Missouri
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3:03 a.m.
Speaking at the Missouri Caucus breakfast, pollster Peter Hart styled himself as a "coldblooded analyst". Being a coldblooded pollster, though, doesn't mean Hart isn't partisan. He's done polling for so many years for the Carnahans and for Ike Skelton that he claims to have worked for Ike in his junior high run for student council. Some partisans can be objective, and as someone who has helped......
Show Me Progress - Wed 9:09 p.m.
Mo. AG candidate files new suit contesting ballots Associated Press - August 26, 2008 6:24 PM ET JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Losing Democratic attorney general candidate Margaret Donnelly has been rebuffed on procedural grounds by the Missouri Supreme Court in her quest for a review of uncounted ballot. But Donnelly has quickly re-filed her lawsuit in Clay County Circuit Court... tiny URL So,.....
Show Me Progress - Wed 8:21 p.m.
David Pearce (r - advocate of automotive deer hunting) and his republican enablers spent so much money on mail against Rex Rector (r - right wingnut) in the August 5th primary that we have to cover the material in multiple posts. Spending close to $150,000.00 in the primary will do that. Previous posts on Pearce's primary "mail plan": David Pearce (r) in the 31st Senate District - the... ...
Show Me Progress - Wed 8:21 p.m.
It's no secret that worries about the economy are foremost in voters' minds. In Missouri (Public Policy Polling) (pdf): ...Q10 I am going to name 7 issues. Which of these is most important to you? The War in Iraq, education, the economy and jobs, taxes, moral or family values, health care, or immigration... War in Iraq - 15% Education - 7% Economy and Jobs - 47% Taxes - 4% Moral and Family....
Show Me Progress - Wed 8:21 p.m.
In case you missed it (or want to see it again:) I'm not all that cynical usually, but I found myself getting there yesterday. Sitting there, watching the speakers on TV one after another praise Barack Obama the same way, I started getting cranky. It didn't help that Wolf Blitzer was droning on and on in between and sometimes during the speeches, a situation I remedied by switching it to... ...
Show Me Progress - Wed 8:21 p.m.
There's going to be a recount. Our previous coverage, eleven days ago: Margaret Donnelly to ask for recount in Attorney General primary Today I received the following via e-mail from Margaret Donnelly's legal representatives: Margaret Donnelly Officially Files Request for Recount in Attorney General Primary Certification of Missouri Democratic Primary Results Means that... [...
Show Me Progress - Wed 8:21 p.m.
Where to start? Despite how much of the day I've spent on buses and light rail, not to mention the time spent chit chatting with other bloggers and networking in general, I still heard more I want to report than I have a prayer of finding time to write about. At the Missouri caucus breakfast this morning, for example, I ran into Jim Ross, who works for Jill Schupp's campaign (she's trying to... ...
Show Me Progress - Wed 8:21 p.m.
It's odd how a theme is emeging from the various progressive centrist speakers in the blogger's tent. It wasn't consciously coordinated, I'm sure; they didn't plan to be "on message". No, it's just that a number of them have separately arrived at the conclusion that Obama isn't reliably progressive but that the progressives in his party are going to pressure him to move in that direction. Robert....
Show Me Progress - Wed 8:21 p.m.
Thomas Minihan (right) newly re-elected chair of the 4th Congressional District Democratic Committee with two other officers. Every two years, after the August primary when new and re-elected party precinct committee people are certified as elected, there is a flurry of party committee reorganization meetings as mandated by statute. Missouri Revised Statutes Chapter 115 Election Authorities.....
Show Me Progress - Wed 8:21 p.m.
Who subsequently wonders why McCaskill didn't get a primetime slot to give a red meat speech. Unbelievable! Here's the speech in case you missed it: On second viewing, McCaskill didn't grate on me the way it did the first time. The negatives are still there - she looks like she's working way too hard to be enthusiastic, she's got some awkward metaphors, and she quotes Obama a little too much.....
