tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:25:11 +0000http://www.pookastew.com/k123/noreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)Blogger761125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-7008917311991692995Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:21:00 +00002008-07-08T21:25:11.810-04:00One Laura Stern of New York gets it.To the Editor: Your editorial seems surprised that Barack Obama has shifted positions on so many important issues. What surprised me most during the primaries was the group euphoria among the media and many Democrats for his candidacy. Most of these people were taken in by his soaring rhetoric and lofty proposals. But these same people failed to examine his http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/07/you-got-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-8279205435891340276Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:12:00 +00002008-06-27T20:18:42.278-04:00The train just keeps a-rolling. More articles on the formerly-loved Barack Obama, touching, purely coincidentally, on themes such as:Obama is a phony (and possible corrupt.)and:Obama is a phony.Weird, isn't it? Where was all this negative coverage when Obama was running against Hillary Clinton? How strange!http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/06/that-obama-bandwagon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-2083129368157214026Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:30:00 +00002008-06-24T11:38:47.720-04:00Ah, summer, when the sun is high, and political optimism plummets, like Icarus, to the ground. Having dispensed with the Democratic candidate that would have beaten John McCain (Phase I) the media have begun the systematic disassembly of the remaining Democratic candidate, the recently adored Barack Obama (Phase II.) In case you missed it, the story so far is:Obama is a phony. Obama is a phonyhttp://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/06/and-living-is-easy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-3750358930654561254Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:40:00 +00002008-06-15T13:45:16.897-04:00Remember when "anti-war" candidate Barack Obama supported Joe Lieberman -- the most hawkish Democrat in America, and eventual traitor to his party -- instead of actual anti-war candidate Ned Lamont, in the senate race in Connecticut? We do. Though for some reason Obama's supporters never seem to. Well, they probably do now.http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/06/remember-when.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-6095800260584434326Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:00:00 +00002008-06-13T12:03:46.805-04:00An email from Jill Greenfield alerted us to this.The AFL-CIO sponsored a video contest asking entrants to answer the question ÒWhat is wrong with America, and how do we fix it?Ó One of the 12 finalists is from Boston, and you can check out the video at www.turnaroundvideocontest.com. The public can vote for their favorite video through June 19, and the winner will be announced on June 24.http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/06/massachusetts-finalist-in-afl-cio-video.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-3383560177700725744Tue, 27 May 2008 20:37:00 +00002008-05-27T18:29:24.536-04:00Images from the Phoenix Mars Lander After landing near Mars's north pole, the Phoenix beamed back images to Earth. Photographs of Mars's polar region revealed narrow troughs in the bumpy surface of the planet. In the coming days, the Phoenix will use a 7.7-foot-long robotic arm to dig into the Martian soil. The robot arm was manufactured by a technology company in Boston, MA., and programmed http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/05/mars-lander-robotic-arm-completes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-2474918328203705008Fri, 16 May 2008 12:25:00 +00002008-05-16T10:23:50.971-04:00Punch-me-faced prep David Brooks wonders:"Is Barack Obama na•ve enough to think that an extremist ideological organization like Hezbollah can be mollified with a less corrupt patronage system and some electoral reform?"Funny, but what we've been wondering is: is Barack Obama na•ve enough to think that an extremist ideological organization like the Republican Party can be mollified...at all?http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/05/more-to-point.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-8200198940762261610Sun, 11 May 2008 15:00:00 +00002008-06-24T11:50:45.117-04:00Having nearly completed their efforts at chasing Hillary Clinton out of her bid for the Democratic nomination for President by means of universal acclamation of the deep, divisive racism in her heart -- and in the hearts of her husband, her campaign, her supporters, and everyone who voted for her -- the media have turned their attention to setting the stage for explaining Barack Obama's http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/05/self-fulfilling-prophesy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-6707653090909293058Fri, 09 May 2008 23:43:00 +00002008-05-09T19:45:59.597-04:00Well, George McGovern has endorsed Barack Obama. Any word from Dukakis? They might as well start playing "Hail to the Chief" when John McCain walks in the room now.http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/05/pieces-are-falling-into-place.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-5041904630660521290Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:07:00 +00002008-04-29T22:14:19.825-04:00Bob Obama-Herbert has some thoughts about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright:The thing to keep in mind about Rev. Wright is that he is a smart fellow. HeÕs been a very savvy operator, politically and otherwise, for decades. He has built a thriving, politically connected congregation on the South Side of Chicago that has done some very good work over the years. Powerful people have turned to him for http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/04/bob-herbert-obama-has-some-thoughts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-5753295432091688399Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:38:00 +00002008-04-22T22:39:52.502-04:00Hillary Clinton wins Pennsylvania, and Barack Obama gets to make his concession speech after Clinton's victory speech? When did that ever happen?http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/04/wtf.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-2378655987279763482Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:24:00 +00002008-04-11T10:48:22.124-04:00Ok, that didn't work. Time for plan B. We recommend that Bruins captain Zdeno Chara throw caution to the wind, dip into the sweet, light, pink, Japanese plum wine he indulges in once a year, and play with a little more wild abandon. Yes, we know: death, taxes, and the first penalty in Montreal. But that's going to happen anyway. You might as well do a little damage and have a little fun on http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/04/time-for-new-plan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-5383388351307467183Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:13:00 +00002008-04-07T14:14:39.742-04:00Don't do it, Patrice. We need you more next year, and every year after, than we do right now. It's not worth it. Don't do it.http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/04/not-worth-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-6930289022885627426Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:01:00 +00002008-04-01T22:02:58.902-04:0037? He bowled a 37? Dork.http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/04/37.