Sorry for so much MI-07 blogging lately but there’s just too much goodness emanating from my humble little Congressional District these days. This one actually made it to the front page of Daily Kos: Tim Walberg ain’t exactly a Harvard-trained surgeon. He only beat one in 2006. But the former Bible salesman turned one-term congressman oddly seemed determined to prove […]

This afternoon I head off to Las Vegas for the Netroots Nation conference. The opening keynote speaker is Governor Brian Schweitzer from Montana and Senator Al Franken will do the closing speech. In between there will be tons of amazing people there including Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. I wanted to thank everyone who contributed to my donation page for […]

Oh, looky. Brian Rooney just picked up another endorsement from someone who doesn’t even live in his district (MI-07). For real, dude? First it was someone from Georgia and now this? What’s next? Canuck endorsements? Maybe a few from some Europeans? Since he’s lived in MI-07 less than year, maybe he just doesn’t know that many people here… I’m just […]

Via Think Progress Racist GOP candidate for New Hampshire’s House of Representative, Ryan J. Murdough, has an interesting point of view: For far too long white Americans have been told that diversity is something beneficial to their existence. Statistics prove that the opposite is true. New Hampshire residents must seek to preserve their racial identity if we want future generations […]

This is rich. So, in 2008, Republican Joe Schwarz endorsed Mark Schauer for the MI-07 race and, of course, Schauer ended up narrowly defeating Tim Walberg. There has been very bad blood between Schwarz and Walberg ever since Walberg got the Club for Growth to kick the crap out of him (financially- and negative campaigningly-speaking) in the contested 2006 GOP […]

…and it looked like this: Squished SquashOriginally uploaded by Ånne Good thing we only grew two mounds this year. Don’t get too excited. It’s a composite photo. I’m just sayin’…

The Detroit Free Press has endorsed Brian Rooney, a friend of the Michigan Tea Party “movement”, as the GOP candidate in MI-07. Three conservative Republicans are competing to challenge Democrat Mark Schauer of Battle Creek, who wrested the seat from the GOP in 2008. BRIAN ROONEY, 37, a lawyer from Dexter and a relative newcomer to Michigan (he actually moved […]

We got some eggs from friends who have chickens (they are several different colors because they have several different types of hens) and this morning, we’re making omelets. Click for a bigger image Swiss chard.Onions.Zucchini.Broccoli.Green pepper. All fresh from the garden, picked this morning most of it. Damn, I love this life… UPDATE: Here’s the final result, courtesy of my […]

Last October, I wrote about freshman Senator Amy Klobuchar’s bill to regulate formaldehyde emissions from engineered wood panels. These are the panels used to build our homes, our desks and other furniture and that are ubiquitous throughout our lives, often unnoticed. Shop at any Office Max, Ikea, or discount furniture store and you’ll be surrounded by things made from medium […]

My wife: I’m just sayin’…

Last may I wrote about how the Tea Party movement in Michigan is terrified of becoming a full-fledged political party. Yesterday we found out that the “Tea Party” formation petitions have been successful and the “Tea Party” will very likely be on the ballot in Michigan in November. The “true” Teabaggers in Michigan are, of course, outragedItellzya. I, myself, had […]