I have, as the subject line indicates, a few filters for friends here. To clarify, I am not hiding these things, but everyone doesn't need or want to see every aspect... if you do, ask and you shall be added. See? Simple.

Some are just friend locked in general for personal information because I feel it's more private & not for the world ( Read more... )

Cross posted to My Fox Chicago Blog.
This started being just about the mortgage crisis, then showed how it's all connected. Whomever wins the Presidency, and whatever else the priorities are, this is the bare minimum that they will have to handle ( Read more... )

Cross posted to My Fox Chicago Blog.
The Republicans who have been switching parties to vote for Clinton to drag out the primary in the hopes of hurting both opposing candidates are treating politics like war. Worse, they're waging that war against other Americans and our electoral system. I hope they are proud of themselves for proving that ( Read more... )

Cross posted to My Fox Chicago Blog.
They're warning that withdrawal of troops would destabilize the region, although that has been the main accomplishment of this war. Well, that or destroying the United States' standing with the rest of the world, or costing over four thousand American lives, indeterminately more Iraqi lives, and about $341 ( Read more... )

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McCain has picked up the next chorus of Dubya's song, and the lyrics are still vague and indefinite, just as they have been all along... So, the same questions still stand to be extended to his campaign. (Again, please spare me more non-information and double-talking patriotic rhetoric - for example, how ( Read more... )

Cross posted to My Fox Chicago Blog.
Dear President Bush (and all of those of this administration, plus all who follow ( Read more... )

Cross posted to My Fox Chicago Blog.
Of course, I have a lot to blog on, and not the time to spare... so, this time I'll just post a few quick points, in no particular order.

McCain: If you like this "Amnesty Administration" nonsense, the repetitive removal of our rights, the fact that the American people have spoken time & again and been ( Read more... )

Happy Festivus! Hope you have happy happy other holidays too, in case I don't remember to post for them, like usual.

Like so many minuscule amusements, this one was born of a typo.

Remindung: People, places, or things that dredge up unpleasant memories, like someone that reminds one of a nasty ex...

You stupid bastards, you blew it up!
(Hover over the location to see what I mean.)

EDIT: Aw, they fixed it. Before, it was saying that the location couldn't be found.

My mother mails me these mass messages, clearly crafted to cement the bond between the "right wing" (AKA the "religious reich") and Christians... Naturally, I respond to them, and sometimes we debate it, sometimes she just regrets sending it to me (and, probably, teaching me to think for myself & speak up when something is wrong). Perhaps I ( Read more... )