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Election08, Politics »

[16 Sep 2008 | Comments Off | ]

According to TPM, Terry McAuliffe will be campaigning for Obama in Virginia.
Terry McAuliffe irked plenty of Obama supporters with his eternally jovial but aggressive advocacy for Hillary during the Dem primary, but now McAuliffe is set to make amends — he’s finalizing plans to put his unique species of garrulousness at Obama’s disposal.
McAuliffe has agreed to campaign extensively for Obama in his longtime home state of Virginia — and he’s in discussions with Obama advisers about the possibility of doing as many as two dozen or more events, according to …

Economy, Society & World »

[16 Sep 2008 | Comments Off | ]

Yesterday Wall Street had its worst day since reopening following the September 11th tragedy. AIG- a company that primarily deals in insurance- has been teetering on collapse and had appealed to the Fed for help. They’re getting that help- to the tune of $85 billion. 
With time running out after A.I.G. failed to get a bank loan to avoid bankruptcy, Treasury Secterary Henry M. Paulson Jr. and the Fed chairman Ben S. Bernanke convened a meeting with House and Senate leaders on Capitol Hill about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday to explain the rescue plan.
They emerged just …

Election08, Politics »

[16 Sep 2008 | One Comment | ]

I don’t know what’s gotten in to him, but this sounds more like some angry member of left blogistan than Richard Cohen.  I like it!
This goes along with Cohen’s article today, wherein he realizes that John McCain is not the most perfect, honorable, bipartisan, mavericky politician in the entire world and has turned into just another Republican.
I think McCain is starting to lose his base…

Politics »

[16 Sep 2008 | Comments Off | ]

Yesterday, Karl Rove said that McCain’s lying attack ads were going too far. 
On air at Fox News, Megyn Kelly ripped into McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds for the campaign’s outright lies about Obama’s tax proposals. 
Now Mitt Romney is calling McCain out on his oral allergy to truth: 

For Kids, Indie Retailers »

[16 Sep 2008 | Comments Off | ]

Book bags are as essential to the school experience as pencils. Elementary school aged children get to have some fun with their backpacks shaped like animals or dyed bright colors. By the time they’re in junior high and high school- if things are still as they were ten years ago- book bags are the lead weights they have to strap to them in an uneven distribution that will come back to haunt them years later in the form of early onset back pain. But I digress. 
Ecogear has kid’s book bags …