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Invincible Armor: Dear President Clinton

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:10:00 -0500

Dear President Clinton,

I read with great interest the paean written about you today on the Politico 44 site. It's nice that you are so revered by so many, even our current President Obama who obviously adores you. You must be a real comfort to him, especially in [...]

The Daily Briefing: Time to get rid of gay marriage ban?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:38:05 -0500

Five years after Ohioans voted to place a gay marriage ban in the Ohio Constitution, a House Democrat is proposing a new vote to take it out.

Rep. Tyrone K. Yates, D-Cincinnati, introduced a resolution today that would eliminate Section 11, Article 15 of the Constitution, an amendment [...]

Invincible Armor: Dublin, Ireland

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:28:00 -0500

Coat Of Arms of the Bakers' Guild Of Saints Clement and Anne ' [...]

Plunderbund: Was the driver named Moses?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:23:25 -0500

According to the Dayton Daily News, an unnamed driver wrecked and then fled after smashing a monument of the Ten Commandments at the Clark County Court of Common Pleas. Leaving the County scratching their heads as to whether they can constitutionally fix the monument or replace it without getting a [...]

Third Base Politics: The Options

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:06:00 -0500

Breaking news this afternoon:

Reported options are:
Ignore it.Defer 'til later.Schedule talks.Apologize.But seriously, this process is lasting longer than Obama's entire Senate term.

h/t: BCS' [...]

Plunderbund: R.I.P.- “Golden Week”: Killed by Ohio House Democrats

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:57:21 -0500

I like Ohio House Elections and Ethics Committee Chairman Dan Stewart (D-Columbus). He was the main Democratic sponsor of H.B. 176, the bill that would have added sexual orientation and gender identity to Ohio’s housing and employment anti-discrimination laws. But I don’t understand what his committee is doing killing the [...]

ProgressOhio: Satanic Eloquence

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:40:22 -0500

Satanic Eloquence

We celebrate Veteran’s Day, yet it is forbidden to celebrate the God who protected us. We as veterans believe in life, yet there are those who betray that life because they reject God. Veterans believe in forgiveness, but there are those who must spill first blood [...]

The Boring Made Dull: The Ghosts of Kelo

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:22:00 -0500

So, New London, Connecticut made a decision to deprive Susette Kelo and others of their property for the immense public benefit of a new Pfizer research facility promising “jobs”.

Now Pfizer is closing up shop; the promised facility was never built, and New London is left with a wasteland [...]

Ohio Daily Blog: Sexism in congress — thanks for speaking out, Mary Jo

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:10:07 -0500

Mary Jo Kilroy (Oh-15) speaks out on the Republican congressmen trying to silence Democratic women with shouting:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/10/kilroy-gop-sexist/

Just one more reason we need more women in Congress. Yes, I know that some of these GOP clowns think they can be rude to anyone, but they seem to think that [...]

Glass City Jungle: UT Democrats take issue with UT Republicans actions during Freedom Week

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:42:44 -0500

Number of comments: 10

This in via e-mail from the University of Toledo College Democrats:

University of Toledo College Democrats Denounce Unethical Political Practices

The University of Toledo – Toledo, Ohio – November 10, 2009. UT College democrats speak out against unethical political practices on campus.

In response to the Freedom Week celebration aimed at honoring [...]

ProgressOhio: Comprehensive Overhaul Of State's Election System To Receive House Vote Next Week

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:37:24 -0500

The House Elections & Ethics Committee reported on a 7-6 partisan basis a comprehensive overhaul of the state's election system today.

The bill would shrink the early voting period but expand the number of early voting sites. It also seeks to streamline voter identification laws and reduce the number of [...]

Plunderbund: Want to be a stockbroker or a hamburger-flipper when you grow up?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:33:26 -0500

Number of comments: 2
My friends at the Alliance for American Manufacturing directed me to this depressing article on the “Fastest Dying Cities” from Forbes. It says that Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and Cleveland are among the “worst” cities. Luckily, AAM also linked me to this video about how this destruction of my home state can [...]

