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• Monday Morning Peak

  Image Taken From National Geographic
  
  Forget about Wednesday being hump day this week. The peak was already hit this morning, if you are among today's sleepy heads that stayed up to watch the Gemenids meteor showers:
  Coming fast on the heels of its more [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 9:07am EST
  

• People Need To See Doctors Now

  We can sit here and discuss healthcare reform as we wait for reform, but there are so many reasons why so many people need access to Doctors and hospitals to kick in NOW. From Mobilization For Healthcare For All, here is one of those reasons:
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:17am EST
  

• Is Little Green Footballs a Communist Blog now?

  
  "The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes,
  and off the cliff. I won’t be going over the cliff with them."
  
  
  From LGF's Charles Johnson:
  
  Why I Parted Ways With The Right
  
  1. Support for fascists, both [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 4:28pm EST
  

• Will Teabagger anti-immigration agnst spill over to the Schiff campaign?

   Smells like Teabaggrrrr spirit...
  
  Peter Schiff is well known for his for far right wing way out there libertarian Ron Paul-like views. You have to wonder if some of Teabagrrrrr angst will spill over to the GOP primary battles and burn Peter Schiff here in Connecticut?
  Jim [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:57pm EST
  

• Valuable Lesson From Sarah Palin's Book

  
  TRex has extracted and documented the bulk of the knowledge that can be had from Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue.
  
  Trust me on this, there is a valuable lesson to be had from her book that every Blogger, journalist and pundit should be [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:06am EST
  

• T-9 and Holding:

  
  About 8 minutes before the shuttle blasts off:
  At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis and crew are nearing liftoff at Launch Pad 39A, prepared to begin the STS-129 cargo-delivery mission to the International Space Station.
  
  The countdown clock is holding [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:20pm EST
  

• The more things change, the more they stay the same

  I woke up today to the news that it has been a whole year that gay and lesbian couples have been allowed to share the same rights as everyone else in our State. The right to settle down, get married and live as a family has changed a lot [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:18pm EST
  

• That's Alright Obama

  

  A little northern humour on the bailouts in the key of "eh?"

  The banks may not all be solvent but the comment threads are. Deposit your thoughts below.

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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:49pm EST
  

• When it comes to Joe Lieberman...

  
  If Joe Lieberman...
  Originally uploaded by msgeek93
  

  Nothing to add.

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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:44am EST
  

• KWIN-uh-pe-ack Poll is up - And so am I...

  It is way too early in the morning but I figured I'd check for the latest Quinnipiac poll results for the Connecticut Governor's race:
  In an early look at the 2010 election for Connecticut Governor, Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz runs best among possible Democratic challengers, trailing Republican incumbent [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:43am EST
  

• Note to Simmons and McMahon: Crystal Balls and Teabaging don't mix

  Smash mouth political commentary from Linda McMahon and Rob Simmons:
  "Isn't it sad that after 30 years in Washington, Chris Dodd is still writing letters and putting out press releases after the fact,'' Ed Patru, spokesman for Linda McMahon, said in a press release. "The H1N1 shortage didn't just [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:01pm EST
  

• Single Payer Activists Arrested at Lieberman's DC office

  They came, they sat, they chanted:
  8 Protesters backing a universal health care system briefly occupied Sen. Joe Lieberman's office this morning.
  
  Protesters were arrested, one by one, and dragged out of his office amid chants of "Everyone in and noone out, universal healthcare now!" and "Represent'" [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:58am EST
  

• Lamont In - Rell Out There Somewhere?

  Still waiting on word from Rell on whether or not she will be running - presumably she is having trouble forming an opinion on whether or not to run without Dautrich first poll testing the ideas - but, via Paul Bass, it looks like Lamont is getting ready [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:08pm EST
  

• Banks - Breaking up is hard to do:

  
  Via the LA Times:
  
  Britain is forcing breakups of bailed-out major banks
  
  The British government -- spurred on by European regulators -- is forcing Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Northern Rock to sell off parts of their operations. The Europeans are calling for [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:26pm EST
  

• Free Marketeers Against Healthcare? Go Galt and take your communist influence with you...

  “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, …”
  
  I assume they were not discussing welfare payments for high ranking military officers when they mention "promote the general" [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:28am EST
  

• Windsock Joe

  
  We really want to know which way the wind blows, Joe? The other day you were dead set against the Public Option, much to the chagrin of Connecticut voters. And now?
  Sen. Joe Lieberman has reached a private understanding with Majority Leader Harry Reid [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:19pm EST
  

• National Nurses Movement Action Diary

  
  
  URGENT ACTION NEEDED - CALL NOW!
  Your calls are needed to keep single payer amendments alive in the U.S. House of Representatives. The message is simple: "Keep the Kucinich Amendment!"
  
