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LIGHTNING ROUND: THAT'S MY BUSH.

Barack Obama campaigned in Ohio today to promote the economic stimulus package introduced in Congress yesterday and plans to hold a " ... as the "last American president" because Obama does not love his country, did not grow up in America ... state house has a bill pending that would make it "unlawful to communicate profanity" in a public [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:17:29

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Dean To Step Down as DNC Chair

Dean To Step Down as DNC Chair Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan, left, ... is the 50-state strategy, a plan that put staff and organizations on the ground in every state in the country ... installed White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 18:48:00

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30Dec08~The New Year Is Bringing Change~ By Cindy Categories: Crafts, machine embroidery and primitive craftsTags: craft blog, machine embroidery, ... , but have decided no wedding plans until she finishes her schooling. She has one more year until ... hardwood floors. When we built our first house back in 1985, I decorated very prim country… [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 20:07:58

Some Advice for the C4L Insurgency

There are a lot of people who are down right pissed off in this country ... the House, Senate and Presidency in the same party will not happen again for a long, long time [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:35:02

Thursday Thunks

I discovered this meme as I was wandering around the blogosphere and thought it looked like fun. So I decided to give it a try ... . Whichever one it was it was COLD! We could barely keep the house warm. 2. Whats for dinner tonight? - Probably BBQ country ribs, potatoes, and veggies or salad. 3. Would you consider this job in Australia [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:52:00

Hoarded Ordinaries

//EDIT:// So, one of the friends I went vintage shopping with just started a blog. See her view of the day here. I am a hoarder ... that to get our spirits down. We whipped along narrow country roads, through corn fields and past farm houses [more...]

Date: 2008-07-13 01:11:25

The Journey to the West (6)

I cannot believe this is January of 2009 and I am living here in this remote corner of the country ... . He was living in a boarding house. His only recreation was playing cards with some of the other boarders [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 06:12:00

In Defense of the Maverick

by Shawn Healy I am writing in response to Sam Pierce's slaying of Senator John McCain in his January 9, 2009 post. ... service to this country, including his recent run for the White House. In my mind, McCain's record [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 01:48:59

Actor Anthony Clark Lists Outpost Estates Home

SELLER: Anthony ClarkLOCATION: Outpost Drive, Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $2,495,000SIZE: 2,712 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 ... ceilings, cedar paneling & brick wall accents. Gourmet country kitchn w/ nu modern appliances ... across a house at the tippy-top of the Outpost Estates area that grabbed our fancy.So, as Your Mama [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 17:46:00

HUD Forced Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac To Increase Loans For Mobile Homes

Still thinking government isn’t to blame for the economic fiasco we find ourselves in? Consider that in 2004 (via Russell Roberts) ... into going back to 95% financing of cheap, manufactured homes. “We are teaming up with lenders ... as HUD-code houses, manufactured homes are the only ones in the country built to a single, national [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 00:11:09

Tom Brokaw’s Revenge? Calls Out ‘Bigots and Rednecks’ on Obama Inauguration Day: ‘Take This!’

Sitting in a Washington bar with the Morning Joe crew on MSNBC Tuesday morning, former NBC anchor grew emotional remembering the 1960s ... " he met in the Sixties "when we were evolving as a country" to suffer through the Obama inauguration ... in White Houses over the past 16 years, absent with this group. BROKAW: Comfortable in his own [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 23:31:08

Tom Brokaw’s Revenge? Calls Out ‘Bigots and Rednecks’ on Obama Inauguration Day: ‘Take This!’

Date: 2009-01-20 23:31:08

The Gingrich/Limbaugh Debate

Some Republicans want Obama to be a successful president, and others want him to be a failure ... speaker of the House. “It’s ineffective against Barack Obama right now. The country is faced ... to Barack Obama for a year and a half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 04:52:35

Obama Offers Recovery Proposals

Obama Offers Recovery Proposals Posted by James O'Rourke on November 26, ... s financial woes, naming two more top economic officials and promoting a broad array of recovery plans he intends to push upon entering the White House in January. Claiming a “mandate to move the country [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 15:28:35

When in Rome, do as the Roman’s do.

One of my must visit place is to travel in Europe! It includes Italy, Spain, France, Scotland, Rome and oh every country in Europe! ... and plans changed. We had a major house renovation back home that cost us an arm and a leg ... and we didn’t even visited another country. But next trip would be major and definitely a holiday and vacation [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 04:37:35

Rising tension over homes rented out

Think you'll have no problem renting out a house until the market rebounds? It's a great idea if you can cover (all or most) or your costs, but in many areas of the country, there's a growing backlash from HOAs ... in the housing market. For owners who have to move or who own houses as investment properties, short-term [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 15:48:00

How Much Blame Does He Deserve For This Mess?

