Missouri
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9:57 a.m.
I don't think the Missouri Department of Transportation had this in mind as an acceptable manifestation of their Adopt a Highway program. On Missouri Highway 13, approximately two and a half miles north of the intersection of U.S. Highway 50, the following text is painted in three foot high letters (readable as you drive south): OBAMA IS AMERICA'S HITLER! GOOD BYE FREEDOM .....
Show Me Progress - Sun 2:47 p.m. - 3 clicks 
That's the upshot of Bill Lambrecht's St. Louis Post-Dispatch article on Blunt's role in shaping GOP "policy" on health care reform. (I'm not sure you can call it "policy" when you can only produce a slim four page brochure chock full of slogans and devoid of numbers.) Voters fed up with insurance companies' red tape and denials of claims seem to favor a public option: 70 percent or more endorse....
Show Me Progress - Sun 9:47 a.m. - 7 clicks
The firecrackers started going off in the street this afternoon. Before sunset there were a few impatiently set bottle rockets and one large mortar. The shrieks and whistles have escalated along with the distinct bass drum boom of mortars launching larger fireworks to greater heights. This will go on until at least midnight. Tomorrow morning we'll see the detritus all over our neighborhood... [...
Show Me Progress - Sat 10:01 p.m.
The text: Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address The White House July 4, 2009 Hello and Happy Fourth of July, everybody. This weekend is a time to get together with family and friends, kick back, and enjoy a little time off. And I hope that's exactly what all of you do. But I also want to take a moment today to reflect on what I believe is the meaning of this distinctly American.....
Show Me Progress - Sat 3:29 p.m.
It all makes perfect sense - the campaign would revolve around highlighting their gubernatorial accomplishments. Sarah Palin (r) on July 3, 2009: Palin Announces No Second Term No Lame Duck Session Either ...And we are doing well! My administration's accomplishments speak for themselves. We work tirelessly for Alaskans... ...With this announcement that I am not seeking re-election... I've... ...
Show Me Progress - Sat 8:20 a.m.
Does Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer truly believe that nearly 50% of Republicans are "Socialist". It would seem so according to his Assistant Chief of Staff Gary Marble, Columbia, MO. ...
DailyKos (Missouri) - Sat 12:05 a.m. - 6 clicks
Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) loves Twitter . And, on more than one occasion, her off-the-cuff comments have caused some uproar. Not the excited notes from a sports fan (shared her same sentiments at that one), but off-hand comments about major policy issues that suggest potentially recklessly shallow understanding of critical issues. After the House voted to pass HR2454, the Wa...
DailyKos (Missouri) - Sat 12:05 a.m. - 2 clicks
Fireworks on July 3, 2009 at Powell Gardens in Kingsville, Missouri. Thomas Jefferson - July 4, 1826 May (July 4) be to the world, what I believe it will be -- to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all -- the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security......
Show Me Progress - Fri 10:48 p.m. - 2 clicks
Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, is sending this letter to press outlets all over the state. He argues convincingly for a bond issue to fund new construction on state university and junior college campuses: The Fifth State Bond Issue: Let's Not Play Politics With Our State's Future by State Representative Chris Kelly Since last December I have been nagging anyone who would listen--and some who.....
Show Me Progress - Fri 1:53 p.m. - 3 clicks
Store "" to Goals Store "" to Results Store "" to Change Store "Bipartisanship" to Myth Do while .not. EOF Case .not. EOF If gop = "Lucy" .and. Dems = "Charlie Brown" Store "Obstruction" to Goals Store "" to Results Accept "Are you ready to move forward?" Y/N to Change If Change = "N" ... ...
Show Me Progress - Fri 10:50 a.m.
I've been a Russ Carnahan skeptic since I moved to Saint Louis. The first few times I saw him speak, he was every bit as awkward and milquetoast as he was portrayed in Can Mr Smith Get To Washington Any More? and his early voting record was just as weak as one would have predicted from his performance in that race. But recently I've shifted in my opinion. Carnahan's voting record has been... ...
Show Me Progress - Fri 10:15 a.m. - 2 clicks
.Sean focuses on one of Bond's outrageous statements to KY3, namely that we should thank Bush for Iraq. (Sen. Bond, thanks, but no thanks.) But I think the bigger story here is a leading Republican calling for the US to cut off the inflow of refined petroleum into Iran in order to change the government of Iran. [Senator Bond] That will cause a change in the regime's attitude, or a regime... ...
