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    Weekly Tweets 2012-08-12

    August 12, 2012 - By 

    RT NOPENOPENOPENOPE @StephLaberis: WORST NIGHTMARE CONFIRMED. http://t.co/194IZEPn #fb # I checked in at The Craggy Range Bar & Grill on #Yelp http://t.co/TwzJNIqz # Doing The Write Thing In Portland, Maine http://t.co/bonr6voj # Powered by Twitter Tools

  • Dear Mom - Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    So Far

    August 6, 2012 - By 

    So far, we’ve Flown from Chicago to Seattle had breakfast, lunch, and dinner with boats explored the Seattle Underground with tourons and alleged rats hiked on a beautiful forested trail by a remote beach had delicious beers with friends had circus with bread, which is a little different than having bread and circuses. avoided Seafair, but not the Seafair Pirates driven to Idaho hung out with family walked on a rails to trails route been licked by dogs eaten huckleberry ice cream (me only) eaten Vienna Sausages (again me only) seen 2 deer seen innumerable ground squirrels and chipmunks driven…

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    Weekly Tweets 2012-07-01

    July 1, 2012 - By 

    D'oh! Left phone at home, so retrieved it at lunch. Soon will be home every day. ☺ # Bullshit! Republicans blocked every attempt at reform. RT @cnnbrk Romney (blames Obama for GOP obstructionism) http://t.co/VFyzYBX8 # "bullshit GOP obstructionism" is the problem here. # RT @BlueDuPage #GOP Filibustered #DreamAct Twice in 2010 http://t.co/v3Fm2gjs @Reince #immigration #4jobs #2futures #p2 #tcot # Fortune: ATF Never Purposefully Let Guns Walk During Fast And Furious http://t.co/o794N8Sb via @TPM # Dear @RepJoeWalsh: What part of IT'S NOT A TAX, IT'S THEREFORE NOT A TAX INCREASE do you refuse to understand? # "we don't treat people like…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Illinois health care cuts to Medicaid: Uh oh

    June 30, 2012 - By 

    I don’t know if this affects anyone we might know, but even if not, it’s shameful. When sweeping health care cuts take effect Sunday, the parts of Illinois that stand to be hardest hit are the places where folks already are struggling to get by.City neighborhoods like Austin and Englewood, Humboldt Park and Pilsen. Inner-ring suburbs like Cicero. Rust-belt cities like Rockford. Whole swaths of rural Illinois. They’re areas where people make less, jobs are scarce and more rely on the government for help.Medicaid cutbacks mean hundreds of thousands will see health care benefits greatly curtailed, tens of thousands will…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Fortune: ATF Never Purposefully Let Guns Walk During Fast And Furious | TPMMuckraker

    June 28, 2012 - By 

    Link: Fortune: ATF Never Purposefully Let Guns Walk During Fast And Furious | TPMMuckraker Of course not Because that would be ridiculous, but easily used against them because the simple lie is more believable than the complex truth. Reality is often messy. There is no narrative structure. One day ahead of a House vote to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, a six month investigation by Fortune magazine found that Arizona-based agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives never purposefully allowed guns to “walk” during Operation Fast and Furious.