Buckeye State Blog: Space, Kilroy, And Driehaus Getting Support After Healthcare Vote

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:07:01 -0500

Representatives Mary Jo Kilroy, Zack Space, and Steve Driehaus are all getting some support in the form of TV spots after their vote on healthcare.

You can find the ads for all three embedded after the jump.

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Stubborn Liberal: Ohio's Charter Schools

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:06:00 -0500

I think it is important to see how charter schools in Ohio are performing when they are compared to public schools. While the owners of charter schools get state money, the students attending the charter schools seem to be falling behind. Is this the way that taxpayers want their money [...]

ProgressOhio: Write A Letter To The Editor Thanking The Ohio Representatives Who Voted For Health Reform

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:46:11 -0500

As you've surely heard by now, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962) has passed in the U.S. House of Representatives!

Eight members of the Ohio Congressional delegation voted YES for quality, affordable health care we can all count on.

NOW is the time' [...]

Andy's Angle: Kansas City

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:43:00 -0500

Lindsay and I spend another week on the road, this week in beautiful Kansas City, Missouri. KC is like our home away from Columbus because in many ways, it's the Capitol City of US agriculture. Or at least that's the way it's always seemed to me.

Let me explain.

As a young [...]

Writes Like She Talks: Port Authority, Wasserman & the WLST Way-Back Machine

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:41:31 -0500

Okay - so - I know I have decent brains, but I absolutely positively don't think I'm that much smarter than a whole bunch of other people around here, or anywhere for that matter. But does anyone, ANYONE think that the county government structure described in Issue 6 is going to [...]

Plunderbund: DNC in Ohio? Of Course!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:31:40 -0500

Number of comments: 1
I agree with Potts. Ohio would be a great place to have the Democratic National Convention. I’m torn though. I think a road trip really works better for blogging and documenting going to something like this. Driving to Cleveland or downtown Cbus doesn’t precisely qualify as a road trip. One [...]

The Daily Briefing: Palin plans Columbus event

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:30:47 -0500

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will sign copies of her new book, "Going Rogue," in Columbus on Nov. 20.

A spokeswoman for HarperCollins Publishers said Palin will appear at the Borders bookstore on Sawmill Rd. from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. to sign her book.

Returning to Ohio will be [...]

Glass City Jungle: Lucas County joins in celebration of America Recycles Day…

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:26:39 -0500

Number of comments: 1

This in via e-mail from the Lucas County Commissioners:

Lucas County Celebrates America Recycles Day

The Board of Lucas County Commissioners Announces Local Partnership for America Recycles Day Event at the Toledo Zoo

Sunday, November 15, 2009 is America Recycles Day (ARD). ARD is a nationally recognized day dedicated to encouraging [...]

The Daily Briefing: Brown bill aims to fast track vet benefits

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:16:11 -0500

Sen. Sherrod Brown says he has come up with a legislative way to ease the long wait times many veterans are encountering trying to win Social Security disability benefits.

The Ohio Democrat today unveiled a bill that would allow veterans already judged to be disabled by the federal Veterans [...]

Buckeye State Blog: OH-Gov Poll Coming Tomorrow, Make Your Predictions Here

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:14:12 -0500

Well, it’s finally that time again. I got the notification this morning that I can expect new Quinnipiac poll results on next years governors race to hit my inbox tomorrow.

So, what do expect them to be? Personally, I think it won’t be a blowout either way but Strickland will [...]

ProgressOhio: Teabaggers and The Proposed Goverment Takeover of a Woman's Right To Choose

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:11:55 -0500

“I don’t want the government making my healthcare decisions.

I do want the government making a woman's healthcare decisions.”

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De Magno Opere: Thank John Boccieri

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:05:00 -0500

Ever wondered why the online activist set has abandoned Obama - or more specifically - Organizing For America?

Wonder no more (from an email sent on Sunday, which I just read today - long story):
Last night, your representative, Rep. John Boccieri, cast a courageous vote to help [...]