Show Me Progress - Wed 8:21 p.m.
And if you're a woman even thinking about wavering on voting for Obama because Clinton didn't get the nomination, you'll want to watch it. Lily was just on stage at the Democratic National Convention voicing her support of Barack Obama: In case you are unfamiliar with Lily Ledbetter, she was a female supervisor at a Goodyear plant in Alabama for 19 years. She consistently did the same work as... ...
Show Me Progress - Wed 8:21 p.m.
[Update] An apparent lookalike of Fformer Missouri Senator John Danforth (r) is occupying blogger space at the DNC in Denver. It's irritating a few bloggers: Why is DNC Turning Bloggers Away from Blogger Area When Former GOP Sen. Jack Danforth is sitting there? Submitted by Nick D on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 9:41pm. Okay, so DNC personnel is now turning bloggers away from the designated blogger... ...
Show Me Progress - Wed 8:21 p.m.
Hey Cameraman is at the Democratic National Convention and scored a video interview with State Senator Jolie Justus. She talks about her experiances blogging as an elected official and about blogging in general. Check out her experiences at the DNC on her Fresh Meat blog, which she is updating from her iPhone. ...
BlogKC - Wed 7:21 p.m.
The Glazer clan may have packed up Stanford’s and moved their drama to the hinterlands of KCK. The Power & Light District may be planning to bring a St. Louis comedy chain to Downtown. But Westport will not be denied its comedy. Improv troupe ComedyCity has relocated from Downtown’s Columbus Park neighborhood to a new [...]...
BlogKC - Wed 7:21 p.m.
No, not that kind of 4-letter word. Names. As I noted in my previous post , Democrats have adopted the “10-letter strategy” that Republicans have used in all seven of their wins over the past ten presidential elections. The surnames of Nixon Agnew, Reagan Bush, Bush Quayle and Bush Cheney all added up to 10 letters. Now, for the first time in 84 years, Democrats have selected a 10-letter tick...
St. Louis Oracle - Wed 4:52 p.m.
A quick summary of the Obama town hall meeting held at 11:15 CDST at the American Airlines maintenance facility in Kansas City, Missouri. ...
DailyKos (Missouri) - Wed 4:52 p.m.
In a blatant attempt to appease the health care insurance industry, Kenny Hulshof, Republican candidate for governor, revealed his health care plan for Missourians, HealthMAX. It states that it will provide competitive insurance plans to all Missourians regardless of pre-existing conditions. This will be done presumably by spreading the risk among all Missourians, but it [...]...
Left In Missouri - Wed 1:27 p.m. - 2 clicks 
Forbes Magazine has ranked the worst cities to be a sports fan. The good news is that we are not in the top 5. The bad news is that we are ranked #6... Reading the description was like stabbing yourself in the heart. Did we really need to be reminded that The Royals have only had one winning season since 1995? Then Forbes you put salt on our wound by telling us we are ranked 12th ...
The KC Blue Blog - Wed 11:26 a.m.
He really doesn't. Last week Gloria Squitiro posted on Funk's Front Porch a message about her controversy. In that she writes: It would appear that a lot of people are asking the question of why Funk and I would choose to have me serve as Funk’s personal assistant at City Hall instead having me do the same work for him from home, but the reality is that most of the ordinary people aren’t the o...
The KC Blue Blog - Wed 11:26 a.m.
Grand entrances to cities often have important, civic features, like fountains. We've talked about creating a new Memorial Drive entrance to downtown as a way to fix the seam between the Arch/riverfront and the rest of downtown. Imagine if part of the design included roundabouts at key intersections, with beautiful fountains like the ones in Forest Park? Thinking back to the comparison betwee...
STL Rising - Wed 10:08 a.m.
In case you missed it, it appears the multimodal transportation hub has finally opened in downtown St. Louis. Signs for Greyhound and Amtrak went up on the superstructure yesterday, and for the past few days, more and more people have been seen inside the scaly looking, multi-color windowed building. I'm not an architecture critic. Suffice it to say to me the building looks cool, and it's in th...
