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It’s Been A Long Time Coming – (Semi)Weakly Update Ending May 16, 2008 Part II
… continued from Part I on Orange Juice – New Commie Girl and Ed Chau. Does it ever end? T’was a bitter-sweet week for The Centrist: It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. This week, the California Supreme Court ruled that the voter-passed ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional. Marriage…
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What Energy Crisis? (A Photo Essay)
‘(Semi)Weakly Update Part II’: Supremes Sing A New Tune On Marriage Equality, PLUS Iraq, Hillary, And Witches, Oh My!’ On The Centrist OC AVAILABLE NOW! Ali Al-Naimi We will raise production when the market justifies it. -Saudi Arabia’s minister of petroleum and mineral resources, after the country rebuffed President Bush’s request to immediately pump more…
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It’s Been A Long Time Coming – ‘(Semi)Weakly Update’ Ending May 16, 2008 Part I
Ed Chau AGAIN?! Well hey, what can I say? I think my enemies have been taking advantage of my away time from writing while I sifted through thousands of lines of code. Next time, I think I’ll keep those types of things to myself. Incidentally, our own Larry Gilbert is out of the area as…
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Tough Love: Reviewing The Events Of 4/27-5/7 2008 Part 1
Better late than never, that’s what I always say. *** Let’s start with Red County. The headline? ‘Arnold is a Big-City Liberal (Rips on Rural CA and Endorses Prop 99).’ Are you serious? I guess the righties like to label each other too. Prop 98 is nothing more than a partisan attempt by Republicans (read:…
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What The Hellary?
Because supposedly I’m nothing more than a shill for Hillary, I thought I should let everyone know that she’s seriously messed up to revert to speaking in her Arkansas accent while she’s campaigning in Indiana and North Carolina. She needs to renounce the adviser who decided this was a good idea, as if they were…
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What Do Karl Rove, NAFTA, Crack Babies, Upton Sinclair, George Orwell, RealID, Indiana, Massachusetts, And Lou Correa Have In Common?
If I were to reduce my description of the last 8 years to one word, that word would be ‘fearful.’ And yet I find that our most important issues are not being addressed. So, how does that work exactly? While we are forced to contend with incredibly high energy costs, job losses, pollution, Iraq, etc,…
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The Week In Review: 4/20-4/26
Wow! What a week of stories in the blogosphere! First things first: The news in the 42nd Congressional District is that Ed Chau is the fundraising leader in that race. Big deal. No surprise there. Or is there? Turns out Ed lent his campaign 20 grand, so the gap isn’t as large as it seems.…
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And They Call *ME* Buffy?!
(Click the logo to view) Do not attempt to adjust your computer. The logo you see is not a malfunction. Meghan McCain, daughter of Presidential hopeless John McCain, is dumbing down his campaign for the MTV set (who likely won’t vote Republican for at least 15-20 years) through the use of her seemingly Paris Hilton…
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Props to Pennsylvania: Working Class Dems Elect Clinton
Forget ‘Obama Girl.’ Make way for the ‘Comeback Kid.’ I said it before, and I’ll say it again. You just can’t stop a Clinton. You can spend more money than one, you can investigate one, you can try to blame one for their spouse’s mistakes, you can even easily and plausibly project your own negative…
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Incomprehensible! The Republicans ‘Get It?’
There’s no way Grandpa’s Olde Party is actually attempting to connect with the voters on the issues, instead of pushing their agenda on the masses… is there? Jon Fleischman is going to have a conservative coronary when he reads about this! The LA Times is reporting that an offshoot of a Republican group, ‘The…
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I Love Lou Dobbs, But Sometimes…
He’s so far off. Here’s a guy who fights so hard for the middle class that you have to respect him, but then you peer more closely and realize that his anger is so misplaced! Why does he insist on scapegoating Mexicans? Why did he say on CNN just now that we should address border…
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‘Truth’ about global warming irrelevant
I saw an article today on Orange Punch about how the media doesn’t seem to ‘get’ global warming. A few years ago I accepted mankind’s role in it as indisputable fact. Now I’m not so sure. The truth is that the truth is irrelevant. Warming is only one environmental issue our planet faces, and while…
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The starting gun in the 1st Supervisor’s race…
has been fired! A week ago I was considering writing a story about the battle of the Nguyens after I began seeing Janet’s signs out so quickly, but eventually I abandoned it because I’ve always felt that there is no such thing as too early to start campaigning. In many ways, a politician should actually…
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Iraq, budget balancing, the Presidency, and the impending depression. A primer.
Extend the Bush tax cuts? Economic stimulus? I’m sorry. Come again? Will W even begin to fathom the monstrosity of his economic policies before it’s too late? If the 80’s brought ‘yuppies,’ then this decade brings the ‘tubbies.’ The tubbies are those people who, already fat, made themselves fatter at the expense of market stability.…
Sarah Bella
