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July 19, 2008

why Marc Perkel gets so much mail printed

Filed under: Opinion — Peregrin @ 3:23 am

It’s been a while since Marc Perkel published this piece, but it’s damn good advice in any day and age.  Just substitute e-mail for fax – although, lots of businesses still use fax machines.

Excerpt:

 The next thing you want to do is to be “to the point”. You have a message that you want to get across and want to focus (like a laser beam) on that message. You want the reader to know exactly what you are saying in as few words as possible. Use simple language and word your thoughts so that any idiot can understand what you are saying. Do not try to impress the reader with your command of the English language. The important thing is to get the message out.

click http://www.realjournalism.net/publish.htm for the full article.

Perkel has had letters published in just about every damn newspaper there is. 

July 18, 2008

HONEYMOON’S OVER!

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 12:39 pm

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House Speaker Pelosi calls Bush ‘a total failure’

By LAURIE KELLMAN,

WASHINGTON – President Bush has been a “total failure” in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. In an interview on CNN, the California Democrat was asked to respond to video of the president criticizing the Democratic-led Congress for heading into the final 26 days of the legislative session without having passed a single government spending bill.

Pelosi shot back in unusually personal terms.

“You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject,” Pelosi replied.

She then tsk-tsked Bush for “challenging Congress when we are trying to sweep up after his mess over and over and over again.”

[SINCE WHEN HAS IT BEEN THE JOB OF CONGRESS TO "CLEAN UP" AFTER A PRESIDENT LIKE HE WAS A TODDLER WITH CHRONIC DIARRHEA!]

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BUSH LIBRARY DONATION SCANDAL

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 12:28 pm

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Bush Homeland Security Aide Caught On Tape Offering High-Level Access For Donations To Bush Library

The Sunday Times reports Stephen Payne, a Bush pioneer and a political appointee to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, was caught on tape offering access to key members of the Bush administration inner circle in exchange for “six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.”

In an undercover video, Payne is seen promising to arrange a meeting for an exiled leader of Krygystan with Dick Cheney or Condoleezza Rice. (Not President Bush because “he doesn’t meet with a lot of former Presidents these days,” Payne says. “I don’t think he meets with hardly anyone.”) All it will take for him to arrange this high-level meeting, says Payne, is “a couple hundred thousand dollars, or something like that”:

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The Tattlesnake – A (Partial) Collection of Lesser-Known Quotes Edition

Filed under: Commentary,Opinion,Quote,Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , — RS Janes @ 7:14 am

Plenty of Pith, Punch and Pop for Potted Palookas, Peeved Prognosticators and Potent Portside Political Pundits

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

“I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.”
– A New York City bunco detective. [And what about the winning lottery numbers?]

“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
– Ernest Hemingway [Bush reversed the formula, but it's still true today.]

“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.”
– Sir Francis Bacon ["Paging Mr. Rove, paging Mr. Rove…"]

“Karl Rove deserves to be remembered as the man who thought Americans should have enough education to understand his fables but not enough to doubt them.”
– Eric Rauchway

“Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain’t that a big enough majority in any town?”
– Mark Twain in “Huckleberry Finn.”

“A supporter once called out, ‘Governor Stevenson, all thinking people are for you!’ And Adlai Stevenson answered, ‘That’s not enough. I need a majority.’”
– Scott Simon

“If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
– Aldous Huxley

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin

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Why Bush shouldn’t go to the movies

Filed under: Toon — Peregrin @ 5:25 am

The oil is guarded by mummies, you know

July 17, 2008

McCAIN THINKS WOMEN LOVE RAPE!

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 4:40 pm

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McCain’s (SICK) humor often backfires 

By BEN SMITH | 7/17/08

Ever hear that joke about waterboarding? How about the one about killing Iranians? And why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?

We all know he called his wife a “c###” in front of a group of reporters!

If you aren’t familiar with those witty japes, then you’ve missed out on John McCain‘s lighter side. Rooted in a time before there was political correctness, and before there was the “South Park” backlash against political correctness, McCain’s wisecracking persona is cutting at times, self-deprecating at others, and always amused by the political process swirling around him. Even in his pursuit of the White House, the candidate has — sometimes to the dismay of his handlers — managed to keep his sense of humor.

As he campaigns through the densest media thicket in American history, it’s become clear that McCain hasn’t acquired the layer of polish that produced, for instance, Ronald Reagan’s gentle, oft-repeated jokes and Bill Clinton’s colorful, folksy yarns.

McCain’s humor, by contrast, makes him the political counterpart of the radio host Don Imus

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ALOHA AMIGOS

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 4:32 pm

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FUNDI EVOLUTION

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 4:27 pm

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July 16, 2008

OUR ELECTED EMPLOYEES

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 11:23 am

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DUBYA’S MORTGAGE MESS

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 11:18 am

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THE COLOR OF PEACHES

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 11:13 am

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STRAIGHT MALT EXPRESS

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 11:08 am

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From the FairTax folks – Grimgold

Filed under: Uncategorized — grimgold @ 12:08 am

Dear FairTax supporters,

Our cause continues to gather steam in hometown America—while, with smoke in the air, Congress fiddles.

Could it be more obvious that we will have to save the nation from our own elected officials and candidates?

Retirement investments, savings and college education accounts are evaporating as the stock market falls—while at the same time leading economists predict that trillions of dollars can and will flow into the United States economy after enactment of the FairTax.

Candidate Obama signals a desire to raise the amount of money the government takes from the growth of savings and investments while the country has the lowest savings rate since the Great Depression. (more…)

July 15, 2008

Another One Under the “STRAIGHT TALK”Bus

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 2:04 pm

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The John McCain campaign scrubbed its website today to remove all references to its Alabama campaign chairman, Attorney General Troy King.

We happened upon the scrubbing of the campaign website as we did fact-checking this afternoon. At about 2:30 p.m PDT, when we checked the McCain campaign website, we found a news release from January on this now-blank page announcing the Alabama politicians who had joined McCain’s “leadership team.” The list included King, who was indeed named state campaign chairman.

A few minutes after we published the article, a reader left a comment alerting us that the link to the McCain website led to the blank page that is there now.

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DUBYA “SENDS WRONG MESSAGE TO TROOPS!”

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 1:33 pm

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President Bush said he gave up golf

because it sent the wrong message

with troops deployed in an overseas war.

Except when golf is a McCain fundraiser.

Despite Aversion To Golfing During The War,

Bush Will Attend A McCain Golf Fundraiser

Hosted By His Parents, MAMMY & PAPPY YOKUM!

In May, President Bush revealed that he had given up playing golf because of the Iraq war. “I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” said Bush. Apparently though, he’s fine with golf as long as it raises money for GOP candidates.The DC Examiner reports that next Monday, Bush’s parents will be hosting a high-dollar golfing fundraiser for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) near their home in Kennebunkport, ME:

According to a solicitation sent by the McCain camp, for the low, low price of $5,000, you can play a round of golf at Cape Arundel Golf Course, Bush’s home course.

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THE BOTOX FACE FREEZE

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 1:24 pm

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