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No alcohol in Nepal during elections

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 4, 2008 · Comments (2)

That takes the fun out of elections. From AP- KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepalese authorities have banned the production and sale of alcohol in the Himalayan nation ahead of crucial elections to pick an assembly to rewrite the country's constitution, officials said Friday. Home Ministry spokesman Modraj Dotel said the government... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

Trinidad lawmakers in laptop spat

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 30, 2008

No fighting was reported. Too bad. Trinidad's main opposition leader has been suspended from parliament after he failed to ask permission to use his laptop computer during a debate and ignored a request to put it away. Party leader and former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday then refused to leave the... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

Another Obama delegate seeks racial . . . harmony?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 20, 2008 · Comments (2)

Confederate Yankee has found another pledged Obama delegate with access to a pulpit who spreads love and harmony: Read the whole post at the link above. It's all about the Hope and the Change and the Change and the Hope and other audacious stuff . . . ... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Oregon mayor poses in underwear, loses job

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: February 27, 2008

A successful recall has removed Mayor Kontur-Gronquist from office. ARLINGTON, Ore. - The mayor of an Oregon town who once stripped to her underwear and posed on a fire truck has been stripped of her office. Voters in this town of about 500 voted narrowly Monday to recall Carmen Kontur-Gronquist.... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Obamaisms

Posted by Larkin · Published: February 15, 2008 · Comments (2)

Slate.com created the widget you see below. Click "More" to see the Obamaisms they've collected. My favorite: Obamatose: in a deep slumber, dreaming of Obama ... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (2 votes cast)

Do you really want to know what I think Congressman Robert Wexler

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: January 29, 2008 · Comments (3)

I don't live in the Florida 19th Congressional District but I got a email from Robert Wexler today. Here it comes- Dear WILLIAM, I have been a member of Congress for 12 years, representing Palm Beach and Broward Counties in Congress and speaking on behalf of Floridians and progressives throughout... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

All he wanted to do was register his opinion with Maryland's Governor

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: January 23, 2008

Instead Pete Pritchard called a phone sex line. CALVERT, Md. - A Cecil County man who phoned the governor's office with an opinion about the mortgage foreclosure debate realized he wasn't talking to a secretary when the woman who answered greeted him with a "Hi, sexy." Pete Pritchard of Calvert... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (2 votes cast)

Politics headline news

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: January 18, 2008 · Comments (1)

McCain: Spending is out of control I couldn't agree more. Millions being spent so you can get the most stressful job on the planet. Are you nuts? US says there's unanimity on North Korea Five members of the 6 party talks agree- Kim IL-Jong makes promises he never keeps. Romney... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Va. lawmaker wants to ban trailer hitch testicles

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: January 15, 2008 · Comments (6)

Who said our politicians don't have balls? From AP- RICHMOND, Va. - Drive in Virginia with outsized rubber replica testicles dangling from your trailer hitch and face a fine under a bill before the General Assembly. Taste and even decency notwithstanding, Del. Lionel Spruill introduced the bill Tuesday as a... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Ron Paul: Jew-hating, paranoid nut

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: January 10, 2008 · Comments (13)

When I posted Ace's upbraiding of Paul supporters (along with the hilarious video he included in his post) in "Leave Ron Paul Alone!", I assumed everyone was up on the latest Ron Paul news from the last couple of weeks, but it may have been drowned out by the coverage... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.9/5 (7 votes cast)

"Leave Ron Paul Alone!" (Content warning)!

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: January 10, 2008 · Comments (31)

This impassioned plea comes from another insane Ron Paul supporter, via Ace, who asks: Can Ron Paul's defenders please justify voting for a man who appears, based on the evidence, to be mentally unstable and haunted by a livable and low-grade, but quite real, case of paranoid schizophrenia? If Art... [Full Story]

Rating: 2/5 (4 votes cast)

Rep. Alcee Hastings thinks Christmas resolution a plot

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: December 17, 2007 · Comments (8)

Apparently the congressman hasn't noticed how commercial Christmas has become. From the Palm Beach Post- U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, was one of only nine House members last week to vote against a resolution "recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith." A Hastings statement said the resolution was... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.7/5 (7 votes cast)

A bachelor President- Not any time soon

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: December 11, 2007 · Comments (1)