STL Rising - Wed 10:08 a.m.
We all know that this should be a Democratic year, but it is a fact that we could still loose the White House. How could this happen? Racism, petulant Hillary supporters, you name it. But one of the most important reasons could be the efforts of our corrupt, corporate media to prevent a Democratic victory that could cost them big. Clark, in his Aug. 23 diary on the selection of....
Show Me Progress - Mon 2:31 p.m. - 2 clicks
Bottom Line Communications has news that The KC Star is getting ready to announced another big round of layoffs, largely due to its continued inability to adapt to the no-longer-new Internet age. ...
BlogKC - Mon 9:01 a.m.
Tim Dahlberg of the Associated Press wrote a column today defending China's alleged--but proven to be true--use of underage athletes. In the column, Dahlberg calls the controversy "almost laughable" and even goes as far as to say that Team USA has asked for the investigation because there are medals to be had. Is he serious? True, there is a chance that China could be found guilty and the meda...
The KC Blue Blog - Mon 8:32 a.m.
After a 12 hour drive starting at 4:30 in the morning...I am checked into our Hotel (16 miles from the Convention site!) and am preparing to crash for the night. I have had time to look over some of the welcome articles included in not one but two cloth goody bags prepared for the Delegates. Seems we must really like to drink coffee on the fly as there are two insulated travel mugs. Also two T s...
Democracy for Missouri - Sun 10:06 p.m. - 8 clicks
Some of the localish bloggers following the action at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Also, don’t forget that Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill will be speaking Monday night between 9:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., and Kansas Governor (and convention co-chair) Kathleen Sebelius will be on sometime Tuesday night. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Political Fix Jo Mannies has a [...]...
BlogKC - Sun 8:01 p.m. - 22 clicks
This has got to be a parody. Nobody is that stoopid. Only an idiot would wade into a crowd of anarchists in the middle of a live broadcast. I swear I saw this in a fake newscast within a cheesy television show, you know, like The A-Team. I pity the fool. via Glenn Greenwald ...
Show Me Progress - Sun 6:46 p.m. - 3 clicks
Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting Barack Obama’s pick of Deleware Sen. Joe Biden seeks to complement Obama where he is perceived to be weak – foreign policy. Obama’s message to the public is clear: Biden’s the guy who will take the 3 a.m. phone calls. (I guess the red phone has call forwarding.) My friend and fellow blogger (and newly elected Democratic committeeman) Antonio French obs...
St. Louis Oracle - Sun 3:27 p.m. - 3 clicks
Wayne has an excellent article on Left in Missouri about how clueless the punditry is when it comes to 9th Congressional politics. The press has continuously gone to these "experts" for political analysis, despite their history of being wrong! ...
Democracy for Missouri - Sun 2:52 p.m. - 11 clicks
Ed has already commented on this, but the terrible record of the punditocracy in assessing the MO-09 Congressional race is pretty mind-boggling. Pundits have consistently relied on outdated stereotypes and simplistic labels to assess the state of the race rather than using actual data. The latest in pundit absurdity comes from Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball. Despite [...]...
Left In Missouri - Sun 10:08 a.m. - 2 clicks
Our day is finally here. The day that we The United States of America can look at the world and say "We're on top still. We're the best!" The Men's Basketball Team proved to the world once again that the best team is our team. As for the other sports, 36 Golds, 38 Silvers and 36 Bronze medals is an excellent performance. Good As Gold! Yes, everyone wanted us to top China Gold and when London 201...
The KC Blue Blog - Sun 9:51 a.m.
In the August 24th edition of the Columbia Tribune, an article about the Missouri 9th Congressional district being on the national radar caught my attention. It has the opinions of both the DCCC and it’s Republican counterpart NRCC. However, what really caught my eye was the analysis of 9th by a staff writer of Larry [...]...
