tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:42:52 +0000"Without Truth there is no Justice. Without Justice there is no Freedom." - 201k.comhttp://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/noreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)Blogger827125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-7866807748840960410Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:40:00 +00002009-07-01T10:42:52.619-04:00Massachusetts has the second-lowest rate of obese adults in the U.S.Obesity rates among adults rose in 23 states over the past year and didn't decline anywhere, says a new report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has long said that nearly a third of Americans are obese. The Trust report uses somewhat more http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/07/you-can-never-be-too-rich.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-58863006124096019Sat, 30 May 2009 23:55:00 +00002009-05-30T19:58:53.329-04:00Fascist Boston radio host Jay Severin......and Freddie Kruger?http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/05/separated-at-birth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-3491411530695321396Sat, 16 May 2009 18:26:00 +00002009-05-30T19:59:56.246-04:00RNC chief: Gay marriage will burden small businessBy RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press WriterSAVANNAH, Ga. � Republicans can reach a broader base by recasting gay marriage as an issue that could dent pocketbooks as small businesses spend more on health care and other benefits, GOP Chairman Michael Steele said Saturday.Steele said that was just an example of how the party can retool its message to http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/05/gop-admits-to-discrimination.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-8686757694635075701Thu, 14 May 2009 15:09:00 +00002009-05-14T11:11:22.260-04:00"It was my understanding that I was involved in an altercation."- Scott Walker, May 11, 2009.Ok.http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/05/let-us-come-to-mutual-understanding.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-3401300820406252295Fri, 01 May 2009 20:40:00 +00002009-05-01T17:00:19.543-04:00http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/05/my-arm-go-comme-ca.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-3901939469449623111Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:09:00 +00002009-04-16T15:49:39.800-04:00Welcome to Boston! We appreciate you as fans of our worthy opponents, the Montreal Canadiens, and as fellow fans of the great game of hockey. We hope you enjoy your stay in Boston, and offer these suggestions for getting the most out of your experience in our great city:1. All food and beverage items in the Garden cost one dollar, so $20 will get you ten beers and tons of food.2. Outside the http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/04/some-helpful-advice-for-canadiens-fans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-6168612928838623709Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:28:00 +00002009-04-14T13:29:38.057-04:00201k is on hiatus until the end of the 2008-2009 NHL season. In the meantime, enjoy this:http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/04/gone-bruin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-8923321828859653782Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:14:00 +00002009-02-07T09:23:47.678-05:00...is the funniest.I dropped out of school for a semester to campaign for Barack Obama. And now I�m asking myself whether I spent four months living with my aunt and going door to door in Dayton, Ohio, just so we could have a stimulus plan written by a bunch of moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats in the Senate.I don�t know how many times we need to go over this, but this is actually ahttp://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/02/gail-collins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-7913985101243828776Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:52:00 +00002009-01-29T09:27:07.653-05:00Congrats to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/you-go.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-5209252237902425793Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:50:00 +00002009-01-21T20:37:14.889-05:00Here, in no particular order, are our favorite moments from yesterday, along with those of some Poor Readers:��Dick Cheney doing his Dr. Strangelove imitation, with George W. Merkin Muffley Bush walking beside him.��Rick Warren going on at length about the need for inclusion, a new humility, a new humbleness, a new direction, because we're ALL Americans in this new, changed world where the old http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/inauguration.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-7977500836968424192Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:18:00 +00002009-01-20T19:24:00.180-05:00WASHINGTON -- Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts collapsed at the congressional luncheon honoring President Obama and has been taken to a local hospital.Dr. Edward Aulisi, chairman of neurosurgery at Washington Hospital Center, just released this statement:�Senator Edward Kennedy experienced a seizure today while attending a luncheon for President Barack Obama in the U.S. Capitol. After http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/kennedy-suffers-seizure-kerry-still.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-366212964491865664Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:20:00 +00002009-01-19T13:56:03.485-05:00Really? Who knew?http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/stop-presses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-7719847925294134859Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:48:00 +00002009-01-19T09:59:18.186-05:00More Joining American Military as Jobs DwindleAs the number of jobs across the nation dwindles, more Americans are joining the military, lured by a steady paycheck, benefits and training.And the trend seems to be accelerating.�When the economy slackens and unemployment rises and jobs become more scarce in civilian society, recruiting is less challenging,� said Curtis Gilroy, the director of http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/that-was-point-wasnt-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-8800406177448029781Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:59:00 +00002009-01-18T22:02:13.231-05:00The question:"Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor...to independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping?"The answer:...on Sunday, George Stephanopoulos directly asked Obama Fertik's question ("the most popular question on your own website")Obama echoed Biden's reply: "I don't believe that anybody is above the law. On the http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/lets-not-quibble-about-who-killed-who.