Montana Political Blogwire

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• And now for Something Completely Different…

  —4&20 blackbirds

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  by JC This open thread is dedicated to the incredible perseverance and diligence shown by goof, lizard, Mark T. and PogoPossum last week on my thread the rise of the conservative party. Have at it boys! And if anybody else has something they’d like to gab about, this thread is for [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:06pm EST
  by JC

• Minnesota shines

  —Piece Of Mind

  Several studies here: Aiming Higher: Results from a State Scorecard on Health System Performance, 2009 (Separate chart from this study here). America’s Health Rankings, 2008 Edition Kaiser Family State Health Facts, 2009 Rankings of Deaths per 100,000 There are scads of charts and comparisons. My curiosity was driven by one anomaly that turns up [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:59pm EST
  by Mark Tokarski

• Manager wonders why computer model is not selling

  —Piece Of Mind

  COSTCO has on display many computers of various prices, all PC’s. I was looking at the one priced at $999.99 this morning, and there was one of those electronic sticky notes up in the corner that said Check out this sticky note. It’s really cool. Bet it makes you want to [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:17pm EST
  by Mark Tokarski

• Dennis Rehberg’s Firm Grasp of Economics and History Demonstrated Once Again

  —Intelligent Discontent

  Dennis Rehberg, your aspiring Senator, yesterday:

  Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, today reacted strongly to the release of federal unemployment figures that, for the first time since 1983, breached 10 percent. Last month alone, the economy lost 190,000 jobs bringing the total job losses since the February passage of the “so-called” stimulus [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:31am EST
  by Pogie

• Post Modern Entreprenuers

  —thoughtstreaming

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  These ads were found scattered throughout the last Harpers and speak to our non-culture:
  
  "Form a real relationship with someone in extreme poverty!"
  
  Purveyor of the Worlds Finest Teas
  
  Seasonal Cookbook by 13 year Ovarian Cancer Survivor
  
  Date Smart / Party Smart! "Join the introduction" [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:50am EST
  by troutsky

• STUDY IN PURPLE AND RED: writing

  —prairiemary

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  Purple prose is a term of literary criticism used to describe passages, or sometimes entire literary works, written in prose so overly extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw attention to itself. Purple prose is sensually evocative beyond the requirements of its context. It also refers [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:54am EST
  by prairie mary

• "Employment Discrimination Bill a Top Priority" says DOJ

  —Left in the West

  Definitely worthy of being posted another time besides late Friday afternoon, but it's important that this gets out.

  Thomas Perez, the US Justice Department's assistant attorney general for civil rights, told members of a Senate hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) on Thursday that the fully-inclusive legislation is "top" [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:55pm EST