Left In Missouri - Sun 8:53 a.m. - 11 clicks
Blog posts are interesting, but my favorite part is the reading the comments section. It's interesting to read the debate, and anonymous comments are cool. Anonymous comments do annoy some people. I heard about some folks on the east coast getting so angry over anonymous comments at a political blog, they were thinking of suing to eliminate the ability to post anonymously. That's crazy! Th...
STL Rising - Sun 7:49 a.m. - 2 clicks
With the suspense of the Democratic VP pick. Many are accusing Barack of being the master of stagecraft, all fluff, no substance. This is coming from predictable sources like National Review to more neutral sources like CNN . My response to this is simple. This type of campaign is the product of the media. Many thoughtful [...]...
Left In Missouri - Sat 9:01 p.m. - 4 clicks
At roughly 1am CDT, CNN has reported that an anonymous Democratic official has informed them that Senator Obama has chosen Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his running mate. Across more than 30 years in the Senate, he has served at various times not only as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee but also as head of the Judiciary Committee, with its jurisdiction over anti-crime legislation, Supr...
The KC Blue Blog - Sat 1:02 a.m. - 4 clicks
What the hell is the matter with Missouri? WHY is John McMansion up 10 points here? And how does Obama put this purple state into play? That's what I wanna know. Something's definitely rotten in the state of Missouri -- I've heard it firsthand, from Hillary moaners to -- get this -- a solidly Democratic family offering comments like this at a birthday party last evening: "I just don't like tha...
DailyKos (Missouri) - Fri 9:08 p.m. - 22 clicks
Hmm, McSame, he is one of us. I as well lose track of how many houses I own. But hey since I have a net worth of only 4 million dollars, I’m not rich enough to keep track of them. Just kidding This has given Obama the fodder he needs to expose McCain as [...]...
Left In Missouri - Fri 7:31 p.m.
If you live anywhere between Vivion Road and the South Plaza you have probably already heard the Thunderbirds on their practice runs. This weekend the air show starts for real and runs all day Satuday and Sunday. If you are going to the show itself, don’t forget that there is no parking on site. Shuttles [...]...
BlogKC - Fri 5:41 a.m. - 3 clicks
The first poll out of the gates in the general election matchup between Judy Baker and Blaine Luetkemeyer has Judy Baker with a 41% to 39% lead. Baker has a 30% favorability to 8% unfavorabilty rating and has higher favorability than unfavorability even among Republican voters (especially Republican women). Luetkemeyer’s favorability is 33% to 16% unfavoarbility. This is [...]...
Left In Missouri - Thu 1:45 p.m. - 21 clicks
This is what happens when a political party continually attacks science topics like evolution - other subjects like geography begin to slip. In a bizarre move, the Kansas Republican Party is criticizing the Kansas City, Missouri City Council for taking a week off to attend the Democratic National Convention. WTF? Wrong state, bozos. It’s fine that [...]...
BlogKC - Thu 11:51 a.m. - 16 clicks
A couple of days ago, I wrote a post entitled "Classmates.com". Today there's a comment from classmates.com, thanking me for sharing the story. Whoever posted it must have read the post, because they mentioned specific parts of the story from the post. You don't think classmates.com crawls the web looking for such posts, just to give thumbs up replies in the comments sections, do you? That'd b...
STL Rising - Thu 11:29 a.m. - 4 clicks
Over at Kingshighway and Highway 40, hotel developer Drury is proposing a major new installation at the new Kingshighway and 40 interchange. The plan calls for two hotel towers, and would take out some existing buildings in the Forest Park Southeast National Register Historic District. Drury presented his plan to neighborhood residents earlier this week. Some voices are concerned about the loss...
