Items by xstryker

• A Prairie Hate Companion

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  Number of comments: 15
  Apparently, NPR’s Garrison Keillor is on Bill O’Reilly’s side regarding the War On Christmas. OK, weird, but that’s not the part that bothers me. Check out this little excerpt from his screed in Wednesday’s Baltimore Sun, whereupon he’s quite angry about a somewhat secularized version of “Silent Night” sung at [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 4:05pm EST
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• Conservative Senators Love Mike Castle

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  Number of comments: 2
  Anyone who thinks Mike Castle would be some kind of moderate thorn in the side of the conservative GOP Senate minority leadership is fooling themselves. Among those senators who reported giving to Castle in October were Thad Cochran (Miss.), whose Senate Victory Fund PAC gave $10,000; Orrin G. Hatch (Utah), whose [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• Neoconservatives rail against Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerki

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  Number of comments: 1
  Hah, just kidding. Neocons don’t even know where Eritrea is. Afewerki announced in May 2008 that elections would be postponed for “three or four decades” or longer because they “polarize society.” All forms of media are controlled by the government. At least 10 local journalists remain in prison since their arrests [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:07pm EST
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• The Castle Amendment – Bend Over!

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  Number of comments: 13
  Here is the amendment Mike Castle added to the GOP “Die Quickly” Health Insurance Bill. ‘‘In applying subparagraph (B), a group health plan (or a health insurance issuer with respect to health insurance coverage) may vary premiums and cost sharing by up to 50 percent of the value of the benefits [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 1:04pm EST
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• Castle to Uninsured: Die Quickly (and forces women to buy abortion insurance separately)

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  Number of comments: 15
  Mike Castle voted to prevent private insurers from covering abortions if they receive public subsidies. Under the Stupid Stupak Amendment, women would have to buy abortion “riders” from their insurers separately. Since many women are insured through their husband’s employer (especially those who choose to be stay-at-home mothers, and let’s [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• Understanding the Election

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  Number of comments: 6
  1. GOP picks up VA-Gov – Conservative Democrat loses to Conservative Republican. A Democrat cannot win Virginia by promising to block health care reform. A win for conservatives, but not much impact to progressives. 2. GOP picks up NJ-Gov – much more serious loss. It shows that the GOP can win [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:53pm EST
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• Carper Sells Out To Drug Companies

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  Number of comments: 15
  From a Booman Tribune post entitled, “For Shame, Tom Carper”, comes this gem (bold text added by me): In any case, there are people who qualify for Medicaid because they have a low income. And there are people who qualify for Medicare because they are 65 years-old. Then there are people [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 7:00am EDT
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• Eagles Open Thread

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  Number of comments: 15
  Post your predictions, thoughts, and reactions. Will Kevin Kolb make Jason Scott miss “No heart chump” McNabb? Will we see Jeff Garcia on the field? Will the brutal Eagles defence be able to contain Drew Brees, the best QB in football last year who threw 6 touchdowns last week? [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2009, 12:30pm EDT
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• Glenn Beck’s biggest remaining adventiser: “Male Enhancement”

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  Number of comments: 15
  Glenn Beck’s special brand of frothing, crying, apocalyptic, “Obama is a racist!” hysteria has driven all of Beck’s larger advertisers away, thanks to an awareness campaign from ColorOfChange.org. So who’s left? The jokes write themselves. Now we know why Beck viewers feel the need to brag about their powerful handguns. The rest [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 7:10pm EDT
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• Tom Carper’s Office: Public Option is a Fall Back?

