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What, do you want me to do, take off my pants?

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Da Mare has four, count ’em four opponents. They have a slight chance. But not much of one with modern medicine. He is younger, in better health, and monitored much better than J.

Challenger 1: Robert Floid Plump

So far, we know he filed 1100 signatures and "Plump, who calls himself the "spiritual son of Harold Washington,""

Challenger 2: Patricia McAllister

Software engineer, 11,000 signatures.

Challenger 3: Rev. Joseph McAfee

???

Challenger 4: Rev. Paul Jakes

He filed 20,000 signatures. I like to call him the uniter, not the divider. You see, he is so wildly unpopular with Chicago cops that they will vote for Daley even though they are upset about labor relations. Jakes crusades against police brutality.

Daley’s refusal to debate has not been made yet. Just remember challengers, always keep your back to a building during a snowstorm press conference.

The party of the future

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probably isn’t going to do well in the areas of the country most left behind by the increasing prosperity of America.

Marshall on North Korea

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The problematic policy choices made by the ‘adults’ are reviewed at Talking Points Memo.

I like it

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From the Capitol Fax

THE HOLE Despite the threat of massive deficits, Governor-elect Rod Blagojevich continues to cling to his campaign promise to reopen several shuttered state facilities. G-Rod has asked Illinois Central College not to open a branch office at the now-closed Zeller Mental Developmental Center. Governor Ryan signed a long-term lease with ICC for the Zeller property, but Blago is threatening to break the lease. It should be fascinating to watch how this guy patches the deficit, reopens facilities and implements new programs. No way can he do this without more gaming or higher taxes or both. The other day, Blago said the deficit was larger than he thought. Whenever a politician says something like that, you can bet revenue enhancements are not far off.

The substance is no surprise. Anyone who didn’t realize Blago and J-Ry weren’t lying about taxes is amazingly stupid.

What I like is G-Rod. It fits so well. New nickname.

For those whining about Patty Murray’s comments

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you might chastise her for attributing every action of those groups in his terrorist network to him, but let’s remember that Islamic Jihad is a part of Al Qaeda, and one of Atta’s big complaints about the Egyptian government was that they shut down Islamist day care facilities (NYT October 10, 2001).

Now if anyone wants to complain that she was being stupid for just saying Bin Laden, remember the current occupant of the White House has been happy to spread the idea that Iraq and Al Qaeda are closely linked. If Iraq is somehow responsible for Al Qaeda, certainly Islamic Jihad qualifies as a branch of Al Qaeda given Ayman al-Zawahiri is OBL’s second in command.

The right wing circus has made even the normally combative Tom Spence lay down on this one. Right wing lies and ignorance tried to take the day again. Murray was largely accurate if imprecise in her comments. In fact, an author on Al Qaeda, had this to say:

Michael Swetnam, co-author of a book on bin Laden and al-Qaida, said Murray’s comments were mostly on the mark. He said bin Laden since 1988 has been on a mission to build schools, roads and homes for widows of those killed in the fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan.

In a fuller article he says she got it right. Of course, slandering someone is more fun than knowing what the hell one is talking about.

Why do we know the Raelians are lying?

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Because they are fruitcakes like all creationists–well actually some creationists are just lying sacks of garbage trying to make money.

So people who don’t understand the rather complex and compelling bio-chemical evidence for evolution were the first to clone a human. My ass.

Note to Kevin Drum

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If you don’t know who Jack Chick is read Scoobie who has an interest in all things wacky fundamentalist even more than me. Chick is a riot. His stuff on evolution is the best.

Did I say I’d be back when?

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To ramp myself up to regular posting, I just wanted to pass along this gem–there is no need for an apology for slavery because God used it to deliver Africans from idolatry.

Call me whacky, but I think God had other means at his disposal–then again the local Prebytary is Giddings-Lovejoy. (bonus points and a no-prize for anyone who knows why that is important.

Sad News:

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Carmella Hartigan, Cub Fan Extraordinaire passed away. Strom Thurmond only wishes he had as much class as she had.

Moseley-Braun everything bad about the Republican Party?

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I received some feedback asking how I could use Moseley-Braun as an example of everything wrong with the Republican Party. From the original post there are several things she has done that I would like to have only occur in the Republican Party:

1) coddling murderous dictators
2) Corporate tax breaks for no purpose besides coddling favor with corporate leaders
3) Campaign Finance Fraud–errrr…irregularities
4) Backing a political hack over a decent human being to curry favor with an group of political hacks
5) blatant patronage politics

I’m happy to admit that many Democrats do these things, but as a Democrat, why should I tolerate it.