http://roenbaugh.com/Roenblog2 A place where we post the stuff we'd normally e-mail you Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:14:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You might be a country bumpkin if you take pictures of the voting line. This was at 6:45 a.m. this morning. Chris and I had to make two attempts, but I did get to see the mayor of Milwaukee this morning. Hint: Go in the middle of the afternoon if possible. http://roenbaugh.com/Roenblog2/2008/11/04/voting-in-the-city/ Only YOU can prevent being ignorant! "Americans with less than a high-school diploma have the greatest diversity in political discussion mates. Those with the most narrow political lives are Americans who have suffered through graduate school." - Diana Mutz, Hearing the Other Side http://roenbaugh.com/Roenblog2/2008/10/20/keep-talking/ What stock market woes? My new addiction is watching fashion shows via podcast. I’ve logged countless hours in front of my computer letting the craziness sashay down the runway. It started with a desire to find some free video to better utilize my iPod. Since, I’ve become addicted and subscribe ... http://roenbaugh.com/Roenblog2/2008/10/19/fashion-escapism/ http://roenbaugh.com/Roenblog2/2008/10/06/lehman-update/  The NY Post: For all the focus on Sarah Palin's graceful performance in Thursday's vice presidential showdown, a more significant spectacle was taking place behind the other rostrum. That's where Joe Biden, speaking with the pompus self-importance befitting his 36 years in the Senate, told one baffling fib after another. Some, of course, ... http://roenbaugh.com/Roenblog2/2008/10/04/the-lies-biden-told/     Here in the heart of Kansas, the sky isn't falling and Chicken Little isn't running around without a head. Community banks like mine are still making loans and serving the needs of customers.   I used to worry about competing in the world of mega "too-big-to-fail" banks. But now I know community ... http://roenbaugh.com/Roenblog2/2008/10/04/nothings-the-matter-with-kansas/ http://roenbaugh.com/Roenblog2/2008/10/04/presented-without-comment/ The house passed HR 1424 (on the second attempt).  Nice job guys.  I wanted to point out the nays.  BOOOOOO!  Aderholt Akin Altmire Bachmann Barrow Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Becerra Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blumenauer Boyda (KS) Broun (GA) Brown-Waite, Ginny Burgess Burton (IN) Butterfield   Buyer Capito Carney Carter Castor Cazayoux Chabot Chandler Childers Clay Conyers Costello Courtney Culberson Davis (KY) Davis, David Davis, Lincoln Deal (GA) DeFazio Delahunt Diaz-Balart, L. Gohmert Goode Goodlatte Graves Green, Gene Grijalva Hall (TX) Hastings (WA) Hayes Heller Hensarling Herseth Sandlin Hill Hinchey Hodes Holden Hulshof Hunter Inslee Issa Jefferson Johnson (GA) Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Jones (NC) Jordan Kagen Kaptur Keller King (IA) Kingston Kucinich Lamborn Lampson Latham LaTourette Latta Linder Lipinski LoBiondo Moran (KS) Murphy, Tim Musgrave Napolitano Neugebauer Nunes Paul Payne Pearce Pence Peterson (MN) Petri Pitts Platts Poe Price (GA) Rehberg Reichert Renzi Rodriguez Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Roskam Rothman Roybal-Allard Royce Salazar Sali Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Scalise Scott (VA) Sensenbrenner Serrano Shea-Porter Sherman Shimkus http://roenbaugh.com/Roenblog2/2008/10/04/388/ From Dealbreaker.com    Cause: The Senator from Nevada, last night: "We don't have a lot of leeway on time. One of the individuals in the caucus today talked about a major insurance company -- a major insurance company -- one with a name that everyone knows that's on the verge of going bankrupt. ... http://roenbaugh.com/Roenblog2/2008/10/02/you-all-know-what-i-think-of-harry-reid/ Allard (R) Barasso (R) Brownback (R) Bunning (R) Cantwell (D) Cochran (R) Crapo (R) DeMint (R) Dole (R) Dorgan (D) Enzi (R) Feingold (D) Inhofe (R) Johnson (D) Landrieu (D) Nelson (FL) (D) Roberts (R) Sanders (I) Sessions (R) Shelby (R) Stabenow (D) Tester (D) Vitter (R) Wicker (R) Wyden (D) http://roenbaugh.com/Roenblog2/2008/10/02/who-voted-no/