US Election In A Nutshell [pic]

Oh Crap, A Republican! [comic]

 

Election’s Here! [pic]

Somethings To Consider Before Voting [video]

Drunken Sailor’s Opinion [pic]

Monkeys In Congress [pic]

Obama’s Chicago-style Transparency

MSNBC reports –

The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn’t have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions. Despite President Barack Obama’s pledge to introduce a new era of transparency to Washington, and despite two rulings by a federal judge that the records are public, the Secret Service has denied msnbc.com’s request for the names of all White House visitors from Jan. 20 to the present. It also denied a narrower request by the nonpartisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which sought logs of visits by executives of coal companies.

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Obama’s Proposed Cuts Illustrated [pic]

Banking Crisis – Looking Back 10 Years

This NY Times page from 1999 outlines the start of the banking crisis, when the deregulation became law. Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, eerily said ”I think we will look back in 10 years’ time and say we should not have done this …”  While Mr.Dorgan could not have been more correct, Barney Frank could not have been more wrong. Mr.Frank said that the deregulation did not go far enough. (see page 2) Incredibly, Barney Frank is still in the middle of the mess in Congress. If it is time to clean house in the financial institutions, it should also be time to clean out the Congressional garbage that deregulated them.

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Funny Blago Ad

Noticed this great ad featuring everyone’s favorite ex-governor on Chicago Reader.

Bay Area Welcomes Back Its Favorite Mascot

Nancy Pelosi’s  San Francisco Update

Yup, the Healthy Penis campaign is back in San Francisco and organizers claim it is better than ever. The campaign has expanded (sorry) to include an African-American penis named Byron the Penis and a Hispanic penis named Pedro the Penis as well.

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