Fred, Wilma, and Sarah

OMT Countdown to Glory: 112 Days until Bush is gone
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“I need to know if she really thinks that dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago. I want to know that, I really do. Because she’s gonna have the nuclear codes”.
— Matt Damon on Sarah Palin
Here at OMT, we like Matt Damon. One of the [...]

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Breaking News

Of course, by now everyone knows that the House of Representatives have rejected the $700,000,000,000 Wall Street bail-out bill, and as expected, the markets have started their sickening plunge. It would seem that all bets are off.
Taking a page from the John McCain playbook, the staff and management here at OMT met in closed [...]

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Take My Money … Please

“Some have called me a dirty capitalist, but I’ve merely used the imagination and common sense and energy that kind Providence gave me”.
— Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks
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So today, the $700,000,000,000 plan to bail out those “dirty capitalists” goes to the full House of Representatives to get their yea or nea on what is shaping up to [...]

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Politics Takes a Holiday

OMT Sunday Edition
Alert readers of OMT will have noticed a passing reference we made a couple of weeks ago to some new DVDs headed our way, including the fifth and final season of The Wire, justifiably hailed almost universally as the finest television series yet aired. Along with that set, we also got season [...]

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From Where We Sit

From where we sit, last night’s debate between Barack Obama and John McCain was a blow-out. Obama stayed focused, spoke forcefully and intelligently about the issues, and delved into specifics as to what he would do as President. Obama repeatedly looked at McCain while he was talking, challenging him directly when McCain engaged [...]

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The Horror … The Horror

OMT has devoted a considerable amount of column space in recent weeks to Sarah Palin, in which we have attempted to skewer her in every way conceivable, so great is our loathing for her.
But until she rode her Rosebud onto the national stage, long-time readers may remember that the former holder of OMT’s “Most Loathed [...]

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And Why Should We Believe Them About This?

“We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself.”
– Republican Party platform, 2008
Except when George Bush, Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson say it doesn’t.
Bernanke and Paulson have been testifying before a skeptical Congress for [...]

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The Days of Wine and Madrone

Here at OMT, we’ve been monitoring the effect that Sarah Palin has had on the nation since she rode her Skidoo onto the national stage just a little over three short weeks ago. Most of the effect has been political, but now we learn that she is starting to have an impact on people’s [...]

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It’s Archibald Cox All Over Again

From the time she became John McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin has stopped cooperating with the Alaska legislature’s investigation of her firing of Alaska Public Safety Directory Walter Monegan for not firing her brother-in-law, Mike Wooten, who was in the middle of a divorce and custody dispute with Palin’s sister, Molly.
She was cooperating prior to [...]

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Errata …

In our post earlier this morning, we reported that the autumnal equinox was going to be at 3:40 this afternoon.
We’ve since learned that it will happen at 11:44 this morning, just 12 minutes away from the time that we are writing this.
Apparently, you can’t trust anything you find on the Internet these days, but here [...]

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