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Been swamped trying to get ready to attend my company’s annual meeting in Lexington, KY. Feels good to get a week of golf, good eats, fine bourbon, bourbon barreled beer, and texas holdem. I also have the added benefit of officially becoming a partner with equity! Woot! I have lots of things in the queue that I want to say and should get time once my feet hit the bluegrass.
Until then…
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Rumsfeld, reporting to the President and to the Cabinet, says, “Today, Three Brazillian soldiers were killed in Iraq.” The President buries his face in his hands almost swearing, “Oh, my God!”
The entire Cabinet is stunned. Usually George Bush shows no reaction to these reports.
Then, Bush looks up and asks, “How many is a brazilian??”
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Please reserve the date and join me and others for a special showing of An Inconvenient Truth.
The Delaware County Democratic Party will present a special showing of Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth” at the Strand Theater on July 14, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. Mark your calendars and join us to both view what I’m hearing is the must see movie of the summer and support your local party! Not only that, but you get to do it in the historic Strand Theater in bustling dowtown Delaware! The Strand is truly a great place to watch a film and support local merchants at the same time. I’ve taken both girls there to see numerous films.
Remember:
When: Friday, July 14th
Where: Strand Theater in Delaware (map)
Time: 7:30 pm
Cost: Tickets for this special showing are $10.00 with the proceeds going to the Delaware County Democratic Party. Don’t miss this special opportunity!
More about An Inconvenient Truth:
From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man’s (Al Gore) fervent crusade to halt global warming’s deadly progress by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it.
View the trailer:
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Eric talks about the Better Ted Than Red T-shirt promo brought to you by Plunderbund and bettertedthanred.com. Get your free T-shirt today!
First 3 to call get free T-shirts. 614-448-3332. Remember to leave your name and email or phone number so i can contact you at the beginning, then leave your comment/rant/words of wisdom. I reserve the right to not qualify a call. For example, if you just say bob johnson at bob@bobjohnson.com and then say “blah”…that will most likely go in the trash bin and not qualify.
If you don’t want to call in or there have already been 3 T shirts awarded, please visit bettertedthanred.com and buy one! The more visibility the better. Wear them everywhere you go from now until November. Good on ya mates!
[Thanks to Shane for doing the shirts and especially for extending this great promotion to the Plunderbund readers!]
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Light blogging due to doing some tabling work for the DelCo Dems at the Delaware County Senior Expo. Great amount of interest in the Dem table and I’ve already had some very interesting discussions with a few people.
Several Republicans have stopped by and indicated they are voting for Ted Strickland. The reasons have been varied and range from vague to what I feel might be widespread opinion:
“I like him”
“Ted seems like a good guy”
“I looked at his profile and I like him”
“I can’t vote for Blackwell”
The most interesting was a conversation with a woman who stopped by and gave me the same “I’m Republican, but I’m voting for Ted line”. I asked her why and she gave me the “I like him…seems like a good guy” line. I then ask about Ken and why she seemingly can’t support him. Her response floored me. “I think there should be separation of church and state”.
Something tells me this is not an isolated incident and not a singular opinion.
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If you ever need to know anything about why and how the big box blogs can be dangerous to us right here at home, go read Russell’s piece on the Ohio Kosola connection. Absolutely spot on post that nails it all. All of this went down as I started blogging and it stunk to high heaven. If we don’t each police this type of shit here in Ohio, it will continue to happen and muck up our state. If we take it head on and not stand for it, we can keep it under control. We all deserver better to be sure.
There are a great many worries for me about the Brown campaign. This is but one of them.
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A blog post recently put up adds to the strangeness and odd nature that is the Scott Pullins experience.
Here are some of the facts: Scott is bald and advertises for Gay Adoption on his blog.
Now let me be clear here. I don’t have anything against gays or bald guys. Hell, I was bald once…the shaven type. I’ll probably adopt that look again. With shades you look like a real bad ass, but I’m getting off topic here…
What these facts will do, however, is continue to stir up the whispers that have been going around for some time now questioning Scott’s sexual orientation.
The stories I’ve been hearing imply that Scott is gay and has even been seen going into a bar with another person who was of a male persuasion. Or so the rumors say.
Can there be any truth to these rumors? It is very hard for me personally to say. I have no direct knowledge of it and only hear what I hear. But having an ad for gay adoption on his blog while masquerading as a conservative blogger will surely only continue to feed these nasty whispers about the bizarre sex life of Scott Pullins.
