tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68067922374689076252012-01-11T00:31:04.111-05:00tuesday is a joke / played on those not quite prepared / the same game againtonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09965549445119493279noreply@blogger.comBlogger18511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6806792237468907625.post-16942073793127035982012-01-11T00:28:00.000-05:002012-01-11T00:31:04.141-05:00

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a girl on a train. in kamakura, kanagawa, japan.

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Originally broadcast in the early 1980s on BBC Radio. GOING ROUND by Alan Bennett To Go Round means to visit an actor or actress in the dressing room after the performance, and I am not sure whether it is a ceremony peculiar to the theatre. Do clergymen, worshipping in alien churches, feel it incumbent upon them to go round to the vestry afterwards to congratulate the vicar on his conduct of

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ripped off from the comments of this awesome gawker slide show – "The Sad, Beautiful, Surreal Sight of an Endangered Rhino Being Airlifted to Safety." Pretty cool.

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an energetic young japanese boy rings a bell at the kiomizu temple in kyoto, japan.

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...takes me to a brighter day." a howard greenfield lyric to one of my favorite neil sedaka songs.  greenfield's lyrics were often filled with enough sap-laden, sugar-coated, syrupy sweet sentiment to make even the most rabid barry manilow fan feel a little sick to his stomach.  but greenfield's sap - "life is a smile so find it, put your face behind it," - always managed to cheer me.  make me

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haven't we been here before? this could possibly be a repeat a post from a while back, but i don't really give a rats. these are the songs i love so much, and that prove to the world that i am a proud, white, dork from the midwest who grew up surrounded by really sappy pop music in the 70's. i'm happy to count these songs among my all time, desert island favorites. and i am so not kidding. (

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i've been busy looking for my coin in the fountain. sorry to leave you hanging. that said, be well. see you back here soon. or not.

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paula suozzi, theater director and former artistic director of milwaukee shakespeare and the skylight opera theatre, reminiscing about the good old days in wisconsin. you know, the days when scott walker wasn't the governor."I remember when (Scott Walker) was running for County Executive and someone at a public gathering asked him if he enjoyed the wide range of arts available here in Milwaukee

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best. wisconsin protest sign. ever.(photo courtesy dusty trice.)

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a beautiful video by finn ryan.

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actors' equity association, the union of professional stage actors and stage managers, held a rally outside fox news headquarters in new york today in support of union workers in wisconsin. 400 plus protesters chanted "hey-hey, ho-ho, union busting's got to go!" and "union yes! walker no!" in response to wisconsin governor scott walker's "budget bill" which, among other things, curtails workers'

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there are four teams in contention for the super bowl. i know this because a) i live and breath, 2) i turned on the television once last week, and c) i have thousands of facebook friends from both new york and wisconsin (i don't admit to knowing anyone in pittsburgh and my chicago friends have better things to do.) wisconsinites who've never heard of football, much less have ever been to green

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totally. completely. obsessed.if you like john grant as much as i do, you need to click here.

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is buying a trumpet when you're 47-years-old because you used to play one in junior high school part of a mid-life crisis?

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“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life;love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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i had no idea there was a fifth agreement.

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a companion photo to this 2008 version (and the story behind it.)(photo by tomoki takahashi)

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tucker carlson proves worthy of the title weaseliest scumbag on the planet.

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danny boyle's 127 hours. cannot. wait.

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"Or he’s not. I don’t care. He is still my son. And he is 5. And I am his mother. And if you have a problem with anything mentioned above, I don’t want to know you."a 5 year old dresses as daphne from scooby-doo for halloween. from nerdy apple bottom.

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a pensive young girl in sapporo, japan.(photo by carey anderson)

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“I got so obsessed with [c-span] that it was kind of interfering with my life. Sarah Palin came on, and I thought, Oh, fuck, this is the end. Because a dumb woman is a dumb woman. [Arizona governor Jan Brewer] was worse than Sarah Palin, if that is possible. This woman was like a deer in headlights. She’s got a handle on the services of the state, and I would not let her handle the remote

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...the end of charlie sheen's career.

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u.s. troops and their families don't care.

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this could be why you're fat.

