Friday, February 29, 2008
Bill Clinton, October 25, 2004: Now, one of Clinton’s laws of politics is this. If one candidate is trying to scare you and the other one is try get you to think, if one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person [...]
Friday, February 29, 2008
I saw that Man Eegee gave me an “Excelente” rating the other day. I realized that I never added the guy to my blogroll. He’s on now. He also made a plug for my ¡Free Baja Arizona! stickers. Remember that these handy items, along with many other things that your pathetic life will be empty [...]
Friday, February 29, 2008
I spoke with someone in Gabrielle Giffords’s office the other day. As it turns out, the ads that the group “Defense of Democracies” has been running to encourage folks to call Giffords’s office to support granting immunity to telecommunications companies that have violated people’s rights have had quite the opposite effect. They are getting many more calls in favor [...]
Friday, February 29, 2008
Back in 1997, I happened to be doing an off-site project for the company I was working for. This meant I spent the summer in Phoenix, where I learned that summers can, in fact, be worse than they are in Tucson. So I was up there the day that J. Fife Symington III was convicted [...]
Friday, February 29, 2008
Given the title of this blog, I would be remiss to comment on John McCain and his newest supporter, the Reverend John Hagee. Folks all over the Blogoverse have been asking the question, where are the Tim Russerts of the world asking if McCain agrees with Hagee’s more extreme views? Is he going to be [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2008
From John McCain’s website:
Thursday, February 28, 2008
I want to demonstrate my commitment to maintaining the same level of availability that Congressman [Rick] Renzi provided to the citizens of eastern Arizona. Sydney Hay to a meeting of the Graham County Republicans February 12th, Reported by the Eastern Arizona Courier February 25th. To be fair to Hay, which is difficult for me, she [...]
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The father of modern American conservatism has died. Believe it or not, growing up I was a fan of Firing Line. The guy seemed to love nothing more than the exchange of ideas. His show wasn’t a Bill O’Reilly style “let’s interview the worst lefty whack job I can find and scream at him” that seems [...]
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
I recieved an e-mail from someone asking me about the group Defense of Democracies that is running ads telling us Baja Arizonenses to call Gabrielle Giffords and give her a what for because of the House’s lack of action on the Terrorist Surveillance legislation. Heck, I called her to tell her to keep up the [...]
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Ralph Nader turns seventy something today. He did some stuff twenty or thirty years ago… NB – A longer version of the Sesame Street clip can be found here.