Show Me Progress - Fri 9:01 a.m.
"Sky Spirit" - Sabra Tull Meyer - 1998 "Sky Spirit", a bronze sculpture by Sabra Tull Meyer, is located at Les Bourgeois Vineyards in Rocheport, Missouri - just up the hill from the bluffs overlooking the Missouri River . Sabra Tull Meyer is a sculptor who has worked in bronze for over 30 years. Her sculptures include; human figures, small to monumental in scale, portrait busts, memorial... ...
Show Me Progress - Fri 9:01 a.m.
Today Governor Jay Nixon (D) vetoed SB 202, the repeal of Missouri's motorcycle helmet law. He cited a number of reasons in his letter [pdf] to the Missouri Secretary of State: ...I disapprove of Senate Committee Substitute for Senate Bill No. 202. My reasons for disapproval are as follows: Senate Committee Substitute for Senate Bill No. 202 repeals Missouri's 42 year old helmet law for any... ...
Show Me Progress - Thu 3:17 p.m. - 5 clicks
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed the so-called American Clean Energy and Security Act (commonly referred to as “cap and trade”), but what it passed was a severely watered-down version that takes only the smallest steps toward reducing greenhouse gases. While it may be marginally better than no act at all, it fails the people in these ways: The bill’s targets are far less ambit...
St. Louis Oracle - Thu 1:41 p.m. - 4 clicks
When traveling in Europe while studying abroad in college, I would occasionally run into people in hostels who had a strange view of traveling. I would ask them where they had just arrived from, and they would reply something like, "Oh, we just did Budapest." Anyone who said they had just "done" a city was hard-pressed to be able to tell me precisely what they had done, other than a pub crawl.... ...
Show Me Progress - Thu 12:20 p.m.
Somehow I don't see Mayor Slay or Mayor Funkhouser taking this step: It's now time to meet the carbon challenge. Our second goal for the next four years is to put L.A. on a path to permanently break our addiction to coal. Coal currently accounts for roughly 40% of the DWP's power portfolio. Breaking the coal habit is a long term proposition demanding a long-term commitment. It's going to require....
Show Me Progress - Thu 2:36 a.m. - 3 clicks
This diary is inspired by Cynthia Davis, the brain-dead political hack from Missouri who thinks that supplying food to hungry children is somehow a bad thing. I won't argue her point. To argue this issue with her is to give validity to her opinions, and those opinions are so far beyond the rational that to argue them is to elevate them. I am not willing to do this for her. ...
DailyKos (Missouri) - Jun 29 - 10 clicks
It's a quite a distinction to be included on Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" list three times in one week, twice in the number one spot. Previous coverage, cross posted from Show Me Progress , of Missouri State Representative Cynthia "Are there no prisons? Are there no work houses?" Davis (r): ...
DailyKos (Missouri) - Jun 29 - 5 clicks
Blue Girl wrote at Show Me Progress : We have been pretty gleeful in heaping abuse and scorn on Cynthia "Fagin" Davis for her comments about hunger serving as a motivator for poor children to get jobs, and with good reason. Yep, Cynthia Davis is a 'birther', a lobbyist sponge, and has some very interesting campaign finance reports: ...
DailyKos (Missouri) - Jun 29 - 2 clicks
President Obama is to be congratulated for his nomination of 2nd Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Sotomayor’s record of decisions is encouraging. The only question mark is the absence of a record on abortion rights. Some have raised the prospect that, as a Hispanic Catholic, Sotomayor could actually provide the decisive vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. It wouldn’t be t...
St. Louis Oracle - Jun 26 - 2 clicks
Michael Jackson's death has the cable pundits speculating on parallels between the King of Pop and the Queen of Pulp, Anna Nicole Smith. Both so sad, the talking heads say. Both so alike. Gah. Let the heads blather with their short-term memory. Jackson's death is simply Elvis Presley, Part Two. We have a Memphis newspaper from Aug. 17, 1977, the morning after Presley literally left the building...
Ron Davis - Jun 25
Remember the Uncle Remus fairy tale in which Br’er Rabbit pled to his captors not to throw him into the thorny briar patch, the very place the conniving rabbit wanted to be all along? Representatives for big banks seemed to have that tale in mind when they cried crocodile tears and warned of disastrous consequences if Congress passed the so-called credit card reform bill. The banks got their secr...
St. Louis Oracle - May 24
