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Pogie - who has written 1059 posts on Intelligent Discontent.
I am an English and debate teacher from Helena, MT.
The Hell With John McCain. I’m Voting Hindu!
Wouldn’t an honorable man stop remarks like this? Unhelpful for establishing the tone McCain sought in Davenport was the Rev. Arnold Conrad, past pastor of the Grace Evangelical Free Church. His prayer before McCain arrived at the convention center blocks from the Mississippi River appeared to dismiss faiths other than Christianity and cast the election as [...]
Continue reading...Roy Brown’s Campaign for Hall Monitor Continues
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Gloomy Roy is at it again. Following news that the state is potentially looking at a one billion dollar surplus under Governor Schweitzer’s leadership and following the failure of Brown’s epic proposals like $50 annual property tax reductions, health care task forces, and undefined bonuses for teachers, Senator Brown has gone back to the old [...]
Continue reading...Sarah’s Innocent! She Says So, After All
Thursday, October 9, 2008
One team offers the nation the audacity of hope, the other the audacity of audacity? On the eve of a report on a legislative panel’s abuse-of-power investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report clearing her of any wrongdoing. Lawmakers are expected to release their findings Friday. The report the McCain-Palin campaign [...]
Continue reading...Judge Donald Malloy 1, Jake Eaton 0
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
It’s too bad that wit is wasted on people like Jake Eaton. Judge Donald Malloy, today: A Hobbesian nightmare! Determined to prevent the Hobbesian nightmare sure to ensue if voters’ mailing addresses do not match their residential addresses, Eaton employed an auditor to pore over the United States Postal Service’s change of address registry, and to [...]
Continue reading...The Montana GOP Cuts and Runs on Voter Intimidation
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Of course, they didn’t offer an apology. Instead, it was the media’s fault: Eaton wrote that the party launched the challenges in “good faith,” but media reports have since suggested the challenges were an effort to suppress voter turnout. I’m quite certain it didn’t have anything to do with a recently filed lawsuit that might have required [...]
Continue reading...I Normally Wouldn’t Link to this Cesspool…
Monday, October 6, 2008
but I thought that everyone should take the opportunity to see the level of rhetoric displayed by the next generation of Montana Republicans. Hard to imagine why the site is anonymous, but it’s certainly good to see that the Montana Republican Party endorses the site. Keep it classy, boys. Why don’t you disenfranchise social misfits like this?
Continue reading...Why Does Jake Eaton Want to Disenfranchise My Students?
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Initially, I was angry with Jake Eaton and the Montana Republican Party in theory. It was greatly upsetting to learn that the Republican Party in Montana had so little respect for voters that it would actively try to remove them from the rolls, rather than educate them. Admittedly, it would be challenging to educate voters [...]
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- Tester-Burns Debate
- A Somewhat Cynical Observation about Mansfield-Metcalf
- Montana's Max: Nutcakes!
- Dennis Rehberg: Master of the Oblivious
- Off to See Hillary and Obama
- Idaho Anti Wolf Coalition Falls Short (21)
- Blogs and the Media: Kemmick and Crisp (17)
- Tester-Burns Debate (14)
- The conscience of a liberal: why I am considering abstaining in the Iraqi War Referendum vote... (14)
- The Religious Right's Trump Card Exposed (13)
- Why Does Jake Eaton Want to Disenfranchise My Students?
- The Sorry State of Politics Practiced by the Montana GOP and Its Surrogates: A Soccer Story
- Questions and One Thought After the GOP’s Last Day
- Fixing Failing by Predetermining Passing
- Rehberg’s 14 Minutes and the Media’s Response: Which Was Worse?
- Some More Thoughts About Denny’s Stunt in Washington
- DHS now officially seizing and searching laptops
- NorthWestern Energy makes me sick
- I just lost my appetite
- McCain confuses Somalia and the Sudan
Saturday, October 11, 2008
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