Plunderbund: Glenn Beck still won’t address rape and murder rumor, loses arbitration

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:58:39 -0500

Number of comments: 3
Saw this over at Harding’s PO blog. Glenn Beck apparently lost his arbitration on the rape and murdered a young girl in 1990 satire meme. The owner of the domain glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com was obviously protected under the 1st Amendment. Funny Glenn never stood up for this right given how big he [...]

Ohio Politics Online: The Failed Stimulus: Part Two

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:29:49 -0500

Another one of those picture paints a thousand words type things:

Key Quote:

This suggests that there is no real correlation between unemployment rates in the states and the number of jobs “created or saved” with stimulus money.

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ProgressOhio: Communications Director Dunn Leaving White House: Beckerheads Declare Victory In "Battle" They Didn't Win

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:13:14 -0500

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn will step down from her post early next month, two White House officials confirm.

Dan Pfeiffer, the current deputy communications director, will takeover the top job, the officials also said.

Dunn, a seasoned political operative, assumed the role earlier [...]

Have Coffee Will Write: RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:12:26 -0500

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ProgressOhio: Ohio women moving backward

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:10:20 -0500

I was browsing the Half Price Books local interest section yesterday and found The Worlds of Ohio Women, copyright 1977, for $4. An essay by Mary Jo Ginty of Cleveland Women Together caught my attention:

"The development and widespread distribution of highly effective methods of contraception and the emergence of an [...]

The Daily Briefing: Thank you ads for Space. Driehaus

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:08:39 -0500

Reps. Zack Space of Dover and Steve Driehaus of Cincinnati have been officially added to the list of "thank yous' issued by liberal groups to Democrats who voted in favor of the House health care reform bill that was approved Saturday 220-215.

The first Ohio Democrat to get the'" [...]

Buckeye State Blog: DNC Starting Process To Pick Convention City, Why Not Ohio?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:07:59 -0500

It’s being reported that the DNC has begun contacting cities about the possibility of hosting the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

This got me thinking, why not here in Ohio? Well, let’s take a look at where it’s been the last few times first…

Year City 1968 Chicago 1972 Miami 1976 New York City 1980 New York City 1984 San Francisco 1988 Atlanta 1992 New York City 1996 Chicago 2000 Los [...]

The Daily Briefing: House committee approves elections bill

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:03:40 -0500

A bill to make sweeping changes to how elections are run in Ohio passed a House committee by a straight party-line vote today and is expected to be taken up by the full House next week.

Among other things, Substitute House Bill 260 would expand the number of [...]

The Daily Briefing: Brown says health care could slip to next year - but will happen

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:53:35 -0500

Saying that nobodys ever said it would be easy, Sen. Sherrod Brown predicted that a final health care bill will be on President Obamas desk by Jan. 10 at the latest but possibly yet this year.

With abortion coverage restrictions part of the House bill and some Senate centrists [...]

Thurber's Thoughts: Two must-read petitions

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:42:00 -0500

I urge you to read these two petitions:The Candlemaker's Petition - Petition of the Manufacturers of Candles, Waxlights, Lamps, Candlelights, Street Lamps, Snuffers, Extinguishers, and the Producers of Oil, Tallow, Resin, Alcohol, and, Generally, of Everything Connected with LightingThe Healthcare Producers Petition - A Petition from the Producers of Health [...]

Have Coffee Will Write: ROLDO RIGHTS…

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:30:42 -0500

Roldo Bartimole writes: The reason we don’t know why the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority dumped its chief executive Adam Wasserman is because the real leader of the board – John Carney – believes it’s none of your business. The Port Authority is one of those governmental bodies set up to avoid public [...]

Aude Sapere: MUST READ: Soros’ Own Words!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:14:42 -0500

To all remaining freedom loving people in Ohio, you must read this article written by the chief architect, George Soros, of the contemporary global social-fascism being thrusted upon the United States of America, and I dear say, you’ll be mad as hell after reading this. While international cooperation on regulatory reform [...]

ProgressOhio: ACCCE Forges Claim of Vet Groups Support for Coal

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:08:44 -0500

ACCCE Forges Claim of Vet Groups Support for Coal It is hard to beat the US Chamber's tin ear when it comes to climate change, but I have to hand it to ACCCE - they have managed, once again, to put themselves at the head of the "blundering boob [...]