It is almost weird in a way, then, to see him accuse others of the same thing. Hmmm….
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OK, maybe now that it is on Fox News all the idiots will believe it as well.
WASHINGTON — It has been 2,000 years and possibly much longer since the Earth has run such a fever.
The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the “recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia.”
A panel of top climate scientists told lawmakers that the Earth is heating up and that “human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming.”
Can I get a big “No Shit Sherlock”?
Speaking of global warming, have you seen this?:
…haven’t yet myself, but hearing good things about it!
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Polling on this Senate race has been all over the map, but the latest Zogby shows Brown opening up a double digit lead. I’m not sure if this will translate into voting percentages – OK, I’m quite sure it won’t – as it is probably mostly a sign that rank and file conservatives are not at all happy with DeWine. The question will be if they will sit it out or come back to the fold around late September.
I do feel that Sherrod’s messaging has been much better and he seems to be abandoning some of the things that, while important from a policy perspective, are useless from an electoral perspective. The best sign is some of his recent stuff on Iraq.
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Update: A quick Google search reveals that a whole slew of wingnut bloggers and sites fell for this one. Too funny!
LMAO. This is just funny I don’t care who you are. Santorum (ya, the one who is currently getting pounded in his race) holds a presser today along with Pete Hoekstra of Michigan to claim that WMDs had indeed been found in Iraq! Say what?
Santorum: Document Shows Saddam Had WMDs
And guess what folks? The RAB kiddos fell for it. Hook. Line. Sinker:
Submitted by Alo Konsen on June 21, 2006 – 10:16pm. Democrats | international
Senator Rick Santorum and Representative Pete Hoekstra held a news conference today announcing a newly-declassified report that summarizes our discovery in Iraq of ~500 warheads full of chemical weapons.
That’s right, kiddies, you won’t have to hear “no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq” for very much longer.
What a bad week this is to be a Democratic candidate for the House or Senate. Those donkey campaign managers must be drinking coffee by the gallon and swallowing antacid tablets by the handful tonight. How do you suppose they’ll try to slither around this enormously inconvenient revelation? I’ll bet anyone $100 that no Ohio Dem will say “Oops. My bad. Bush was right.”
These were rusty ass leftover Gulf War munitions that weapons inspectors said would be found and also said had a shelf life of around 5 years. Real slow here…1991 plus 5 equals 1996. by 2002, this stuff was U-S-E-L-E-S-S.
Here is Santorum getting punked on Fox News by Alan Colmes (ht Think Progress):
Now, my only question is: Will the RAB blogger comment to his post and say “Oops. My bad. Santorum is an idiot.”? Betcha $100 he don’t!
This is almost as funny as this. Almost.
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Great. Just great! You know that “Stand up so we can stand down” bullshit? Why don’t we rename it “Infiltrate so they can shoot our asses”?
The two soldiers who were kidnapped have been found to have been killed by Iraqis, not insurgents or Al Qaeda:
SAN FRANCISCO – Two California soldiers shot to death in Iraq were murdered by Iraqi civil-defense officers patrolling with them, military investigators have found.
The deaths of Army Spc. Patrick R. McCaffrey Sr. and 1st Lt. Andre D. Tyson were originally attributed to an ambush during a patrol near Balad, Iraq, on June 22, 2004.
But the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command found that one or more of the Iraqis attached to the American soldiers on patrol fired at them, a military official said Tuesday.
Stay the course. Steady as she goes. Can someone help me rearrange these here deck chairs?
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WASHINGTON – In a defeat for President Bush, Republican congressional leaders said Tuesday that broad immigration legislation is all but doomed for the year, a victim of election-year concerns in the House and conservatives’ implacable opposition to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.
Think they care about the issue or are playing politics? You judge:
“The discussion is how to put the Democrats in a box without attacking the president,” said one aide, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Senate bill sounds very reasonable, which I guess is why only half the wingnuts voted for it. Republicans don’t want any comprehensive solution. They just want to fire up the racist bigots and get more votes. It’s pretty clear.
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Well, just can’t let this one slide. Tried. Failed. Russell The great and awesome front page poster ModernEsquire points out over at BSB (sorry ME!) that “Theocracy is not an article of faith” and I agree. I then come across Naugle’s lame ass attempt to both spin and hold on to this incredibly stupid comment by Blackwell.
