The Big Smokey?
So, I have to go to the Daily Mail to really get some good coverage of this since the US corporate media isn’t quite up to getting to news anywhere in the Great Fly Over. New Orleans has spent 4 days...
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Good Morning! So President Obama has set off another big battle in Washington by asking to give his highly touted jobs speech before a joint session of Congress next Wednesday–at the same time as the...
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Good Morning!! There was another Republican debate last night. It was on CNBC, but I just couldn’t stand to watch. Luckily, Andrew Sullivan live blogged it at the Daily Beast. Sullivan isn’t too happy...
View ArticleThursday Reads: Holder Witchhunt, SCOTUS and Health Care, Colorado Wildfires,...
UPDATE: Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act, Including Individual Mandate! Good Morning!! Since today is going to be a mostly serious news day, I’ll begin with a silly story. A new survey by the...
View ArticlePostcards from Ledge
Isaac was not Katrina in many ways. That is not to say that getting through the past and next few days has not and will not be challenging. I did not evacuate so I was home when the ceiling started...
View ArticleTuesday Reads: Mostly Hurricane Sandy
Good Morning!! Superstorm indeed. I just saw on the weather channel that we’re having high wind warnings and may even get snow here in central Indiana today. Exhaustion finally set in for me last...
View ArticleRomney Does Double Back Flip on FEMA
You had to know this was coming. Just yesterday, Mitt Romney repeatedly refused to answer reporters’ questions about his position on FEMA funding. During the Republican primaries, Romney argued that...
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Good Morning!! I have a potpourri of great reads for you this morning, so let’s get started. First up, people in the states impacted by Hurricane Sandy have barely begun to recover. CBS News/AP report...
View ArticleFriday Late Nite Lite: Real late night…
Good Late Night! I don’t know about y’all, but Wednesday just can’t come fast enough. I am so sick of this election and hope that once it is all over, I will never have to see Mitt’s face (and that...
View ArticleTroll Beast From Nebraska? From everywhere! Open Thread
Good Evening This will be a quick post, with a few observations…about a sick hateful portion of the human race that seems to really gain confidence from the veiled anonymous sense of security that...
View ArticleFriday Reads: Living in the Moment
Good Afternoon Sky Dancers! The one useful thing that having 4th stage inoperable cancer and a 5 month old taught me was to live in the moment. It’s taken Kremlin Caligula’s rule of chaos to bring me...
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Good Afternoon! The unfolding drama of the flooding of Houston and surrounding areas takes me back 12 years ago to Katrina when my community was surrounded by a similar hell realm full of water, the...
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Garden at Sainte Adresse, Claude Monet Good Morning!! I’m sure I’m not alone in this, but the whole Kavanaugh thing has really triggered my PSTD. I haven’t been able to sleep much at night, I wake up...
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Good Morning!! The Nevada Caucuses will wrap up this afternoon, but thousands of people have already voted. Political pundits have already crowned Bernie Sanders the winner, but that may not be a sure...
View ArticleThursday Reads: Why Is Trump Choosing to Kill Americans?
Five Puppies on the Carpet, by Edvard Munch Good Morning!! Yesterday Eric Boehlert asked an important question that the mainstream media never will: Memo to media: We still don’t know why Trump is...
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Hurricane Laura damage in Lake Charles, LA Good Morning!! Hurricane Laura made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in Louisiana overnight. I haven’t been able to find a lot of information on the damage...
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