Sen. Obama: "I am calling to publicly apologize..." w/ audio!

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Friday December 08, 2006 · 3:50 PM PST

2006/12/08 · 15:50

First & foremost, put your sabers away.

This isn't about Sen. Obama measuring the Oval Office for new carpeting.
This isn't about Sen. Obama being questioned for his party loyalty.

This is about Barack Obama, the man.
I'd say this is a great peek into the character of a man quickly stirring this community into a hornets nest. What could possibly be apolitical and still require a public apology, aired on NPR, from a sitting Senator?

Did I mention you'll laugh?

I did a search for this and didn't find any previous diary, so if this is a duplicate lemme know & it'll be gone.

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Wednesday July 05, 2006 · 7:20 PM PDT

2006/07/05 · 19:20

I can't do it.
This article is so overloaded with champ material I simply cannot take the easy shots myself. As a community service, I offer to my fellow Kossacks this warm-up exercise in snark for the humor deficient: Nintendo's gift to the President.

Dear President Bush:
Happy Birthday!
Don't worry, turning 60 is an exciting milestone. As you know, you've joined millions of other baby boomers in an invigorating new decade of your life. And, like many boomers, you may be looking for ways to keep your mind sharp. That's where we come in.

That's just the beginning... More warm-up waiting in the snark t-ball game I've put together on the flip.
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Time is running out! Yearly Kos auctions closing!

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Sunday June 04, 2006 · 9:33 AM PDT

2006/06/04 · 09:33

Seriously, you need to move and move fast. Like right now, progressive.

Why?
History is about to pass you by at speeds you cannot imagine, and you only have hours left to catch a piece for yourself!

Dukakis cigarettes?!?
Democratic donkey whiskey?
What the hell am I talking about?

<more down below>
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Nature makes political statement in Lowell

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Tuesday May 16, 2006 · 8:54 AM PDT

2006/05/16 · 08:54

Greetings from soggy Massachusetts! After a week of straight rain, the landscape has changed. Nature has been leaving its mark on the ground, in the trees, and in buildings, but also made a political point within the unrelenting deluge.

A billboard faded from the rains resulting in a juxtaposition of two advertisements that delivers a message that could never, ever, EVER be shown on a ClearChannel billboard.

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Audit: Money From Abroad for Katrina Lost

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Friday April 07, 2006 · 8:23 AM PDT

2006/04/07 · 08:23

"This is bureaucracy at its worse, and the citizens of the Gulf Coast are suffering for it."
- Rep. Henry Waxman

Today we have another example of complete idiocy on behalf of our government when facing the worst natural disaster of our time (so far). Not only does this article detail the confusion regarding accepting foreign donations & aid, it mentioned other problems I had not previously known.

So about that audit thingy...

Federal auditors on Thursday laid out a scenario of omissions, missteps and bureaucratic nightmares that caused a loss of money and other donations sent from abroad to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Lawmakers at a congressional hearing on the subject reacted harshly to a Government Accountability Office report that attributed the errors, which involved as many as eight government agencies, to the United States' lack of experience as a recipient of huge amounts of aid from others.

Quotes from both sides down in the subcockle region of the diary... Read More

F*ck you Ford & your 60 MPG car.

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Thursday April 06, 2006 · 8:53 AM PDT

2006/04/06 · 08:53

Updated: 70 MPG is imperial gallons. 1.2 US gallons is only 1 imperial gallons. Thanks to DrSpalding for pointing out my errors. Suddenly, I wonder why we hate the metric system... but I digress.

"Ford: Driving American Innovation"

That's what their damned radio commercial on my local Air America affiliate tells me. It actually says this several times during that 30-second spot. Shit, I've heard them enough to think they may actually know something about innovation. I'm thinking Ford may actually be working on an ion engine for the 2007 Focus because they are driving American innovation. C'mon, hovercar!

So what was that innovation they keep touting?

Was it the nearly 60 mpg vehicle they produce?
Nah. The commercial didn't mention that.

Perhaps it was their Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV) that allows bioethanol to be mixed with petrol in any combination?
But it wasn't that either.

