Archive for July, 2007

Politics as entertainment

I’ve been a little bemused lately at the uproar (yes Jill, I’m calling you out on this:
“I’m not much into name-calling, but I gotta tell you - the way the Republican candidates are freaking out over the CNN/YouTube debates - criminal and immature at the same time. You want people to vote for you, but […]

Book review returns next week

Too busy this week gettting liquored up at BLOGGAPALOOZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you haven’t made plans for this afternoon, please come by and bring the family - the Waterloo Arts Festival is adjacent to the Beachland Ballroom where the ‘palooza’s happening.

My man Gilmore is back (and probably in a better setting)

Good news today from my friends at the former Jim Gilmore for President campaign - the former Virginia governor is back… and he’s blogging!  His new page is called the Virginia Patriot and can be found at www.virginiapatriot.com.
The site just went up, so there’s nothing posted yet, but I look forward to hearing his informed […]

I gladly stand corrected

The other day I posted about what I perceived to be the futility of attending a CuyCo GOP Central/Executive Committee meeting to discuss a proposed party platform.  My senitments were that it was already a done deal and that the folks who opposed the platform (mostly because they wanted to offer amendments, etc.) wouldn’t be […]

“Grasp ankles and tuck”

The new slogan for the Cleveland CONvention Center.
At least that’s what the Cuyahoga County Commissioners decided to tell county resisdents today in a 2-1 (Dimora and Hagen yes, Jones no) absolutely expected vote after the second of two “public” hearings on the issue of raising the county sales tax by .25% to support a CONvention […]

$100 million and counting

My latest estimates (and re-inforced by comments from Congressional Quarterly’s Craig Crawford this AM on msNBC’s Morning Joe) indicate that the current batch of candidates for president in 2008 spent over $100 million dollars in the last quarter on their campaigns!  Some of the candidates are burning through over a million dollars a week as they […]

The more things don’t change

Tonight I should be at the RPCC platform meeting/convention, but given the limited value placed on input from the party’s rank and file members, I figured it might make more sense to work a little bit later and hit the keyboard when I got home.  If somebody has an update on tonight’s RPCC meeting, please […]

Let’s get down to it

I’ve been gone for a week from this page and I really appreciate John Forristal’s willingness to step in during my absence.  I hope he’ll consider continuing to contribute as we move forward.  Having said that, I’m back!  So let’s get down to it…
It’s interesting when you’re forced to step away from the things that […]

I’ll be back tomorrow

Seriously, I will be.  But I want to thank John for holding down the fort and I hope he’ll continue to do so.
BTW - “Reparations?” - If there was any doubt about the Conman’s lack of sanity, he demonstrated it last night.

Eat a burrito on Tuesday….

Chipotle is donating all of its sale proceeds tomorrow, Tuesday, July 24, to the Cleveland Scholarship Programs. The Cleveland Scholarship Programs provide scholarships to students from all of Northeast Ohio. So go to your local Chipotle and get a burrito or two or three tomorrow.