Aude Sapere: The GOP Should Dump the Neocons

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:58:39 -0500

Edward Crane, founder and president of the Cato Institute has a commentary assaulting the GOP by highlighting the duplicitous nature of the neo-cons, but the essence of his comments should be applied here to Ohio light of Ohio Republican Party’s leadership that plunged Ohio into an unmitigated depression. It is important [...]

Glass City Jungle: Dogs matter more than Connecting Point clients and employees…

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:48:41 -0500

Number of comments: 10

Neither Lucas County Commissioner Ben Konop, who was an actual board member on the Connecting Point, or the daily newspaper focused much on the huge mismanagement issues that took place at the Connecting Point, allowed/ignored by the Mental Health Recovery Services Board. The final solution was a review committee and [...]

Third Base Politics: Ohio Democrats are whistling past the graveyard

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:31:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0
This weekend brought an interesting column from the Toledo Blade.

In their "wake-up call" for Governor Strickland, they stated the following:
Mr. Strickland should pay close attention to that message as well. The governor must be seen to be doing more to breath life into the state economy. [...]

BizzyBlog: Pfizer Leaving New London, CT; Just Don’t Mention ‘Kelo’ While Reporting It

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:30:57 -0500

It’s a development that I wouldn’t wish on anybody, but one that the City of New London, Connecticut largely brought upon itself by pursuing and winning the Kelo v. New London case at the Supreme Court in June 2005.

Some “win.” In what Ed Morrissey at [...]

Plunderbund: Murdoch Agrees with Beck that President Obama is a Racist

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:27:53 -0500

Number of comments: 3
Doubling down on the Fox superstar, eh Rupert? The funniest part of this for me is when I first read it at HuffPo they included Murdoch’s quote as “On the racist thing, that caused a [unintelligible],” Murdoch said in an interview with his Sky News Australia over the weekend.” “Unintelligible?”, I [...]

Third Base Politics: About that AMA endorsement....

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:17:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0
Last week, President Obama fawned over the endorsement of Pelosicare by two political powerhouses, AARP(who stands to make millions from its passage) and the American Medical Association.

With those endorsements, Congressmen Zack Space, Mary Jo Kilroy, and Steve Driehaus likely breathed a sigh of relief.

That was [...]

The Daily Briefing: Voinovich urges commission to reduce deficit

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:15:02 -0500

Sen. George V. Voinovich today urged a Senate committee to create a bipartisan commission that would devise a long-term plan to end the federal governments growing budget deficit.

Testifying before the Senate Budget Committee, the Ohio Republican said, our federal spending is out of control, and as a result, [...]

Glass City Jungle: Trash: East Toledo is always excluded out of all other thoughts for the rest of the city of Toledo

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:09:08 -0500

Number of comments: 1

The title is one of the comments made last night at the “Transition to Automated Refuse & Recycling Collection Meeting” as reported by FOX Toledo. I could debate it just being East Toledo, try being in the part of the City that’s South Toledo but is in District 3…

But [...]

taxmanblog: What happened to summer?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:55:00 -0500

Some photos from summers past......

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Liberally Conservative: Obama - Healthcare and Abortion - Supporting Taxpayer Funded Murder

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:53:33 -0500

Barack Hussein Obama said yesterday that Congress needs to change abortion-related language in the health care bill passed by the House of Representatives this weekend. Yes, Mr. Obama wants you, the taxpayer, to join him in paying for infanticide.

“I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a [...]

De Magno Opere: Congratulations!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:45:00 -0500

Only one person could have shepherded through the worst assault on women's rights in a non-Sharia law country ever, but done so in order to pass a completely worthless bill.

Which doesn't even begin to address the provision that might take the "public" out of the' [...]

