Category: 2006
By Jim Lynch on Oct 28, 2006 in 2006, Blogs and blogging, Business, Politics | 2 Comments
I just received an email letting me know that a new blogad has been submitted to run here. Here. By the DCCC. Do they read this blog, or did they just search by Florida?
Should I take the money and laugh?
Your input is appreciated.
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By Jim Lynch on Oct 28, 2006 in 2006, First Cup, News, People, Politics, The Left, The Old Media | Comments Off
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odour to the nostrils. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Blue Crab Boulevard Played Like A Cheap Violin — “The Associated Press is reporting that the kerfluffle over the so-called silencing of the Dixie Chicks and the ads for their new [...]
By Jim Lynch on Oct 27, 2006 in 2006, Florida Politics | Comments Off
You can just bet that this is going to make the Florida DemocRATS go crazy.
Voters deciding on a replacement for disgraced Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record) may be provided with a list of candidates in the race as they enter the voting booth next month, an appeals court ruled Friday.
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A replacement GOP candidate, [...]
By Jim Lynch on Oct 27, 2006 in 2006, Congress, First Cup, Illegal Immigration, Politics | 1 Comment
I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. ~ Flash Rosenberg
Blue Crab Boulevard False Hope — “Michael Graham has a piece in the Boston Herald that really is a must read. It points out the one thing that the Democrats have not [...]
By Jim Lynch on Oct 26, 2006 in 2006, Humor, Mixed Up Stories | 2 Comments
Two more stories (source, source) have got mixed up somehow. I thought I had this fixed. Any help getting things straightened out would be appreciated.
At one point, snow was falling at a rate of about 3 inches an hour in Denver. A 125-mile corridor from Colorado Springs to the New Mexico line was under a [...]
By Jim Lynch on Oct 26, 2006 in 2006, Blogiversary Database, First Cup, Humor, Illegal Immigration, The Left, War on Terrorism | 1 Comment
Give a frontiersman coffee and tobacco, and he will endure any privation, suffer any hardship, but let him be without these two necessaries of the woods, and he becomes irresolute and murmuring. ~ U.S. Army Lt. William Whiting, 1849
By Jim Lynch on Oct 25, 2006 in 2006, 24, Conservative Politics, First Cup, Iran, Iraq, Politics, President Bush, The Left | Comments Off
The drink that comforteth the brain and heart and helpeth digestion. ~ Sir Francis Bacon
Iowa Voice (Brian) Michael J. Fox And The Stem Cell Debate — “I wasn’t even going to bother commenting on the Michael J. Fox thing that’s been going on lately because, quite honestly, I saw it for what it was: a [...]
By Jim Lynch on Oct 24, 2006 in 2006, First Cup, Political Correctness, The Left | Comments Off
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Captain’s Quarters (Mayor scriptum Ed Morrissey) The Niqab Dismissal — “Multiculturalism sounds great in theory, but in practice it gets expensive and destructive. We need to stop setting the expectation that we will accommodate all differences. When people come to the US to [...]
By Jim Lynch on Oct 22, 2006 in 2006 | Comments Off
The lastest Weekly Projection Update at Election Projection is now available.
My favorite quote:
I believe now that the effort by the media to portray the GOP faithful as depressed and unenergized has failed to produce GOP faithful who are depressed and unenergized.
Quite true.
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By Jim Lynch on Oct 21, 2006 in 2006, First Cup, Politics, The Left | Comments Off
Many people are like instant coffee: the minute they get in hot water they dissolve. ~ Unknown
Blue Crab Boulevard About Why Congress Is Gridlocked — “In writing an article that is meant to flatter Nancy Pelosi, the Washington Post reporter who wrote the story, Lois Romano, inadvertently gives away some startling admissions. Want to know [...]
By Jim Lynch on Oct 20, 2006 in 2006, Congress, Conservative Politics, First Cup, Politics, The Left | Comments Off
Nancy Astor: “If I were your wife, I would put poison in your coffee.”
Sir Winston Churchill: “And if I were your husband, I would drink it.”
Don Surber Speaker? Pelosi could be president — “Some Democrats even want to take it a step further than making her speaker. They want to take control of Congress and [...]
By Jim Lynch on Oct 19, 2006 in 2006, Congress, Politics, Ridiculous Headlines, The Left | Comments Off
Even though he is incorrectly credited with the line, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” P.T Barnum was a master of promotion. If this story can be sold to the American people, well old Phineas would surely be proud:
Dems to use moderation if they win House
They’re mostly a liberal bunch. Yet the would-be chairmen in [...]