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Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:23:00 -0500

On Location With Rick Lee: Produce Blogging #174

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:57:00 -0500

Because Thursday night is grocery night! [...]

Don Surber: Hatch: Democrats “are so darned stupid”

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:28:15 -0500

Number of comments: 2
Lefty bloggers are up in arms over Republican Senator Orrin Hatch telling MSNBC: “I don’t know why people on the other side are so doggone stupid that they think the federal government is going to produce jobs. What they’re producing are small-time government jobs. That’s what they’re doing. And it’s [...]

Balloon Juice: Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu Edition

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:12:42 -0500

Number of comments: 10

From Bad Horse’s Filly:

Continuing our theme of quick and easy recipes for the holidays, here’s a slow-cooker meal you can set up the night before and have ready at the end of a busy day of holiday events. This is a recipe from a restaurant in Ouray, CO that [...]

Don Surber: 59% think scientists lied about global warming

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:53:01 -0500

Number of comments: 10
Climategate has scored with the public. Rasmussen reported: “59% of Americans say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data to support their own theories and beliefs about global warming. 35% say it’s Very Likely. “Just 26% say it’s not very or not at all likely that some [...]

... A Sour Apple Tree: Frozen Food Review: Lean Cuisine Asian-Style Pot Stickers

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:09:00 -0500

At WalMart I usually but a Healthy Choice Sweet Asian Pot Sticker or two every week for lunch. A couple of doors over, I've noticed that Lean Cuisine has pot sticker meal that costs about $.70 more, so it must be better, right?No.The Lean Cuisine pot stickers have a meat-based' [...]

Balloon Juice: Shameless nutpicking

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:55:27 -0500

Number of comments: 10

I figure everyone could use a laugh today, so I’m linking to this ridiculous post based on some kind of a right-wing chain-email hoax about a recent AirTran flight that was delayed. The gist of it is that someone’s been sending around an email saying that there was a [...]

West Virginia Blue: Capitol Hill News Open Thread

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:50:46 -0500

by: CA Berkeley WV

Good afternoon, West Virginia Blue readers. This is your afternoon open thread to discuss all things Hill-related. Use this thread to praise or bash Congresscritters, share a juicy tip, ask questions, offer critiques and suggestions, or post manifestos.

I have been posting this on Daily Kos and Congress [...]

Don Surber: Daily scoreboard

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:59:13 -0500

Number of comments: 10
1. Bill Ayers opposes the Afghanistan War. Finally, someone throws Obama under the bus. The FBI might want to watch this guy Ayers. He has been known to blow up things in the name of peace in the past. But the Scorekeeper does agrees with the unrepentant terrorist’s observation that [...]

Fifth Column: Years Later, Still No Adult Supervision

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:49:52 -0500

Number of comments: 1
This Washington Post reporter Q&A is a microcosm of why newspapers are going bankrupt: Taxes are killing us.: The US at 26.1% pays less tax than any other industrialized country except Japan at 25.8%. Sweden is at 50.2%, the UK at 35.8%, and Spain at 35.5%, for example. BTW each of [...]

Don Surber: Orszag: Obamacare may take decades

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:21:16 -0500

Number of comments: 10
Not one year. Not two years. Not 10 years, but it will take our Ivy League-educated, morally superior betters decades to improve the health care system, White House budget director Peter Orszag told reporters. So why are we rushing it through? Because, sweetie, this is not about saving money or saving lives. This [...]

Balloon Juice: This is central to his point, I guess

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:58:48 -0500

Number of comments: 10

My therapist told me to stop reading the Kaplan reporter Q&As. But Flounder pointed me to a real doozy:

Taxes are killing us.: The US at 26.1% pays less tax than any other industrialized country except Japan at 25.8%. Sweden is at 50.2%, the UK at 35.8%, and Spain [...]

Balloon Juice: And Jesus said unto him….WOLVERINES!

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:27:24 -0500

Number of comments: 10

I’m fairly certain we’ve discussed the Conservative Bible Project before. I guess I’m a little surprised by some of the winger complaints about teh librully biased regular Bible:

For example, the conservative word “volunteer” is mentioned only once in the ESV, yet the socialistic word “comrade” is used three [...]

