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Bush: Terrorists Will Win if Democrats Win

President Bush is campaigning on the theory that if Democrats win next week, so will the terrorists.

Um, excuse me Mr. President.  You’ve had 3 years to figure out what to do in Iraq and failed miserably.  Not only is Iraq a mess, you haven’t even been able to bring the single city of Baghdad under control.

Many would argue that under YOUR watch, the terrorists have made huge gains.

Posted by on October 31, 2020 at 01:58 PM in Current Affairs, Legal, Politics | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

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Rush Limbaugh and Michael J. Fox

Is Rush Limbaugh really that callow to criticize Michael J. Fox by saying that he’s “exploiting” his illness, off his meds or just acting more affected by his Parkinson’s disease than is really true?

Mr. Limbaugh, you should be ashamed.

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Update

Go to CBS news and and click the “Watch the Entire Interview” link with Michael J. Fox and you decide if he’s acting. 

 

Posted by on October 26, 2020 at 12:13 PM in Current Affairs, Politics | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

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President Bush say we’re winning the war in Iraq

President Bush said yesterday that we’re winning the war in Iraq — despite the fact that 96 soldiers have been killed this month.  It is the deadliest month in a year for U.S. troops. 

A recent CNN poll says that only 1 in 5 Americans believe the same way. 

What do you think? 

Posted by on October 26, 2020 at 08:25 AM in Current Affairs, Politics, War | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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President Bush says that it’s never been “stay the course”

In an interview this week with George Stephanopoulos, President Bush says that the war in Iraq has never been “stay the course.”

Hmmm.

Posted by on October 25, 2020 at 09:04 AM in Current Affairs, Politics, War | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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North American Wife Carrying Championship

The Maine Sunday Telegram reported on this year’s winner of the North American Wife Carrying Championship held at Sunday River Ski Resort.

John Farra carried his 110–pound wife Tess over the 278–yard course in 1 minute and 4 seconds to win the event.  He gets his wife’s weight in beer and five times her weight in cash.

And you thought Maine didn’t have any world class sporting events?

Posted by on October 09, 2020 at 10:04 AM in Current Affairs, Games | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Red Sox Nation Celebrates Yankee Elimination

Not that we’re bad sports around here or anything.  But most folks in New England agree with the bumper sticker that reads:

“I have 2 favorite teams, the Red Sox and whoever beats the Yankees.” 

Go Tigers!

Dunno what’s worse, stinking it up at the end of the season or choking in the first round of the playoffs.  I know one thing — George can’t be a happy man.  $200 million to be embarrassed by Detroit?

Ouch.

 

Posted by on October 08, 2020 at 09:44 PM in Games, Sports | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Starbucks Here, Starbucks There — Who You Gonna Call? Delocator!

The AP reported today that Starbucks wants to have 40,000 coffee stores nationwide — that’s more than three times the current number.  I don’t know how it is where you live, but there already seems to be a Starbucks on every corner of the city.  I can’t imagine what triple the number would look like in this area.

If you’re not wild about Starbucks or other huge corporate coffee shops, how do you find a locally owned cafe?  Easy, check out the Delocator. 

Delocator

Just enter in your zip code and search for a nearby non-corporate coffee shop, independent book store or local movie theatre. 

Posted by on October 06, 2020 at 04:15 PM in Books, Film, Food and Drink, Web/Tech | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Historic Map Works For History and Map Buffs

The Portland Press Herald today features a wonderful new Maine business called Historic Map Works.  This fascinating company is the world’s first database of address-searchable historic maps of America.

Imagine, just plug in your address and you’ll be able to see what your property looked like (or if it was even around) 100 or 150 years ago.  To understand what this company offers — think Google Earth — only in the 19th and early 20th century.  It’s mesmerizing — and ambitious.

Charles Carpenter, the owner of the company, owns the largest collection of county atlases in the U.S. — next to the Library of Congress.

While maps are not yet in place for all parts of the country, The Press Herald reports that more than 35,000 can now be viewed and purchased. 

Read the article and check out this highly interesting site.  You’ll be amazed.

Posted by on October 06, 2020 at 09:55 AM in Business, Current Affairs, Web/Tech | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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More Hastert Heat Over Foley’s Actions

The Washington Post outlines why House Speaker Dennis Hastert spent the day yesterday telling anyone that would listen that he’s not stepping down — unless of course he thought it would be “helpful” to the Republican party.  Not surprisingly, he just doesn’t think so right now.  Perhaps AFTER the elections in November, but for heaven’s sake, not now.

Let’s make one thing clear — Mark Foley deserves all the heat that the public and law enforcement can give him.  His pitiful excuses of alcoholism, and being gay and abused as a child are just that — excuses.  Nothing justifies the unseemly and disgusting emails he sent to pages while in office.

That being said, Hastert can’t escape some responsibility too.  After all, he’s the person most responsible for the page program.  He was informed in August of 2005 about Foley’s “overly friendly” emails to a page.  He chose to have Rep. John Shimkus handle it discreetly by not informing the FBI, the Democrats or even some members of the House Page Board.  Instead, Shimkus simply went to Foley and told him to stop.

Is this protecting the pages?  Especially after knowing — as apparently everyone in Congress did — that Foley was gay (but not open about it) and was suspiciously friendly with pages? 

Finally, Hastert went on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show yesterday and tried to shift the blame to Democrats — without apparently any facts to back it up — by saying Democrats orchestrated the leaks of Foley’s messages just before the election.

Shame on you Mr. Hastert!

This isn’t politics as usual.  Foley’s conduct is vile and occurred during your watch.  You bear some responsibility and should accept it.  Don’t say you did enough when informed about this a year ago — you didn’t.  Don’t say you’d step down if it were good for the Republican party — this is about children, not politics.  Don’t blame the Democrats — you were in charge.

Shame.  Shame.  Shame.

Posted by on October 04, 2020 at 09:39 AM in Current Affairs, Legal, Politics | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Westbrook Rethinking School Punishment

Westbrook is a small town just outside of Portland, Maine.  Recently, some of its High School football players were suspended for attending a party at which alcohol was consumed.  Now school administrators are reconsidering the school’s code of conduct.

Westbrook’s school code prohibits students from drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, using drugs — and being around those who are.

The penalty for an initial infraction is suspension from extracurricular activities for two weeks.  A second offense requires that a student be suspended from all extracurricular activities for one year.

Parents are complaining that the penalties are too severe — school administrators are thinking the first penalty is not severe enough.  Westbrook is now considering a 4–week suspension for a first offense and a 10–week suspension for a second violation.  No word yet I guess on what a third strike gets you.

I’m just wondering, would the school be considering this revised code if the students suspended weren’t on the football team?  What if, say, they were on the chess club or on the debate team — do you think they’d be reconsidering the code of conduct then?

Posted by on October 03, 2020 at 12:00 PM in Current Affairs, Games, Sports | | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

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