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  Number of comments: 7
  So what is Tom Carper’s position on Public Option Health Care? A friend of mine just called up Senator Carper’s office, and inquired whether Carper (who claims that he “doesn’t oppose” the public option, a weaselly double-negative) would support a public option plan that was “available on day one”. Why [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 1:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Video: Awkward Rap

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  Number of comments: 1
  From the Elegant Too, a rap about awkward situations. if you say, “how are you?”, i’ll say, “not much.” [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 9:00pm EDT
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• Virginia Gov. race update – McDonnell too conservative for George Allen

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  Number of comments: 3
  A few more highlights from WaPo’s article on Bob McDonnell – apparently McDonnell is too much of a theocon for racist former Governor and Senator George “Macaca” Allen: Republican friends who support McDonnell’s campaign for governor acknowledge parting ways with some of his more conservative views. Former governor and U.S. senator [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 4:00pm EDT
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• GOP Gov nominee in Virginia opposed contraception

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  Number of comments: 5
  AG Bob McDonnell, the GOP’s nominee for the ‘09 Governor’s race in Virginia, is currently enjoying a modest lead in the polls; but what are Virginia voters going to make of this? At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 9:00am EDT
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• Comment Rescue – Rhymes with Cialis

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  Number of comments: 15
  Here are the recent comments section from the blog of one of our frequent commenters, Rhymes With Right. [...]
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  Posted: August 29, 2009, 5:30pm EDT
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• Cattle Call – Delaware Senate Race

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  Number of comments: 15
  Who do you think should run for the open Senate seat in 2010? Democrats, Republicans, Independents – tell us your picks. [...]
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  Posted: August 29, 2009, 4:00pm EDT
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• The lie, and the liars

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  Number of comments: 3
  The lie: That any proposal currently before congress contains funding for “death panels” that kill patients against their will. The truth: Your doctor can be reimbursed for helping you make a living will – in which you can declare “I insist that no one ever pull the plug on me for [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2009, 12:31am EDT
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• The GOP plot to kill senior citizens

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  Number of comments: 1
  How do you know what the wingnuts are plotting? Easy – anything they accuse others of doing. Remember when Jonah Goldberg, after years of “you’re either with us or you’re a terrorist sympathizer”, started talking about “Liberal Fascism”? Remember how the party that tried to force an extremist religious viewpoint on [...]
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  Posted: July 29, 2009, 10:02pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: Throwing Muses – Firepile

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  Number of comments: 1
  This is one of my all time favorite songs. your baby’s running faster, count the times I left my clothes out, count the tires one more time, count the times I let the air out; that firepile’s your home. [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2009, 9:30pm EDT
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• QOTD: Health Insurance Nightmares

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  Number of comments: 3
  Read this story of lost insurance and then answer the following: What would you do? I would try moving to England. [...]
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  Posted: July 08, 2009, 12:47pm EDT
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• Tell Tom Carper to Support the Public Option

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  Number of comments: 2
  We all know that Senator Carper has corporate health care lobbyists in his ear and corporate money filling his campaign coffers. But don’t any of you DARE give up this fight – every quitter provides an excuse for mass surrender. You’ve got to work for this – if we don’t [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2009, 1:27pm EDT
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• David Anderson is crazy and I love it

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  Number of comments: 15
  David Anderson on Roe v. Wade: The gates of hell were opened that day in 1973 and our values seem to be sucked down to the pit. Child abuse soared, families collapsed, murder soared, rape climbed, schools became war zones, and America suffered humiliation in Viet Nam and a disgraced Presidency. [...]
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  Posted: July 02, 2009, 9:46pm EDT
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• Sex, Hypocrisy, and Inquisition

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  Number of comments: 5
  The following “family values” Republicans voted to impeach (House) or remove (Senate) President Clinton. Newt Gingrich Henry Hyde Mark Sanford Bob Barr Dan Burton Helen Chenoweth Bob Livingston John Ensign Vito Fossella Jim Gibbons Sue Myrick Joe Scarborough Bill Thomas John McCain Larry Craig Rod Grams Tim Hutchinson They are all adulterers. Also voting for impeachment: Ken Calvert (BJ from a hooker in public), Mark Foley (sent sexually explicit [...]
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  Posted: July 01, 2009, 9:17pm EDT
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• Tell Tom Carper to Support the Public Option