Plunderbund: Hey, Lee, how’s that Boccieri endorsment working out for ya?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:39:37 -0500

Apparently, Lee Fisher’s Senate campaign believes that John Boccieri’s endorsement was a major get for them last month. Otherwise, why else would they list it just below Governor Strickland’s? Here’s what Lee said about Boccieri last month while announcing Boccieri’s endorsement: “I am honored to have John’s support and counsel,” Fisher said. [...]

Plunderbund: Nobody reads blogs…except

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:34:05 -0500

The Cleveland Plain Dealer: If anyone thought Democratic Congressman John Boccieri’s vote against the health reform bill Saturday night would give him cover from the GOP, they might want a second opinion. … So does that mean everything is copacetic between Boccieri and the GOP since he voted no on the health bill? [...]

Plunderbund: Whose health care reform vote was bought and paid for?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:25:14 -0500

Number of comments: 2
The effect of money on our politics has been an age old problem. I don’t have a problem with money in politics. I have a problem when money begins to distort the focus on the “public” part of public service. Money causing politicians to defer their constituent needs for those [...]

Buckeye RINO: Transportation, part 1, historical retrospective

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:14:11 -0500

Way back when the country was first being settled, and travel over land was difficult, the highways were the waterways. Settlements were most dense along navigable waterways. Lorain, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Toledo are examples of cities that lie alongside navigable waterways. Shipping from Cincinnati down the Ohio to the [...]

Plunderbund: Profile in Courage: Congreswoman Kilroy voted against Stupak amendment and for health care reform

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:08:14 -0500

Number of comments: 2
Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy knows that the national Republicans have painted a big target on her back. She knows she’s likely facing a rematch from her ‘08 opponent in which she narrowly won thanks, in part, to a high youth turnout fueled by the presidential election that is unlikely to [...]

ProgressOhio: Right Wing World: Linking Hasan To The Gay Rights Movement

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:55:37 -0500

The Liberty Counsel released a statement on Monday linking Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in last week’s Fort Hood massacre, to the gay-rights movement. [...]

Better Living: Always There!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:54:00 -0500

And always sending emissaries. [...]

Greg R. Lawson's Blog: A Lack of Strategic Reassurance

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:46:00 -0500

One of the main reasons a nation can become a "superpower", "hyperpower", "global hegemon", or whatever term you want to call a singularly important nation that is more powerful than others by several orders of magnitude, is that it offers strategic reassurance to other nations.

The history of international relations is a history [...]

ProgressOhio: Glenn Beck Loses 'Raped and Murdered'' Arbitration

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:35:23 -0500

Fox News' Glenn Beck has lost a claim that a website called "glenn beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990" was registered in bad faith and in violation of his trademark rights.

The website was founded by Isaac Eiland-Hall earlier this year in response to a' [...]

taxmanblog: Sure is cold for global warming

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:29:00 -0500

So Mr./Ms. Branch Gorevidian how do you explain this?

The average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average and ranked as the 3rd coolest based on preliminary data.

For the nation as a whole, it was the third coolest October on record. The [...]

ProgressOhio: Brunner: The Senate Must Reject the Anti-Choice Amendment to the House Health Care Reform Bill

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:23:52 -0500

Number of comments: 4

I am Ohio Secretary of State and a candidate for the United State Senate. I have been an outspoken proponent of health care reform with a strong public option. However, the last-minute Stupak-Pitts anti-choice amendment to the House health care reform bill, adopted late [...]

Plunderbund: How Rahm should handle Lieberman

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:36:12 -0500

I’m imagining a big flourish of an invite to the White House. “Joe,” Rahm says, “the president wants you to come to the Oval Office I’ll meet you at the front portico.” Joe smiles with satisfaction as he hangs up, says to the chief of staff, “call the car around. [...]

Pullins Report: Senator Gibbs Smacks Zack Space on Government Healthcare Vote

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:30:00 -0500

Here's the presser:

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Ohio 15th District: While people suffer and die without health insurance....

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:24:00 -0500

While people suffer and die without health insurance, the Republicans are going after Ohio's Democrats for supporting the health care reform bill.

The Lancaster Eagle Gazette:

The Republican Party has launched a political attack against three Ohio Democrats they say cast the decisive votes for a $1.1' [...]

