Elaine’s Place

Last night was the HBO Real Time season finale with Bill Maher. He ends with his new rules. If you are easily offended than you probably don’t want to watch.

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Sorry for my absence but boy what a week it was! The end to the nastiest election I have seen in my lifetime. We had a few days to bask in the victory of President Elect Obama, and watch the fallout from the GOP. I was surprised that Sarah Palin’s plane hadn’t even hit cruising [...]

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"I look forward to a great future for America, a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. . . .   And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its [...]

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The night before the election the phone is ringing and the flyers are being delivered.  On the Democratic side the phone calls are from a real person and the flyer put on the front door handle is hung by a person who took the time to walk up my driveway to the front door. On [...]

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I nabbed this from Nate Silver over at FiveThirtyEight if you haven’t checked out his site you should, Electoral Projections done right. These are Barack Obama’s leads in the likely voter models presently included in the Real Clear Politics average, plus the Research 2000 poll which they arbitrarily exclude. The polls in the Cingular-y orange [...]

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Greetings from Maryland. I made good time driving out here on Saturday, 525 miles in 8 hours with only one pit stop. From MI, OH, PA and then into the Maryland the fall colors were spectacular! Too bad I can’t drive and take pictures at the same time. Poco doesn’t know how to operate the [...]

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Three weeks can’t get here soon enough for me. I am tired of the news focusing ONLY on the election and the economic bailout. I am beginning to feel disconnected from the world. Case in point…the California wildfires which merits a 10 second segment on the news.  When was the last time you heard any [...]

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Sen. John McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis said he sees no reason why McCain or his staff should comment regularly on the declining stock market, saying that he doesn’t know what they would say. “It doesn’t mean we don’t care and aren’t trying to do something about it, it’s just I’m not exactly sure what [...]

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There is one thing conspicuously missing from my white GOP neighborhood this election…..SIGNS in peoples front yards supporting their candidate. The previous 2 elections they were plentiful, the majority for Bush but a decent amount for the Democratic candidate. Yet as I drive through the neighborhood I’ve seen exactly 3 signs, 2 for McCain and [...]

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Is it asking too much for a clean debate tonight? We’re all tired of the BS Sarah Palin has been peddling since the weekend accusing Barak Obama of being a terrorist. Do you think we’re all that damn stupid? Obama was 8 years old when Bill Ayers was an angry young man back in the [...]

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