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Another crony resignation - "It was time to move on"

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Tuesday March 14, 2006 · 2:13 PM PST

2006/03/14 · 14:13

I haven't seen this up yet, but it appears another crony of the Presidon't has stepped down. Besides the obvious good news of another unqualified chum stepping down, in a crisis, thousands upon thousands of lives would depend on his decisions.

He is Stewart Simonson, the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services., and a backer of Project Bioshield.

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Bigotry in the air over Boston backfires

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Wednesday December 07, 2005 · 1:28 PM PST

2005/12/07 · 13:28

As I sat self-loathing over the cigarette I wish I wasn't smoking, two planes pulling banners approached. "JUDGES TIED 3-TO-3 ON GAY MARRIAGE - REMOVE MARSHALL! the first one read. Obviously this was referring to Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall, the 4th vote which allowed passage of the historic legislation some two years ago.

The message continued on the second plane. "WE CAN STOP GAY MARRIAGE NOW! CALL 617-722-2500" This one was a tough one to figure out, simply because the orientation of the planes had their messages backwards from my point of view - after the first banner, I expected this message.

Being the progressive pain-in-the-ass I am, I called to see who I'd find on the other end of the line. The woman answered "<somebody's inaudible name>'s Office - how can I help you?"

"Good afternoon, ma'am! I saw your number on an airplane banner, and was calling as requested."

"Yes... " The hesitation in her voice made me believe I'm not the first caller.
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Dancing through the '30s

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Wednesday November 16, 2005 · 10:46 AM PST

2005/11/16 · 10:46

Not years, polling results.
As we all know, Presidon't Bush has fallen to the upper-mid 30's in his approval rating, nearing it's final resting point. There is a certain core of folks that will never, ever speak ill of dear Georgie, even if he would eat their baby & impregnate the family goldfish before their very eyes.

With those "speshial" people in mind, I decided to see what else polls in the same upper-mid 30's region, to give our Dear Leader's falling numbers some context. Read More

Boeing to labor: It's our money - piss off.

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Monday November 07, 2005 · 10:08 AM PST

2005/11/07 · 10:08

After reading about this last week, I've been hoping someone much more eloquent would bring this up, but I haven't seen it diaried anywhere. Here goes my attempt.

Last week, after a federal negotiator could not broker a deal, Boeing machinists began a strike against Boeing. While these stories are quite frequent with Boeing, I decided to look at their offers to the union workers.

The machinists say Boeing has proposed ending retirement health care coverage for new employees and wants to eliminate caps on out-of-pocket expenses for medical premiums and copays.

So Boeing's offer will help push out-of-pocket expenses higher, thereby reducing insurance coverage, and eliminating health insurance once you retire from a Boeing career. Things must be bad for Boeing to make such a soulless offer, right? The very next sentence will shock you, including a by-the-numbers rundown after the flip. Read More

Back into the apple barrel.

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Wednesday October 19, 2005 · 8:44 AM PDT

2005/10/19 · 08:44

This administration is the worst farmer I've ever seen.

First, we find some "bad apples" causing problems in Abu Ghraib. With the low-level "bad apples" removed, we could again be proud of our harve...

Dammit. It appears that we accidentally shipped a method of creating bad apples to Afghanistan.

Now it appears that an Australian news crew not only kicked over the apple barrel, but exposed that we cannot keep blaming the apples when the tree produces poison fruit. Read More

Priorities: 33 hours vs. 120 hours

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Wednesday September 07, 2005 · 11:46 AM PDT

2005/09/07 · 11:46

120 hours passed between Gov. Blanco issuing a State of Emergency & the Presidon't speaking about the crisis.
96 hours between the federal State of Emergency & the Presidon't speaking about the crisis.
53 hours between the breach of the levees & the Presidon't speaking about the crisis.

Not acting, speaking.

Add 48 hours to the above to determine how long until the Presidon't visited the region.

So what took him only 33 hours to act upon in the middle of our nation's largest natural disaster?

Find out on the flip.
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