STL Rising - Thu 11:29 a.m. - 2 clicks
A Momentum Analysis poll shows Judy Baker with a slim 41% to 39% lead over Blaine Luetkemeyer for the MO-09 open House seat. Baker has a 30% favorability to 8% unfavorabilty rating and has higher favorability than unfavorability even among Republican voters (especially Republican women). Luetkemeyer's favorability is 33% to 16% unfaovarbility. This is a District that was Bush +19 in 2004...
DailyKos (Missouri) - Thu 10:20 a.m. - 5 clicks
One of the big services cut in the recent city budget cuts was bulky item pickup, the service that collects your old couches, broken appliances, and castoff bowflexes. You know, the junk that is too big for a trash bag and too useless eBay or Craigslist. Instead of regular monthly or semi-monthly pickup days, you now [...]...
BlogKC - Thu 9:04 a.m. - 2 clicks
The pundit consensus is that Obama should choose Biden because of his foreign policy expertise and because he shores up Obama’s perceived weaknesses in experience and foreign policy. I am going to make a counterargument that Obama should not balance his perceived weaknesses but rather he should enhance his strengths and choose a new up and [...]...
Left In Missouri - Thu 5:21 a.m. - 3 clicks
There's a mock German expression that goes something like this, "Ve get ztoo soon alt, und ztoo late schmart". The older I get, the more true that saying rings. This morning something else occured to me - the way there's a huge multiplier effect leading up to the results of daily life. Little is left to chance. Much more is the result of a lot of either good or bad choices adding up to major l...
STL Rising - Aug 20 - 2 clicks
In 2002 the KC Design Center commissioned internationally known photographer Alex MacLean to take a large series of aerial photos over the Kansas City region. The photographs very impressive and range from dramatic urban cityscapes to bucolic rural landscapes. A new exhibit of MacLean’s work debut’s Thursday at the Mid-America Regional Council, 600 Broadway KCMO. An [...] Show on ma...
BlogKC - Aug 20 - 7 clicks
Just a week out of the election, the Blaine Luetkemeyer campaign has already used the Rovian playbook and has started to distort Judy Baker’s positions and record. Trolls have hit the blogs, spewing the typical Guns, God, and Gays garbage. This is the best chance in over a decade for Democrats to pick up this [...]...
Left In Missouri - Aug 20 - 2 clicks
A voice from the past, way back in the 7th grade, located me through my sister on classmates.com. We haven't corresponded in what, 40 years? Something like that. He moved to LA the summer before 8th grade, and we never heard from him again. He attended our 15 year high school reunion, and I attended the 20th, so we missed each other then. We were close friends back in those days, so it was n...
STL Rising - Aug 19
State of the Line is a new local blog with a pretty funny voice. Check it out at stateoftheline.wordpress.com. ...
BlogKC - Aug 19 - 2 clicks
The campaign of Republican State Representative Will Kraus has been linked to racist and extreme hate rhetoric according to a press release. It appears the Deputy Treasurer to "Citizens for Will Kraus", Bob Gough, has a history of publishing racist and extremely partisan hate rhetoric to the point he was banned from writing in the Lee's Summit Tribune. The press release states that Bob Goug...
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 18 - 9 clicks
Hi Left in Missouri Readers, Ed Ricciotti has asked me to join on as a second blogger on his site here and I am glad to do so. By way of introduction, I grew up as a Republican but increasingly I could not square my fiscally responsible, socially progressive values with a Republican Party that was [...]...
Left In Missouri - Aug 18 - 6 clicks
Today the North Kansas City School District opens Staley High School, it’s fourth. With a coming LEED certification it is being trumpeted as the greenest school building in the state. And while that might be true for the buiding itself, how about its larger impact? You see, the site the school district chose at NE [...]...
BlogKC - Aug 18 - 6 clicks
At the Saddleback church, McCain was asked what his definition of rich was, he threw out 5 million dollars as a number, then anticipating the criticism predicted that his comment was going to be distorted. This tactic is being used by the right wing . Jerome Corsi on Larry King live, thought that mentioning Media [...]...
