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Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
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Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
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Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
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Maquis Lien 2006
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Cameron, Chardonnay
B.R. Cohn, Cabernet, Silver Label 2006
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Palo Alto, Reserve Red 2008
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Miles run year to date: 26
At this date last year: 15
Total run in 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269
Man, it's a hot time in national politics. The Republican convention is sure getting hearts pounding -- some in excited joy, some in black rage. While I slog my way at work through the first week of a new school year, I've been catching the action mostly through the lens of The New York Times. Their detailed coverage is subtly designed to make a Democrat's blood boil, and it surely has mine.
Comments (13)
How many Democrats in office are minorities? Fewer than the Republicans.
How many of the Hispanics in Texas (general population) are illegal immmigrants and should be deported? A lot.
Posted by Scott-in-Japan | September 2, 2004 4:05 AM
Jack - sorry to turn that other post into a Swift Vets rant, it just gets me VERY worked up. I find it difficult when I feel so strongly about something and other people have the exact opposite opinion. Everyone should agree with me dammit! :P Perhaps it's my youth. I like your attitude - just let it go. (Deep breath.)
Posted by raging red | September 2, 2004 5:39 AM
Actually Scott-in-Japan,
Texas has always (and I mean always as back to the days of the "Republic") had a sizeable minority of "Tejanos" who are not immigrants at all. And as for the immigrant population...gee, I wonder who is hiring all those immigrants (so that they can save money by paying less than)? I bet a majority of those business owners are Republicans. The only reason immigrants come into the US is because people are willing to hire them, not because of the supposed "welfare state."
Posted by hilsy | September 2, 2004 6:46 AM
How is it the Republican party is not only able to keep its moderates in line (Guiliani/Schwarzenegger) but able to get them to speak glowingly of an extremely conservative Republican President. While the Democrats can't even keep their moderate (Miller) from speaking glowingly of an extremely conservative Republican President.
I'm telling you, if the Democrats lose, they have know one to blame but themselves. The Republicans are maintaining their fundamental Christian base and still reaching out to moderates. Why can't the Dems do this?
Posted by Justin | September 2, 2004 8:50 AM
For all intents and purposes, Zell Miller is a Republican.
Posted by raging red | September 2, 2004 9:36 AM
Texas has Hispanic representatives - Henry Bonilla is one that I know of locally (I want him to run for Senate!). The problem is that the media doesn't consider him a minority - he is a conservative...
If the Democrats would get off the anti-war bandwagon and the mistaken belief that offering child-related tax cuts are middle-class tax relief, then I could consider voting for them...
Posted by Jeffrey | September 2, 2004 9:45 AM
If the Republicans could get off their bandwagon of saying that peace is a result of war, maybe I could vote for them... Or maybe the bandwagon of wanting to fund faith-based community organisations with my tax dollars... Or what about the idea that they can run us in to a record deficit and push the debt on to the middle-class... Or the fact that they are "compassionate" to everyone except homosexuals... etc, etc, etc...
Posted by davidwhunt | September 2, 2004 5:33 PM
What Bush has done:
Condy Rice, C.Powell- two power positions
What Democrats have done:
A Surgeon General who advocated teching children how to masturbate
An Attorney General who thought she "knew more" than the Texas Rangers and killed women and children in Waco. I put her down because she was selected to pander to the homosexual voting block. She was last seen following the Village People Revival tour. Case closed.
Posted by brother gary | September 3, 2004 9:19 AM
"...peace is a result of war..."
When our enemy is terrorists who murder innocents, then yes, peace is the result of a successful war.
Posted by Scott-in-Japan | September 3, 2004 3:06 PM
hilsy -
" And as for the immigrant population...gee, I wonder who is hiring all those immigrants (so that they can save money by paying less than)? I bet a majority of those business owners are Republicans."
A nice try at class warfare (only Republicans are 'rich'), but no dice. Kerry and Edwrds have a nigher net worth than Bush and Cheney - by a wide margin. The Democratic Party receives more money (percentage) from large donors (people and corporations) than the Republicans. The party of the rich people and big corporations is the Democratic Party.
For all the whining that the foot-soldiers of the Democratic Party do - the party itself is run by the very 'rich' whom the peons claim to despise.
Posted by Scott-in-Japan | September 3, 2004 3:11 PM
"When our enemy is terrorists who murder innocents, then yes, peace is the result of a successful war."
We have 140,000 troops in Iraq and only 10,000 in Afganistan. Last I heard, Osama wasn't hanging out in Iraq. Neither were WMD's. Wake up, bud.
Posted by davidwhunt | September 3, 2004 11:23 PM
"Last I heard, Osama wasn't hanging out in Iraq"
OBL isn't the only bad guy in the world. Displacing an Islamic(esque) goon like Saddam is a great long term plan. It removed Iraq as a home for training terrorists. It's brought Libya back into talks with the civilized world (baby steps for now).
The best news is that bringing Iraq into the civilized world has put Saudi Arabia on notice. If the Saudis don't get their collective act together, the USA will do it for them. Saudi Arabia unleashed OBL on the world. Instead of stopping him, Saudi Arabia gave us OBL. And the USA is now slowly remaking the Middle East as a place where folks like OBL will be killed, before they can kill Americans.
'Wake up, bud,' indeed.
Posted by Scott-in-Japan | September 4, 2004 1:48 AM
The Boss suggests reading Al Franken's latest book. I always do what Bruce suggests. Great read.
Posted by Raoul | September 7, 2004 9:28 AM