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Paul Ryan Explains His Medicare Plan to a Giant Spatula
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GOP Festival of Lies, Day Two
Once again, on day two of the Republican National Convention, it was ominous how few mentions of the nominee himself were made. It wasn’t quite as stark as it had been on day one in the speeches of Chris Christie and others, but notable nonetheless. I asserted that the first night’s speeches were evidence that…
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Cowards at Yahoo News Give Wingnut Hacks a Scalp
David Chalian was fired by Yahoo News yesterday because he was caught saying something unflattering about the Romneys and their pals by NewsBusters. This is absolute bullshit. David was my direct supervisor when I interned at the ABC News political unit, where he was first deputy political director, and then promoted to director. He then…
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My Summation of the First Night of the GOP Convention
This was a night of Republican politicians selling themselves for future campaigns. They are writing this one off. #gop2012 — Paul Fidalgo (@PaulFidalgo) August 29, 2012
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Some have said that Romney’s lifestyle is overly privileged, pointing to the fact that he has an elevator for his cars in the garage of his San Diego home. This is not entirely fair. Romney owns many homes without garage elevators and the cars have to take the stairs. … After his governorship, Romney suffered…
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Members of Team Obama still believe the Electoral College favors them; they see little or no prospect for the opposition to be able to make significant gains with Hispanics, single women or young voters; they think Medicare and tax cuts for the wealthy are untrumpable trump cards; they view Romney as a weak candidate, whose…
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Ultimately, the curated aspect of the homepage brings people to big brands, right?” [Wall Street Journal managing editor Raju Narisetti] said. “The trick is not to worry about where they’re coming from — the trick is what are they doing after they come. If they come sideways, can I get them to actually go to…
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The Myth of the Tight Presidential Race
The headline Washington Post chooses for its new poll showing a tight national popular vote race between the president and Mr. Romney says: But this is wrong in what it implies. The headline, and much of the chatter around it, will tell you that the race is a tie. But popular votes don’t decide presidential…
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invaderxan: A scale picture of the Earth and Moon, and the distance between them. The Moon’s a lot further away than you might realise… (clickthrough for a bigger version)
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Strange, Mindless, Near-Racist
My paraphrase of The Economist on Romney (words in bold used in the actual piece): “We’d love to love you, but you’re a strange man with mindless policy positions who says near-racist things. Please tell us you’ve been kidding.”
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It’s very likely that there will not be a living human being who knows what Neil Armstrong knew. It will all be for videotape and digital libraries, for historians and, if we’re very lucky, for poets, as well. But there will be nobody alive who actually knows. Not a single one of our fellow humans,…
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In Case You Needed Further Proof That Obama Has it in the Bag…
Former Florida governor, Charlie “I Must Find out Where They are Going So I Can Lead Them” Crist, endorses the president.
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If [Romney] is not successful, holy Toledo, there will be hell to pay in this party. The right wing is going to drive further right,” said Gross, Romney’s former Iowa chairman. But that may happen even if he does win. For the Republican Party has decided that Mitt Romney is the means to an end.…
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Another joke, a bit more wistful and a bit closer to the bone, comes when people tell him that he would have governed differently than Mr. Bush. Mr. Gore usually replies, “You know what: I would have just made different mistakes. The End of the Line – NYTimes.com
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We’re going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic. You don’t need a stylus. It’s far more accurate than any touch display that’s ever been shipped. It ignores unintended touches, it’s super-smart. You can do multi-finger gestures on it. And…
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