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California to miss budget deadline, "meltdown" nears:
In fact, the legislature has missed its constitutional budget deadline for more than 20 years running. It is not unusual for the government of the most populous U.S. state to begin its new fiscal year without a spending plan in place which is one reason why California has the lowest credit rating of any U.S. state.
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6/16/2009 3:03 AM
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Urban Dictionary: WATB:
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Blog abbreviation for Whiney Ass Titty Baby; "new one from
Atrios -- coined for Harris of the WaPo and Keller of NY Times," i.e. someone
who makes excuses instead of doing the courageous thing.
The WATB reporter wrote what he thought would please the
management and readers, and would be politically correct, instead of actually
researching the facts for his article.
news bias facts
abbreviations blogs by dus7 Jan 22, 2006 share this
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Blog acronym for Whiny Ass Titty-Baby. Primarily refers to
right-wingers who routinely bully others but whine vociferously at the mildest
criticism directed their way.
In Karl Rove's retirement interview with the NY Times, he
blamed everyone's hatred of him on the Democrats. What a pathetic, disgusting
WATB.
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3/26/2009 5:38 PM
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Intrade Newsletter:
On the eve of the 2008
U.S.
presidential election, Barack Obama and John McCain
are making final arguments to voters in key swing
states. Intrade's presidential markets show Obama
extending his advantage even as polls show a slight tightening.
State
Barack Obama (364 Votes)
John McCain (174
Votes)
Florida (27)
80%
22%
Pennsylvania (21)
89%
11%
Ohio (20)
83%
20%
Georgia (15)
21%
75%
North Carolina (15)
70%
37%
Virginia (13)
86%
14%
Missouri (11)
51%
45%
Indiana (11)
41%
64%
Nevada (5)
82%
15%
New Mexico (5)
92%
11%
North Dakota (3)
29%
73%
Montana (3)
29%
79%
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11/3/2008 3:52 PM
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McCain Banking on a Confederacy of Dunces -- In These Times:
Of course, the Democrat’s proposal would merely slow down (not fully halt)
the less-talked-about redistribution whereby Washington sends middle-class money
up the income ladder. Either McCain doesn’t know about this kleptocracy and is
the dumbest presidential candidate in history, or he thinks America is too
ignorant to recognize theft. Which is it?
I’m guessing the latter, since the evidence is so overwhelming.
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10/25/2008 12:28 PM
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Christophers for Obama: Buckley and Hitchens - Yahoo! News:
The most insulting thing that a politician can do is to compel you to ask
yourself: "What does he take me for?" Precisely this question is provoked by the
selection of Gov. Sarah Palin.
I wrote not long ago that it was not right to condescend to her just because of
her provincial roots or her piety, let alone her slight flirtatiousness, but
really her conduct since then has been a national disgrace. It turns out that none of her
early claims to political courage was founded in fact, and it further turns out
that some of the untested rumors about her--her vindictiveness in local
quarrels, her bizarre religious and political affiliations--were very
well-founded, indeed.
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10/13/2008 10:10 PM
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Who You Callin’ a Maverick?:
In the 1800s, Samuel Augustus Maverick went to Texas and became known for not
branding his cattle. He was more interested in keeping track of the land he
owned than the livestock on it, Ms. Maverick said; unbranded cattle, then, were
called “Maverick’s.” The name came to mean anyone who didn’t bear another’s
brand.
Sam Maverick’s grandson, Fontaine Maury Maverick, was a two-term congressman
and a mayor of San Antonio who lost his mayoral re-election bid when
conservatives labeled him a Communist. He served in the Roosevelt administration
on the Smaller War Plants Corporation and is best known for another coinage. He
came up with the term “gobbledygook” in frustration at the convoluted language
of bureaucrats.
