Advertising
Categories: Television
This might explain how Hillary did it:
…I don’t have a clear explanation for how Hillary Clinton defied the polls and prognosticators to win, but amid our compromised credibility as analysts, let me humbly try. I do so with the help of my wife, [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Hmmm. I don’t think so. I thought there was something “fishy” about the accent in the voice on the supposed “Iran Navy Threat” videotape. Seems there’s a lot more to question. Read the entire post linked below. It’s not just the Iranian accusation. There’s a laundry list of additional “issues” with that video.
…However, having watched and listened to the DoD’s mash-up, which is a four minute splice together of seperate video and audio tapes taken of the 20 minute encounter, I have to say I find the Iranian Defense Minister’s allegation a reasonable one. I know that won’t endear [...]
Tags: Iran
Categories: Bush Administration · Iran
Jill, writing at “Brilliant at Breakfast” is a regular read for me. Her take on the New Hampshire results is particularly beneficial to those of you still scratching your head and saying, “Huh”? Obviously, she and I agree about the core issue:
New Hampshire to media: WE, not YOU, will decide
…If the media coverage of the Infamous Diner Incident is any indication, with a negative tone that spilled over into even Keith Olbermann’s coverage, I would guess that Democratic women in the Live Free or Die state saw a bunch of white men deciding what was sincere and what was “appropriate behavior” and decided to put them in their place. Yesterday on Morning Joe, [...]
And, Steve Benen has some succinct thoughts at “Crooks and Liars”:
When voters confound expectations
Oh, now I remember. We’re supposed to wait until after voters express a preference to declare a winner of a contest. I have to say, it’s awfully inconvenient this way. The narrative had been worked out; everyone was in agreement about what was going to happen; and all voters had to do was go along. But [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, New Hampshire
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
Did Chelsea Clinton make the difference? Was she the spark that turned the Hillary Clinton campaign at the last minute? It is, at the least, an intereresting concept. Michael Shaw supports it with some excellent photographs over at BAGnewsNotes:
Our Man In New Hampshire #7: The Chelsea Factor
What I was most interested in thinking out (based on Alan Chin’s images) is what happened between last Saturday, after the Clinton campaign had been battered in Iowa, and this past Monday, the day before the poll-defying New Hampshire victory [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton
Crossposted at http://www.ivoter08.com and The Krile Files
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Well, you shouldn’t be. I pretty much told you last night that things weren’t over. Still, it was pretty darn exciting and sets the stage for a heck of a charge toward Super Tuesday. And, it takes the outcome out of the hands of the big media, and puts it back into the hands of regular Americans. I was seriously worried that our “latch onto the phrase of the day” mainstream media was going to effectively short-circuit the entire electoral process by crowning the ultimate victors so early. I don’t think that’s going to happen. Voters in New Hampshire saw what was going on and responded. Voters in the remaining primary states need to do the same. Whoever you vote for, make sure you do it – vote! Don’t let the media tell you who’s going to win. It is still your decision and your right/obligation to vote.
Here, via AMERICAblog, is a good summary of initial blog reaction to Hillary’s victory
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
Crossposted at http://www.ivoter08.com and The Krile Files
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · McCain · Obama
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