Left In Missouri - Aug 17
This week, the notorious Big Oil "independent" (Republican) Group "Freedom Watch" made a desperate attempt to save one of their favorite cash cow congressmen "Subsidy Sam" Graves. According to a press release sent out, local radio affiliates have pulled an ad lined with many falsehoods attempting to smear Kay Barnes on behalf of Big Oil's "Subsidy Sam". The group which is headed up by C...
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 17 - 7 clicks
Is St. Louis on the verge of seeing a new urbanist, major redevelopment effort on the near northside? As has been well documented on the blogs, private site assemblage efforts, coupled with a vast amount of city-owned properties, creates the possibility of major planned redevelopment near the abandoned Pruitt-Igoe site. With energy and transportation costs rising, St. Louis has the unique opport...
STL Rising - Aug 17 - 5 clicks
When we read it on Tony's Kansas City we were lost for words. All we could come up with was "Did he really just say that?" Yes he did. This week the City Council will vote on a proposed legislation that states “no person can be placed within the same department, office or workplace in which a family member is a city employee related to the volunteer by the fourth degree by consanguinity or a...
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 16 - 6 clicks
The blogs provide a lot of information about civic affairs in St. Louis. There's arts blogs, socializing blogs, redevelopment blogs, just about everything. Blogs give information about places, people, and things. They offer us an opportunity to dialogue on issues. If you're part of the redevelopment effort of St. Louis, there's plenty of discussion there. Posting, reading and commenting on bl...
STL Rising - Aug 14 - 7 clicks
In a brief departure from our usual STL issues discussion, STL Rising has two consumer advisories for today's readers. AVID micropchip service for pets is a safeguard measure aimed at reconnecting lost pets with their owners. If your pet gets lost and is taken to a shelter, the shelter scans the pet to search for a microchip embedded under your pet's skin. If found, the chip reveals a code...
STL Rising - Aug 13
St. Louis is described as a city of neighborhoods, and it is. It's like a bunch of little villages all pushed together. Each has its own flavor and personality. The neighborhood feel of our city is one of it's greatest assets. However, maybe all of the neighborhood distinctions aren't necessary? Maybe it's time to consolidate some neighborhoods? We talk about "addition by subtraction" (a top...
STL Rising - Aug 11 - 10 clicks
The Chief of Staff to Republican Lt. Governor Peter Kinder, Former Campaign Manager to Republican Governor Candidate Kenny Hulshof, has been given a pass on preying on children online. Cole County Republican Prosecutor Mark Richardson has given a plea deal to the right hand man of the second highest Republican in the state. This after taking over a year to even charge the Republican....
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 10 - 7 clicks
This morning, Team USA showed the world who is the best as they dominated Team China 101-70. Team China looked good, easily their best assembled team thus far, but in order to play with Team USA one needs to be on another level. Team USA controlled the pace the entire game, scoring 21 of its first 25 shots inside the 3-point line while also forcing multiple turnovers (18) and causing ...
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 10
It was good to watch Michael Phelps take home a Gold Medal and break the 400 IM world record. Here's to seven more Michael!...
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 10
First she admitted it, she said it, but only because she puts 'eee' at the end of everything. Remember that one? During that time the EEOC complaint wasn't real and that no lawsuit was coming likewise no investigation was happening. Remember that one? Later the real story came out, the EEOC complaint was real, the investigation ended in Ruth Bates's favor and the lawsuit soon followed, to no surp...
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 10
Comedian Bernie Mac filled the screens and tvs with laughter. He was America's funniest dad. He will be missed....
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 9
We can now be found at They Gave Us A Republic... . ..and we intend to keep it This site will be retained as an archive, but 8/8/08 was the last day of crossposting. To answer the concerns of those who have emailed me, the sidebars and all of the assembled information here will remain intact. Thank you again for reading what we posted here, and for weighing in with your comments. Y...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 9
Back in the early nineties, you could buy empty loft buildings on Washington Avenue for $.50 to $1.00 per square foot (that's a 10-story building for about $100,000). The streets were mostly empty. The place was safe enough, there just weren't too many of us down here. Most of the people living downtown were elderly, low income or both. The streets rolled up at 5 o'clock, and on weekends, out...