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-7598304174854708183Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:56:00 +00002008-03-13T14:57:28.019-04:00We've decided not to ponder why someone who has this at home would be spending thousands of dollars for one-hour assignations with prostitutes rather than spending every available moment upstairs back home with a woman that stands out in a city of stand-outs. Because it's none of our business. But we can't help wondering how it is, once again, that federal investigators "conducting a routine http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/03/hmm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-8948118940135130575Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:36:00 +00002008-03-09T16:04:01.054-04:00Readers of Paul Krugman in the NY Times will be familiar with what he refers to as "The Clinton Rules," which he defines as:...the way pundits and some news organizations treat any action or statement by the Clintons, no matter how innocuous, as proof of evil intent.We'd add a corollary, which is that nothing negative you say about the Clintons has to be true, or even remotely grounded in realityhttp://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/03/clinton-rules.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-3716900895174307693Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:21:00 +00002008-03-09T11:32:56.086-04:00The voter demographics that have been in play since the start of this primary, but that the media have pretended didn't exist, remained in place last night, rendering a very predictable result which the media pretended to be surprised at. On MSNBC, the propaganda wing of a large military contractor, charged with stopping Hillary Clinton at any cost, the euphemism for this elephant in the http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/03/what-surprise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-7834615494301638139Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:24:00 +00002008-03-04T11:25:30.096-05:00We love this.http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/03/garfield-minus-garfield.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-725593395172583294Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:09:00 +00002008-03-04T08:20:34.747-05:00Sure he isn't. As we've been saying: Barack Obama's entire career has been built on saying the progressive things Democrats want to hear, while signaling the money in the background that they have nothing to fear. On Social Security, bankruptcy, health care -- and now, Nafta.http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/03/not-republican-mole-huh.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-8926363310665744709Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:36:00 +00002008-03-02T09:49:26.441-05:00Interesting new research on the brain science of jazz improvisation:Scientists funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) have found that, when jazz musicians are engaged in the highly creative and spontaneous activity known as improvisation, a large region of the brain involved in monitoring oneÕs performance is shut down... ...researchers found that http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/03/this-is-your-brain-on-jazz.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-7670069508469416635Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:15:00 +00002008-03-01T15:32:35.036-05:00Bob Obama-Herbert:3/1/08 - If Hillary Clinton wins either Texas or Ohio, or even if she wins both of them -- giving her "New York, California, New Jersey, Texas, Ohio and maybe Pennsylvania" (not to mention Massachusetts, Tennessee, Oklahoma...) -- it would be awful if she "decides to hang on rather than gracefully step aside" because that would "infuriate the Obama true-believers" and "cause badhttp://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/03/obama-times-iv.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-5689806037594876957Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:44:00 +00002008-02-26T09:18:01.323-05:00Hmmm.WASHINGTON Ñ In the past two months, Senator Barack Obama has built a commanding coalition among Democratic voters, with especially strong support among men, and is now viewed by most Democrats as the candidate best able to beat Senator John McCain in the general election, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.Notice it doesn't say that polls show Obama can beat McCain -- justhttp://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/02/self-fulfilling-prophesy_26.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-8985557765112210564Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:01:00 +00002008-02-18T22:10:53.656-05:00201k has lost a lot of weight in the last several months, which has prompted the question, "How did you do it?" from many people -- which is nice. But when we tell them that we did it by eliminating most carbohydrates, a surprising number of people respond by telling us that low-carb diets don't work. Which is funny, if you think about it. Almost always, the critique goes like this: "The http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/02/on-personal-note.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-8073410054624574906Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:19:00 +00002008-02-17T19:20:07.920-05:00Wow, weird things are afoot in Virginia. Virginia has voted Republican in every election since 1952 except one (1964). It went twice for George W. Bush: in 2000, of a total 2,654,780 votes, 1,437,490 were for Bush and 1,217,290 were for Gore. In 2004, out of a total 3,171,701 votes, 1,716,959 were for Bush and 1,454,742 were for Kerry. In the 2000 Virginia Republican primary, the most recent http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/02/how-odd.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-2903041422476581330Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:26:00 +00002008-03-05T11:48:25.056-05:00The forces aligned against Hillary Clinton -- and they are considerable: the Republican Party, the media, proponents of Social Security "reform," opponents of a national health care plan, and the Obama campaign -- must by now realize that, all propaganda to the contrary, they have only two options for beating her at this point. With California, New York, New Jersey, and Florida in her column -http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2008/02/can-we-get-that-in-writing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)