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10/11/2008 7:06 PM
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What the Troopergate Report Really Says - Yahoo! News:
Not only did people at almost every level of the Palin administration engage
in repeated inappropriate contact with Walt
Monegan and other high-ranking officials at the Department of Public
Safety, but Monegan and his peers constantly warned these Palin disciples that
the contact was inappropriate and probably unlawful. Still, the emails and calls
continued - in at least one instance on recorded state trooper phone lines.
The state's head of personnel, Annette Kreitzer, called Monegan and had to be
warned that personnel issues were confidential. The state's attorney general,
Talis Colberg, called Monegan and had to be reminded that the call was putting
both men in legal jeopardy, should Wooten decide to sue. The governor's chief of
staff met with Monegan and had to be reminded by Monegan that, "This
conversation is discoverable ... You don't want Wooten to own your house, do
you?"
Monegan consistently emerges as the adult in these conversations, while the
Palin camp displays a childish impetuousness and sense of entitlement.
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10/11/2008 6:41 PM
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Online tool estimates taxes under McCain, Obama - Yahoo! News:
The Portland-based company Quantrix says taxpayers who log onto
http://www.electiontaxes.com and enter their income can obtain a free estimate
of what they would pay in taxes for 2009 through 2012 under each of the two
presidential candidates.
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9/26/2008 5:24 PM
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Palin won't meet with 'Troopergate' investigator - John McCain News- msnbc.com:
WOW. She SHOULD be toast after this little gem. So much for "straight shooting"! Bongo
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A campaign spokesman says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin won't
speak with an investigator hired by lawmakers to look into the firing of her
public safety commissioner.
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9/15/2008 8:54 PM
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9/8/2008 8:37 PM
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Fwd:energy efficiency is laughable:
Good email I just got. -Nick
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/04/campaign.wrap/index.html
Think what you will about Obama's decision to tap into the strategic petroleum reserve to relieve high gas prices (I think it's stupid and a political ploy), but I noticed a far more disturbing snippet in the article:
"Meanwhile, the McCain campaign made fun of Obama's energy proposal Monday by distributing tire pressure gauges reading "Obama's energy plan" to McCain's traveling press corps. The gag was meant to mock Obama's remark last week that "making sure your tires are properly inflated" could help conserve gasoline. McCain supporters in Michigan distributed the same gauges at Obama's energy speech in Lansing." It's sad (or horrifically depressing) that a sensible suggestion that would actually reduce our demand for oil imports AND save people money at the pump, at virtually zero cost to anybody, is actively mocked. I don't mean this just as a slam on McCain-- too many Americans are too stupid and narrow-minded to acknowledge that they are responsible for their own problems. McCain just happens to be willing to appease the ignorant masses, at whatever cost to his own credibility. Kevin p.s. NRDC estimates that if all Americans inflated their tires properly, we would reduce our oil consumption by 2%http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/fensec.asp
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8/4/2008 3:41 PM
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(Modified 8/4/2008 4:03 PM)
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Op-Ed Columnist - The Running Mate Choice - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com:
My first thought on the running mate question is that to balance his ticket,
Barack Obama should pick a really old white general. Therefore, he should pick
Dwight Eisenhower. John McCain, on the other hand, needs to pick someone younger
than himself. Therefore, he also should pick Dwight Eisenhower.
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5/27/2008 5:14 PM
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How Healthy Is John McCain? - Yahoo! News:
After his release from Vietnam, McCain was evaluated for years by Navy
psychiatrists and deemed on the whole to be coping well with the horrors of his
captivity, which included malnourishment, regular beatings and two suicide
attempts. Doctors determined that he had an "overdeveloped superego" and an
"unrealistically high" need for achievement, two characteristics that have put
him in the mainstream of presidential candidates. In 1999, before his first
White House bid, McCain
released 1,500 pages of medical records dating back to his days in the Navy, as
well as the psychiatric evaluations he received after his return from Vietnam.