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
  DC 202.225.4965 - SF 415.556.4862
  
  Representative George Miller:
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 10:58am EDT
  

• Do the Math

  Susie Madrak at C&L suggests you do the math, and I do not think you'll like it:
  The bill provides financial assistance on a sliding scale. Premiums range from 1.5 percent of income to 12% for those at 400% of the Federal Poverty Level. The plan provides additional assistance' [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 10:23am EDT
  

• Gov. Rell: "The Computer Ate My Homework!"

  When you read stuff like this you really don't have to wonder if Dautrich focus group tested this message before she sent it out:
  A review of documents provided by the university to The Day also shows that the governor's office did not fully comply with previous requests for [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 12:22pm EDT
  

• If you are like most Single Payer supporters...

  I think you'll find the following links are the bomb!
  
  Weiner Amendment || Kucinich Amendment || Public Option || Healthcare Reform || Republican Healthcare Plan || Democratic Healthcare Plan || Doctors on Healthcare Reform || Nurses on Healthcare Reform
  
  Don't [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 8:12pm EDT
  

• Flushing Out the Ongoing Bank Fraud and Financial Terrorism

  The number of foreclosure filings hit a record high in the 3rd quarter: "Despite signs of broader economic recovery, number of foreclosure filings hit a record high in the third quarter - a sign the plague is still spreading."
  
  
  And banks are keeping losses off [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 9:35pm EDT
  

• Shorter Eric Erickson: "It's because he's black!"

  And he is Jimmy Carter too!
  "I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it, but that is the only thing I can think of for this news. There is no way Barack Obama earned it in the nominations period."
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 3:32pm EDT
  

• A Politician That Might Just Do What He Promises?

  A Middletown Township, Pennsylvania, politician telling you he has done nothing for the last 6 years:
  
  
  
  "Nobody does nothing better than Steve Young"
  
  H/T the Smirking Chimp and I have to wonder if this is even real?
  
  [update] Holy crap! It might just [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 9:24am EDT
  

• Goin' Down The Memory Hole

  It's Tengrain Presents...
  
  
  
  So you know you should get over there and read it all!' [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 7:47pm EDT
  

• Jon Stewart on Healthcare

  The Daily Show's Jon Stewart takes a look at the healthcare successes of the Democrats:
  
  The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cDemocratic Super Majoritywww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show
  Full EpisodesPolitical HumorRon Paul Interview
  (h/t GottaLaff :)' [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 2:12pm EDT
  

• Score One For The Working Families Party in NYC

  Score two, actually... Via The Gotham Gazette, The Working Families Party, a political party that has made significant contributions to Connecticut's political landscape, has taken over New York city:
  
  Both Liu and de Blasio had the endorsement of the Working Families Party, yesterday and' [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 2:35pm EDT
  

• Who needs sleep?

  Those who know me well know that I am a part-time insomniac. At times I can go days without sleeping before I finally burn and crash. Many of the posts I have written were done in the middle of the night and saved to post later. Don't ask me which' [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 8:18am EDT
  

• Senator Dodd On Snowe Delaying Legislation

  ctblogger uploaded this video and I thought I would yank it from him because it shows a lot slicker version of the material I covered:
  
  
  
  Pay no attention the Blogging geek asking the question nor the mug of Sam Adam's Octoberfest beer on the counter' [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 3:29pm EDT
  

• Senator Chris Dodd on Obama's Afghanistan Strategy

  In this video, taken on Saturday, September 26th, '09, Senator Chris Dodd makes sense on the situation in Afghanistan. It starts with Nutmegger John Kantrowitz, from My Left Nutmeg and the Conn-Post Blogs, discussing the shades of Vietnam parallels. But there is an 800 pound guerrilla that too' [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 9:59am EDT
  

• Don't Let Them Increase Choice With A Public Option!

  Funny or Die?
  
  Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 7:33pm EDT
  

• Blue Dog Mike Ross Real Estate Scandal?

  Via TomP at dKos, Rep. Mike Ross is getting his first taste of promised push-back for going against what the majority of Americans want:
  ProPublica is reporting that Blue Dog Congressman Mike Ross (DINO-AR) "sold a piece of commercial property in 2007 for substantially more than a county assessment" [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 12:06pm EDT
  

• Boehner at CPAC calling all of Obama's Policies Socialist

  Flushing out Boehner's lie on Meet the Press and a David Gregory that doesn't follow politics well enough to be able to call him out on the obvious:
  
  
  
  Boehner is no different then any other Bircher whackjob.
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 7:17pm EDT
  

• Healy Is Still Fat, Drunk and Stupid

  
  
  Seriously, Healy, is this really a great way for you to to continue to go through life?
  "Let this be a warning to those who think they can roll the American people and get away it. Exhibit A is the quick destruction of ACORN" [...]
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  Posted: September 19, 2009, 4:14pm EDT
  

• McMahon and Schiff Add Names to #CTGOPBattleRoyale

  Via tparty at MLN:
  This morning, proud non-voter Peter Schiff officially entered the ring of the 2010 #CTGOPbattleroyale. This is the man about whom Stuart Rothenberg wrote earlier this year that he saw:
  "...no evidence that he understands how to talk to voters who have" [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 2:49pm EDT
  

• A cool dose of DFH reality

  

  Might not be safe for work... But FUCK IT!

