DC Metro Ridership Figures for Teabag Day

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Tuesday September 15, 2009 · 1:00 PM PDT

2009/09/15 · 13:00

The figures are in, and they're not so impressive.

DC Metro has released ridership figures for the weekend. Look on that page for most of the raw figures below.

September 12, 2009 - Rail ridership: 437,624 Bus ridership: 236,347
(I sum that to 673,971 total trips)

That is well lower than average workday rail/bus ridership (which is over one million: 700,000 rail and 450,000 bus on most weekdays).

But let's compare the Saturday of 9/12 to Saturday one week earlier:
September 05, 2009 - Rail ridership: 300,963 Bus ridership: 236,347 [see note at bottom]
(Sums to 537,310 total trips)

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Wednesday August 06, 2008 · 4:20 PM PDT

2008/08/06 · 16:20

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Monday July 28, 2008 · 9:07 AM PDT

2008/07/28 · 09:07

What Pentagon functionary's office sandbagged Obama in Germany?

Would you be surprised to know it he was a former aide to Jesse Helms and to Trent Lott? That he was a Republican political appointee who used to work in George W. Bush's White House? That he helped write the platform of the Republican party in 2000? That he was the political director of the North Carolina state Republican Party?

That he was at a ceremony in 2001 where attendees saluted the Confederate Flag?

...More on the flip...

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Sunday January 06, 2008 · 3:11 AM PST

2008/01/06 · 03:11

I recorded CSPAN's coverage of the Obama Nashua Rally, and I caught O'Reilly and Obama talking (after O'Reilly's altercation with a staffer, but probably before Obama knew about it).

The audio isn't the greatest but one can make out O'Reilly saying "You're
a good guy. We've liked you..." to Obama and Obama talking to O'Reilly about doing something "after the primary" (possibly "primaries?)

It's a very short interaction but it's definitely them.

Video below or at my blog at my blog for those who want to help me transcribe the exchange.

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Friday October 28, 2005 · 3:25 PM PDT

2005/10/28 · 15:25

Why do Libby's lies seem so stupid in retrospect?

Two reasons at first glance:

When he concocted his scheme he thought that Ashcroft would dispatch the Plame inquiry quickly.
He thought that reporters would hold firm and not reveal him as a source.
The Ashcroft Angle: Libby's initial lies to the FBI that led to the false statement charges were in October and November, 2003--before Ashcroft recused himself. From the press release accompanying the indictment:

The false statement charge in Count Two of the indictment alleges that Libby lied to FBI agents on October 14 and November 26, 2003, regarding the conversation with Russert on July 10, 2003. Count Three charges Libby with making false statements to FBI agents during the same FBI interviews in October and November 2003 relating to his July 12, 2003 conversation with Cooper.

Ashcroft's recusal came after those initial Libby lies, in late December 2003. I bet Libby wasn't happy when he found out that Ashcroft had recused himself.
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Undercounting casualties?

keiths

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Sunday September 11, 2005 · 12:15 PM PDT

2005/09/11 · 12:15

Are we going to see undercounting of casualties in Hurricane Katrina?

From the Times-Picayune blog:

Lee reports on deaths in Jefferson
Friday, 10:05 p.m.
"Sheriff Harry Lee said Saturday night that the Jefferson Parish Coroner's office had processed 152 bodies, but only 20 of those were deaths related to Hurricane Katrina. He said the coroner's office was picking up bodies that are reported lying in the street and handling them to FEMA's specifications. He also said that body count does not include bodies that may have been taken to the morgue in St. Gabriel. "

They've processed 152 bodies, but only 20 are due to the Hurricane? Huh?

Can anyone clarify what those 130 other people died of and how it was determined that it was not related to Katrina?

riffle

Obama Tee Shirt Sighting

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Saturday September 10, 2005 · 7:18 PM PDT

2005/09/10 · 19:18

On Larry King a few minutes ago, Macy Gray was speaking from Houston about her trip down to help the evacuees. Check out the shirt she was wearing:

The "k" in Barack's first name doesn't show too well, but it's there.

I was pleased to see that shirt. Obama's statement after visiting evacuees is a good one, too.

riffle

Brauer, Pharmacist for Life, Crazed Rants on Usenet

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Tuesday April 05, 2005 · 11:15 AM PDT

2005/04/05 · 11:15

Karen L. Brauer, President of Pharmacists for Life, comes off as a sober-minded pharmacist with ethical objections to birth control. [Here's a Media Matters piece menioning her.]

Looking over her old website and her posts to Usenet, we get a different picture of her: a sex-obsessed wingnut with fairly doctrinaire Rush Limbaugh-type vitriol.

Below the fold is a sampling of her Usenet posts. Here's a taste of some of her Usenet posts. More of her posts and other stuff can be found here.

More below the fold.
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Dr. Hammesfahr, Clown or Quack?

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Tuesday March 22, 2005 · 10:08 AM PST

2005/03/22 · 10:08

Dr. William Hammesfahr was engaged by Terry Schiavo's parents to evaluate her, and he's been in the press a lot recently claiming that she's "... not that bad" and that he could treat her and improve her condition. I've looked into him a bit, including looking at his own website and one affiliated with him.

More below the fold. Read More

The Paris Hilton Age

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Tuesday February 08, 2005 · 11:37 PM PST

2005/02/08 · 23:37

We're well into The Paris Hilton Age. Paris is the true beneficiary of the Bush Budget.

Bush's policies help a few people, like Paris Hilton. Inheritance tax cuts help her ilk, capital gains taxes help her kind, defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund will help Paris and will hurt everyone not as rich as she is.

It's gotta end. The Red State folks Paris visits in her shows probably even know that it's the The Paris Hilton Age

Let's call it The Paris Hilton Age, and good riddance to it.

riffle
More disparate links in the riffle post I link to repeatedly above. Just the essense above.

Condi's Friend Calls Her A Liar

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Wednesday January 19, 2005 · 4:19 PM PST

2005/01/19 · 16:19

... essentially.

From the radio show On Point, in an interview about Rice Confirmation Hearings.

HOST: How do you see Condoleeza Rice's integrity?

LARRY DIAMOND: Well let me say a couple of things. Number one, she's been a friend and I'm not gonna challenge her integrity directly in this way and therefore I can't speak entirely objectively. There are ties of affection. I'll say only two other things.

Number one, I think there is indications from what Greg Thielmann has said and what's been brought out that she's not been truthful and candid. That's point number one. Number two, these issues were raised when she was provost of Stanford University.

HOST: In what context?

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Friday November 19, 2004 · 5:11 AM PST

2004/11/19 · 05:11

Here's a piece by UPI correspondent Richard Sale I haven't seen linked on dailykos yet. It's a sobering evaluation of the situation in Iraq.

It's nothing most of us don't know, but it's rare to see a mainstream news organiztion like UPI put forward such a bleak view:

Analysis: U.S. military tactics falter

Some excerpts below the fold. I'd urge you to read the whole thing. Read More

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Video of Obama and O'Reilly talking

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Undercounting casualties?

Obama Tee Shirt Sighting

Brauer, Pharmacist for Life, Crazed Rants on Usenet

Dr. Hammesfahr, Clown or Quack?

The Paris Hilton Age

Condi's Friend Calls Her A Liar

UPI analysis of Iraq: "Disaster," "Terrible," etc.