When last we left Nasser Kazeminy, he was doing his damnedest to stay out of the media limelight. [grumble] TPM Muckraker was asking why Coleman’s people never returned their phone calls, but I guess you have to be local and Republican-approved before they return your calls.
Another recap from Majikthise, and a brazen declaration of victory [...]
How the Rubashkins made kosher a “dirty” word
As everything turns to shit, my Mac’s still a champ
Half a million workers lost their jobs in November, the worst number in 34 fucking years. The bullshit make-believe “official” unemployment rate is 6.7%. If you believe that you must have a lot of trouble with the big words I occasionally use in this blog. It’s all coming apart because ever since Reagan took office [...]
Did MN find Pawlenty at Craigslist?
Obama raised $750 million to run for president, or about 14% of the projected two-year deficit Gov. Pawlenty ran up by keeping taxes low for the Minnesota rich. Given the context, I think Obama was a bargain. And given the ruthless way the DFL caves to business interests (baseball stadium anyone?), 14% is probably what [...]
The “radio version” of what I just said
Whew. Had to open a window when I got home as the stink waves were still radiating from that last post like from an outhouse in Chernobyl. I’ve reread that post a dozen times now and I have to say that I still think I undersold it.
It’s not really possible to capture the essence of the [...]
Shitting on the steak knives
How awful is Katherine Kersten’s anti-anti-bullying boss column? This bad:
glowers
bellows
plummeting
blasts
tsunami-level intensity
crackpot, lawyers-full-employment scheme
phalanx
Civil rights lingo
scary statistics
our elites tend to be Europhiles
next to impossible to fire an incompetent employee, I’m told
On and one it goes, factless and opinion laden, loaded for bear and barely coherent.
On this side of the Atlantic, anti-bullying advocates tend to downplay the [...]
Executards and brain aeration
A change of pace at the warehouse today. Better for me but not an improvement overall. More retail customers, families with kids wandering down the warehouse aisles, but not like the earlier more aggressive shoppers. No, these were newbies and they weren’t eager to spend their money. Instead they were punching numbers into calculators trying [...]
Strib bitter, Coleman lashes out, Franken gets last laugh
It’s funny how you can listen to a debate from end to end then see in the newspaper headlines that don’t sum up what you listened to. But Marlin Levison’s picture certainly does capture the spirit of last evening: Norman Bertram Coleman lashing out, blaming Al Franken for EVERYTHING.
Coleman busted his rhetorical chops to make [...]
Daylight Slander Time
The milk tastes funny this morning and none of the chickens have laid so much as a single egg — still, it was nice to sleep in for a change.
The Strib didn’t sleep in. They were up nice and early composing headlines that imply Al Franken is somehow tied to Norman Coleman’s emerging record of [...]
As the house that Norm built collapses, he blames Franken and then hides behind his wife and family
What kind of weasel hides behind his family? The McKim lawsuit in Texas is not about Norm’s family, it’s not even about Norm himself. The McKim lawsuit is about the shady way Nasser Kazeminy runs his businesses and sleazy payments to Laurie Coleman’s putative employer are just collateral damage. MnIndy has more:
Untangling the political ties [...]
Robo-pugs
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Syria responds to Bush’s illegal aggression.
The Syrian government has broken relations with Baghdad. It has completely opened its border. This article in Al-Arabiya (Al-Arabiya is generally fairly reliable) says that the Syrians have reduced their forces on the border. That’s NOT what I’m hearing from BOTH sides of the border. What [...]