  DFH by joeyess
  

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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 2:41pm EDT
  

• Sweeoowweet... Here Doggy

  Via Jed Lewison, the happy-go-lucky teabaggers:
  A collage from this weekend's teabagger rally in DC (photos posted by NineTwelvePhotos on Flickr):
  
  Aren't they such thoughtful and happy people?
  
  Much like these people, via Connecticut Bob:
  Ray' [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 3:33pm EDT
  

• A little Black history in the making...

  I was checking out The Field Negro's Blog and Wayne had something far more interesting on his sidebar than anything he has written lately, to myself at least. (Sorry Field, not knocking your writing but I am a veteran.)
  
  I have not checked out the background on this [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 8:53pm EDT
  

• We Apologize For Being Correct, Yet Again

  Those of us in the left Blogosphere of Connecticut and the nation that have a nasty habit of being right so often that it is truly embarrassing to the political elite, the media, the voters and activists that don't' [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 6:34am EDT
  

• Support For Public Option In Connecticut By District

  Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com did a great job of breaking down some poll numbers for the Public Option on a district by district level and across the nation. I did a quick cut and paste of the numbers just for Connecticut:
  
  
  The results [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 1:22pm EDT
  

• Don't Be That Congress!

  Do you really want to be a repeat of the 80th "Do Nothing" Congress?

  Pres.Truman: “On several occasions
  during the past year I have reported to the Congress and to the Nation
  on our general economic situation. These reports have told of new high
  levels of production and employment. Farmers [...]

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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 12:59pm EDT
  

• Republicans Sacrifice Chickens For Healthcare

  We know that the biggest reason you all are pissed about this is that your failed Reagonomic free-marketeers-run-amok ideas that caused the shadow bank meltdown and the economic mess we are in now have already been discredited to the point that nobody wants to hear them anymore. [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 12:05pm EDT
  

• Murphy Calls On Congress To Walk The Healthcare Walk

  A release from CT-05 Rep. Chris Murphy:
  Murphy Calls for All Members of Congress to Purchase Health Insurance in Health Reform Bill's New Exchange
  
  NEW BRITAIN - After hosting public events in Waterbury, Danbury and Washington, Connecticut over the last two days, Congressman Chris Murphy (CT-5) is announcing' [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 3:12pm EDT
  

• Real Canadians Talking Real Health Care

  For those of you that just don't get what single payer healthcare is all about, via Karoli at US Health Crisis, real Canadians talk about healthcare:
  
  Why this video? Why now?
  
  In the spirit of truth, my friend Matte Black (@Shoq on Twitter) and his brother' [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 11:29pm EDT
  

• A pie fight between an incompetent poseur and a real journalist...

  There has been a lot said and written about the current arguments between Salon's Glenn Greenwald and Time's Joe Klein. I wonder what the real journalist will have to say in response to Klein?

  That didn't take long?

  Beltway culture, checks on journalists and secrecy obligations

  I'm [...]

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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 10:47am EDT
  

• The Lion Sleeps Tonight

  RIP Edward Kennedy 
  Via WCVB Boston:
  Kennedy, who waged a public fight against a malignant brain tumor in the last year of his life, was surrounded by family members who had come in recent days to say a last goodbye to him. His death marks the [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 7:57am EDT
  

• Bethel First Selectman Arrested

  ctblogger had the story up early at HatCityBLOG and MLN, and the Newstimes got around to covering it as well, on Bethel's First Selectman, Bob Burke, being arrested for making harassing phone calls.
  Ellis said Burke and the alleged victim had a personal relationship' [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2009, 7:30am EDT
  

• The only thing between us and the terrorists?

  Is the neoconservative echo-chamber between Joe Lieberman's ears:
  "I don't think anybody who has any fairness or is in their right mind would think the president or the secretary of homeland security would raise an alert level and scare people for political reasons... That's outrageous." - Joe Lieberman (August' [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 8:07pm EDT
  

• 67% of Conservatives are in the "Left of the Left"

  Since some morons are saying that is the "Left of the Left" that are pushing for the public option and this supposed to be shocking news to be breathlessly reported on in the traditional media... As they continue their twisted and contorted takes on reality, let us look at who [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 9:24am EDT
  

• Hartford Courant Demonstrates Ethics

  What?!?
  
  Bad ethics are ethics too... As we are fond of saying at MLN... Time for a Bloggers ethics panel, right?
  
  Maybe we should have a Bloggers ethics panel because some in the traditional media could learn from it. [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 7:05am EDT
  

• Clashes in East Haven Over Immigration

  Via the New Haven Independent:
  

  Violence flared in East Haven, as New Haven activists marching to protest alleged police racism tangled with out-of-state “white nationalists.”

  The clash happened during an event organized Saturday by New Haven immigrant advocacy organization Unidad Latina En Acción. More than 100 people marched through the [...]

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  Posted: August 19, 2009, 7:35pm EDT