Potomac Highlands Conservative: As a Parent I Want to Thank KPMS, Keyser High School, and Mineral County Schools

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:27:00 -0500

Thank you Keyser Primary Middle School, Keyser High School, and Mineral County Schools.This has been a trying week for parents, teachers, administrators, and law enforcement. Four days of bomb threats have disrupted school repeatedly. Government does not always act efficiently or effectively, but in this case, major kudos to all [...]

Don Surber: Al Gore aflyser foredrag under COP15

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:12:35 -0500

Number of comments: 10
My favorite Danish newspaper, Berlingske Tidende, had some sad news. Climatologist Al Gore has canceled his $1,209-a-handshake appearance in Copenhagen. The newspaper reported: “Berlingske Media må med beklagelse meddele, at Al Gore har aflyst sit arrangement. De over 3.000 læsere, der har købt billet, får pengene retur. “Al Gore har denne morgen [...]

Health Care Law Blog: Chief Data Rights Officer

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:42:58 -0500

I love the creative and mind opening nature of Twitter tweets. Simple 140 character thoughts, questions, queries, etc.

As a lawyer who deals with pages, reams, volumes, boxes, rooms of written information on a daily basis I'm often amazed (and pleased) by the depth of concepts that can' [...]

West Virginia Blue: Sen. Byrd: Coal Must Embrace the Future

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:15:05 -0500

(From an email)

By Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.)

COAL MUST EMBRACE THE FUTURE

For more than 100 years, coal has been the backbone of the Appalachian economy. Even today, the economies of more than 20 states depend to some degree on the mining of coal. About [...]

Balloon Juice: Standing athwart history

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:06:22 -0500

Number of comments: 10

I found a quote about gay marriage I like at Daily Dish (Sullivan apparently took a break from drooling on himself about TEH CLIMATEGATE):

“The time is never right for civil rights. The economy, wars. The troubles we’ve had here in the senate. It’s never ever the right time. But [...]

Balloon Juice: Shit. Who Will Ghost Write His Next Book?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:55:07 -0500

Number of comments: 10

Andy McCarthy’s life just got more difficult:

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Don Surber: Obamanomics: $1 trillion in lost wages

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:50:53 -0500

Number of comments: 10
The “progressive” Center for Economic and Policy Research issued a study that showed Americans will lose $1 trillion in wages through 2012. Of course the press release said: “African Americans and Latinos will be especially hard hit, with the recession causing them wage losses of $142 billion and $138 billion, respectively.” It [...]

Don Surber: We’re here, we’re for her, get used to it

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:59:49 -0500

Number of comments: 10
Considering all the free publicity this blog has given her (easily 11 of those 1 million books she sold in 10 days were due to the free ads here) I do not think conservative Sarah Palin will mind my swiping a few photos from her Facebook. The photos show her [...]

Don Surber: Believers in global warming are the deniers

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:49:19 -0500

Number of comments: 10
Who are the flat-earthers now? “Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and would explain why the agency has repeatedly had [...]

Don Surber: Column of the day

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:29:07 -0500

Number of comments: 5
My weekly column in the Daily Mail is posted: “E-mails show global warming is a lie.” [...]

Balloon Juice: Thursday Morning Open Thread

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:56:11 -0500

Number of comments: 10

Only been up for a little bit and today is already turning out to be a mess. Really weird weather- about 40-45 degrees, but the wind is just whipping around like it is April, and the sky is gun metal gray. Even Lily said “to hell with this” about ten [...]

West Virginia Blue: A simple request

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:28:31 -0500

By Clem Guttata

Our fund-raising drive for the Sustainable Energy and Environmental Diversity (SEED) community project at Coal River Mountain Watch is off to a great start. A huge thank you to those of you who have already contributed. I'm going to be writing more diaries on the topic' [...]

Balloon Juice: High and Low

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:00:55 -0500

Number of comments: 10

Two stories, from two different sources (neither of them explicitly political), about two quite different men who share one thing: They are each very, very angry at the American government for its handling of the Iraqi occupation.

In Vanity Fair, Adam Ciralsky tells us of Erik Prince, “Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, [...]