http://tomburka.com/ Copyright 2008 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:16:00 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.17 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss A recent survey showed that bitter people in towns all over America have been becoming increasingly bitter, in no small part because of people calling them bitter. http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_04.php#001087 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_04.php#001087 News Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:16:00 -0500 Steve Benen, the liberal blogger who runs The Carpetbagger Report, has recently been discovered to be the sole author of almost every liberal blog dealing with U.S. politics on the internet, blog readers recently discovered. http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_04.php#001083 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_04.php#001083 News Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:32:48 -0500 "There have been many Presidents who have thrown out first pitches, but I don't know if any have done it better than this particular President," gush television announcers when President Bush, in the midst of a chorus of boos, opened... http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_04.php#001082 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_04.php#001082 Fundamental Observations Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:04:47 -0500 Polls conducted in the wake of Mark Penn's dismissal from his role as Chief Strategist in the Hillary Clinton campaign show that the public strongly opposes the move, according to a poll conducted by Mark Penn, who retains his job as head pollster for the Clinton campaign. http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_04.php#001080 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_04.php#001080 News Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:17:24 -0500 Hey -- I've been so overwhelmed by spam in the comments that I shut them down, then turned on moderation, and now I'm just searching for a solution. So comments will be either moderated or unavailable, and my apologies to... http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_04.php#001081 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_04.php#001081 Notices Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:24:03 -0500 Prospects for a poor economy, a neverending war, melting ice caps, increasingly dangerous weather systems, the plummeting dollar, and the horrific job market have taken a toll on the public's view of the economy, the war, ice caps, weather, the dollar, and the job market, a New York Times/CBS poll found today. . . http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_04.php#001077 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_04.php#001077 News Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:03:00 -0500 Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's response to a Congressional question on the advisability of Bush's scheme for overhauling the nation's "regulatory" (read: "lack of regulatory") structure:"The Treasury plan is a very interesting and useful first step," he said. "I think we... http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_04.php#001076 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_04.php#001076 Fundamental Observations Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:36:58 -0500 Elliot Spitzer attacked Republicans today for creating an economic climate so hostile to middle and low income workers that they can barely afford the cost of a decent blowjob. "The cost of prostitutes is skyrocketing while the salary of the average American worker is declining," Spitzer complained. http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_03.php#001073 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_03.php#001073 News Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:36:56 -0500 Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton today separately vowed that, regardless of the results of today's now important Texas and Ohio primaries, they will not rest until one of them has been crowned the official Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, "hopefully by the spring of 2009." . . . http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_03.php#001068 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_03.php#001068 News Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:58:10 -0500 President Bush called John McCain a "true conservative" this past Sunday, and told reporters that McCain would certainly do a fine job of continuing the Bush Administration's policies. McCain's supporters were very upset and said there was no reason for the President to "attack our candidate." http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_02.php#001063 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_02.php#001063 News Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:16:20 -0500 Mitt Romney explained today that he was dropping out of the U.S. Presidential race in order to spend more time with his money. Romney said that the time on the campaign trail had really harmed his ability to spend "quality time with my bills." http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_02.php#001062 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_02.php#001062 News Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:01:02 -0500 Polls out of New Hampshire showed that voters who favored a quick exit from Iraq overwhelmingly voted for Hillary Clinton and John McCain, the two candidates who most favor staying there for long periods of time, up to "one hundred or a thousand years," according to McCain. Those same polls showed that voters who most wanted a male President voted for Hillary Clinton, while those who desire a woman President voted for Rudy Giuliani. http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_01.php#001056 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_01.php#001056 News Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:56:44 -0500 Dane Goodman, official overseer of the Iowa caucuses, admitted today that no one really understands how the Iowa caucuses are supposed to be conducted, and that every four years, he and two other state officials just "make up some results." http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_01.php#001054 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2008_01.php#001054 News Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:02:00 -0500 Today in Iowa, Mike Huckabee told reporters "enough is enough" and denounced negative campaigning. Huckabee, who recently fashioned a strident negative campaign ad about rival Mitt Romney, said that it was "about time I stopped this viscous campaign of negative attack ads that I have been running," derided himself as a "detestable fearmonger" and labelled himself a "pandering schizophrenic." http://tomburka.com/archives2/2007_12.php#001052 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2007_12.php#001052 News Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:51:28 -0500 The White House confirmed this morning that the cause of a fire that threatened to consume the Vice President's ceremonial chambers was a bonfire made up of documents that Congress has subpoenaed over the past year. http://tomburka.com/archives2/2007_12.php#001046 http://tomburka.com/archives2/2007_12.php#001046 News Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:36:35 -0500