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That was a great night last night. CSPAN's coverage was :Chicago accent: da bomb.

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Bubba's speech was a thing of beauty. Wonky and riviting at the same time.

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I love the Obama Diary. Here's Hillary in East Timor....

The country is unquestionably better off than it was in 2008. The economy has added 4.5 million private-sector jobs since January 2010; even if you subtract the vast job losses in the early months of President Obama’s term, before his policies went into effect, the country is still ahead by 332,000 private-sector jobs.

That level of job growth is close to the recovery following the 1990s recession, and it is actually stronger than after the early-2000s recession. But it doesn’t feel strong because the original hole was so deep and so many people are still suffering: 12.8 million remain unemployed.

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Morning

Big Dawg was awesome!

Although watching it on Current is a bit distracting with the twitter feed on the side

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HEy, I forgot to tell you guys that Bobber found that we have the 'Span in HI DEF!

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Say, while I was out and about in the dark last night, I heard an Eastern Screech Owl.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CBS) – Elizabeth Warren hit prime-time TV last night with a typically passionate recitation of the anguish of the working classes and denounciation of the predatory practices of the ruling classes.

That’s her message, and she delivers it well.

But if you passed up the football game to watch it, Warren’s speech had one somewhat curious omission – any mention of her opponent, Scott Brown.
In a background briefing for reporters, a Warren campaign aide said the speech was supposed to be an endorsement of President Obama and his agenda, not a Massachusetts Senate race stump speech, although it’s hard to believe a name-check of her opponent would have been inappropriate.

But the move also tells you something about the Warren campaign strategy that’s been apparent for awhile.

She wants to nationalize this race, capitalize on the higher-than-normal turnout of a presidential race in a very blue state, and take advantage of the distaste many local voters have for the Republicans in Congress.

If November 6 is a referendum on them, Scott Brown is in big trouble. That’s why he’s so aggressively promoting the notion that he’s part of a bi-partisan solution, not part of the partisan problem.

I’ve heard Senator Brown disparagingly note this nationalization effort a couple of times, as if it was some sort of out-of-towner’s putdown of the locals, but he really has no grounds for complaint.

National backlash against health-care reform and squishy anti-terror tactics helped Brown win the seat in the first place two years ago, not to mention the national money that poured into his campaign.

If this all sounds like inside baseball, believe me, the outcome could turn on it.
Will those undecided voters decide to scratch an anti-Wall Street, anti-Republican itch, or honor another local tradition – keeping the likeable hometown incumbent on the job?

We’ll answer that one sometime late at night on November 6th.

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Say now, a question for our blog code-brewer. (Sounds much nicer than code-monkey, doesn't it?)

Do you guys get all the weird gimpy quotes when cutting and pasting, or is it local to my machine? (see my post below - I have a lot of gibberish in there that I'm seeing.)

Any ideas?

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Say now, a question for our blog code-brewer. (Sounds much nicer than code-monkey, doesn't it?)

Do you guys get all the weird gimpy quotes when cutting and pasting, or is it local to my machine? (see my post below - I have a lot of gibberish in there that I'm seeing.)

Any ideas?

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There are special hiden formating characters in the text. Since the add a comment box in enabled to read all the mark-up tags etc from HTML it displays the fromating codes as gibberish. Try pasting your quotes into Notepad first then use the plain ASCI text from the open Notepad into the comment field.

*grumble*

look, all I want is to use this computer thingy to get online and look and my grandkids pictures. Do I type the email in the space at the top?

< flees country >

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This is what Morning joe does to a lot of people.

Brokaw taken to the hospital.

"All is well Early AM I mistakenly took a half dose of Ambien and made less sense than usual. Made a better comeback than Giants..."

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So, HEY!

This is EXACTLY the way I thought the owner of the show would look!

He looks like the Monopoly man?

Three of the four victims of a shooting in the French Alps were shot in the head, a French prosecutor has said.

A man, named by UK neighbours as Saad al-Hilli, 50, from Surrey, and an elderly woman were found dead in a car. A French cyclist, found nearby, was also shot dead.

Mr al-Hilli's wife was also killed, and a daughter, four, hid in the car for eight hours before police found her.

They were found by an ex-RAF officer, on a forest road near Lake Annecy.

Mr al-Hilli's wife was named by neighbours in Claygate as Iqbal, and the couple's daughters as Zainab, seven, and Zeena.

Annecy prosecutor Eric Maillaud said they were not looking for any more survivors.

"It was clearly an act of extreme savagery and it was obvious that who did this wanted to kill," he said.

The motive for the attack remains a mystery, he added

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Did we hear about this today?

Three of the four victims of a shooting in the French Alps were shot in the head, a French prosecutor has said.

A man, named by UK neighbours as Saad al-Hilli, 50, from Surrey, and an elderly woman were found dead in a car. A French cyclist, found nearby, was also shot dead.

Mr al-Hilli's wife was also killed, and a daughter, four, hid in the car for eight hours before police found her.