So they are going to hold onto this? Good. We get to now show the people of Ohio how little regard these people have for the faith of others. Matt first defends the big government theme, which is dismantled over at the Openers post, when Sandy Theis says:
What Strickland did not point out is that since Blackwell’s party seized control of state government nearly 16 years ago, state spending has extended into the heavens.
Whoops. Another Orwellian argument. These guys are good, right?
Matt then makes a few ridiculous claims in order to strike the religious fear he so needs in the hearts of conservatives.
First is the IRS complaint – filed by clergy and to my knowledge not involving any Dem officials (but Matt might be more connected in Dem circles):
Democrat leaders, for example, have teamed up with liberal clergy to file IRS complaints against socially conservative pastors who happen to be pro-life and supportive of traditional families.
It’s really very simple, Matt. Use your church for partisan political activity, lose your tax exempt status. Church AND state, remember? Not church IN state. You guys have the hardest times with the most basic of concepts.
Matt then runs a laundry list of things that Ted has voted against that shows he doesn’t “honor America’s religious heritage”. Let’s take them one by one.
Strickland voted against a measure that permitted the public display of the Ten Commandments in government buildings.
OK, so you are NOT for a theocracy? The place for these commandments is in a church where the members ALL believe/agree/support such things. I won’t even go into the fact that those who tout such things tend not to be the ones living up to them in the first place, but it’s true.
Strickland voted against protecting the Pledge of Allegiance from attacks from liberal judges.
I might remind Matt that the first “attack on the Pledge of Allegiance” came in the form of injecting God into it. So maybe Matt will join me in supporting a reversal of the 1954 attack on the Pledge by removing the words “under God” from it. Read up, Mattie boy.
Strickland voted against a constitutional amendment to guarantee every citizen’s right to pray and express their religious beliefs on public property, including schools.
uh…we don’t need one. Kids are free now to gather before and after school to pray. You can pray silently any time during school that you like. I used to. “Please, God, let C be the right answer…PLEASE!”.
Strickland voted against allowing faith-based organizations (to) compete for federal housing program grants.
Why can’t these groups simply compete in the free market of charitable giving? The problem in this is that it then becomes a tool to promote a given religion, much like Habitat for Humanity handing out a bible along with the mortgage papers. Federal housing grants use money that comes from people of all faiths and they should be faith neutral. If Christians want to do good and espouse their religion, let that be money from their pew baskets, not mine.
Strickland even voted against allowing government-funded religious organizations to use religion as a factor in hiring.
Just read that sentence to yourself about 3 or 4 times and I really don’t need to say anything else…
So yes, we support the man who has a sensible take on religion, while you support the man who wants to alient millions of Ohioans with his divisive rhetoric. I’ll take it.
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The Plunderbund Podcast has to this point received really good reviews from both listeners and guests. My original intent was to add more multimedia to the mix and also have a forum where we can get to know each other a bit better and have some fun in the process. In order for me to keep it going, I need to ask for some assistance. Here is what I need:
A scheduler: Someone to take on the task of contacting guests, campaigns staff, and bloggers who we want to have on th show. This will allow me to concentrate on the show itself and will also allow me to be able to tell listeners what is coming up next week in the current episode. It will also hopefully reduce any gaps and get the show back to weekly and help it grow in listenership.
Tipsters: People to shoot me their ideas on who should be on, what should be on, and ideas for parodies and other entertaining things. I also would like to get more people to call in and either speak with me to be on the show, or leave a voicemail which can be included.
Supporters: I’ll soon be opening up ads both on the site and in the podcasts. This will be a way that people can support the show and the site. Anyone else wanting to help can either hit the tip hat or check out the list of needs on this page. Any help is great. We don’t need much to keep going, but the help of those who want to see this move forward is essential.
Let me stress, the biggest need is time related. The reason a scheduler is at the top is because that is what I need the most to keep things humming. I hope to get someone on board soon and get back to weekly shows ASAP.
Thanks to those who have had kinds words for the podcast and thanks for making a consideration to help out. Contact me in the usual ways (look up).
PS – I’m working on a show for this week, but work is crazy. Shifting into Plunderbund Lite mode…
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Pullins Redefined (Hilarious)
by Eric on June 24, 2006 · Comments
OK, we all know how Rick Santorum’s last name was redefined. If you don’t, find out. Jess Hess comes up with an equally amusing remixed definition of the term “pullins”:
I raise my pint of Guiness and say to Sir Jeff: Brilliant!
My week of laughter is complete. See ya’ll next time!
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