STL Rising - Aug 9 - 2 clicks
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... I remember the controvery over having to receive shots of the Anthrax vaccine--no one knew if it was causing serious health problems and members of the military were refusing to get the shots: Military personnel, under the threat of court-martial, were refusing inoculations of an anthrax vaccine. The vaccine’s sole manufactur...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 9
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... Yeah, don't be scamming on Medicare: For people with osteoporosis, a painful bone disease, a simple medical device can help. Doctors use it to inject bone filler and repair tiny fractures. The procedure, called kyphoplasty, can be done in about an hour without putting the patient to sleep. But Kyphon, the company that ma...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 9
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... The violence in the region is escalating... Russian jets have carried out strikes on military targets in the central Georgian town of Gori, close to the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Most of the targets seem to have been military bases, but Georgian officials said a number of civilians had been killed in residential bu...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 9
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... Russian Jets Attack Georgia. 'They Have Declared War On Us,' Georgian Official Says WASHINGTON, August 8 - Russian jets bombed the Vaziani military airbase outside the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Friday, a senior Georgian security official told Reuters. "No one was wounded but some buildings have been destroyed," said Kakha ...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 8 - 2 clicks
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... Serves me right, I guess. John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extramarital affair with a novice filmmaker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today. Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 44-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love he...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 8
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... UPDATE I / WS Screenshots from video, courtesy of the BBC: These would appear to be Russia's main battle tanks, the T-90s: Russian self-propelled artillery guns (the 2s3 152mm?): Russian troops in BMP armored personnel carriers: The Associated Press is reporting that: Russian television says Russian tro...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 8
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... Yes, hearings are definitely in order Congressman Gene Green of Houston is mad as hell over recruiters lying, bullying and threatening a high-school student that he could be charged as a deserter - because he changed his mind about enlisting in the Army before he signed the contract and took the oath of service. "Tha...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 7
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... The family of a man who was strangled in police custody after being arrested and accused of killing a police officer is asking for an autopsy. Yes, this case is still ongoing, and is being investigated by the Maryland State Police. And, no, it's not going to go away. The family of a Prince George's County police officer slayi...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 7
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... Republicans have one subject they hate to have thrown in their face--Herbert Hoover. And, with good reason. The President who was woefully out of touch and ineffectual at the onset of the Great Depression was replaced by Franklin Roosevelt and the dominance of the Democratic Party. Michael Cohen at TPM Cafe rounds up some grea...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 7
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... Congress needs to ensure that FEMA's negligence in providing people with trailers with high levels of formaldehyde in them is not excused. The Federal Emergency Management Agency last week asked for immunity from lawsuits over the high formaldehyde levels in the trailers it used to house Hurricane Katrina victims. FEMA says i...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 7
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... The flip-flop that pissed off his base The republican base and the loonies at the "Club for Growth" are pissed off at McCain after he initially said he would oppose all tax increases, then hinted that he might be open to raising the limit on Social Security payroll taxes. The payroll tax totals 12.4 percent - half is d...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 7
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... When was the last time anyone talking about the fact that unemployment is the highest that it has been in four years? It's now at 5.7%. When was the last time you heard anyone talking about the impact of bankruptcy shutdowns for large retailers. And another one-time stimulus payout isn't the solution: Utility shut-offs for cu...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 7
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... In 2004, the US Government realized that it needed to do something about the spread of terrorism in Trans-Saharan Africa: U.S. Gen. Charles Wald, deputy commander of the European Central Command, has been warning Congress and the Pentagon for months that al Qaeda-affiliated groups are active in Mauritania, Mali, Chad and Niger...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 7
A couple of Saturdays ago, I spent an hour at Wilmore Park interviewing park users about the idea of building a new, varsity level baseball field in some passive open space at the park. The only people against the idea were two older women from South County using the park to walk their dogs. The recent trouble in the police department raises the perennial question of local control. Since th...