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part of the audition process for disney on classic each year is answering a few questions you probably weren't prepared for. not questions like, "how's your tap?" or "can you do a scottish dialect?" but rather "how would you describe your personality?" or "what is your view of the character of pumba?" or my personal favorite, "what would you say is your life motto?" this sign along the

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not some fringe offshoot, but one of the three largest "tea parties." the message? muslim's don't belong in congress. but yeah, the tea party's goals are all about fiscal responsibility, the deficit, and taxes...

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...what is the value of 1000 pictures? or 4000?

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democratic national committee treasurer andrew tobias provides a list of 42 accomplishments of the obama administration and the democratic congress toward lgbt equality.

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remember when i used to actually write stuff for this blog?like this, about smoking and smokers:my legitimate smoking history mainly involves smoking unfiltered cigarettes because they made me high as a kite on may day. camels were good. if i didn’t have any unfiltered camels, i’d rip the filter off a regular camel and smoke that. easy peasy. i'd usually smoke at the end of the day. at home. at

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Republican Carl Paladino’s hometown Buffalo News on Sunday endorsed his rival in the New York governor’s race, declaring “there is no choice” but Andrew Cuomo.

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yeah. this guy's just not very well liked:"We need all of you to fight on. We need all of you fired up," (President Barack Obama) told the roaring crowd of students and admirers — 37,500 of them.

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why will republicans win big on november 2nd? david frum says it's not because the country is rejecting democrats, or even president obama and his policies. it's because you under-30-year-olds aren't going to vote.

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gail collins finds two immensely good reasons for wisconsin to like, and reelect, russ feingold: First, unlike the majority of Democrats running for re-election in Middle America, he is not trying to pretend that he didn’t vote for the health care bill, or that he voted for it with his fingers crossed, planning to completely overhaul it in 2011. “You bet I voted for that bill! I’m proud I did

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having trouble paying your rent? run for office.

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michael moore asks a rather relevant question of juan williams: "What do you think when you see rich middle-aged white men talking on TV about how they get nervous around African Americans on the street?" and yes. there's much more.

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a new newsweek poll povides some good news for dems and the president: Despite doom-saying about Democrats’ chances in the midterms, the latest NEWSWEEK Poll shows that they remain in a close race with Republicans 12 days before Election Day, while the president’s approval ratings have climbed sharply.The poll finds that 48 percent of registered voters would be more likely to vote for Democrats,

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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."– Mark Twain(hat tip dee dee derson)

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why in the world are you reading this blog when you could be reading this one?

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rolling stone gives the new elton john / leon russell album, the union, five stars. they're right to.Singing in a strong, elastic growl and matching John's piano work with low-end rolls and top-note sparkle, Russell jars the younger man from his routine sheen, back to the natural fiber and grandeur of 1970's Elton John and Tumbleweed Connection. On The Union, produced by T Bone Burnett, John

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what a cruel, cruel joke the mormons are playing on me in 2010 – i will be in japan while this is happening in new york: Donny & Marie - A Broadway Christmas, a new holiday production starring brother and sister Donny and Marie Osmond, will play 12 performances at Broadway's Marquis Theatre Dec. 9-19. Tickets go on sale 10 AM Oct. 20.The show is "in the holiday tradition of the 'Osmond Family

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maybe of the week. get on that pig and hold on tight.(hat tip erik nelson)

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“Good morning, Anita Hill, it’s Ginny Thomas.I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband.So give it some thought and certainly pray about this and come to understand why you did what you did.Okay have a good day.”– Virginia Thomas,

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are you reading kate mccann's account of her time in japan while touring with disney on classic? you should be.

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south carolina republican senator lindsey graham on sarah palin: "People on our side like Sarah. She talks in a way they can understand."yeah, as opposed to talking like an intelligent person.

tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09965549445119493279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6806792237468907625.post-22018719177791280532010-10-10T21:33:00.006-04:002010-10-11T08:40:43.843-04:00

carl paladino doesn't want reporters to write any "dastardly lies" about his feelings on homosexuals and homosexuality. he also says children should not be “brainwashed” into thinking that homosexuality is acceptable. this after three men thought to be gay were recently tortured, burned and sodomized with a small baseball bat by a gang of thugs in the bronx. oh, and there was that rutgers

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dinner in a closet, seating for seven, down a tiny, secluded alleyway near the shinjuku station in tokyo. depending on the establishement, and the night – and you, for that matter – you might not be invited in. or you might be cajoled into sitting down before you have a chance to say no.

