Daily Archives: November 9, 2006

Gates Nomination

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 9, 2006

November 7, 1991 Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, I rise in opposition to the nomination of Robert Gates to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Mr. President, at the outset of the confirmation hearings, I had serious reservations about the nominee. The confirmation hearings only raised more questions and greater doubts. Questions and doubts about [...]

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So this woman from Minneapolis calls…

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 9, 2006

And she says that John D’emilio will be in Madison in February and can I give her any information on that. So I hook her up with the number of a guy who is probably organizing it and I wonder, “What? Am I psychic?” Because I had no clue who D’emilio is, or that he’d [...]

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empty-zen-hacker-bodhisattva

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 9, 2006

Has it been five years then? I remember wondering just what this guy RageBoy was going on about. I remember feeling resistant. I remember that I finally overcame my resistance to group things and started trading links with the other EGR list subscribers in January. I still think of myself as class of 2001, even [...]

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Wicked as it seems…

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 9, 2006

Thanks to J. Alva for the campaign button and RB (and Keith Richards) for the title slug. Last night it seemed that the Republicans had discarded the election theft strategy in Virginia. Six years of illegitimate government has more than lined the pockets of the war mongers, the imperialists and the oligarchs. Hopefully they will [...]

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