Thursday Open Thread

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1. Obama raised 52$ in the month of June to bring his total cash on hand to $72.  John McCain reports 22$ in June with 95$ on hand in combination with the RNC.  The DNC has 4$ on hand.

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   1. that those figures are supposed to be multiplied by a million.

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      1. so yes.

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         1. $72M

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   2.    “The Obama campaign emails to correct David Plouffe’s missive to supporters earlier this morning: In fact Obama alone has $72 million on hand; the Democratic National Committee, spokeswoman Karen Finney says, raised more than $22 million last month and has more than $20 million on hand.

         In total, the Democrats have some $92 million on hand, to the combined Republican total of $95 million.
      

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      1. Then, they don’t need my two cents worth,

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         1. Wiggle room for a cheapskate, huh? 🙂

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2. Thus reads the Rocky Mountain News’ banner headline.

   “In town, on the attack.”

   Sheesh. I thought it was only Black MEN whom whites subliminally view with fear and dread. Now it’s WOMEN as well?

   “In town, with a message” would have been better. Or “In town, on message.”

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   1. Maybe it’s because I’m in a family with 4 very strong women. But I think she is awesome. So I read “on the attack” in a positive way. But I can see how others might not.

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   2. You expected different?

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3. A number of months ago I pointed out that a lot of the stories on the front page were getting pretty long; please do a snippet and those interested can open the “More” link.

   Seems like the old days.  More and more items made very long, makes scrolling a lot more tedious.

   Please?  

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   1. http://www.coloradopols.com/sh…

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      1. He can open his eyes while drinking cool-aid.  

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   2. since Bob didn’t really care about the WMD’s at the time…

      “My one and only regret is that so much emphasis was placed on the weapons of mass destruction, to the point where many perceived that was the single justification . . . I see my old friends in Congress. I constantly ask them: The information we had, (that) I had seen, was so overwhelming and corroborated. Where did it go? These specific mobile labs and armaments and equipment, where did it all go?”

      Even with that ONE AND ONLY REGRET Big Oil Bob sure did make a healthy profit from his vote FOR WAR

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5. This time it’s Nevada.  Rasmussen reports that Obama has now taken a narrow (within the MOE) lead in the state of Nevada; the 2-point lead is 42-40, or 47-45 when pushing leaners….

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6. are both fucking nuts. According to these two wacko’s, the liberal agenda is still kill everyone!

   CALDARA: And, what I love the best about this is, when it comes to working people — you know, the people that liberals claim — they don’t care. They are disposable people.

   COULTER: Exactly, that is specifically the ones liberals want to die. With, you know, their jet skis and their big ugly cars — get them off the streets; there will be more parking for everyone. They can’t conceive of what the world will look like without truck drivers and lathe operators, it just — they don’t understand. It is just like the cartoon I describe in my column this week, with one scientist showing the other scientist this formula, and there’s a whole string of calculations and numbers and characters across the blackboard, and halfway through are the words “Then a miracle happens.” [Caldara laughs] That’s how liberals view energy. They flick a switch and, “Oh, it’s a miracle; light came on.” It doesn’t occur to them what the world will look like when we can’t afford to have, you know, transcontinental trucks bringing food to Manhattan. We’re not gonna start a, you know, farm on Manhattan to grow our own food. People starve to death, and they’re, you know, just as happy, because there will be less traffic.,

   And I thought all liberals rode bicycles to work which would neglect the need for more parking spots.  

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   1. Are there ten in the U.S.?

      OK, I exaggerate.  We were once a nation of machinists.  That’s partly how we won WWII.  Oddly, just the other day I reflected for a moment on my metal shop class in 1958. That that NY school board would deem it good for boys to learn the first things about drafting and being a machinist.  

      Now, that’s almost all done with computers.

      As an aside, the girls took Home Ec.  About 15 years later my mother was a teacher but in Florida.  She caused quite a stir when she told her students that the boys could take Home Ed and the girls could take shop if they wanted to!  And some did.  

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   1. I trust one of them did it first.

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   2. I’m not sure I’d trust myself to a Trebuchet ride, though.

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8. from the Honolulu Advertiser

   Click the link to read the whole thing – it’s pretty short and hilarious.

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9. seems to have another Big Oil problem on his oily hands. It seems Schaffer has put himself into yet another oily situation (how do you know when Bob is lying?) by opening his mouth…

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   1. Hope it hits the front page here today.

      Congratulations to the Grand Junction Sentinel for asking the right questions of the right people.

      Bob Schaffer: LIAR.

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