STL Rising - Aug 7 - 8 clicks
Was anyone surprised by this? Besides the obvious, political bickering, we aren't exactly sure why so many elected officials jumped on board with his opponents. After taking 67% of the vote, you have to ask what they were thinking. For us it was an easy decision, and it is now clear that the folks in the 44th felt the same way. Congratulations to Jason Kander ...
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 7
Fox Sports and ESPN will be waking up America with news that Brett Favre has been traded to The New York Jets. The deal occurred early this morning shortly after midnight. Terms of the trade have not been made available, however you can expect first thing Thursday to hear them released. This trade shakes up a lot of things on the East Coast as New York Jets fans have now officially received their...
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 7
John McCain may have crossed the wrong line when he bashed billionaire heiress Paris Hilton in a recent ad. Not only is she responding to John McCain's ad, but you can probably be sure that her money will now be thrown into the race, only not in the direction of John McCain who desperately needs it. Take a look as the response is not just funny, but actually smartly designed....
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 7
All major news outlets are reporting that every Statewide and Local Democrat in the state, including Democrat Jay Nixon will take part in a Democratic Unity Rally on Independence Square Tomorrow Thursday August 7th at 9:30 a.m. Come out and bring your friends!!! Show Support For Missouri's Next Governor as well as your local and statewide Democratic Representatives!!! We will be ...
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 7 - 8 clicks
The Associated Press reports that The Commission on Presidential Debates has named Jim Lehrer and Gwen Ifill of PBS, Tom Brokaw of NBC News and Bob Schieffer of CBS News as moderators of the three presidential debates and one vice presidential face-off. Lehrer, anchor of "The NewsHour," will moderate the first presidential debate in Oxford, Miss., on Sept. 26. Ifill, a correspondent on the same p...
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 7
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... *************** The dramatic increase in oil prices has positioned Iraq, which sits atop the third largest oil reserve in the world, to begin to bear some of the burden of reconstruction of that war-torn country, decimated by more than two decades of war and sanctions. In a GAO report released yesterday, the government wa...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 6
Why is that warmongering idiot John Bolton still getting airtime? On Faux Noise today he was at it again, declaring that "diplomacy is finished" (when was it tried???) and declaring that there were two options - targeted military strikes and "regime change" - because that has worked so well in Iraq, you know. We have explained the vast differences between the two countries in the past. An...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 6
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... Consider this latest twist a reward for the fact that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn't stop FISA legislation or put impeachment back on the table. What other explanation could there be for the decision by the White House to cut the Republicans in the House off at the knees over offshore drilling? A House Republican leader ...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 6
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... Let's hope that this puts an end to the insanity of Phill Kline: For the second time in two years, voters in Kansas have handed a stinging defeat to Phill Kline, an anti-abortion crusader who's reputation was made attempting to prosecute the state's abortion providers, first as state attorney general, and then, after he lo...
Blue Girl, Red State - Aug 6
Election Night results are in and one set of numbers stands out above the rest, the numbers for Governor. Democrat Jay Nixon pulled in 45,009 votes out of a possible 65,699 (69%), counting both Kansas City and Jackson County. That's more than double the Republican vote. Official % numbers: Nixon 69-31 Republicans It's clear who the people of Kansas City and Jackson County want governing t...
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 6 - 8 clicks
The Associated Press is reporting that a new Associated Press-Ipsos Poll shows Democrat Barack Obama up by 6 points nationally. However the most exciting news is that Obama leads by 13 points among women, by 30 points among voters up to age 34, and by 55 points among blacks, Hispanics and other minorities, the poll shows. Great job Democrats!...
The KC Blue Blog - Aug 6