Have Coffee Will Write: FROM WHENCE I CAME…

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:11:18 -0500

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Cincinnati Blog: Remove Cole From Finance Chair

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:59:00 -0500

If there is one thing Mayor Mallory can do to improve City Council quickly, then it is removing Laketa Cole from the Finance Committee Chair. Her inability to work with, well, anyone, makes it an obvious need. She was the only person voting for her motion on the Property [...]

Have Coffee Will Write: HE SAID… HE SAID… I SAY…

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:57:19 -0500

Jeffrey Goldberg writes: I am not arguing, of course, that American Muslims, as a whole, are violently unhappy with America (I’ve argued the opposite, in fact). But I do think that elite makers of opinion in this country try very hard to ignore the larger meaning of violent acts when they [...]

ProgressOhio: REP. SPACE AGAIN LAUNCHES CHRISTMAS CARD DRIVE FOR MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS FIGHTING OVERSEAS

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:46:03 -0500

As our nation pauses to observe Veterans Day this week, U.S. Congressman Zack Space (OH-18) is again launching a to urge students in Ohio schools to write Christmas cards to American service members serving overseas. Space will once again work to make sure that soldiers in Iraq, [...]

taxmanblog: Dealing with evil

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:41:00 -0500

The one issue that eventually swung me to being a conservative was how "progressives" deal with evil.

The fact is..... they don't.

First, "progressives" can't even identify what true evil is. Oh, they'll tell you George Bush was truly evil but what about that guy who walks into' [...]

taxmanblog: The "progressive" goal on health care

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:32:00 -0500

So what the hell are "progressives" trying to accomplish with nationalized health care?

Here's the words right from a blue blooded liberal..............

The typical argument for ObamaCare is that it will offer better medical care for everyone and cost less to do it, but occasionally a supporter lets the [...]

BizzyBlog: Positivity: Remembering the Victims of Communism — Nikolai Getman’s Gulag Collection

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:26:52 -0500

As the Reason TV video (HT Instapundit) explains, the evils of communism are to a large extent not recorded in pictures. That’s why what Nikolai Getman did — from memory –is such a positive thing:

We cannot forget the objective evil that led to over 100 million deaths and [...]

Have Coffee Will Write: MY COMMENTS…

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:09:01 -0500

0709: AFA: No More Muslims in the Military 0636: RNC Chairman suggests his party is racist [...]

ProgressOhio: At the Statehouse

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:49:23 -0500

At the Statehouse

Jack Shaner, OEC Deputy Director,Senior Director of Legislative & Public Affairs

WINS AND LOSSES MARK FINAL 2-YEAR STATE BUDGET

Ohio’s new two-year budget blueprint—adopted just before lawmakers went home for their summer break in mid-July—includes both victories and setbacks for the protection of air, [...]

Crabby Fat Guy: Free Meals for Vets

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:45:33 -0500

Applebee’s will provide a free entree to veterans tomorrow from 11:00AM to Midnight. Take some sort of ID such as a military ID, DD-214, whatever.

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Have Coffee Will Write: FROM MY DAD…

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:30:11 -0500

I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]

De Magno Opere: A Socialist Attempts to Save Capitalism

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:40:00 -0500

If this what the Morons are afraid of when they speak of socialism, then I'm all for socialism:
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation that would break up financial institutions that are too big to fail. "If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to'" [...]

Thinking Green, Speaking Green: At the Statehouse

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:28:41 -0500

At the Statehouse Jack Shaner, OEC Deputy Director,Senior Director of Legislative & Public Affairs WINS AND LOSSES MARK FINAL 2-YEAR STATE BUDGET Ohio’s new two-year budget blueprint—adopted just before lawmakers went home for their summer break in mid-July—includes both victories and setbacks for the protection of air, land, and water. Here is a [...]

Thurber's Thoughts: Happy Birthday U.S. Marine Corps!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:49:00 -0500

From Marines.com:Founding of the Marine CorpsA legacy is bornDuring the American Revolution, many important political discussions took place in the inns and taverns of Philadelphia, including the founding of the Marine Corps. A committee of the Continental Congress met at Tun Tavern to draft a resolution calling for two battalions [...]

