Happy Birthday, Pam!!!

My lovely blogging partner is turning another year more beautiful today.
I first met her a little over two years ago on the Kerry campaign (Sigh). She was beautiful inside and out, a true genius, and someone that was genuinely fun to be around.
And you’ve got nothing but better since then, Pam.
Over the last year, [...]

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Disgusting. Disgraceful.

MAF54: did any girl give you a haand job this weekendXxxxxxxxx: lol noXxxxxxxxx: im single right nowXxxxxxxxx: my last gf and I broke up a few weeks agiMAF54: are youMAF54: good so your getting horny
This is an exchange between Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL 16) and a sixteen year-old congressional page.
There’s a level of depravity that [...]

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From an Asset to a Liability

I’m getting word today that Bob Corker has started push polling against Harold Ford Jr. in the US Senate race. One of the questions deals with voter fraud in the Ford family. Vehemently Pro-Ford blogger Chris Jackson has denied that anything of the kind ever took place.
Not so fast, Mr. Jackson. Even [...]

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Wish Sarah a Happy Birthday

I feel safe in speaking for my lovely blogging partner Pam in wishing our dear friend Sarah Rutledge, founder of the local Drinking Liberally chapter a happy birthday today.
You’re not getting older. You’re getting better, I assure you. And she’s still young enough to think of a birthday as a good thing.

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A Political Lesson for Isaac Ford

“This was a straight setup. I’m disgusted we even showed up,” Isaac Ford grumbled after Monday night’s candidate forum. He had witnessed the same sad performance out of his brother Jake that the audience had, and was one of the few Jake Ford supporters in the room unwilling to pretend that he had made a [...]

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It’s Not Even Funny Anymore…

I won’t pretend that I wasn’t backing Steve Cohen before last night’s forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters. I’m a Democrat, and I’m unabashed and unrepentant for my support for Democratic candidates, unless they are simply unfit to hold office.
Nor will I pretend that Jake Ford did anything last night to swing [...]

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Educational Observation

As many of you know by now, Jake Ford did his media debut on Monday. On the same day, Sen. Steve Cohen addressed the College Democrats at the University of Memphis. I got to listen to Jake and Steve on the same day, which clarified my views about the characteristics that identify and differentiate [...]

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Open Letter to Harold Ford Sr.

Dear Harold,
The game you walked away from a decade ago is not the same game you walked back into a few weeks ago. One of the most important differences is that the Ford name simply no longer means what it used to. Once upon a time, someone with Jake’s name could have shown [...]

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Shaky Jake on the Radio

Derek Haire has written a terrific piece on it over at the River City Mud Bugle and posted the audio files.
Jake certainly exceeded all expectations of him during the interview. Of course, expectations were so low that he surpassed them by managing to get through the interview without urinating his pants or setting the [...]

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The REAL Reason Harold is Helping Jake…

When you look at the abysmal lack of qualifications Jake Ford has for holding office, you can only ask “Why? What did we ever do to the Ford family that we deserve this albatross around our neck?”
Here’s the answer: Nothing. Much like when he’s voting in the House of Representatives, Harold Ford [...]

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WTF?!

(In response to Freed’s previous post and this Space Ninja’s post)
Ok, people. Let’s cut the BS. Moral support from Jr. to Jake I can understand and live with, but anything beyond that is a slap in the face of the voters of the 9th Congressional District.
I don’t mind Jr. and Jake exchanging [...]

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Kudos to the U of M College Dems!

“Anonymous, pissed off source” dropped me a letter in the Freedonian Mailbag today.
The College Democrats met with Harold Ford Jr. at his HQ today. After he spoke to them, he let his asshead little brother speak to the volunteers that showed up.
Asshead is apparently running his campaign out of Harold’s HQ (Something to ponder before [...]

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B-U-S-T-E-D

Would you elect a congressional candidate that does not dare to confront his opponent overtly? Someone who has so little substance that he must disguise his identity to cowardly attack others? Would you vote for someone who is so incompetent that he can’t even protect his own anonymity from being discovered?
If your answer is [...]

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A Sad Ending To an Era…

One of the great things about this blogging gig is that in addition to writing, I get to promote the truly remarkable work of my fellow bloggers.
Do yourself a favor and pay a visit to Crackerville. “A Sad Ending To an Era…” is what this thing is all about.
Bravo, my friend.

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The Fucktard Alert Level is…

Green, apparently.  I’m still alive.  You are, if you’re reading this.  And no global nuclear war broke out last night, despite the dire warnings of the House of Yahweh.
So I wanted to follow up yesterday’s phone call by contacting the whackos directly yet again.  I gave them plenty of time just in case they were in some different time [...]

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Fucktard Alert!!!

Yes, I’m aware that I pretty much abandoned use of that word so that the guys at Flypaper Theory could continue with their mastery of it. But no word seems to match this level of stupidity, except maybe “Jakiness”.
A group of heavily armed whackos in Texas called The House of Yahweh have pooled their collective [...]

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9/11

Everywhere I’ve looked today, there’s been some maudlin “We’ll never forget” item on every newscast. For the last week, the airwaves have been flooded with one dramatization after another. The largely fictional “The Path to 9/11″, which largely whitewashed the action (Or lack thereof) of the first eight months of the Bush White House. “The [...]

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Halimah Abdullah’s Literary Offenses

With all due apologies to Mark Twain for borrowing his title… Given that the subject of this piece writes so badly that even James Fenimore Cooper looks like Bill the Bard by comparison, it seems fitting.
For those who aren’t aware, Abdullah the Butcher wrote this in the Political Notebook:
If you can’t beat ‘em, blog ‘em… [...]

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Sneak Preview of Bush’s 9/11 Speech

He’s reserved a few minutes of network TV time for Monday night, and yep, it’s been leaked.
Fellow Amerrcans,
Five years ago today, I was reading stories with some kids. Some guy comes up to me and says “Mr. President, we’re under attack”. It was a real pain in the ass, because we were just [...]

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The Winner Is… Willie Herenton.

Mayors Wharton and Herenton held a joint press conference yesterday to endorse State Senator Steve Cohen in the 9th District Congressional race yesterday. The endorsement was not a huge surprise— I think most of us expected it.
But Herenton scored HUGE in it. You can watch his full comments by clicking here and clicking the video [...]

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