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-8260251984510794935Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:05:00 +00002009-01-18T15:32:25.841-05:00The next months and years could be fascinating, as the nation begins to discover who and what Barack Obama is. We wish more Americans had looked into the question a bit more before voting for him, but what's done is done; all that's left to do now is watch for the reveal -- and the efforts to minimize, obscure, rationalize, and deny it.It's early days, and the ground is still wet and muddy, withhttp://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/obama-blank-screen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-5337797469867308685Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:28:00 +00002009-01-16T09:40:46.238-05:00Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman rightly calls for the incoming Obama administration to investigate and if warranted prosecute the outgoing Bush administration for the lies and crimes of the last eight years. Mr. Krugman makes this argument knowing full well the incoming Obama administration will do no such thing (which is why he's calling for it.)We'd add to his argument two additional reasons http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/without-truth-there-is-no-justice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-1851892958307560712Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:38:00 +00002009-01-15T20:42:06.074-05:00President-elect Barack Obama in 1996:�I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.�President-elect Barack Obama in 2004:"I'm a Christian. And so, although I try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views on this issue, I do believe that tradition, and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified betweenhttp://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/that-was-then.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-3286884752724250231Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:04:00 +00002009-01-12T22:08:14.923-05:00Congrats to Big Jim Rice. Long overdue.http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/its-about-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-1848517188894507841Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:02:00 +00002009-01-18T15:24:36.951-05:002000: Having won the Presidency with a margin so small that to this day many people dispute that he won it at all, George W. Bush inherits a country in reasonably good shape, and a government surplus -- and declares that he has a mandate to enact a radical right-wing Republican agenda. He then embarks on an eight-year campaign of labeling any political disagreement over his efforts as http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/2000-having-won-presidency-with-margin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-8415532572966250966Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:49:00 +00002009-01-07T16:59:06.945-05:00This would be funny if it weren't so not funny.You know the people you have to deal with when you have a problem with a bill or a credit card company or other lender? The ones who answer the 800 line, speak slightly funny English and have obviously fake names -- and never give you a break?The ones who, no matter how many times you explain things, no matter how long you've been a customer, no http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/now-thats-ironic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-7153776379474883000Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:20:00 +00002009-01-07T12:46:06.634-05:00Wow, here's some new ideas.New for a Democrat, that is.WASHINGTON � President-elect Barack Obama said Wednesday that reforming massive government entitlement programs � such as Social Security and Medicare � would be "a central part" of his effort to control federal spending.Noting that the Congressional Budget Office had just estimated he would inherit a $1.2 trillion federal deficit for fiscal http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/yet-more-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-2059095079293209778Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:38:00 +00002009-01-05T13:16:05.599-05:00Obama Plan Includes $300 Billion in Tax CutsWASHINGTON � President-elect Barack Obama plans to include about $300 billion in tax cuts for workers and businesses in his economic recovery program, advisers said Sunday, as his team seeks to win over Congressional skeptics worried that he was too focused on government spending.Now we get it. When Barack Obama promised "change" he didn't mean http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/well-he-did-promise-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-7913540541246463957Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:28:00 +00002009-01-03T15:50:14.894-05:00This is an embarrassment and a disgrace.Obviously the NHL was in a bad spot, having allowed fan voting over the Internet that allowed fans to spam the vote. But having detected and rectified that issue the league should have had the guts to wipe the slate clean and start the voting over. Whatever outcry that would have engendered would be preferable to the ridiculous spectacle of four teams http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2009/01/boycott-nhl-all-star-game.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-282310261208098471Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:29:00 +00002008-12-28T18:34:07.238-05:00No, not Narrow Stairs.The best album of the year is Consolers of the Lonely by The Raconteurs.http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2008/12/album-of-year.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357377.post-6636221688431617500Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:07:00 +00002009-01-05T13:28:47.374-05:00Part I, Wherein Our Hero Selects an Anti-Choice, Anti-Gay Marriage Preacher to Deliver the Invocation at his Inauguration:Gay leaders furious with ObamaBarack Obama�s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to�deliver the invocation at his inauguration is a conciliatory gesture toward social conservatives who opposed him in November, but it is drawing fierce challenges from a gay rights http://www220.pair.com/pooka123/k123/2008/12/change-you-need-to-suspend-your.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Editor - 201k.com)2