December 17, 2006
"December 17, 2006" Windows are open, and the furnace is off. If it wasn't such a nice day I'd be terrified, Playing Madonna on iTunes and cleaning out flower beds. Wait, I am terrified. But they...
View ArticleMarist Poll - Hillary Leads NH by 14 Points
A new Marist poll of likely voters in the New Hampshire primary shows Senator Hillary Clinton holding steady with a 14-point lead over her closest competitor, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. The poll...
View ArticleWhether to fund Jim Martin or not?
I had previously stated here that if the spineless Democrat senators voted to retain lieberman, then we have to reconsider whether to fund Jim Martin's December runoff election or not. Now that the...
View ArticleNew York Times, Sunday: Bush to Blame For Housing Crisis
It's a safe bet that everyone in the Daily Kos community knows that George W. Bush is to blame for the current housing crisis. Despite all right-wing and uber-centrist claims that the blame should be...
View ArticleHanukka starts tonight!
Chanukah has become "Christmas Lite." A festival that exists out of envy, like Kwanzaa, "Hanukkah Harry comes to each and every Jewish household and puts presents under the Hanukkah bush" or some sort...
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Keats poem & Gorey illustration + a wizard poll!!!
The church bells toll a melancholy round, Calling the people to some other prayers, Some other gloominess, more dreadful cares, More harkening to the sermon's horrid sound. Surely the mind of man is...
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SEGO: Pick your poison
Last week we discussed Larry McMurtry's monumental western, Lonesome Dove. A month before that we talked over Jon Krakauer's haunting and tragic Into the Wild. And now it's time for a third act. We...
View ArticleWelcome to December... let’s watch Congress drag us further into misery.
We are starting December with a very heavy rain... it began around midnight last nite and was still raining five minutes ago when I brought the dogs in from their 10:30 AM walk. I expect it to keep...
View ArticlePrayer Cabinet--Second week in December
It's a busy week coming up for me and other family members. We will be traveling out of state to see a family member who is undergoing chemo. He is a good man, my brother's partner for over 20 years...
View ArticleSFCA Dec. 12, 2011: Date of a most despicable ignominy to Latinos by The SF...
It must be called for what it is and the public must, at least, know about it. The behavior of the San Francisco Archdiocese Corporation Sole on the matter of Our Lady of Guadalupe's Sanctuary in San...
View ArticlePrayer Cabinet--Third Week in December
So, this is Christmas and what have you done? Traveling last week, listening to John Lennon and that song always takes my breath away. It didn't help that it was so close to the day he died in New...
View ArticlePrayer Cabinet--A Day Late, A Dollar Short.
This week slipped away from me. It passed me by as I did the simple things that take time and effort. Laundry, cleaning, processing satsumas. Yep, in my freezer now are over five gallons of freshly...
View ArticlePrelude (An Advent Canticle)
Now all throughout this long month of November, we watch the year decay and days grow brief; haunted by ages past, urged to remember,and earth too, mute and somber in its grief: the waning sunlight...
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Obama To Give The GOP A Lollipop. SAY WHAT?
Ezra Klein gives a Factual Account on the Rachel Maddow Show, as to WHY President Obama is willing to throw old people under the bus to please the GOP. thinkingbluePS: Please click this LINK until I...
View ArticleIn the Presence
It's that time of year again; the celebration of a gift rendered without expectations, a love proffered without condition. A time when we look around and count our blessings in a way that we don't...
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December White House Photo Diary
Celebrating another month of incredible work from the White House Photographers. A look inside the White House for the month of December. All photographs were taken by the White House Photography staff...
View Article"He came without clamor..." (An Advent Canticle, Dec. 1 - repost)
He came without clamor, He came without cash; He came without glamour Or making a splash; He came without earnings, He came without pensions, He came without stern Academic pretensions.No...
View Article"O in the fields the blossoms blow" (Advent Canticle, Dec. 2 - repost)
O in the fields the blossoms blow, Apple, myrtle, rose and rue: Yet is my flower weal or woe? Is my love false or is she true?O, I remember in the spring With flowers blooming o'er the land As all the...
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