Day: September 4, 2009

Candidate Tweets the Republican View on Obama School Speech: ‘Hell Yes, We’re Using a Double Standard’

Trish

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The other Republican running for the same Senate seat as Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is as rightwing as they come. But don’t take my word for it, take his. Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio tweeted the following message: “I have no problem with President giving political speech to kids……..if his name is REAGAN!”

In a personality contest with Crist, I would vote for Rubio hands-down. There’s just something about being what you are that Crist will never understand or approach. And even if Rubio is to the right of the gipper himself, at least he’s got a sense of humor. At least, I think he’s being ironic here…

Franken Goes All Stuart Smalley on Tea Baggers

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The title of the video, “Franken Talks Down Angry Mob,” might be a bit of an exaggeration, since, as someone on facebook said, it’s more of a “cranky crowd.” But Al does show that if you just hang in and refuse to get off-message (and maybe bore your listeners a bit), you can prevail. At least you can in Minnesota. In Florida, where the Republicans have all lost their minds, maybe not so much.

Quote du Jour

Buck Banks
Now, Sergey (Brin, Google co-founder) argues that the correct thing to do is to just connect it straight to your brain. In other words, you know, wire it into your head. And so we joke about this and said we have not quite figured out what that problem looks like. .… But that would solve the problem. In other words, if we just — if you had the thought and we knew what you meant, we could run it and we could run it in parallel. …. But we don’t exactly have all the medical clinics necessary to test brain insertion.
— Google CEO Eric Schmidt, on the future of search.