Nevada Political Blogwire

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• Can’t win

  —Blue Lyon

  Posted in Atheism, Freethought [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:14am EST
  by bluelyon

• Dude, there’s a reason they give you a script

  —Blue Lyon

  Out here in the wild and woolies of Nevada, we rely heavily on volunteers to do jobs that actually earn a paycheck for people living in the metropolitan areas. Volunteers are our  jewels and we know that they sacrifice time and treasure for the communities they love. We are grateful for [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:53am EST
  by bluelyon

• The Republican Party of Filibuster, Hold, Bait and Switch

  —Desert Beacon

  It takes two to tango. It takes two to be bipartisan. There is no indication the Republican Party members in Congress have any intention of cooperating with much of anything. Some examples:

  #1. Filibuster delays on the extension of unemployment benefits, business tax credits, and housing tax credit [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:50am EST
  

• Ablation done

  —Blue Lyon

  Oh yeah, he found the spots. Six of them, to be precise, and if he could, he would have zapped some more. It appears that my heart, when it repaired itself after the ASD surgery, decided to put in a whole lot of extra wiring. I was awake for some [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:20am EST
  by bluelyon

• The real secret between Batman and Robin?

  —CityBlog

  Possibly Marvel's first Male on Male kiss. So Superman wears muscle-clinging spandex, Batman covers his face with a dark mask and Wonder Woman runs around in a one piece swimsuit. To say sexuality factors into the comic book industry is an understatement. But despite years of progress, the gays still have [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:28pm EST
  by Aziz Bawany

• Smells like teen comics: Discussing Buffy, high school allegories and self-publishing with Utopian creator Pj Perez

  —CityBlog

  Is Pj Perez a Renaissance man or just a workaholic? The high quality of his latest effort, the debut issue of The Utopian, a full-color comic book originally serialized online and now available for purchase at better comics shops, suggests the former. Perez has a long history in indie publishing [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:42pm EST
  by Andrew Kiraly

• Petcast + The Strip LIVE on Sat w/LILY TOMLIN

  —VEGAS HAPPENS HERE

  Number of comments: 0
  OK, OK. Lily Tomlin's only on "The Strip." But it's an awesome interview in which we dig in about her role on West Wing, the possible Desperate Housewives spinoff she may star in, the time she walked off the Dick Cavett show in a semi-huff, why [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:35pm EST
  by THE STRIP PODCAST

• Extraordinary teabagger delusions and the madness of crowds

  —Las Vegas Gleaner

  Number of comments: 6
  

  About the infamous sign photographed (click the pic to big up) during the latest organized teabagger tantrum (via Think Progress)...

  You can't argue with a sick mind, let alone the rampant sickness of thousands of minds feeding on each other's myths and delusions in' [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:33pm EST
  by Hugh Jackson

• When people aid in their own deception

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 1
  The scientific method: It's a handy guide to how we're supposed to figure things out. You may sometimes wonder why people believe things that aren’t true. You know, things such as the Earth is but 10,000 years old. Or that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Or that the health-care' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:58pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Help needed for homeless helpers

  —CityBlog

  Project Homeless Connect, the annual gathering of services for the homeless, is in desperate need of help. Last year, the event offered services such as legal aid, medical checkups and haircuts to approximately 3,400 people. This year, they expect to see between 4,000 and 4,500, according to Larry Lovelett, spokesman [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:42pm EST
  by Amy Kingsley

• Drunk event tonight

  —CityBlog

  a panel from Ivan Brunetti's comic in Drunk Whoops! An article in this week’s paper includes the wrong information for the book signing party and art opening for Drunk: A Comic About Bar Stories. The event is happening tonight at Frankie’s Tiki Room, which is on Charleston Boulevard near UMC. You [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:55pm EST
  by Amy Kingsley

• Governor: California’s trash could be Nevada’s treasure

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 7
  At least one constituency supports Gov. Jim Gibbons's call for more recycling at landfills: Seagulls! Gov. Jim Gibbons today called for Nevada to become a national leader in recycling materials sent to landfills. His comments come after a controversy erupted over a huge landfill project near Winnemucca that will host thousands [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:34am EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Not All The Bubbles Have Burst Since The Economy Took A Bath

  —Desert Beacon

  The good news is that Congress passed, and the President is ready to sign, legislation that extends unemployment benefits for another 20 weeks for Nevadans who have exhausted their benefits. The bad news is that includes approximately 10,000 people in the Silver State. [RGJ] Worse still, we're' [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:49am EST