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Friday, July 7th, 2006
President Bush said today that there was "a reasonable chance" that the U.S. could've shot down a North Korean missile headed towards North America. Reasonable, you know, because the system is nowhere near fully operational and what does exist only works about 20% of the time.
Standing by the President's logic, ...
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Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
Good evening. I come to you on the first day of our state's budget crisis. I ask, you, the legislature, for help in getting us through this serious problem.
Our state is, essentially, broke. The budget that was set has come under serious strain due to a number of outside forces. ...
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Thursday, June 1st, 2006
Pre-orders are available for Jim McGreevey's new book on Amazon.com. And check out the deal you can get!
Gay Governors and Gay Cowboys: they're Better Together!
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
It's quite clear, from this story, that Jeb Bush does not understand the teenager's definition of the words "hook up":
I'm excited you're looking at Florida State. [FSU President] T.K. Wetherell and I are friends. When you come to Tallahassee again, let's hook up with each other.
— Jeb Bush
Yikes. Vito has ...
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Thursday, October 13th, 2005
So, when you think of Vermont, what's the first thing you think of? If it's not Ben & Jerry's or hippies, it's probably maple syrup. And what better way to prove that these are the only things Vermont is good for?
Each Vermont National Guardsman serving in Iraq this Christmas will ...
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
I-45, usually hopping with activity, is deserted this morning. Meanwhile, a few miles north in Houston... in the words of the late Admiral Stockdale... GRIDLOCK!
By the way, in terms of gas prices, it may be worse than we first thought:
"We could be looking at gasoline lines and $4 gas, maybe ...
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
BUY GAS NOW.
I'm not trying to incite panic, I'm just trying to be realistic. Things are looking grim on the Gulf Coast, and you remember what happened last time.
Hurricane Rita could threaten up to 18 Texas oil refineries that have a combined capacity of 4 million barrels per day or ...
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
I wish this was a joke. Wait, no, I don't.
U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York September 14, 2005. World leaders are ...
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2005
Two photos, superimposed on each other, taken the same day (from Boing Boing).
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2005
Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night:
Hurricane Katrina is George Bush's Monica Lewinsky... one difference, and I'll say this. The only difference is this: that tens of thousands of people weren't stranded in Monica Lewinsky's vagina.
More seriously, Tim Russert gave a scathing report on how the administration dropped the ...
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