Bill O’Reilly: We didn’t invade Iraq.
What he’s trying to say, of course, is that this wasn’t like an invasion of Poland invasion. It was a totally justified invasion because we were standing up for truth, justice and U.N. resolutions, which we enforce at gunpoint when we feel like it, and often ignore. And so it’s […]

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So Hillary goes on O’Reilly tonight.
Gee, do you think they’ll giggle like schoolgirls as they stick the knives into Obama?

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T. Boone Pickens on CNBC saying he expects we’ll see $125 per barrel oil real soon, and that regardless, the fundamentals are in place to keep oil at $100 at least, for good:
You’ve got 85 million barrels of oil available every day, and that’s it. Demand’s going up. As long as that demand continues to […]

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Holy smoke. And you thought it was bad when John McCain invoked 100 years in Iraq.
Here he is saying we could be there for 1,000 years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eivkAjyN_tQ

As I mentioned yesterday, I simply don’t think either McCain nor his party realize that while this scores points with the belligerent O’Reilly generation, it’s winning them zero fans in the […]

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Hm. I noted yesterday that Obama’s response to the Wright business provided, among other things, a chance for Obama to take on the stereotype, to divorce himself from the Sharpton-Jesse Jackson almost charicature. Others are noting the same thing:
Right now, at this very moment, we have an African-American candidate for president who commands overwhelming support […]

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Boy, the internets seem slow today.
So I’m at the parents’ abode, attempting to fix the virus-hijacked computer, and my mother the winger says:
Did you see Obama on Fox News Sunday?
I hadn’t, and in fact I wasn’t too keen on Obama going on Fox in the first place. Fox’s whole goal in life is to stick […]

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I don’t know. I mean, I don’t know. Part of me gets a sense Wright is just milking his 15 minutes - maybe sticking a knife in Obama, to the extent Obama was forced, politically, to condemn the earlier statements. Yeah, I’m outrageous? Chew on this, bub.
And in the video, here, Obama clearly sounds stunned. […]

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Yet another excuse for conservative “thought,” now making the rounds via e-mail…

In just one year
Remember the election in 2006? 
 Thought you might like to read the following: 
 A little over one year ago: 
 
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high; 
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon; 
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%. 
 
Since voting in a […]

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Hmmmm:
When it comes to getting U.S. troops out of Iraq, Sen. John McCain was for the idea before he was against it.
Three years before the Arizona Republican argued on the campaign trail that U.S. forces could be in Iraq for 100 years in the absence of violence, he decried the very concept of a long-term […]

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I hadn’t called Shawn the drummer for months, and I felt cheesy about it. With the class and the kids and everything else there’s just no time to rock and roll, but my stuff - an amp, microphone, various stands, etc. - were still at his house. So I dropped him an e-mail: Uh, I […]

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Managed to miss Jeremiah Wright’s press conference yesterday, but have been reading about it ever since. Pretty bad - before, you could say, well, things were said in the heat of a sermon, but look at the totality of Wright’s effect on his parishioners, his neighborhood, consider the fact that if you were black, etc. […]

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Gas is at $3.59 per gallon at my local Turkey Hill, and just heard from a colleague saying that one place here in Lancaster is now advertising two prices - one (lower) if you pay with cash, another (higher) if you use credit or debit.
Meanwhile, here’s OPEC saying oil could go as high as $200 […]

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See, now, this is a tremendous idea:
A city businessman and a music enthusiast are proposing to develop a blues and jazz nightclub in a vacant warehouse opposite Clipper Magazine Stadium.
Named the Prince Street Blues & Jazz Club, the 500-seat club would open in early November. It would be a non-smoking facility operating Wednesdays through Sundays.
Piece […]

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Sweet. U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts, ever worried about the moral fiber of our nation, has signed on as a sponsor to House Resolution 5821 - the “Military Honor and Decency Act,” probably more aptly called “The Puritan Act.” Because, see, our fine folks in uniform, it’s OK that they go kill and die, maybe get […]

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Well all right. Fountains of Wayne - saw them a few years back at the Marion Courtroom Fourth of July gig, rainy night and almost no one there; felt bad. Killer band:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8byc8OdYXk

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Matt Yglesias’s succinct explanation for why - with the economy falling apart, a worldwide food crisis, unending war in the Mideast and everything else - we continue to talk about character and lapel pins and the like:
Realistically, the number of people who have any awareness of “actual policymaking” is pretty tiny and I think most […]

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Hurry don’t be late.
While we’re on the subject of bad ’70s music that sometimes seems not quite so bad now, I give you: Little River Band.
Specifically, this song - which, to be honest, I loved at the time, 1978, I was 11. Great song to sing. And, from the same album, ”Lady.”And then: Downhill. “Lonesome Loser” […]

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…and speaking of the Bee Gees, this came up on the MP3 player last week (yes, I have the Bee Gees Greatest on the MP3 player) and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head since.
And the thing about it is, it’s an amazing song; Barry Gibb was a tremendous songwriter, but […]

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Red Hot Chili Peppers cover the Bee Gees. Stock up on duct tape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7o-9JuzlD4

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Or Rush hopes for one, anyway:
Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is sparking controversy again after he made comments calling for riots in Denver during the Democratic National Convention this summer.
He said the riots would ensure a Democrat is not elected as president, and his listeners have a responsibility to make sure it happens.
“Riots in Denver, […]

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