• Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Illinois Senate – Vote Twice For Your Guy

    Yeah, yeah. I’m just sad that I can’t vote AGAINST “Tombstone” Burris. The old Chicago adage "vote often" takes on new meaning Tuesday — instead of voting once for U.S. Senate, voters will weigh in twice. It’s all legit. The quirk is wrapped up in the drawn-out drama associated with the Senate seat that Barack Obama vacated after he was elected president in 2008. The short of it is that a federal judge ordered a special election to fill the remaining roughly 40 days of Obama’s Senate term. In the interests of time, that special election is being held at…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Illinois Senate – Vote Twice For Your Guy

    Yeah, yeah. I’m just sad that I can’t vote AGAINST “Tombstone” Burris. The old Chicago adage "vote often" takes on new meaning Tuesday — instead of voting once for U.S. Senate, voters will weigh in twice. It’s all legit. The quirk is wrapped up in the drawn-out drama associated with the Senate seat that Barack Obama vacated after he was elected president in 2008. The short of it is that a federal judge ordered a special election to fill the remaining roughly 40 days of Obama’s Senate term. In the interests of time, that special election is being held at…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Carter Slams FOX. Expect Bunny Reference In Rebuttal

    You can bet somebody at FOX will make a “witty” remark about killer rabbits to take the sting off Former President Jimmy Carter slammed Fox News Channel Sunday for their coverage of President Barack Obama. “With the discussion groups, for instance, on Fox News, that are totally biased, and they implant completely false images not only of the facts about legislation that’s passed, or doesn’t get passed, but also about the character of President Obama,” Cater told CNN’s Howard Kurtz. via Jimmy Carter: Fox News is ‘totally biased’ | Video Cafe. UPDATE: Thanks to Mitch for the timely rebuttal!

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Carter Slams FOX. Expect Bunny Reference In Rebuttal

    You can bet somebody at FOX will make a “witty” remark about killer rabbits to take the sting off Former President Jimmy Carter slammed Fox News Channel Sunday for their coverage of President Barack Obama. “With the discussion groups, for instance, on Fox News, that are totally biased, and they implant completely false images not only of the facts about legislation that’s passed, or doesn’t get passed, but also about the character of President Obama,” Cater told CNN’s Howard Kurtz. via Jimmy Carter: Fox News is ‘totally biased’ | Video Cafe. UPDATE: Thanks to Mitch for the timely rebuttal!

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    UK Airline Chief Kow-Towing in 3, 2, 1

    Three days later, the British Home Secretary issued a statement about the explosive device found in a cargo plane at East Midlands Airport. Britain should stop “kowtowing” to US demands over airport security, the chairman of British Airways, Martin Broughton, has said, adding that American airports did not implement some checks on their own internal flights. via UK should not put up with US airport security – BA chairman | World news | The Guardian.

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    We All Tumblog Down

    Finally… finally. It’s working, now that I’ve finally figured out where the tags go. I did have to replace WP’s the_title tag with Woo Tumblog’s tag, but I didn’t fully replace the entire line and permalink. Will need to figure out how to style the Links, Quotes, Video etc. tumblog archive links with a background image for each. Currently, if a post is a “link” post, the title link is replaced by the tumblog link, with a text link above to the “link” archive (or quotes, or whatever). I’d rather that word was replaced by the icon, but will have…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: October 16th – October 31st

    Make Your WordPress Blog More Like Tumblr – White Shaarks – Imagination is your future Install Bookmarklets on Delicious Blew this away by mistake on my iPhone, had to go find it again. Add a Facebook “Like” button to your WordPress blog Daily Episcopalian Elderly look for a little "action" in their quiet lives, and find heartache instead – chicagotribune.com

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Hey, Buddy, Wanna Buy An Election?

    Outside groups are dumping wads of cash on “ad buys” in most states… guess somebody wants to buy some politicians, huh? An unprecedented influx of political cash — most of it from outside Illinois — is feeding an inescapable wave of television attack ads aimed at manipulating voters in the final weeks of high-stakes campaigns for U.S. Senate and governor. via Money rolls in, campaign ads roll on – chicagotribune.com.