The Republicans are playing their cards close to the chest. Everyone is wondering what it's going to be: lawsuit or impeachment? What's the best way to waste a lot of taxpayer money on a pointless exercise designed to fire up the most right-wing of the base? The bigger question should be - what do they possibly hope to accomplish, other than career suicide?
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45 comments (Latest Comment: 07/30/2014 20:32:13 by Mondobubba)

Up late after a whirlwind weekend.

I was out of the loop for 48 hours, to be honest. My sister decided at the tender age of not quite 40 to marry her longtime partner of 10 years.

It was a beautiful ceremony.

I came home to a garden full of fresh vegetables and a relaxing evening with my partner.
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43 comments (Latest Comment: 07/28/2014 21:46:40 by Raine)

Good Morning.

A very busy day in the offing - I'm headed to my ancestral homeland this morning on my very first Bugles Across America mission. My friend's father has passed, and he was a USN veteran of the Korean era and is to be buried with military honours today. I shall humbly offer a rendition of Taps at the appropriate time.

We're a week back from Scout camp today, and another fine week was had by all. Unlike last summer, I did not feel compelled to walk all over camp and remember places and things from my days as a Scout some 30 years back. Nay, I was merely an adult in camp.
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2 comments (Latest Comment: 07/27/2014 13:31:21 by velveeta jones)

ugh - thought I thought of a good blog but my brain isn't working. So in honor of this weekend being Comic-Con let me share with your some adorable cosplay pets.

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10 comments (Latest Comment: 07/25/2014 16:51:18 by TriSec)

Ever since Hillary Clinton dropped a fifty pound document describing a new health plan for America back when her husband was president, the Republicans have been dead-set against anything that comes between a patient and their insurance company. People like to say "America is #1", but the reality is that about the only things we're number one at are things not to be proud of, including bankruptcies because of medical bills.

That hasn't stopped the Republicans from trying to prevent any sort of healthcare reforms or health insurance regulations. When they couldn't stop the ACA from becoming law, they made it their life mission to destroy it. Over fifty votes later in the Republican-controlled House, they still haven't been able to repeal it.

What they haven't been able to accomplish via legislative means they might actually accomplish via the courts (or - in their words - "legislating from the bench", which they rail against until it goes their way).
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38 comments (Latest Comment: 07/23/2014 22:12:46 by Scoopster)