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November 23, 2012

A little search help?

I'm trying to find a list of those 97 House members who signed the anti-Susan Rice letter. For some reason, my dialup is having a horrible time with google today.

Could some kind soul please provide either the list or a link to it?

Thanks!

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November 22, 2012

And we need to fix that.




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November 22, 2012

We need to fix that, too.




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November 21, 2012

Important shopping tip




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November 19, 2012

It's US.

Our local OFA team had a bit of a "reunion" yesterday. Turns out that we'd been missing each other's company! We were delighted to again celebrate the President's re-election, still very much "fired up and ready to go." We had some terrific conversations about using the things learned in the course of this experience, and have already begun some planning. Thinking about all that brought me to create this graphic; I'm thinking of working it up as a banner for our inaugural watch party...




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November 18, 2012

It isn't about him.




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November 17, 2012

Dumbassery




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November 16, 2012

An indisputable benefit if Texas secedes:

We would no longer be subjected to Louie Gohmert hogging the camera on C-span.




Condolences to our Texas DUers.


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November 15, 2012

Woman's belly ring gets caught in pool drain

This OP isn't about belly rings. Or swimming pools:

http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/3235522-113/pool-ring-woman-awkward


Greeley firefighters freed a woman from a drain cover on Wednesday after her belly ring became tangled in the zero-depth swimming pool at the Family FunPlex, 1501 65th Ave.

Dale Lyman, division chief and fire marshal for the Greeley Fire Department , said firefighters were called to the FunPlex at 12:48 p.m. on Wednesday. After failed attempts to turn the ring in a manner that would free the woman, the pool was slightly drained and the cover removed to manipulate the ring free.

The zero-depth pool, which is the splash pool in Adventure Island, ranges from a few inches to about a foot deep, Lyman said. The woman was floating along the bottom of the pool on her stomach with her child when the ring became snagged on the drain cover.

The woman was checked on scene for injuries and released unhurt. . .


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Like many newspapers, ours has revamped its online edition; a subscription fee is required to read most stories. In the runup to the election, germane candidate and issue information was available only to subscribers. No op-eds, no letters to the editor, no candidate articles beyond the first sentence or two, often cutting off mid-word. Endorsements were usually worded such that those first two sentences didn't tell you who they were endorsing, apparently an attempt to build sufficient curiosity that would-be readers would either run right out and by a hard copy or cough up a credit card to buy a subscription. To be fair, they did finally relent and make obits available without a subscription.

The print news industry has been hurting, I get that. Adjustments have to be made. I get that, too. But it occurs to me that, if you're looking to sell yourself as a responsible purveyor of information, wouldn't you want to be showing the best you're capable of rather than how irrelevant you can be?

Yuck.

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November 14, 2012

John McCain DEMANDS




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