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Tuesday, January 20, 2004



Interactive electoral map on the Edwards site. If he could get the core Dem states plus North Carolina (his home state), he wins. [John Robb's Weblog]
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Photo of Winston Churchill's now 108-year-old parrot, Charlie. [I'm Gina Smith]

Still says "Fuck the Nazis!"

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Timing the State of the Union.

Patrick Belton, over at OxBlog, has this analysis of Bush’s State of the Union address:

If the amount of time given over to a single idea reflects its relative importance in the State of the Union speech (a reasonable assumption), then the most important themes in tonight’s speech, in descending order, are: the need to commit adequate resources to the military for the war on terror (87 seconds); that government will act against single-sex marriage (84 seconds); the administration’s commitment to strengthening families and religious communities, and to combat juvenile use of drugs (78 seconds); the government’s commitment to education and excellence for each child in America (72 seconds); that the world without Saddam is a better and safer place (69 seconds). The closing matter took 78 seconds, centered around the idea that we are living in historic times.

So, at least on this view, what we should take away from Bush’s speech is roughly: we live in historic times in which our major priorities are fighting terrorists, gays and atheists. And who says there’s no culture war in America?

[Crooked Timber]
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Top 100 sports moments from The Simpsons -- #100-75 [FARK]
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The story of Johnny Appleseed, or How the West Got Drunk [FARK]
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Adding up Dubya's first term.. Just in time for the State of the Union address, the UK Independent does Dubya's numbers. $10.9 million: Average wealth of the members of Bush's original 16-person cabinet 88%: Percentage of American citizens who will save less than $100 on their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and dividends taxes $42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet are expected to enjoy this year as a result in the cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes $42,228: Median household income in the US in 2001 $116,000: Amount Vice-President Cheney is expected to save each year... [Pacific Views]
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The $200 Million Question. There is one issue Democrats must face in New Hampshire this week.

How are you going to compete with the $200 million George W. Bush will have to tear you down on TV this summer? [BloggerStorm: Blog for America]
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The state of Dubya's union.. It's bad and getting worse, says Molly Ivins. And to help us keep focused during the prez's State of the Union address tonight, Ivins reminds us to follow the money. My fellow Americans, the state of the union's finances is enough to make an Enron accountant gag. When George W. Bush took office, he was handed a going concern. Projected annual surpluses from 2002 to 2011 were $5.6 trillion. In its most recent projection, the Congressional Budget Office says it expects $1.4 trillion in total deficits from 2004 to 2013. Bush's new future spending proposals -- including everything from the... [BloggerStorm: Blog for America]
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Kerry

Kerry's win in Iowa is the most encouraging news I've had about national politics for a long time. I've always kind of liked the guy, but never figured he had much of a chance. Now it looks like as I think Josh Marshall pointed out yesterday, that he was everyone's second choice, and when the bloom faded from the Dean rose, perhaps people turned to him. To me he feels now like the man most likely to beat Bush, though I wonder if he has the wealth of enthusiastic supporters of Dean. This morning on Bart, I read Douglas Brinkley's article in The Atlantic, and excerpt from his book about Kerry in Vietnam. It has liberal selections from some of  Kerry's letters; in these letters, he strikes me as a mature, smart person even at this young age. And serious. It seems to me that a Kerry with enthusiastic support is Bush's worst nightmare.

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