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It’s the beginning of the end.  In less than two weeks, our long, long national nightmare will soon be over. Or just beginning again.  Hah!
I’ve got the opposite problem that Minor Mennonite has I think.  I’m actually writing less and less about politics (or maybe less and less in general) because the closer we get, [...]

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I am here in a hotel room on a twin (a twin!) bed in lovely Philly (home of the Sarah-Palin booing Flyer fans) eating delivered Indian food.  And yet somehow I’m not as upset as I think I should be.  Because tonight is the last live blogged debate of the 2008 Election.
Oh, I know it’s [...]

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How to change your image from small-town, bad-boy, hard-drinking, hard-fighting high school dropout to future son-in-law of the Republican Party’s next great hope.
Step 1: Get yourself a haircut and shave.  Accept that your hotness will be commented on by straight women and gay men everywhere.
Step 2: Buy a suit — one that fits well.
Step 3: [...]

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Today, as you contemplated the whimpering death of your 401(k) and found new recipes involving Campbells soup and dried beans, the government considered taking another step closer to what now seems like the inevitable socialization of our entire financial structure: nationalizing our banking system. Oh, the administration has other words for it — cash infusion, [...]

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This happens every four years.  Some candidate gets up on stage during the debates or the conventions or some rally somewhere and starts talking about small-town values and how we need to bring small town values to Washington, D.C or Wall Street — somehow that the small-town values that made America so great are in [...]

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So Urban Menno is slightly buzzed tonight (company dinner sharing a bottle of red wine) and that may not be the best way to watch the debates … but we’re going to give it our best shot.
I also started a little late so now it’s 9:10 now and I’m just getting started.  I’m also watching [...]

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The Feds announced that they will be getting into the commercial paper business.  This is the short-term lending in which companies engage in order to have enough cash on hand to do things like … uhm … meet payroll.
Palin is calling Obama a friend of terrorists and her supporters are harrassing reporters and shouting racial [...]

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The fate of the free markets now rests in the oh-so-not-capable hands of the US House of Representatives.  The bailout rescue bill sailed through the Senate this past Wednesday with nary a blush or a Chris Dodd breakdown.
And some of the credit blame credit goes to Sens. Barak Obama and John “Earmarks-are-a-bad-bad-thing” McCain.  And the [...]

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Here we go folks.  Let the liveblog begin.
I’ve got a warm drink, a pillow to throw at Biden if he starts babbling, a lipsticked pit bull next door … just kidding on that one.  I would never put lipstick on my neighbor’s pitbull.  Queenie’s a real bitch.
Here is who else is liveblogging as well tonight:

Daily [...]

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This may come as some surprise but it turns out that many, many people are worried about  Sarah Palin.  Her nonsensical interviews are dribbling out, bit by painful SNL-ready bit.  Her approach to Pakistan is more Obama than McCain. McCain has to swoop in and rescue her from the evil clutches of that mean Katie [...]

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