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CT Blue: A question of semantics

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:06:54 -0500

Max Baucus has a girlfriend.

John Ensign has a mistress.

This engendered some lively discussion around our breakfast table this morning. I took the position that the usages are correct. A mistress, to my way of thinking, is the paramour of a married man. “Married” in the sense that the [...]

Connecticut Commentary: Say what? Who’s “Misleading And Deceptive?”

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:13:00 -0500

In the face of a current budget deficit of nearly half a billion dollars, Republicans are proposing what they have always proposed -- a modest cut in spending of 6.5%.

The Republicans also want to restore 84 million in cuts to municipalities as well as [...]

Caterwauled: Creepy Joe™ Lieberman, noble statesman "Nya-nya-nya-nya-nya."

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:09:00 -0500

President Barack Obama went to the US Senate Sunday to address the Democratic caucus on the topic of passing a health care bill, and the disastrous results of failing to do so.

When he was done with his 30 minute speech, which neither mentioned [...]

MainStreet-Marlborough: Analysis Of Election Results - Marlborough

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:19:57 -0500

Just some interesting statistics from the November 2009 Marlborough election.

There were approximately 1150 voters who turned out at the polls out of about 4,200 who are registered, which was a 27.4% turnout.

The registered voters in Marlborough are comprised of:

Democrat: 32% (Up from previous years when it used [...]

Consent Of The Governed: December 7th 1941 - A Date That Will Live In Infamy

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:00:00 -0500

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From Today In History:
At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, a Japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wings appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu. A swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes followed, descending on the U.S. [...]

CALIFORNIA YANKEE: Senate in extraordinary Sunday Obamacare session

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:09:56 -0500

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Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. - Exodus 20:8, King James Bible

On October 10, 2004, Senator Robert Byrd, now President pro tempore of the United States Senate -- third in the line of presidential succession, objected to the Senate conducting business on Sunday:

Today Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [...]

Middletown Eye: Plenty to Do This Week (Part 1)

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:45:00 -0500

Monday December 7:It's an evening of music on the Wesleyan campus with 2 fine concerts. At 6 p.m. in Memorial Chapel, Christopher Grundy (baritone) and Professor Neely Bruce (piano) present a recital of art songs by Busoni, Schubert, Brahms and Bruce. Joining them will be special guest Katherine Polit (soprano.) [...]

yourCT.com: But You’ll Never Have Paris

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:39:21 -0500

The Courant’s Tom Condon has an interesting article about Bradley airport and the risk adverse thinking that goes into just about every decision made about the airport. Granted, most of us in Fairfield County are closer to the New York airports, so familiarity with the quirks and benefits of Bradley [...]

Middletown Eye: ARTFARM offers INSTANT CIRCUS workshop for kids and Environmental Circus performance at December 12 Circus celebration

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:27:00 -0500

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Imagine a circus in which actors juggle bottled water, polar bears dance on melting ice floes, the props and set are recycled, and the core of clowns are called the Fossil Fools. That’s part of what you get in ARTFARM’s Circus for a Fragile Planet, an hour-long circus performance featuring [...]

CT Blue: Take two Our Fathers and see me in the morning

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:38:16 -0500

In an oddly named article (To a Divisive Debate, Now Add Religion ) the Times relates that the Christian Scientists have now gotten into the act on health care.

I say the article is oddly named, because of I’m not mistaken, religion has been dividing the debate on health care [...]