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my friend jen zappola is blogging about our japan trip again this year. she sums up her return: It’s odd to feel at home on the other side of the earth. I’m back in Japan for my second tour with Disney on Classic and the Tokyo Philharmonic (how lucky am I?). All seven American singers arrived last Friday. And as I wheeled my massive luggage cart through the bright Narita Airport I had a very

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"I'm never going to do a fucking Christmas album ever."– elton johnresponding to a suggestion from his US record company

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my friend, actress erica mansfield, by my friend, photographer kevin thomas garcia.there's more erica by kevin below the fold.

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sullivan chides obama on his lack of leadership on dadt: "I wish I could feel some sympathy for the president on this issue. But he is making Bill Clinton look like a model of principle - and his rank cowardice on civil rights is one of the greatest disappointments of his first two years." agreed.

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gail collins gets it right on don't ask, don't tell.

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i mean. c'mon. look at the arms. good god. (wanna feel old? springsteen is 61 today.)

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So you look at me from across the room. You're wearing your anguish again. Believe me, I know the feeling. It sucks you into the jaws of anger. So dig a little more deeply into my life. All we have is the very moment and I don't want to do what his father and his father and his father did.I want to be here now.

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this is a crazy person who needs to go home and go to bed.

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spencer ackerman asks a friend his thoughts about today's senate vote on don't ask, don't tell. a friend who is gay. and serving in the navy:"Before I joined the Navy, I never would have thought that a bunch of drunk straight Sailors hitting on overweight lesbians in the gay bar on Neil Road in Singapore had more personal courage than the United States Senate."

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andrew sullivan finds a silver lining in the latest associated press poll that shows rampant distrust of government and institutions: While distrust of most institutions has grown, and Americans are in a foul mood, the latest AP poll found that 52 percent now favor full civil marriage rights for gay couples, and 58 percent support the same rights in every respect as heterosexual couples.

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call your senator tonight, or tomorrow morning. call.

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you may think you've seen the best of irish hand dancers suzanne cleary & peter harding (their video is posted and reposted millions of times on facebook every day. often on my wall.) but there's nothing like a little hand dancing when you're comfortably numb:

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a disgusting, blood curdling report in the washington post: a rogue army platoon with a penchant for "hashish and alcohol," charged with randomly targeting and killing afghan civilians for sport, dismembering and photographing corpses, and hoarding a skull and other human bones.will this do for afghanistan what abu ghraib did for iraq?

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because nobody tells a joke like an old jew.

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alaska senator lisa murkowski, announcing she will run for the senate as a write-in candidate against sarah palin-backed tea partier joe miller and democrat scott mcadams:"Perhaps this is one time they've met a Republican woman who won't quit on Alaska."

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"American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. So they're already into this experiment."– christine o'donnelltea party / republican candidate for senate in delaware

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john caird and paul gordon's daddy long legs plays three more theatres before the end of the year.

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this is not the daily show. it's oklahoma:

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"Today there is a grave danger that the still fragile economic recovery will be undercut by austerity economics. A turn by major governments away from the promotion of growth and jobs and to premature focus on deficit reduction could slow growth and increase unemployment – and could push us back into recession.History suggests that a tenuous recovery is no time to practice austerity. In the

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here is the republican gubernatorial candidate for the state of new york, carl paladino.

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"And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can’t."despite what some feel are questionable choices in his personal life, woody allen remains one of my heroes. a couple of weeks ago i had what felt like the quintessential new york experience: watching allen's manhattan on a big outdoor screen in central park with about 200 other new yorkers. sitting on the

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this is the russ feingold i voted for in 1992. not much different than the russ feingold wisconsin should re-elect this november. maybe if he wrote on that garage door again...(hat tip lee becker)

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cnn anchor anderson cooper seemed just a little tipsy to me tonight, getting all boyishly excited like he does about things like hurricanes, haitian disasters and, ohh... primary results. but no, i thought. i've never seen this behavior before. coop would never be tipsy on air. or would he...?

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this makes me happy.

