http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:45:47 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:45:47 1) Right wing nut but mega-money organizations are buying it up (like Newsmax giving it away for $5)

2) Everyone else that wants to see just how friggin' stupid this woman really is. It's a morbid curiosity. Kinda like the town folks who went to see the [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wre... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/110 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:12:42 [div class="excerpt"]The Obama White House looks like it is has taken a page out of the playbook of the late Nixon Press Secretary Ron Ziegler. In a fit of pique, during the 1972 presidential campaign, Ziegler barred Rolling Stone reporter and Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson from flying on the l... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/109 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:53:02 Today 1,859 guitar pickers in Luckenbach, Tx all played "Back to the Basics of Love" (Luckenbach, Texas by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson) to set the record for the most people playing guitar at the same time. The old record was 1,802 and was set in Germany.

Here's a few pictures we took be... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/108 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:18:24 like watching a train wreck happen. It's a kind of morbid curiosity to watch them over at FR. You know it's only going to get wierder and wierder. So you can't help but wonder just how far they will go. There is such a mob mentality, almost a lynch mob mentality. They talk openly of a shooting ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/107 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:08:51 Damn it's friggin' hot. It's going to take a kick-ass hurricane to break this pattern.

We're in San Antonio and the temp is at Stinson Field, TX which is closer to me than the official NWS station for SA, SA International Airport. SA International Airport is reporting 102.

-----------------... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/106 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:21:33 he was entirely too calm about how he decided to turn himself in, set up his wife, (tried to) set up friends and relatives until they stopped it. He's entirely too methodical about what he's doing. I don't think he'll spend a single day in jail as he'll commit suicide at some point shortly before ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/105 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:20:31 After evening mass, we had our granddaughter baptized last night and had previously (before the events of [a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=214&topic_id=198577&mesg_id=198577"]this incident[/a]) asked our pastor to do the baptism. Again, I really d... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/104 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:43:06 This Sunday was the day they passed out the cards for the Freedom Of Choice Act to be sent to local congresscritters and senators. This is something the Catholic Conference of Bishops came up with and it's something they're supposed to be doing nationally. I have been anticipating this day, and ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/103 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:00:58 Source: [b]Politico via Talking Points Memo[/b]

Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night -- about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?

Turns out it wasn't actual... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/102 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:39:20 of electing someone who has the potential to do everything we have wanted not just the last 8 years, but maybe the last 40, or more. And Obama was the far-left's candidate. They think that they elected Obama and they can make him lose in 2012. They don't have a clue that this was a year that was ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/101 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:42:18 and the least of it is Cheney and Gonzalez. Juan Angel "Johnny" Guerra, the DA in Willacy County is a nut. He was investigated last year for theft by a public servant. His office computers were seized and he was arrested. He supposedly had a vendetta against a bail bond company. He allegedly t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/100 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:20:30 Huh? Where the hell did anybody get that absolutely crazy idea that if Obama wins he's going to be the next president?

I posted this the other day about a verbatim quote from John Cornyn:

[div class="excerpt"]"I'm sure there will be litigation that the margin of victory was made up of people ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/99 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:31:19 "I'm sure there will be litigation that the margin of victory was made up of people that were not qualified." This was in response to a question about ACORN and the other mythical ways the GOP is claiming that there is voter fraud going on. Cornyn was being interviewed on WOAI radio in San Antonio... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/98 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:37:09 In an interview with Connecticut reporters, Sen. Joe Lieberman expressed concerns about Sarah Palin’s readiness to assume the presidency if John McCain were unable to:

(W)hen asked by The Advocate if Palin is ready to be president from day one, Lieberman said “thank God she’s not going to hav... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/97 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:11:01 WASHINGTON — They're almost an endangered species, the dwindling number of people who say the country is heading in the right direction. But they're out there.

The way they see it, the U.S. has come through tough times before and will do it again.

Fewer than one in seven, or 15 percent, say th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/96 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:46:02 Are GOP voter purges skewing the poll numbers? I read the [a href="http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/129"]BuzzFlash interview with Greg Palast[/a] posted by [a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x393276"]struggle4progress[/a], and it occ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/95 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:22:09 no link at msnbc.com... just something I caught as I walked past the TV just now. Pat Buchanan was talking and they were discussing the demographics of Virginia...

and I can't find a link anywhere else.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/94 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:35:04 This is some political gossip and scuttlebutt that I would normally dismiss except the people that relayed it to me are good friends even though we don't see eye to eye politically and they are well connected in the Texas Republican Party. It seems to be the rumor going around with some well connec... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/93 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:28:24 It's been just about a week since she was announced, she made her speech last night, and she still has not met with the press. Why is she dodging the press? Will she ever meet with the press before the election? How long can they "hide" her. How long can they keep her under wraps while letting h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/92 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:23:05 Alaska has a population of 670,053. The cities of Memphis, Austin, Columbus, OH, San Francisco, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Detroit, San Jose, CA, Dallas, San Diego, San Antonio, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York all have larger populations. Wasilla has a population ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/91 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:35:33 And their attitude seems to invariably be that they have a divine right to be and stand anywhere they want to and the delegates on the floor are just in their way. Watch them on the HD feed. They stand in the aisles. The words "Down in front!" repeated often enough will usually get a turned head a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/90 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:33:41 [div class="excerpt"]
Operation Brimstone ended only one week ago. This was the joint US/UK/French naval war games in the Atlantic Ocean preparing for a naval blockade of Iran and the likely resulting war in the Persian Gulf area. The massive war games included a US Navy supercarrier battle group, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/89 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:30:09 that if Obama wants to win he'd best pick Hillary for VP. I'm afraid you're reading entirely too much into this little sentence. I think my feelings about Hillary are pretty well known here and I do not at all like the tactics Obama used to get the nomination. But be clear about one thing. I wil... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/88 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:28:30 nor was I alone in saying there (isn't) wasn't a dime's worth of difference between Obama's positions and Hillary's positions. Hillary talked issues and solutions. Obama talked the nebulous "hope and change", or at least that's all that came through.

Although I may appear "partisan" to people ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/87 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:03:06 The NOAA National Weather Service in association with the COMET Program offers a large series of free distance learning products. Modules available for download (flash player usually required) include:

A Convective Storm Matrix: Buoyancy/Shear Dependencies, Basic Terminal Forecast Strategies, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/86 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:05:45