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  Number of comments: 6
  We have a little over a month to apply pressure to Senator Carper to support public option health care. (302) 573-6291 Put this number in your cell phone or your wallet or purse. Call it on your lunch break tomorrow. Ask his staff (or leave a message asking) if Senator Carper supports [...]
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  Posted: June 30, 2009, 8:59pm EDT
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• China and the Electric Car

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  Number of comments: 15
  A lot of conservatives are pissing their pants because they think the Chinese will go on polluting the world while America and Europe seek to reduce emissions. While China at the moment certainly has smog problems, I’m quite certain that by 2020, they’ll be working as hard as the West [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2009, 11:09pm EDT
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• Why Delaware Needs Health Reform

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  Number of comments: 4
  Health Care facts and figures, from HealthReform.gov (thanks, HHS Secretary Sebelius!) DELAWAREANS CAN’T AFFORD THE STATUS QUO Roughly 575,000 people in Delaware get health insurance on the job, where family premiums average $14,579, about the annual earning of a full-time minimum wage job. Since 2000 alone, average family premiums have increased by 108 [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2009, 3:35pm EDT
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• Climate Change Bill Passes, Castle Votes Aye

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  Number of comments: 7
  Here is the roll call on the American Clean Energy and Security Act. Aye: 219 No: 212 8 Republicans voted Aye: Castle (DE, duh) LoBiondo (NJ) Lance (NJ) Smith (NJ) Kirk (IL) Reichert (WA) McHugh (NY) Bono Mack (CA) 44 Dems voted against: Altmire (PA) Dahlkemper (PA) Holden (PA) Arcuri (NY) Massa (NY) Costa (CA) Stark (CA) Foster (IL) Costello (IL) Kucinich (OH) DeFazio (OR) Kissell (NC) McIntyre (NC) Nye (VA) Kirkpatrick (AZ) Mitchell (AZ) Salazar (CO) Wilson (OH) Visclosky(IN) Donnelly (IN) Ellsworth [...]
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  Posted: June 26, 2009, 8:32pm EDT
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• Lunch Break News

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  Number of comments: 8
  You’ve been told a lie – Monsanto and the Agribusiness lobby want you to think chemical farming is vastly superior to organic farming. Organic farming can feed about as many people as chemical farming, and in the developing world, it could feed 80% more. Check out the science. (DKos) Obama leads [...]
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  Posted: June 23, 2009, 1:26pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: The Decemberists - Valerie Plame

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  No actual video, just a static image and an album. But oh, how I wish they would have made a video for this one! and so my vespa became your chariot, from the green zone marriott [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: The Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound

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  Number of comments: 1
  These two are from Denmark, with a retro 60’s sound (with a little Jesus & Mary Chain thrown in). if only you could listen, try to change your mind [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: Muse - Supermassive Black Hole

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  Muse rocks my friggin’ socks. glaciers melting in the dead of night; and the superstars sucked into the supermassive [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
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• Final Thought - Most conservative

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  Number of comments: 15
  What president was the most conservative? Now that Dubya is so unpopular, many conservatives are quick to claim that Bush wasn’t really a conservative anyway. But honestly, who can they compare him to? Bush Sr., Reagan, and Ford all passed big tax hikes, as did Hoover. Ford surrendered Vietnam, both [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 2:38am EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: Regina Spektor - Bobbing For Apples

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  This is a live performance from Tuscon, AZ. There is no studio-recorded version of this song yet. lovely people, lovely places, i can’t remember names and i can’t remember faces; someone next door’s f***ing to one of my songs. [...]
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  Posted: April 25, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
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• Pop Friday: Ingrid Michaelson - The Way I Am

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  Number of comments: 4
  Friday is for pop without apology. BTW, I saw Ingrid play the Tin Angel before anyone knew who she was. No idea what’s up with the clowns in this video though. cause i love the way you say good morning; and you take me the way i am. [...]
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  Posted: April 24, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
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• Final Thought

