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And now for your regular slug of GOP WTF: how they hell do they sleep at night?

By on September 4, 2009

Apparently, POTUS telling kids to work hard in school is part of Obama’s ‘socialist agenda’ – I shit you not.

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The Inauguration Will Be LiveBlogChatted

By on January 20, 2009

Edit 20 Jan: Just bumping this up as a reminder. Are there any more regular/known-to-me Hoydenizens willing to be added as panellists? The upside, for you, is that your comments will be put through to the liveblogchat window immediately. The downside is that I’ll ask you to help with approving guest comments through. If you can only be there for part of it, that’s fine too.

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Linkfest: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

By on December 27, 2008

The Good Mothers in Medicine: “Getting In the Sterile Field”, by Tempeh. The topic verges on glurge, but it’s well-written and non-cliche enough to bite. Or maybe I’m just susceptible right now. Make up your own mind. As you can imagine, putting chemo into someone’s brain is a tad unnerving. The sterile field is no [...]

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Unsurprised schadenfreude

By on November 11, 2008

Remember all that McCain campaign rhetoric about how Obama’s August 2007 statement on the need for sporadic pursuits of Al Qaeda into Pakistan without prior diplomatic notice showed that he was an irresponsible loon who should never be commander-in-chief? (and a few Democrats sounded off as well before Obama won the primaries) Well just look [...]

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Just one thing

By on November 8, 2008

Just like a gazillion others, I’ve been thinking about what Obama could/should do, in his first 100 days in office, that would be small in terms of the effort required (falling within executive powers entirely, no Congressional courting/approval required) but that would make an immediate, huge, difference to many people. I ended up deciding that [...]

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US Election ’08: Transcript of Hoyden About Town LiveBloggyChat

By on November 5, 2008

Greetings, folks! [A transcript of president-elect Barack Obama's acceptance speech at Grant Park is here.] Earlier today, we had a liveblog/chat during the US election result counting. I’ve cleaned it up and trimmed it a lot (trying to maintain the feel, flow, and milestones). Here it is, for those who missed it or for those [...]

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Projected Results

By on November 5, 2008

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Hitchens on Palin

By on October 22, 2008

Watch how a real maverick works. The emphasis on experience is in many ways the wrong one (rather as it has been when directed at Sen. Barack Obama). The problem with Gov. Palin is not that she lacks experience. It’s that she quite plainly lacks intellectual curiosity. It is not snobbish to harbor grave doubts [...]

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Weekend election speculation

By on October 18, 2008

Open thread – just to keep the other open thread from being overwhelmed. It’s normally OK to discuss some political news stories on the Otterday open thread, but the election stuff tends to drown out everything else if we’re not careful, so let’s keep it over here. Two news items of interest: Powell may endorse [...]

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Election Watch: 4 more weeks

By on October 7, 2008

I’m surprised that most US blogs I read are still as hung up on the VP debate as they are, but there you go. Reading Michelle Malkin’s liveblogging of the event was an eye-opener though (not linking, google if you must). Talk about a totally different lens. On with the main event (the next presidential [...]

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Delaware has a Very Narrow Maritime Border with Jersey: In Defence of Joe Biden

By on October 1, 2008

Author: stalwart Hoydenizen Amanda also blogs at Flop-Eared Mule All debate lead-ups are exercises in lowering the expectations for your candidate, although in this VP debate the effort is somewhat half-hearted from the Dems because … well, you know, Sarah Palin.    But still, there are press reports/strategic leaks about anxious moments in Arugula HQ [...]

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McCain doesn’t want children to learn how to protect themselves

By on September 11, 2008

A couple of days ago I talked about John McCain’s vigorous opposition to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Now he has put out a lying attack ad against Barack Obama. The bill concerned included teaching young schoolchildren developmentally-appropriate protective behaviours, so that they may be able to recognise, resist, and [...]

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Bambi’s mother found shot dead in forest after threatening to go public about her affair with Obama

By on July 28, 2008

Never mind that he wasn’t even born, add her to the many victims on the Obama Death List, which miraculously includes the name of a man who was also apparently part of the Clinton Body Count 10 years earlier. (That comments thread is a mess due to heaps of comments being despaminated after multiple repostings, [...]

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USA: The Democrats nomination

By on June 5, 2008

The roar is becoming deafening: every newspaper says that Hillary Clinton’s race is run, that it’s time for her to concede that Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee. But will Clinton do it, or will she continue to campaign until the last gasp of the primaries season? And if she does concede in a [...]

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