mel | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 01 2007 | politics, blogs
Oops.
Quoted: Note to Biden. Well-spoken black people hate it when white people call them "articulate." It's the modern-day version of what white people used to say back in the day when they thought that by saying "He's a credit to his race" they were saying something that a black person would welcome hearing.
- mel | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 16 2008 | commentary, politics, barack obama, hillary clinton, beer, Jesus Rocks
This was funny and on target... Politics in all its asinine drama... I need a beer...
Quoted: The point wasn't really to convince anyone that she, Bill and Chelsea commute between their two lavish mansions in a five-year-old Ford F-150 pickup with a gun rack and a "Jesus Rocks!" bumper sticker. Her aim was to prove to the nation -- or at least to Democratic primary voters in Pennsylvania and Indiana -- that she's better at feigning regularness than Obama.
ShareViewed: 8 Times - mel | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 01 2008 | what's in a name, politics, barack hussein obama jr.
ShareViewed: 6 Times - mel | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 07 2008 | news, politics, primary, presidential race, mccain
One question answered about who will be on the November ballot, anyway. Should be interesting!
Quoted: "If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror," Romney will say...
ShareViewed: 1 Time - mel | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 29 2007 | environment, global warming, legacies, politics
Something tells me there's not going to be much, if any, green in this President's legacy. But, hey, if the prevailing winds move him to some kind of change, have at it.
Quoted: For years, Bush bristled privately at what he considered sky-is-falling alarmism by the liberal, elitist Hollywood crowd. ... But ever so gradually, they say, Bush's views have evolved.
- mel | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 21 2007 | 2008 primary, politics, presidential race
Candidate comparisons on various issues
ShareViewed: 1 Time - mel | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 22 2007 | news, marriage, politics, juicy gossip, feisty motorcycle-riding mavericks
Should marriage expire after seven years? I'll let you know what I think in three years' time... (jk, Rob)
Quoted: Fifty-year-old Pauli, twice divorced, is a maverick intent on shaking up her male-dominated and mainly Catholic party which has dominated Bavarian politics since World War Two.
- mel | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 12 2006 | iraq, words, politics
Quoted: In sign of growing split between US and Britain, Foreign Office tells cabinet ministers to 'ditch' phrase.
- mel | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 12 2006 | politics, news
Quoted: Obama says he's still vetting whether to take up a presidential run. "This is an office you can't run for just on the basis of ambition. You have to feel deep in your gut that you have a vision for the country that is sufficiently important that it needs to be out there," he says, adding that the needs of his family is a top concern.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - mel | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 20 2006 | elephant history, politics
History of the Republican Party elephant... decidedly less interesting, unfortunately..
Quoted: The Elephant— Political cartoonist Thomas Nast was also responsible for the Republican Party elephant. In a cartoon that appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1874, Nast ...
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- ms.kruse - Feb 01 2007
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- doug - Feb 02 2007
- ms.kruse - Feb 02 2007
You must be Mel's friend before you can comment on this Fave.And he had to do it on Black History Month Eve. Um, how do black people feel when bloggers call them "well-spoken" and make across-the-board statements about what they hate (bonus black history lesson included)?
But seriously, this has always annoyed me. It's a particularly pronounced problem in sports broadcasting.
Tell me about it! I hate it when people become offensive to groups in the process of trying to "respect" them. It's like my church. They're having "women's week" in February, when women plan and carry out one service. (I guess every other week of the year is men's week.) Making things even better is the theme of women's week. That's right, tables! Maybe next year it will be mixers and aprons!!!! The worst part is, this is the most liberal church we can find that still believes in the gospel. God, help me before I kill everyone.
Er...tables? Still, no killing.
Drew, I have to agree with you. A theme of tables is probably slightly more Biblical than killing "everyone." Better hope nobody in the Boston police department reads Kruse's Dots or they'll arrest her too.
Some days I think it would be best if I were arrested.
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