Puffin’s Place

Bless our Republican friends who care so much about this world’s people:
Storm Tips: Staffers attended conference sponsored by controversial anti-gay activist
Posted by legistorm on Monday, September 21, 2009
A handful of GOP congressional staffers attended a conference earlier this month organized in part by an evangelical leader who has faced controversy based on statements that [...]

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Once again I lament the lack of proportion among many of us. When asked to make a choice, it appears to me that we always choose the bling over the blood. Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett are dead–no great reason for joy there. But also no great reason for wall to wall media coverage and [...]

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Next to having a terrific new president, one of the nicest things is to find a cell phone salesman from Wales who has a gorgeous voice and is appreciated by the Britain’s Got Talent audience and judges.
Check this out. Paul Potts.

What do you think?
Follow his career here.

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If you’ve not yet visited our President-elect’s new website, change.gov, take a look.
How astonishing is it that we have an incoming pres that has an actual interest in keeping the public informed! There is a place to tell your story in relation to the new administration, apply for a job, read a blog about events, [...]

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Whew. Our President notes that Gustav is “a serious storm.” Nice to see him at FEMA HQ leading a second mighty rescue of NOLA. As just a small sign of the significance of the threat, Bush and Cheney will skip the roll-out of the Republican convention so they can devote their skills and perceptions entirely [...]

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Most of us have read reports of the impact of the torture-ready Fox tv show 24 on the Administration’s reframing of interrogation guidelines and the rise of Jack Bauer among the fantasist policy makers in the Bush White House..
A recent (August 4, 2008) issue of Newsweek develops this scenario:
According to British lawyer and writer [Philippe] [...]

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All of the hullabaloo about Michele and Barack Obama might remind us that being among the elite is no bad thing to be. Especially when the label is applied by others.
For reasons transparently envious, the Obamas are constant targets of the unfunny (cf Joel Stein’s strained efforts to write standup in a recent LA Times [...]

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Unless a Federal lawsuit prevails, South Carolina residents who feel a compulsion to announce their religiosity will be able to do so on their license plates this fall.
Perhaps a plate that has I believe and a cross-with-stained-glass window on it is no more repugnant than my Obama bumper stickers, but it is considerably more repulsive [...]

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Some of the chattering class is wondering why the feminists are content to toss Michelle Obama under the bus after their group hysteria when Hillary Clinton pouts did not convert her into the Democratic nominee.
No real puzzle here. The US has always turned away from those suspicious blokes and blokenesses who chose to use words [...]

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. . . Hillary’s petulance and whining? She decries being dissed as a woman and then pulls the oldest female trick in the book: accusing people who do not want her president as misogynistic. (BTW the author of this blog is a woman.)
. . . .Hill’s claim that people are trying to force her out [...]

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