Readers suggested a topic on the housing bubble and the outgoing President ... in the country among the 230 metros — and the highest rate in Florida.” The Review Journal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 13:16:11

7 Ways for Obama to Kick Back at the White House

white house Abraham Lincoln was a self-described billiards addict ... . Gerald Ford made use of the White House facilities as if they were at his own private country club ... have a long tradition of recreating on the grounds of the White House. When the ability to find [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 17:04:55

The pain in Spain …

The pain in Spain … … isn’t hard to explain. Spain was basically Florida, with a housing bubble inflated by both resident and holiday purchases, ... — hence the country’s declining credit rating. Second, the United States has a more or less ... prospects. (The housing bust has, however, reduced mobility because people can’t sell their houses.) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:22:35

Tysons Tunnel Rally: "We're on Track!"

I just got back from a TysonsTunnel rally (at Marco Polo Restaurant in Vienna) that was attended by about 80-100 tunnel supporters ... Oberstar - the most powerful man in the House of Representatives on transportation issues - recently ... " all around the country. According to Scott Monett, we don't want this "elevated, ugly thing." Today [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 15:07:24

What Will Barack Obama’s Presidency Mean for You?

As many as two million people gathered in Washington, D.C., to welcome Barack Obama into the White House, says The Wall Street Journal. Obama, our country’s first African-American President [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 15:48:29

Inauguration Festivities Under Way In Wicomico Schools

Inauguration Festivities Under Way in Wicomico Schools, Many Learning Activities Planned for Jan ... about why new inhabitants of the White House often redecorate to best represent themselves ... more about their country's government through hands-on activities, and participate in the swearing in of a new [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 12:16:00

Favorite Los Angeles Area Spots: Brentwood Country Mart

Yesterday, I played hookey from public service and instead met a colleague for lunch at The City Bakery, ... barnlike structures, which always seem to be freshly painted, date back to 1948, and house a number ... from the old timey Edelweiss Chocolates and Country Mart Shoe Repair to the more mod Selima et Benjamin [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 22:31:45

Jubilee

Something that caught my eye as being very appropriate, considering the topics I've blogged on this week ... making weekly $1 million payments to the World Bank. Jubilee USA plans to push Obama during his first 100 days in the White House to ask the World Bank to cancel the Caribbean country's payments [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 10:59:00

Heathrow Airport Guide - Duty Free Shopping Terminal 1

Heathrow Airport Guide - Duty Free Shopping Terminal 1 : Heathrow Airport: London, United Kingdom ... 8759 8160Caviar House & PrunierA range of the best Balik smoked salmon, foie gras and Prunier caviar [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 08:13:00

Rebuilding a Green New Orleans: Social Enterprise in the Lower 9th Ward

Executive Director of the non-profit Make it Right, Tom Darden, has been working closely with New Orleans officials and community leaders like Charles Allen in order to rebuild the Lower 9th Ward with eco-friendly houses. He dubs it, “the toughest redevelopment project in the country [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 23:45:06

BREAKING NEWS: OBAMA IS AYERS IS ANNENBERG

September 11, 2008 in history and current events by SEK Irony is delicious ... , as Tom Maguire writes, “ a t a White House event with Bill Clinton where philanthropist Walter ... with the country, with Bill Clinton and a leftist billionaire cast in the Soros mold. Bill Ayers, former WU [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 03:00:52

America's recession

IT’S official. The economists of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) ... . This came in not long ago from Steny Hoyer, the House majority leader: With 1.2 million jobs lost ... , especially when the country is stuck in a liquidity trap. He is a bit too cavalier in dismissing worries [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 21:29:40

With Hope And Virtue

And so it begins. With tears in our eyes and hope in our hearts, the next step into our future has been taken ... , more than ever in my life, with pride to be a citizen of this incredible country. I am a United ... those plasma screen TVs, latest iPods, houses bigger than our incomes? And just as we must own [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 17:41:22

Jericho and the Pre-Raphaelites - Essay by Heathcote Williams

By the 1960's the British canal system was in something of a decline. Who needed canals when highways were being built all over the country ... an alternative life style to living in the conventional house. People discovered many alternatives [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 14:45:00

Craziest Republican of the Day: Ken Blackwell (again)

By Michael J.W. StickingsI really don't think the GOP could do much better than Blackwell, currently a candidate for the chairmanship of the RNC ... (and homosexuality generally).And for three, it's clear that he puts party before country, and before ... it harder for Republicans to retake the White House."Steve is right that, policy-wise, this is [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 14:30:00

Rabid Dog

In Idaho you earned a snow day. Its not “Its snowing: school is cancelled” ... . It was orange and brown. I hated it. I’m sure the house even hated it. And I’m pretty sure that the whole country of America would hate it if they saw it. anyway ;) centered in the middle [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:58:44

Plans?