He has long maintained that he never suffered flashbacks or posttraumatic stress
disorder, though he admitted in his memoir that "for a long time after coming
home, I would tense up whenever I heard keys rattle," a sound made by his prison
guards.
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5/15/2008 10:18 AM
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My Yahoo!:
One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic
presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of
winning.
Her own campaign acknowledges there is no way that she will finish ahead in
pledged delegates. That means the only way she wins is if Democratic
superdelegates are ready to risk a backlash of historic proportions from the
party?s most reliable constituency.
Unless Clinton is able to at least win the primary popular vote ? which also
would take nothing less than an electoral miracle ? and use that achievement to
pressure superdelegates, she has only one scenario for victory. An
African-American opponent and his backers would be told that, even though he won
the contest with voters, the prize is going to someone else.
People who think that scenario is even remotely likely are living on another
planet.
As it happens, many people inside Clinton?s campaign live right here on
Earth. One important Clinton adviser estimated to Politico privately that she
has no more than a 10 percent chance of winning her race against Barack Obama,
an appraisal that was echoed by other operatives.
In other words: The notion of the Democratic contest being a dramatic
cliffhanger is a game of make-believe.
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3/21/2008 4:38 PM
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First thoughts: Albany shocker - First Read - msnbc.com:
*** Veep chatter: The big Clinton-Obama story yesterday was
Obama pushing back against the idea that he would be Clinton?s vice president.
Interestingly, Clinton supporter Ed Rendell seemed to backtrack a bit more than
anyone else in the Clinton campaign when he admitted that he thinks Clinton
would make a good veep for Obama. "It would be great and either way,? he said,
per NBC/NJ?s Athena Jones. He added: "Whether it was Sen. Obama for the
president and Sen. Clinton for vice president or vice versa. I think it would be
great." While many analysts have picked up on this Clinton storyline as proof
Clinton is trying to diminish Obama, don't assume this isn't ALSO an attempt by
the Clintons to remind Obama that she should be considered for the veep slot if
he's the nominee. It appears more likely every day that Clinton's Plan B is the
VP slot, not Senate majority leader as so many others have speculated.
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3/11/2008 11:01 AM
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RealClearPolitics - Opinion, News, Analysis, Videos and Polls:
REAL CLEAR POLITICS ELECTION
2008
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Politics & Election 2008
Videos
More Politics & Election
2008 Videos
election 2008 commentary
- J. Harris, M. Allen & J. VandeHei, The
Politico
- Jay Cost,
RealClearPolitics
- Joe Klein, Time
- Michael Gerson, Washington
Post
- Marie Cocco,
RealClearPolitics
- Arianna Huffington,
Huffington Post
- Victor Davis Hanson,
RealClearPolitics
? RealClearPolitics 2008
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3/10/2008 3:33 PM
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Zogby International:
America's disenfranchised
mobilizing
Obama will crush Hillary and then McCain in the fall, a new comprehensive
poll shows. This is because America is not working like it used to and has
deteriorated in the past generation into more have-nots than haves and the
have-nots are turning out in enormous numbers to vote. A new poll this week
shows that Obama has a 14-point edge over Clinton, 52 percent to 38 percent,
after being in a statistical tie last month.
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2/23/2008 10:40 PM
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YouTube - "Hardball" Way Too Hard for Obama Supporter Kirk Watson:
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2/21/2008 8:36 PM
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Hillary in '08 | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:
Hillary in '08
Hillary Clinton announced that she will run for president in the 2008
election. What do you think?
Mike Irving, Snow Removal Worker "Is she too
polarizing a figure? I say no, but apparently some fucking assholes
disagree."
Lydia Pontani, Algebra Teacher "The last
thing America needs is a radical liberal who supports the war and the death
penalty while opposing flag-burning and gay marriage."
Malcom Thewlis, Labor Mediator "What's she
going to do next?run for president?"
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1/4/2008 11:47 PM
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From http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/misc/charts/:
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1/4/2008 11:36 PM
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