A smoking performance

Like hope, but not:

McCain adviser: Bush is ‘a political asset.’

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Signs from the recently concluded Conservative Political Action Conference. Go check
'em out- apparently, to be a Republican means you must live in some insane alternate
universe.

Meantime the GOP wants you to send their own special kind of Valentines Day Obamagram.

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The inevitable question comes up- "sure, Obama's all inspiring and shit, but what's
the man done?" Luckily, there are people online who have done the legwork, and it
turns out that the answer is, quite a bit. Go check that out too.

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Sara Robinson writes for several blogs- Orcinus, The Group News Blog, and the Big
Con. As an expat American living in Canada, she has a unique perspective as to how
we organize health care in the two countries. In part one of a series for The Big Con, she
looks at how the system runs. In part two she shows how not having to worry about being
ruined by the cost of catastrophic illness has been such a boon to Canadian citizens and
businesspeople. Republicans like to make Candian health care into some kind of a boogie
monster- tuns out the fact of the matter is what gives them nightmares.

Get informed- start pushing back.


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This video shows exactly why attacking Iran is not only incredibly stupid,
but incredibly cruel- and ironic considering what may have been:



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John Courage Amber pours a finger of creamy foam over a slightly
cloudy deep amber brew. Carbonation is very active, and the nose
is bready and toasty malt. The flavor has a slight fruitiness and toasty
malt balanced by a crisp herbal hop. Mouthfeel is light, crisp, and a
little dry too, with a bit of grain in the aftertaste. It finishes very clean.
It's pretty good the way it is, it occurs to me to wonder what it might be
like perfectly fresh. Give it a try.

Tier 2


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Remember this? Well, the inevitable has happened. At Barnacles on the
North shore of Lake Mille Lacs- a smoking performance:



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