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  Number of comments: 5
  Sometimes I wonder if maybe Tom Carper is encouraging Castle to run for Senate, so they can go on riding Amtrak together for 6 more years. Castle would support Carper’s watered-down no-brainer environmental agenda, Carper would support Castle’s money picture schemes, and together they’d protect big corporations from consumers. I’m [...]
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  Posted: April 24, 2009, 12:27am EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: The Breeders - Walk It Off

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  Off their latest album, Mountain Battles - yes, the Breeders are still together and still touring. I saw them at the TLA and verily did they rock out. nobody’s allowed to fight; ’til the band starts playin’ tonight. [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Gardenia

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  Number of comments: 2
  Indie Pop god Stephen Malkmus (formerly of Pavement) with his new band, the Jicks (feat. drummer Janet Weiss, formerly of the grrrl band godesses Sleater-Kinney). They are too indie for a real video, so these are just some pictures thrown together by a fan. it’s like we’re at a ponzi scaminar. there’s [...]
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  Posted: April 22, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: The Toadies - Away

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  The Toadies owe their career to the Pixies. But so does every other alt-rock band. and if i’m asleep… make sure my blanket covers me [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
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• From My Junk Mail File

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  Number of comments: 10
  Just got an auto insurance solicitation from Allstate. Immediately threw it out - know why? Why would I want to get my insurance from the worst insurance company in America? How could I do business with a company that instructs its adjusters to lie to their customers? Allstate’s confrontational attitude towards its [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 7:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: Be Your Own Pet - The Kelly Affair

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  A song about the cult classic movie “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”. everybody here parties all the time; everybody here’s got sex on their minds [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: Vanessa Mae - Toccata & Fugue

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  Number of comments: 2
  A modern spin on a Bach classic. [...]
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  Posted: April 19, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: Maldroid - Heck No! (I’ll Never Listen To Techno)

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  if the robots win we’ll have to listen to techno; heck no! heck no, i’ll never listen to techno [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: Mika - Lollipop

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  Number of comments: 1
  I hereby declare that Friday night is for Pop, no matter how sugary. Jason, for one, ought to appreciate that. if she loves you let her go; ’cause love only gets you down [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: Air Traffic - Never Even Told Me Her Name

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  Great song, not really intended for release as a video - it’s just the band playing the song in the studio during the recording of their debut album. i heard you on the radio, you were screaming out; you grabbed me by my heart and soul, through the speaker cone [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: Jimmy Luxury & the Tommy Rome Orchestra - Cha Cha Cha

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  This is what Dean Martin would sound like if he was a rapper. have a martini, maybe one, two or three; watch a couple o’ westerns on my color tv [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
  by xstryker

• Late Night Music Video: Dar Williams - Cool As I Am

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  Number of comments: 1
  and then I go outside and join the others; i am the others. [...]
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  Posted: April 14, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: Elbow - Grounds For Divorce

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  there’s a hole in my neighbourhood, down which of late I cannot help but fall [...]
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  Posted: April 13, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: Elemental - Cup of Brown Joy

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  so when times are hard and life is rough; you can stick the kettle on and find me a cup! [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: Greenland - The Way It Is

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  people never change their ways; that’s the way it is, that’s the way it is, that’s the way it is. [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: The Hoosiers - Goodbye Mr. A

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  Number of comments: 1
  you had all the answers, but no human touch. [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
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• Late Night Music Video: The Two Man Gentleman Band - William Howard Taft

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  Number of comments: 1
  The Two Man Gentleman Band will be playing the Dogfish Head in Rehoboth Saturday night at 10:00 PM. Good old-timey style music with a wickedly modern sense of humor, full of double- (and sometimes single-) entendres - and free kazoos! [...]
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  Posted: April 09, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
  by xstryker