A Good Year for the Outlaw

When I heard CNN and Faux early this morning going over some of the details of the “bailout bill”, I was initially in favor of it passing. But as I read further into it, I was hoping more and more throughout the day that it would not pass the House. It did not pass the [...]

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I wouldn’t have expected anything else, but it’s still high-larious when the McCain camp and their shills at the WSJ make a big boo boo. From Bloomberg this morning:
McCain kept everyone hanging on whether he’d participate in the first presidential debate. There was no doubt among his advertising staff. In fact, several hours before the [...]

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Up until just before the GOP national convention, I was torn between Obama and McCain. I honestly didn’t know who I was voting for, although I was leaning towards Obama because he went with Joe Biden as his VP (Bill Richardson was my other hopeful). But if McCain made the right pick, and it appeared [...]

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When a wacko neo-con who is best buddies and a long time associate of Jack Abramoff, a guy who authored Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America”, a guy who lobbied for the NRA and is now on their board of directors, a guy who believes in the total deregulation of corporate America (see where that has [...]

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Joe Klein’s column in Time this week skips past the usual softballs. Part of the story:
Usually when a candidate tells something less than the truth, we mince words. We use euphemisms like mendacity and inaccuracy … or, as the Associated Press put it, “McCain’s claims skirt facts.” But increasing numbers of otherwise sober observers, even [...]

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Stonewalling an investigation until after Election Day. This woman and her handlers are NO different than anything Washingon has seen before.
McCain/Palin are saying that THEY are the way to get “change” in Washington? I don’t think so.
What’s the big deal, Sarah? Why the sudden switcheroo from “I’ll cooperate” to this new attitude? Too [...]

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McCain’s camp is outed again regarding Obama’s tax plan. It’s time the sane part of the GOP told them to stop embarrassing themselves.

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Jerome Corsi’s book “The Obama Nation” is a joke. End of post.

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From my home state, comes this story. A story we read FAR too often in this country.
Another legally acquired gun ending lives. Sad.
Pop quiz: guess how many people would have died in Illinois in this story? Answer: the exact same number. Conceal carry isn’t the answer, people. Period.

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I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around this for quite some time, but still no luck.
According to the likes of George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, and everyone else who supports a ban on gay marriage, the following is true:
A coke-addicted, bar-fighting, gun-totin’, redneck, seven-outstanding warrant-havin’ outlaw of a male getting married to a [...]

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The highest gas prices in the state as of 3:15 Sunday afternoon are anywhere from $4.49 to $4.69 per gallon, and anywhere from Carbondale to Mattoon to Sycamore.
The State Police need to be ordered by the Governor to be pulled out of their speed traps and sent to these stations immediately and start questioning [...]

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As a more casual football fan than I was as a kid, I don’t get as upset when teams I like lose games like I used to. That being said, it’s still pretty frustrating to watch the best running back in the NFL right now, Adrian Petersen, a kid who has a chance to be [...]

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As of 1:40 PM on Friday, gas shot up 40 cents per gallon in DeKalb to $4.19, and as of 2:20 PM, two stations in Willisville, IL (west of Carbondale) just went up to $4.30. All because of another hurricane threatening, perhaps?
Well, maybe not…Texas gas prices have FALLEN today by a penny or two [...]

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Notre Dame is honoring Lou Holtz this Saturday with a statue, commemorating the school’s last mythical national football championship.
Not mentioned in this ESPN fluff piece is the fact that Holtz got Notre Dame put on probation as he left, the only time in school history they’ve ever gotten in trouble with the NCAA. That means, [...]

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Last week, I sent an announcer down to Cerro Gordo to call a high school football game, and tried to find him a room so he could spend the night in Champaign-Urbana and cover the Illini the next day.
More on that in a minute. But first, a little background:
Years ago, shortly after I [...]

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Sarah Palin’s family is “off limits”. So says Mr. Obama, and the GOP approves. So do I, as far as talking specifically about Ms. Palin’s daughter.
That being said, I will NOT keep the discussion “off limits” as it pertains to the hypocrisy of the religious right neo-cons who are so “energized” with the selection [...]

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Diane called me this morning to say she heard Kid Rock’s “All Summer Long” (a VERY clever riff on both “Werewolves of London” and “Sweet Home Alabama”, btw) on a country station in the Quad Cities this morning, and they edited out the word “smokin’” from the line “we were smokin’ funny things…”.
Are you [...]

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All I can say is it’s a good thing they weren’t from Oregon.
Unique logo placement
EDIT: Billy, try it now, sir.

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Yes, I’m posting again. And yes, I miss my Dad terribly. He always thought I was pretty good at putting my thoughts either on paper or on the radio, so for him I’ll put my thoughts down once again.

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A few weeks back, I saw my first 2009 Dodge Challenger SRT-8 up close and personal. Yesterday, I saw my first “everyday” 2009 Challenger SE and 2009 Challenger R/T vehicles up close and personal.
The next thing I’ll see is me behind the wheel of one. May not be this week, may not be this [...]

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She hired a lobbyist to help her little town get more federal monies, she left that town in debt, she flip-flopped (and fibbed) about her support/non-support for “the Bridge to Nowhere”, she’s under investigation in her own state, and she and her GOP friends applauded Mr. Obama for saying “family is off limits”, and then [...]

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“It’s time to take off our Republican hats and put on our American hats.” – John McCain…and countless other talking-point spouting GOP members, prior to Hurricane Gustav reaching the Gulf Coast.
Yep, I knew it all along. This explains everything.

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