Glass City Jungle: A nation divided as anonymous asshats run amok…

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:10:14 -0500

Number of comments: 1

I read about this on Jill’s facebook, she’s also posted it on her blog, Writes Like She Talks, she read it on Nookular Option who read it on America Blog who took the commenters running amok from Politico…That’s the complete disclosure/attribution…Elie Wiesel a holocaust survivor [...]

KEELER POLITICAL REPORT: So I saw that health care passed ...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:42:00 -0500

So I saw that health care passed the House (literally, I watched it, yeah I am a loser). The final vote was 220-215. All Republicans but one voted no, and the one who did was trying to keep up his futile effort to keep his seat in his overwhelming D [...]

Have Coffee Will Write: FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:30:58 -0500

Found in my electronic chapbook. It might be more useful to point out that a story has two beginnings, it’s beginning on the first page and its chronological beginning. Sometimes they coincide. Sometimes the do not. p. 147 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence [...]

KEELER POLITICAL REPORT: Other Sports News

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:15:00 -0500

Wow...Browns game Monday night vs. Baltimore might not sell out and could be blacked out. It will probably end up being a sellout (either genuine or team buying the remainder of the seats to avoid an embarrassment on a national stage), but this was unthinkable even a couple years [...]

Writes Like She Talks: On anniversary of Kristallnacht, this is how some Americans feel about Jews

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:12:25 -0500

From AmericaBlog (via The Nookular Option): Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel criticized a Teabagger protester in Washington, DC this week who held up a sign showing dead bodies from the Dachau concentration camp stacked in a pile, and compared this to the Democrats' health care reform plan. Here are' [...]

Plunderbund: Late Night PB Theatre: Successful Re-Launch Style

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:08:32 -0500

This is what a good blogging day looks like. Day one of Plunderbund 2.0 was an absolute success. We tripled our normal traffic. We were able to get 4 of the 5 main bloggers active, crank out 18 posts, and get this thing kicked off right. We also got Amber [...]

KEELER POLITICAL REPORT: One of earliest news/political memories ...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:03:00 -0500

One of earliest news/political memories was watching the Berlin Wall fall. I kind of understood what was going on, but not really the significance of it.

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Wellsy's World: Obama to send 40,000 troops to Afghanistan (?)

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:44:10 -0500

CBS News is reporting that President Obama has decided to send nearly 40,000 additional combat troops to Afghanistan, honoring the majority of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request for that country. The administration still says that troops aren’t the only answer and Afghan Pres. Hamid Karzai bears a lot of responsibility for [...]

ProgressOhio: SCIENTISTS UNDER ATTACK, Chris Award, Free Press Free Film

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:44:02 -0500

It would be really good if you could come to watch the film that won the Free Press award for the Chris Awards this year! Sorry for the late notice. Hope to see you there!

SCIENTISTS UNDER ATTACK
A Political Thriller about genetic engineering and freedom of speech.
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Keane Observations: Fort Hood Terror Attack

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:29:00 -0500

Most of the dust has settled in Texas and some aspects of the terror attack are becoming clear. Immediately following the attack various incorrect information was flying back and forth in the news casts. At one point the report was there were three attackers. At another point we were told [...]

Greg R. Lawson's Blog: Empty Hearts and Empty Thrones

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:22:00 -0500

Given the pronouncements of an end to capitalism since the great economic catastrophe of the past few years, I found this poem I wrote years ago rather fitting. Though at the time I wrote it, it was meant as being a meditation on my own existential angst, I think it [...]

Greg R. Lawson's Blog: Organized Forgetting

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:11:00 -0500

I was looking back through some old poetry I had written a little over a decade ago and found several gems.

This one is particularly appropriate given the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall fall as I wrote this while taking a course on Czech literature and film. It was striking [...]