They were found by an ex-RAF officer, on a forest road near Lake Annecy.

Mr al-Hilli's wife was named by neighbours in Claygate as Iqbal, and the couple's daughters as Zainab, seven, and Zeena.

Annecy prosecutor Eric Maillaud said they were not looking for any more survivors.

"It was clearly an act of extreme savagery and it was obvious that who did this wanted to kill," he said.

The motive for the attack remains a mystery, he added

The victims are all Iraqi ex-pats....don't know if that means anything.

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Morning

Big Dawg was awesome!

Although watching it on Current is a bit distracting with the twitter feed on the side

I tried watching it for a bit. It big mess o' graphics.

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Good day, folks. At least one point was made quite clear last night as I remember thinking about it back in '08 was that the Bush years had effed things up so badly that it was going to be a mess for whoever was his successor and that person was going to have a tough job. And now with the GOP going hard right, and deciding that the goal was to shoot anything coming from the opposition down, that job became much more difficult. I know that the important thing is to not turn the keys to the GOP and hopefully enough people follow suit that they get their butts kicked in November.

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Dear IT people,

Please do not take mission critial servers off line during peak business hours.

That is all.

Thank you.

All of the American workforce.

We just had a bit of our process offline for about 90 minutes...a critical piece called "file mover" that grabs things off the FTP server and puts it into the EDI engine. For a midday "upgrade"???

I was incredulous when the email came out yesterday. "They're shutting this down during business hours?"

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I generally don't understand the whole "free trade" concept. Through most of our history, the US has been pretty much protectionist and did things to ensure the growth of our own industries.

I suppose like everything else, we could track it back to a certain person who was in office in the 80s.

Now it's my turn to dust off an old saw - you know the urban myth that NASA lost the blueprints to the Saturn V? (Not true.) Suppose the President decided we should set foot on the moon again for the 50th anniversary in 2019, and ordered that we don't re-invent the wheel and re-use proven technology?

We couldn't do it.

The blueprints aren't lost....but manufacturing capacity, and more importantly, engineering know-how, that's what the offshoring of industry is costing us.

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Ah, Herr Mondo.

I noticed whilst perusing the "This day in History" sections of the intertubes that today is the 17th anniversary of 'the night I forgave baseball'.

On that night, we were all Orioles. And Yankees, too. It was jaw-dropping when Joe DiMaggio came out...of course, he played with Lou Gehrig. Only baseball has that sense of history.

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OK, I am sick of their truthiness.

And I am a lot offended by this ad.

Former GOPer: How Republicans Went Crazy, Dems Lost Their Mojo, and the Middle Class Got Shafted
Bill Moyers talks with Mike Lofgren, a long-time Republican who describes the modern dysfunction of both the Republican and Democratic parties.
September 5, 2012 |




Bill Moyers talks with Mike Lofgren, a long-time Republican who describes the modern dysfunction of both the Republican and Democratic parties. In Lofgren's view, Republicans have become overly obsessed with obstructing President Obama, and the Democrats suffer from political complacency. Lofgren's new book is The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted.



Bill Moyers: The growing power of the religious right is one reason my guest left the Republican Party and became an Independent. "The mixture of politics and religion," he says, "debases both, and has turned the GOP into an apocalyptic sect." He has his problems with Democrats, too. For one thing, he says, both parties "are captives to corporate loot."

Others may share those opinions, but what gives Mike Lofgren more clout than the rest is decades of insider experience on Capitol Hill. He was a Fulbright scholar with two degrees in history when he went to work in Congress and became a senior staff member of the House and Senate Budget committees. His specialty was the cost of national security. After 28 years of government service, Mike Lofgren retired and sat down to write a powerful manifesto that took off like a rocket when it was posted on the website Truthout.org.

It's now a book: "The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted." As you can tell from the title, he spares no one.

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Dear IT people,

Please do not take mission critial servers off line during peak business hours.

That is all.

Thank you.

All of the American workforce.

We just had a bit of our process offline for about 90 minutes...a critical piece called "file mover" that grabs things off the FTP server and puts it into the EDI engine. For a midday "upgrade"???

I was incredulous when the email came out yesterday. "They're shutting this down during business hours?"

I totally understand that something are unavoidable. Like, a fiber optic cable by cut by an errant backhoe. But doing system upgrades that impact productivity during normal business hours is just weird.

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Ah, full circle and four years.

Four years ago, who did I complain about nearly every day?

Well, seeing that I am perhops not better off than I was four years ago, but on the road back to reaching that goal, I'm about to say many bad words about WebMD today.

(Fortunately not my regular account - but I'm covering for a vacationing person.)

<-- obsenities, froth, etc.

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Gabby Giffoirds is going to plede the allegiance in about 10minutes...

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Gabby Giffoirds is going to plede the allegiance in about 10minutes...

Do you mean she going to be leading the delegates in the Pledge of Allegiance?
: P