"as sincere in what he says and does as I am in believing baby carrots are trying to turn me gay."

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Yesterday Bob Dole and Arnold Schwarzenegger joined the ranks of ex-senators Bill Frist, Howard Baker, Bush Administration HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (who ran as a Republican, but who is now an independent)* and Mark McClellan, ( Food and Drug Administration and the Medicare and Medicaid programs under George W. Bush) as Out of the Beltway and often out of power republicans putting their stamp of approval on Healthcare Reform. Bobby Jindal could be included, as he wrote an op-ed endorsing everything in the Baucus bill while not demonstrating that he had any idea what was in it.

Dole:

"This is one of the most important measures members of Congress will vote on in their lifetimes," the former Republican Senate majority leader and presidential candidate told an audience in Kansas City today. "If we don't do it this year I don't know when we're gonna do it."

Tumulty and other noted that, as he did in the campaign, Obama is finding support among 'grown-up' Republicans who have become alienated from the mouth-foaming of Bachman, Beck and Boehner. This support only underlines his message 'I'm trying to bring this country back to the days when grown-ups could talk and make deals'. In November of 2008 most of the country was ready for that (Thanks, Sara P., for the boost!)

Andrew reminds us

Once you put this together with the CBO report arguing that the Baucus model will actually save money and cut the deficit (and with a fair public option could cut it some more), I think Obama is winning this argument, as the polls increasingly show. And if the reform proves popular, then the GOP will for ever be tarred as the party that refused to help more people get health insurance or to tackle healthcare costs

And that's been the plan all along.

Republicans are Dumbfucks.

Rabbi, Teach Us

Compare and Contrast: Jesus Madison and more realistic Jesus Of Nazareth

Pop!

For a website that really makes a point, you should visit this one here

Jesus Madison - Re-Interpreted

Someone who has actually read the Constitution and Knows actual American History re-annotates that crazy picture.

A MUST CLICK

Eventually It Comes To This

GT12 has not watched a news talk show for 10 days. And we feel great.

We do watch 2 hours of 'The West Wing' every day and we'll try to avoid what happened to this guy...

Betsy Becomes An Ally.....

by becoming the Mark Foley of Healthcare Reform

McCAUGHEY: This will go down in history as one of the most browbeating interviews in television history.

RATIGAN: I hope that it does, and maybe you'll learn to go on television to answer questions as opposed to casting accusations.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/06/betsy-mccaughey-dylan-rat_n_311044.html

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Jesus Madison

An interactive picture that will make you feel proud to not be an evangelical

Fozzy Don

Don Draper in fur

What More Does A Man Need?

Austan Goolsbee Wins Annual "D.C.'s Funniest Celebrity"

I always thought that this guy would be a star.

On A Brighter Note

DADT repeal next year looking very good

Rare Source of Attack on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

WASHINGTON — In an unusual show of support for allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the armed forces, an article in an official military journal argues forcefully for repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law, which requires homosexuals in the services to keep their sexual orientation secret.

The article, which appears in Joint Force Quarterly and was reviewed before publication by the office of Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that “after a careful examination, there is no scientific evidence to support the claim that unit cohesion will be negatively affected if homosexuals serve openly.”
Although the article, by an Air Force colonel, Om Prakash, carries no weight as a matter of policy, it may well signal a shift in the official winds. It won the 2009 Secretary of Defense National Security Essay competition.

Colonel Prakash, who researched the issue while a student at the National Defense University, in Washington, and who now works in the Pentagon, concludes that “it is not time for the administration to re-examine the issue.” Instead, he writes, “it is time for the administration to examine how to implement the repeal of the ban.”

Why People Don't Want To Vote For Democrats

A Filibuster-Proof GOP Senate would have reduced the maximum tax rate to 15% by now.

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How Little Things Really Change

Memories from my youth

1000 Words. x2

Training For Fall

Sorry, the pun opportunities are too great to pass up ALL of them...

Mr Dan indulged me and my love of all things old by joining me on a trip to The Illinois Railway Museum, our country's largest rail travel museum.

IRM describes itself:

The Illinois Railway Museum is a Museum in Motion. Watch now, as a little red streetcar clangs across Depot Street on the car line, or as the thundering steam train whistles past on the mainline, or perhaps as the gleaming streamliner simply whispers by. These artifacts don't just sit there, they move!

The Museum's operating demonstration railroad consists of two distinct divisions: the 5-mile long mainline, and the mile-long streetcar loop. Generally, steam, diesel and heavy electric trains run on the mainline, while streetcars run on the streetcar line. Interurban and elevated trains may operate on either division. The streetcar curves are too sharp for conventional railroad equipment, and the streetcars are too slow for mainline service. The hybrid interurbans and "L" cars can operate in either environment.

The mainline is equipped with trolley wire so that electric cars can obtain the 600 volt DC power needed for their propulsion. Steam and diesel locomotives, of course, carry their fuel with them, but an electric car must depend on the overhead trolley wire for power.

It was all very cool.

The main passenger boarding and alighting area is built around an 1851 depot (from Marengo, Illinois), the oldest continuously operating passenger station west of Pittsburgh.

Here we see the depot and the Museum's Zephyr during filming of 'A League of Our Own'

One of yesterday's operating trains (2-3 trains from the collection run on any weekend day) was the 160. An electric 'Inter-Urban' car, the 160 ran between Chicago and Milwaukee from 1915 until the 1960's. We tour the countryside with it now.

And we're back.

Dining and drinking on the road

A Private Car

1915 El Station from Cicero IL. Fair to assume at some time in their life that some of Capone's men got stuck here.

Chicago El Signs

The Nebraska Zephyr. Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry has a restored Zephyr (4 cars) which they proudly exhibit. This one also is restored has all of its cars, and actually operates. It was seen in 'A League Of Their Own' (see Depot pic above)

The South Shore Line

Still lot's of work to do.

Where's NewsMax When You Need Then?

Barack Obama is a ROBOT!!!!!!!!!!

130 pictures, 1 smile

Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

Dancing Close To The Edge

I'm thinking it would be hard for conservatives misunderstand this as supportive

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The Goal Is In Sight

Gay kids having real adolescences with real dating, real teenage heartbreak, real preparation for adulthood.

This is what it's all about.

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Coming Out in Middle School

“When I first realized I was gay,” Austin interjected, “I just assumed I would hide it and be miserable for the rest of my life. But then I said, ‘O.K., wait, I don’t want to hide this and be miserable my whole life.’ ”

I asked him how old he was when he made that decision.

“Eleven,” he said.

Later in the article, the author listens to a gay 14-year-old argue with his mother about whether to "let his latest crush spend time in his room" alone:

As I listened to them bicker, I couldn’t help remembering what Ritch Savin-Williams, the professor of developmental psychology at Cornell, told me the first time we spoke: “This is the first generation of gay kids who have the great joy of being able to argue with their parents about dating, just like their straight peers do.”

No more need for "A Separate Peace"