Football players die in boating accident

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Wednesday March 04, 2009 · 5:09 PM PST

2009/03/04 · 17:09

Everyone has heard about the football players who likely died in a boating accident off the coast of Florida. Detroit linebacker Marquis Cooper, Detroit Lions free agent Corey Smith and former South Florida player, William Bleakley, are missing and presumed dead. Another former USF player, Nick Schuyler, was rescued, still clinging to the upended boat.

According to Schuyler, the three missing men all, at various times, slipped out of their lifejackets and tried to swim for help.

I am appalled at the comments on various blogs, all alluding to the fact that "there is something wrong with Schuyler's story." My take on this is very different.

AtlantaJan

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Saturday January 24, 2009 · 6:27 PM PST

2009/01/24 · 18:27

My father was a 90s father in the 60s. Way back then, we lived on an Air Force Base. I was the oldest of what would turn out to be nine children. For my entire young life, I lived on air force bases -- in Japan, Okinawa and Tampa. I was extraordinarily lucky to be on one air force base -- MacDill in Tampa -- for much of my young life. Largely because my father, who was just a mechanic, knew a general who kept him from being moved to, oh, Grand Rapids, Michigan, where we were supposed to go when he came back from Viet Nam.

The story of my father continues.

AtlantaJan

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Tuesday December 30, 2008 · 5:51 PM PST

2008/12/30 · 17:51

Many, many people on this site write extremely well. And I do not want to nitpick, but there are some common mistakes made that I thought a grammar/punctuation freak could help with. And note, I ended that sentence with a preposition, because some rules have just gone out of style.

I could have said, "with which a grammar/punctuation freak could help," but it sounds stilted, and most English grammarians will tell you to use what sounds better.

However, a number of mistakes are just mistakes. And, while I can't describe them all here, I can offer a few minor pointers.

Please don't take this as criticism; it's not. It's merely an attempt to point out some egregious errors that most writers, even good ones, don't know. So here we go...

AtlantaJan

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Monday December 08, 2008 · 10:06 AM PST

2008/12/08 · 10:06

AND PROBABLY ON RIGHTY BLOGS, TOO, BUT I DON'T READ THEM.

On December 6, someone posted a diary titled, "Today, I found out we have nothing." It was a long sob story that elicited the usual sympathy and offers of help from kind-hearted Kossacks.

Someone in the comments smelled a scam and checked it out. That someone was correct.

But here's the deal: the company that the scam artist diarist was traced back to had a product being advertised on many of the lefty blogs including TalkingPointsMemo, fivethirtyeight, Atrios and the Huffington Post as a weight loss wonder drug. And it was much worse than just trading on the sympathy of generous individuals. If you have dealt with them, you need to know some vital information.

AtlantaJan

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Sunday November 23, 2008 · 9:01 PM PST

2008/11/23 · 21:01

Everyone seems to be freaking out about the Senate seat in Georgia, which, if it went Democratic, would give the party the "filibuster-proof" majority.

That presupposes that every Republican senator would hew to party lines and that every Democrat would do so as well.

Neither is going to happen, although there is a very real possibility that the Dems would be more united.

However, every poll says that the Republicans will have a tougher time making their votes stick.

Come with me on the flip.

AtlantaJan

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Friday October 17, 2008 · 11:27 AM PDT

2008/10/17 · 11:27

This site has been conspicuously silent on the Tim Mahoney scandal (at least, I haven't seen anything, and I check Daily Kos out several times a day). Turns out, this could be one pile of crap that gets a poopy smell all over the DCCC.

AtlantaJan

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 6:27 PM PDT

2008/09/30 · 18:27

She just can't get it right. She tries and tries, but she just can't do it. In her latest installment of the Couric-Palin interviews, she says we should drill in ANWR, that raped women should elect to carry the child to term, that homosexuality is a choice and that evolution is a good idea that should probably be taught.

AtlantaJan

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Thursday August 21, 2008 · 7:33 PM PDT

2008/08/21 · 19:33

JOhn McCain has said he never brings up his POW status.

One of the things I've never tried to do is exploit my Vietnam service to my country because it would be totally inappropriate to do so.

We all know that is not true.

We have gotten to a point in this campaign where that is all he has.

I do not denigrate McCain's service. However, I, like Wes Clark, don't think it qualifies him for higher office.

Still, you know he is going to use it, and he will most likely use it in the debates. So Obama has to be ready with a great response. And not just the "We all honor McCain's service, but..." response.

Obama has to take him on. He is showing signs that he will. But he has to do it in such a way that McCain can't sit on his pitty pot and whine over this "elitist who never served" calling him out on his incessant pandering.

So, I am asking you all to come up with a response. Nothing mean, nothing denigrating. Just a reasonable response to what I know is going to be McCain's response to a question he doesn't like in the debates.

Meanwhile, look at all the times McCain or his campaign has brought up the POW stuff.

AtlantaJan

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Thursday May 08, 2008 · 1:04 PM PDT

2008/05/08 · 13:04

Last week, a Pew Research Center poll had George Bush at a 28 percent approval rating, the worst of his presidency. According to the History News Network, an unscientific poll of historians conducted the same week has 61 percent saying that his presidency is the worst in the history of the United States.

Another 31 percent had him in the bottom 10, while only four of the 109 historians polled had him in the top 30.

Ninety-eight percent of the respondents judged W's presidency a "failure," while less than 2 percent said it was a "success." But you know what?

That 2 percent were the ones who were right.

AtlantaJan

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Tuesday February 19, 2008 · 7:03 PM PST

2008/02/19 · 19:03

So, Michelle Obama has pissed off FOX News and the right wing with her comment:
For the first time in my adult life, I'm really proud of this country.

Now, I'm 53 (as of tomorrow), and so my adult life pretty much parallels Michelle Obama's.

So here's what I want to know.

AtlantaJan

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Tuesday February 05, 2008 · 11:19 PM PST

2008/02/05 · 23:19

I am not a religious person. But this is a story that is worth telling.

On a frigid night, Feb. 3, 1943, the Allied ship Dorchester plowed through the waters near Greenland.

At 1 am, a Nazi submarine fired a torpedo into its flank, killing hundreds in the explosion and trapping others below deck.

In the ensuing chaos, four chaplains: a Priest, a Rabbi and two Protestant Ministers; distributed life jackets.

AtlantaJan

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Thursday December 20, 2007 · 12:57 PM PST

2007/12/20 · 12:57

ABC is reporting that Barack Obama has added Arnold Schwarzenegger to the list of Republicans he would consider for his cabinet were he to be elected president. At a Town Hall meeting in Manchester, NH, Obama cited Arnold, Chuck Hagel and Dick Lugar as "wonderful guys" and "people he respected."

Here's what he had to say:

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