http://jameslarmer.com The World, Politics ... you know, that stuff Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:56:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week has been an infuriating and frustrating experience for every Obama supporter I know. On the one hand is a media sensation machine easily manipulated by juvenile McCain attack ads and mind-numbingly unable to call McCain on his shallow hypocrisy. On the other is an Obama team that either ... http://jameslarmer.com/2008/08/03/a-command-perfomance-that-is-driving-mccain-a-little-nuts/ Ah. Isn't it good to be alive?  Viva LA - thanks for the reminder that we are all just a tad less significant than mother nature. So CNN is telling me that the earthquake was a 5.8 and "shallow". I guess that means that little earthquake I just experienced ranks somewhere ... http://jameslarmer.com/2008/07/29/the-joy-of-earthquakes/ OK - That was scary. In my home in Los Angeles and an earthquake just hit the building. It lasted at least 10 seconds. Is there more? Hearing from CNN that it was a 5.something with the centre south of LA http://jameslarmer.com/2008/07/29/easthquake-hits-los-angeles/ CUIL received a lot of attention today, and it failed it's first crucial test. It doesn't work. Or, at least you can't get onto the site. Not sure this is the way to really build confidence in your platform Ms. Patterson. For those with more patience than you can learn more from Michael ... http://jameslarmer.com/2008/07/28/cuil-off-to-a-bumpy-start/ The list of McCain gaffes has moved well beyond the "Ooops!" moniker that CNN and other news outlets always seem to give him. So we are going to start to keep tabs on them – ie McCain and the strangely compliant media: CNN - July 15, 2008 McCain again cites current events ... http://jameslarmer.com/2008/07/15/mccain-watch/ This week’s cover of the New Yorker is so ill conceived, so poorly constructed and so singularly un-satirical that it makes me wonder why the liberals in America don’t just let the Republicans do all the voting and stuff and be done with it. Really. It would be less painful ... http://jameslarmer.com/2008/07/15/was-this-really-necessary-laughing-anyone/ Mike Peters: Dayton Daily News Purchase at http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=24911 http://jameslarmer.com/2008/07/13/one-dysfunctional-relationship/ As of July 7, McCain had missed 61.8 percent of the roll call votes in this Congress, which made him the No. 1 absentee in the Senate (number two was Tim Johnson, who has been recovering from a brain hemorrhage). Obama missed 43.5 percent of the roll call votes. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/11/reid_chastises_mccain_for_not.html http://jameslarmer.com/2008/07/11/mccain-awol-since-april-2008/ Phil Gramm, John McCain's senior economic advisor and architect of countless diastrous economic policies, told the Washington Post today that you are imagining being unemployed and broke. Oh, and he is also being sent to Belarus. Here is what he told the Washington Times today: "You've heard of mental depression; this is ... http://jameslarmer.com/2008/07/10/phil-gramm-thinks-youre-imagining-having-no-money/ So there will be no return to those heady days of 2000 when GWB wriggled his way into the Whitehouse and SAG and AFTRA joined forces to negotiate with producers. I have posted a link to the New York Times breaking story on this. More anon. Members of the American Federation ... http://jameslarmer.com/2008/07/08/no-sag-aftra-love-aftra-approves-deal/