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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
What We're...
- listening to: Obama's acceptance speech
- reading: BlueOregon.com
- watching: Copius amounts of football
- playing: NCAA '09
- cheering: Texas being #1
- booing: Sarah Palin
- visiting: Cheap Gas
- wishing we'd invented: Air
- predicting: Republicans get slaughtered in '08
- endorsing: RandomKid.org
- gooning over: Daniella Alonso
- quoting: "Why would you ask Moby how to end suffering? Isn't the first answer no more techno?" Stephen Colbert
- bookmarking: FiveThirtyEight.com
Funny Papers
Too Much Coffee Man
Mark Fiore
This Modern World
Ted Rall
Tom Toles
Ben Sargent
Pat Oliphant
Betty Bowers is a Better Christian than You
Doonesbury
Pearls Before Swine
Daryl Cagle
Jeff Danziger
Toothpaste for Dinner
Bush: Worst Disaster to hit US
Bush Loyalty Quiz
Funny Videos
The View, on the shape of Earth
People's Court - Mustache
Jim Rome, on Ms. Teen SC
Daily Show clips (use Explorer)
Red vs Blue
An oldie: Bush on sovereign-entities
McClellan!
Bush, Busey, Ferrets."
Jib Jab
George is Drunk again
Where W gets his skills
Letterman to O'Reilly: 60% of what you say is crap. Conan to Colbert: I shot you very close to the heart.
Bush is a lame F@#$.
Ferrell Bush Ad
Ferrell Bush on Global Warming
Best of Bush Speeches
Bush bumbles.
The Speechalist
Bush the Roaster
Bush and Blair: Endless Love
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PoliticalMoneyLine
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Campaign Finance Information Center
Newsmeat: alternate contributions
Follow the Money: state contribs
Project Vote Smart: interest group ratings, finance, much more
Outside Interest: CPI personal financial disclosures
Federal lobbyists
LobbySearch: a directory of lobbyists
PACronyms: for federal PACs
National Student Clearinghouse: University Degree/Enrollment Verification
Everything about state open records laws
US DoJ: Court Resources by State
Searchsystems: many open records sorted by state
Power Reporting: everything investigaive
Smarter Surfing
The Internet Archive
Newslink: Every media outlet, sorted by state and city
Locatecell.com
OSHA compliance
EPA compliance
TechsUnite: offshored jobs
GuideStar: the starting point for nonprofit research
The Non-profit FAQ
Better Business Bureau business and charity reports
NNDB: track famous people
Zaba: Nexis people finder-lite
Plogress: track Congressmen
GovTrack: track Congress
Federal legislation and votes, minutes and speeches, much more
Federal taxing and spending, including the Taxpayers' Guide to Federal Spending
Free Congressional Research Service reports
More free CRS reports
Newsbank
NewsLibrary
Search legal cases and codes
PoliticalWire
DailyKos
BOR
Off the Kuff
Wake-Up Call
The Note
Google News
Yahoo news
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Jim Fallows on search engines
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IceRocket: a google competitor that searches blogs
Mr. Sapo meta-search, Social Security recipients by district, the NYTimes stable link generator
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Newsmeat finance search engine
Our Private Legislatures
Congressmen are limited on outside income
State caucus contributions
Lege scorecard
Austin, San An, Houston municipal campaign finance
Perry-Castaneda library resources
Basic biz research with google stocks
Offshore tracker
Corporate giving to non-profits
Get rid of business bullshit speak
Lobbywatch and companies profiting from war
How much has the war cost your state?
Progressive Punch: unbiased Congressional vote rating
National Taxpayers Union candidate surveys
Firefighters union voting guides
Get archived research from Vote-Smart
Congressional voting guide for 1981-1992
Discharge petition 108-8 and why it matters
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Find EPA Superfund sites
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Texas divorce records
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