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“In the year since I issued a prepared statement regarding President Obama speaking to the Nation’s school children, I have learned a great deal about the party I so deeply loved and served.Unfortunately, I found that many within the GOP have racist views and I apologize to the President for my opposition to his speech last year and my efforts to placate the extremists who dominate our Party

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not enough has been made of the fact that the anti-islam, muslim bashing that's been ratcheted up over the last few weeks could actually put our fighting men and women in more danger. this is often the cry from the right, when liberals or moderates question things like the reasons for going to war, for continuing to support war, for not ending war: "they don't support the troops!"now, huffington

tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09965549445119493279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6806792237468907625.post-81425559211562656042010-09-13T11:15:00.008-04:002010-09-14T18:47:04.021-04:00

the newly named stephen sondheim theatre (formerly henry miller's theatre) operated by roundabout theatre company, will receive an official unveiling and lighting ceremony wednesday, september 15 at 6:30 p.m.

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you can't possibly be excited to see a movie about facebook, can you? no, you can't be. no, stop. you can't be. but you should be, says rolling stone's peter travers:This is the first film I've seen so far in 2010 that deserves my highest rating, 4 stars. It's better than the movie of the year. The Social Network also defines the decade.How so?Director David Fincher, working brilliantly from a

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frank rich suggests that, thanks to the return of the tougher, scrappier barack obama, the november elections might not be the tidal wave big media is telling us it they will be:On Labor Day, the fighting Obama abruptly re-emerged... Speaking to workers in Milwaukee, the president finally started giving voice to the anger of America’s battered middle class. And he even let loose with a little

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nicholas kristof considers the debate over islam happening in our country and sums it up beautifully, especially in the last 1/4 of his piece, as he brings to light some of the more prominent christian and jewish leaders who have not used this moment in our history to bash muslims or, for that matter, our constitution:“Shame on you,” the Rev. Richard Cizik, a leading evangelical Christian, said

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simon hogsberg gets ten new yorkers to talk about their faces.

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"People say well, in Saudi Arabia you can't build a church," Bloomberg said. "Yes. That's the difference between Saudi Arabia and America."– new york mayor mike bloomberg

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"As a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country. And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances.This is America. And our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that

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i first saw hula hoop sha-boop 20 years ago at the milwaukee repertory theatre's stackner cabaret. a new version of the 50s-60s jukebox musical opens this friday, august 6th in the same theatre, directed by your's truly. in a desperate act of shameless self-promotion, i'm including not only a photo i took, but information on how to get tickets. c'mon.The new HULA HOOP SHA-BOOP plays a special

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my friend john mcgivern asks me about hula hoop sha-boop. oh, and deer.

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(photo by christine o'meally)

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“Brett talked to goddamned Ed Werder at ESPN, says he needs ankle surgery. Now why did he do that? I’ve got Childress calling. I’ve got reporters calling all damn morning. Goddammit, why does he have to be such a goddamned drama queen? Play, don’t play, goddamn, people are getting sick of it. I’m getting sick of it! You got problems with surgery, talk to your wife. Why talk to goddamned Ed Werder

tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09965549445119493279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6806792237468907625.post-46624435390104480392010-07-20T01:16:00.003-04:002010-09-15T16:25:34.664-04:00

there's something about this era i'm longing for right now.

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i've been away from it long enough to conceive and give birth to a child. missing new york (and one new yorker in particular) desperately this morning.

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“Like many Wisconsinites, I am disappointed in the substantive effect of today’s Wisconsin Supreme Court decision in the case of McConkey v. J.B. Van Hollen, et al. The ballot initiative that spurred this case was more a matter of politics than principle. Regrettably, Wisconsinites, including many LGBT families, must live with a state constitution that enshrines discrimination.While the effect

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"The president just called for creating a fund that would be administered by outsiders, which would be more of a redistribution-of-wealth fund...But if I was the head of BP, I would let the signal get out there -- 'We're not going to be chumps, and we're not going to be fleeced.' And they shouldn't be. They shouldn't have to be fleeced and make chumps to have to pay for perpetual unemployment and

tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09965549445119493279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6806792237468907625.post-34307748068178091322010-06-15T22:59:00.004-04:002010-06-15T23:09:16.747-04:00

not so sure about the video, but sarah mclachlan's new song is stuck in my head like a hair in a biscuit.

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"You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years.I hope that's not where we're going, but, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward

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this should happen to bp stations everywhere.

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kevin cameron and tomoe kawafuchi's daughter mona (two syllables, easy to say, and pronounced the same in japanese and english.) growing up in rural japan.

tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09965549445119493279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6806792237468907625.post-1656463317848775022010-06-01T23:21:00.007-04:002010-06-02T01:49:00.642-04:00

put your damn shoes on and pay attention.(hat tip cathye hancock)

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