I had all kinds of plans for today.It turned out that life just got in the way ... at the appointed time. Thanks be to God!But the house was frigid and all the things you take ... up as country kids Dale and I were surprised as all get-out that this old farmhouse was equipped [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 07:05:00

Saying Hello To 2009

By Carol GeeAnd soon we will be saying goodbye to George W. Bush, The Decider, the commander in chief ... , "The Iraq war will cost more in 2007 than the $110 billion projected by the White House, said the head ... in a ceremonial move described by the country's prime minister as a restoration of Iraq's sovereignty [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 21:30:00

Saying Hello to 2009

And soon we will be saying goodbye to George W. Bush, The Decider, the commander in chief ... , "The Iraq war will cost more in 2007 than the $110 billion projected by the White House, said ... on Thursday in a ceremonial move described by the country's prime minister as a restoration of Iraq's [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 21:05:00

And now the hard work begins

Bush is gone, back in Texas. Please stay there. Today is a great day in history - a black man becomes president and he’s not some republican ... and his own party, with a substantial majority in both houses of congress, to pass all the legislation needed to make this country a fair and just place for all. The fourth branch of government [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 02:57:45

The World

The World 25-Aug-08 After Pullout, Russia Envisions Long-Term Shift MOSCOW — As the Russian Army withdrew most of its forces from Georgia, ... . But Russia’s forces are digging in and seizing ribbons of Georgian land that abut two breakaway ... the country. U.S. should shelve nuclear deal: Russian official MOSCOW (Reuters) - The White House should [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 17:34:59

The White House to Consider Congressional Sentiment? Is Someone Sick?

It needs no mention that the current White House has been among the most unilateral-minded administration’s in the country’s history ... proposals — everything from the farm bill to SCHIP — while also asserting his right to ignore certain laws already passed. It was strange, then, to hear White House spokeswoman Dana Perino today [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 20:31:45

Tom Brokaw's Revenge? Calls Out 'Bigots and Rednecks' on Obama Inauguration Day: 'Take This!'

Sitting in a Washington bar with the Morning Joe crew on MSNBC Tuesday morning, former NBC anchor grew emotional remembering the 1960s ... " he met in the Sixties "when we were evolving as a country" to suffer through the Obama inauguration ... you have seen in White Houses over the past 16 years, absent with this group. BROKAW: Comfortable in his own [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 23:31:08

Good And Evil

The theme in last night’s farewell address seems appropriate. Good and evil certainly defines the occupied White House. Good and awful would aptly describe the state of this country, as well [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:44:53

Obama lines up a cabinet, warns supporters not over yet

By Sarah Baxter TIMES ONLINE ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - With the economy on the brink of recession and the country in the midst of two foreign wars, ... him into the White House and key administration posts. But he is also being urged to make some high [more...]

Date: 2008-10-19 10:02:18

this cost us an additional

TEN MILLION DOLLARSwe should DEMAND five million each from king george and the big dick. no, make that ten million each - to cover punitive damagesit's like our country has money to burn or something, isn't it?Missing White House E-Mails Traced, Justice Aide SaysBy R. Jeffrey [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 06:44:00

Greening a giant

Japan’s housing market is an oddity in the world for its obsession with newness. More than half of the country’s homes were built after 1980, and only 13% of existing stock are houses that were pre-owned, compared to 66%, 78%, 89% in France, the US and Britain respectively. The roots of this phenomenon go way back [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 04:14:24

Canada’s Harper vows to fight planned ouster

(CNN) — Canada is bracing for a political battle royale as its three opposition parties jockey to wrest power from Prime Minister Stephen ... s Conservative Party, which has governed with a minority in the House of Commons since 2006, gained ... an opening for a coalition of the country’s opposition parties to take power in a dispute over how [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 12:40:27

Home

Longing. For a place to call my own. A place to paint and decorate in this beach-bungalow country-style I have in mind ... wanted to be tied down to a house. The commitment, the responsibility, the risk. Lately ... -time job. We know the impossibility of buying a house right now. We don’t know for sure where [more...]

Date: 2008-06-09 19:15:56

Who will be the media's new whipping boy?

by Julie Grisolano History has been made with the first African American man elected as leader of a major super power ... administration will start it's first full day of work at the White House. And although it's not historic ... for a historic moment in this country; it's quite another [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 08:22:16

No Major Health Reform in 2009?

That’s what Rep. Pete Stark, chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, implied today, according to The Hill. The California Democrat said that the economic troubles facing the country — as well as “deferred ... reform his first two priorities from the White House, with health care reform a near third [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 22:58:40

Wanted: Inaugural Sermons

If you hear a sermon during Inauguration Week that you consider memorable, the Library of Congress wants to know about it. With the Jan ... , its American Folklife Center hopes to add sermons and speeches from an array of houses of worship ... of citizens' efforts to mark this historic time around the country, the American Folklife Center [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 16:48:10

Jan 17 - Welsh Springer Spaniel and Pheasant Continues

I’ve had some surprising comments on these paintings, ... in a generally round shape near the middle of the canvas. As far as which one of the six value plans, it’ ... from us toward a farm house. I hope that all my friends in the southernmost area of the country [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 23:36:09

luminous pink cloud

Phew I think I broke some kind of land speed record getting home on my bike (up hill!!) in time to see the inauguration. That was emotional ... thing has already happened; that a majority of a vast country have voted for change; for a liberal ... ? Perhaps other shapes too; birds, flowers, houses? Decals can be so expensive, this could be a nice DIY [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 22:43:13

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