Wellsy's World: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 20 years later

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:02:14 -0500

Twenty years ago today, a decades-long symbol of division and oppression came crashing down. The roar of its falling stones was felt across Europe, across Russia, across America, across the entirety of the whole of planet Earth. It signalled the beginning of the end of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe [...]

Greg R. Lawson's Blog: Russia and Permanent Stuggle

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:01:00 -0500

An insightful piece from Stratfor on the geopolitics of Russia. Essentially, Russia is too large, too sparsely populated, and the victim of poor access to oceanic trading routes and without major navigable rivers. This makes Russis inherently unstable despite periods when it comes under authoritarian leadership that typically controls it's' [...]

Greg R. Lawson's Blog: A Taste of Armageddon?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:50:00 -0500

I reread a piece over at the Sublime Oblivion blog that spoke to me in a way. Though I do not necesssarily subscribe to all of this, the last paragraph of this post, aptly titled "Armageddon" says something interesting and, I think potentially profound:

"At the end of history, there will" [...]

The Nookular Option: Teabaggers to Holocaust survivor: "Stop whining"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:42:00 -0500

John Aravosis points out some truly heinous comments by tea-baggers, in response to Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's criticism of a tea bagger. Some highlights:

"Rothschilds nothing! Everyone knows that Obama is George Soros sock puppet. Wasn't Soros Jewish once upon a time? May the Schwartz'" [...]

Have Coffee Will Write: GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:30:35 -0500

Just as fellow Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela was a constant lightening rod for protests against South Africa’s apartheid government, so to is Aung San Suu Kyi the inescapable top-of-mind political fact hanging in any discussion with Myanmar’s military dictators because imprisonment has negated Myanmar’s next election before a single vote [...]

TheSkeptikOne: Obama's Rope-a-Dope

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:26:00 -0500

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A closer look at the Stupak Amendment

What the first part of the legal mandate that the Stupak Amendment would impose is not new. It echoes the law laid down back in 1976 by the Hyde Amendment, which already forbids the use of federal funds to pay for most abortions. The [...]

Pho's Akron Pages: Twenty Years Ago

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:18:00 -0500

In 1984 I was on a study abroad program in Yugoslavia. One night we met up with some German students and sampled a great deal of the local malt beverage and got talking about politics. I (clumsily) brought up the idea of reunification and they shrugged it off. A pipe [...]

The Nookular Option: Not so fast on Stupak?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:17:00 -0500

Encouraging words from Rep. DeGette (D-CO) on the Stupak amendment:

Although House liberals voted for the bill with the amendment to keep the process moving forward, Rep. Diana DeGette (Colo.) said she has collected more than 40 signatures from House Democrats vowing to oppose any final bill that [...]

Brain Shavings: Sarah Palin's qualifications for the presidency

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:55:00 -0500

Perpetual RINO weasel David Frum drives to the hoop for a dunk on Sarah Palin ... and gets stuffed by Doctor Zero:

That isn't a glass of sherry gripped in David Frum's sweaty fist, Palinistas. It's a mug of scalding hot coffee, and' [...]

TMCNEWS.NET: THREE INJURED IN LORAIN ROLL OVER

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:48:00 -0500

Lorain – Two people that were struck by a drunk driver early Saturday morning had to be taken by ambulance to Elyria Memorial Hospital while Police searched for the driver that hit them.

Police say 22-year-old Charles Montgomery of Lorain was traveling north on Grove [...]

Return of the Conservatives: Fundraiser for 4 Paws for Ability

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:47:38 -0500

On 21 November 2009 at 2:00pm there will be a fundraiser for 4 Paws for Ability at the Xenia Holiday Inn. 4 Paws is a Dayton area agency that trains and places service dogs for people with a variety of disabilities. They are a wonderful agency that does great [...]

Return of the Conservatives: Government school indoctrinator fired from Clark-Shawnee Government School District

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:47:12 -0500

A teacher with the Clark-Shawnee [Government] School District in Clark County was fired after a referee appointed by the Ohio Board Of Education reported that the teacher acted inappropriately with female students.

On Sunday, school board members voted unanimously to terminate the contract of 35-year-old Dennis Dahlberg. He [...]