Either Associated Press reporter Sara Kugler is bored or has a crush on Mayor Michael Bloomberg. There is no other justification for her 1,100 plus word article. NEW YORK - For all of his billions, Mayor Michael Bloomberg lacks one thing all the current presidential candidates proudly display: a spouse.... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

How to pass a stem cell research bill? Congressman Robert Wexler says indict VP Cheney

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: December 10, 2007 · Comments (6)

First I have to admit Wexler was my congressman for 6 years. The district I then resided in hadn't seen a serious Republican candidate for the seat since 1988 and still hasn't till till today. From the Palm Beach Post- What do higher fuel-efficiency standards, expanded children's health care and... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.4/5 (5 votes cast)

Huckabee: God Wants Me to Be President

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: December 6, 2007 · Comments (5)

Here's a transcript- STUDENT: Recent polls show you surging... What do you attribute this surge to? HUCKABEE: There's only one explanation for it, and it's not a human one. It's the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of five... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

Hillary attacks Obama's kindergarten record.

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: December 3, 2007 · Comments (8)

Was this a press release or someone throwing a paper airplane? Today in Iowa, Senator Barack Obama said: "I have not been planning to run for President for however number of years some of the other candidates have been planning for." Oh really? "Senator Obama's comment today is fundamentally at... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Australia Parliament on guard against MP art theft

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: November 28, 2007 · Comments (3)

Officials are worried outgoing lawmakers will take items not belonging to them. CANBERRA (Reuters) - Officials at Australia's Parliament House on Wednesday took down valuable artworks to keep lawmakers dumped in weekend elections from stealing them as they began packing up offices. "We do make sure we take out all... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offers to be an observer at US presidential election

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: November 27, 2007 · Comments (1)

I say come on over. From the Guardian- Ahmadinejad has offered himself as an observer in next year's presidential election. The proposal came in a speech to volunteers with the Basij, a pro-regime militia. He said he was prompted by a belief that Americans would vote against the current administration... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

Kucinich saw UFO

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 24, 2007 · Comments (12)

Dennis Kucinich's longtime friend and fellow nutbar, Shirley MacLaine, reveals in her new book that Kucinich saw a UFO from her balcony, and it touched his heart. Mark Naymik has the details at The Plain Dealer's Politics Blog: Kucinich, she writes on page143-144 of the book, "had a close sighting... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.4/5 (5 votes cast)

LIARS! Hillary, Obama renege on Florida pledge

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: September 5, 2007

Less than a week after they pledged to skip states violating DNC rules on primary dates, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are already planning campaign stops in Florida, reports The Florida Masochist: So the pledge is an empty gesture. Meant probably for voters living in Iowa, New Hampshire etc. It... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (4 votes cast)

Purge, Comrade?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: August 22, 2007 · Comments (7)

Prominent leftist bloggers Matt Stoller and Chris Bowers are compiling dossiers on Democratic members of Congress they consider insufficiently "progressive," as Joe Tobacco notes at Cadillac Tight: We want to put a stop to the embrace of conservative values among House Democrats, and make sure that when Democrats are elected,... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (8 votes cast)

Just how stupid is Barack Obama?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: August 3, 2007 · Comments (3)

It seems Senator Barack Obama intends to prove himself completely ignorant of foreign affairs and irrelevant in the Democratic nomination contest. First, during the You Tube debate, he asserted he would personally meet with the leaders of Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela without preconditions in his first year... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (12 votes cast)

Kansas tornado victims blast Sebelius

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: May 10, 2007 · Comments (2)

Survivors of the killer tornadoes from Greensburg, Kansas aren't happy with Democratic Governor Katheleen Sebelius' false claim that there were inadequate National Guardsmen and equipment to deal with the disaster due to Iraq deployments. Gateway Pundit has the story: The poor response thing is "Just Political BS!" "I was told... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (10 votes cast)

Hagel open to independent run

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: May 7, 2007 · Comments (2)

Senator Chuck Hagel is still considering running for President, but now he is putting the option of an independent bid on the table, as Nicholas Johnston of Bloomberg reports: Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska said he would consider entering the 2008 presidential campaign as an independent. An independent bid... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (3 votes cast)

Hagel: Impeachment an option?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 26, 2007 · Comments (2)

Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, fresh from his much ballyhooed non-announcement of candidacy, says some Senators consider impeachment an option due to President Bush's Iraq policies. Hope Yen of the Associated Press reports: "Any president who says, I don't care, or I will not respond to what the people of this... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (7 votes cast)

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