… at least as long as it takes Obama to choose the church he will attend in Washington, D.C. Or, as Teh Resistance points out, “Six Months to Pick Out a Dog, Two Weeks to Pass Socialized Medicine.”
Author Archives: CynthiaYockey
Oh, NOW someone has figured out Obama doesn't know how to legislate
Last September when the economic crisis first hit, John McCain’s reaction was to cancel his preparations for the first debate with Obama scheduled for September 26, 2008, at the University of Mississippi, and go back to Washington to do his job as a U.S. senator and to try to fix the problem. Oh, and he …
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Gates' arrest tell-all documentary 'Asshole Like Me' to debut in the Douchebag Room at the Harvard Faculty Club
Iowahawk’s guest blogger Professor John Evans Evans-John of the Harvard School of Harvard Faculty Asshole Studies has a heart-wrenching column on the plight of his fellow minority member, Prof. Henry Louis Gates, who was arrested for … well, go read it and see if you aren’t outraged, too.
Margaret took me to see Merce Cunningham
My late life partner, Margaret Ardussi, was a genius artist in water-based paints and loved opera, ballet and modern dance. In the fall of 1984, shortly after I flew her from Seattle, where she was visiting her parents, to Silver Spring to be my life partner, the love of my life, the most beautiful woman …
Grassroots Demonstrations for Conservatives 101
Moe Lane presents his advice for conservatives on how to do grassroots demonstrations as, “How to ruin a professional agitation group’s day.” Regarding his suggestion to use cameras — I really love my Flip video camera and covet the new Flip UltraHD, which is very affordable, easy to use, records for 120 minutes and uses …
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I am with Little Miss Attila in Villainous Company to challenge American Power — UPDATED
moar funny pictures I have been vaguely aware this week that a woman who has something to do with sports was videoed through a hole in the wall while she was showering and the video was posted on the Internet and became big news. I read the post at Little Miss Attila and the mention …
The unsinkable Sarah Palin is now free to fight on HER terms
Today is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s last day in office as governor. In the 2008 presidential race, she was the most qualified of the four candidates on the Republican and Democratic tickets to be president, as a self-made woman with executive office experience and profound expertise on one of the most pressing issues facing our …
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We'll cross that bridge when we come to it, Mary Jo
Just so all you young whippersnappers know, it’s been 40 years this month since Sen. Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquidick Island in Masschusetts late at night after a party and left a young staffer, Mary Jo Kopechne, behind in the car to drown. The analysis of his motives was epitomized by this …
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So now we're the LGBTQS community
While most conservatives have a stereotype of gays and lesbians as being among the minorities that try to achieve power through their status as victims, this overlooks the reality that being second-class citizens who often are ostracized from their own families — which does NOT happen to racial, religious and ethnic minorities, because, come on, …
No Joss Whedon, no Sarah Michelle Gellar, no Scooby Gang for the new 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' movie — yes, THAT is the formula for disaster!
moar funny pictures I learned from Moe Lane today about the announcements in May and June of plans for a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie without Buffy’s creator, Joss Whedon, who wrote the screenplay of the original 1992 movie and wrote and produced the series of the same name, which ran from 1997 to …