Archive for February, 2007

In the belly of a great Strom

No that’s not a typo, apparently the dark underlord of the undisclosed location, Vice President Dick Cheney, has been traveling to faraway parts unknown recently aboard an experimental RV chained to the floor of the holding bay of the U.S. military transport the “Spirit of Strom Thurmond.”
The Thurmond, a C17 military cargo plane crewed out of Charleston, South [...]

My state of the city

An open letter to Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson
Dear Mayor Jackson:
I wanted to touch base with you as you make the final arrangements for your second state of the city speech.  You’ve held the mayor’s office now for a little more than a year and while I have not been overly supportive of your administration, I [...]

Charity begins at home

Actually Mrs. Clinton was just waiting until the Democrats raised taxes so that she could give it all to her favorite charity – the government.
Hey who doesn’t have a family charity where they can write off $5 million in taxes… not me that’s who.

The night of Obama in review

I’ve posted a compilation of some of the live blogs from last night’s Obama event at Tri-C over on The Silent Majority. My thanks to tablemates Anthony Fossacecca of Blue Ohioan and Jill Miller Zimon of Writes Like She Talks for their camaraderie, to Jerid Kurtz of Buckeye State Blog and Jason Haas of [...]

24; Day 6: 4PM – 5PM

The following takes place after the airing of each new episode of 24 on FOX…
Following their formula, the writers carried us through an hour of plot weaving as they built to the next big crescendo. Last night’s eleventh hour frankly was a little flat. Sure President Logan’s back and claiming to be born [...]

Following up on last night’s live blog

The cramps in my fingers are dying down and I’m going to try and make ryhme or reason out of last night’s Obama event and live blog by combining everyone’s live posts onto a page on the Silent Majority.  For the moment I’ve got my weekly 24 update to post.  Check in this afternoon for an [...]

It’s over

The crowd’s milling out , but the Senator’s still shaking hands.  I’ll post game the event tomorrow. 
The best part of this whole thing was the interaction with my fellow bloggers.  Reading one another’s posts and then responding.   This is a great free form forum to exchange ideas.  We need to do more of this.
Ta, ta for [...]

Bye bye

He just finished up with a reference to an elderly woman in Illinois and how if she can work hard so can he.  If she won’t give up neither will I…
Good speech good event.  I didn’t hear anything that was earth shattering, but it’s still early.

The give and take

Jill’s looking over my shoulder and we’re give and taking…
She seems to think that Obama’s giving answers.
I’m him reciting the litany of problems, but his solution is a little too simplisitic – I am the answer.
I think he’s having some trouble raising the big bucks, he just said “I’d rather have a 100,000 votes than [...]

The stump speech

The Senator appears comfortable with his stump speech… he’s hitting the old Democratic standards:  “our children will be the first generation of Americans to inherit a poorer country than their parents inherited.”
This is his crowd they’re eating it up.  I’m a little more skeptical (hey it’s my job).
It’s a good speech, but here’s what I don’t like [...]