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…
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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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ALBANY, N.Y. — The wife of a Libertarian running for New York governor race is speaking out against an anonymous campaign mailer that depicted her husband as the subject of a “sexual predator alert.” via Anonymous mailer: NY gov candidate is sex predator.
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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.
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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…
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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
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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.
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With Halloween on a Sunday this year, I’m home during the beginning of prime time “trick or treat” visitors. As it’s still broad daylight outside, leaving the porchlight off isn’t really a visible sign that “we’re not at home, no candy here.” So I barricaded the front porch with 2 plastic chairs, and on the walkway leading up to the porch, one plastic chair tightly wedged between the lilac bushes, and another chair in front of that at the beginning of the walkway from the driveway. I just didn’t want to hear the doorbell all afternoon and evening, and also…
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The name’s Yeaggy; Harry Yeaggy. The Top Gear guys are in mourning. The 1964 Aston Martin DB5, which boasts revolving licence plates, ejector seat and bullet-proof shield, featured in the films Goldfinger and Thunderball. The silver model is still capable of 145mph and 0-60mph in 7.1 seconds. It was bought at a London auction by collector Harry Yeaggy, who will display it at a car museum in Ohio. Via BBC News
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Not that I had any doubt, they did in my day too, but because the music, hair and clothes were so butt-ugly.