skippy

it’s international square root day!

the dems might be biting off more than they can chew by making limbaugh the “voice” of the gop…

it turns out that the sudden populist tea party movement is neither sudden nor populist. go figure!

skippy is twittering

the skippy’s know gary locke…kind of…

a friend of skippy’s is a moderate republican, and a film-maker. he’s using his skills to get out the word that the gop needs a major make-over.

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it was 50 years ago today…usatoady:

fifty years after the day the music died — songwriter don mclean’s description of the feb. 3, 1959, plane crash that killed musicians buddy holly, ritchie valens and j.p. “the big bopper” richardson — rock ‘n’ roll fans are marking the event both in iowa, where the private plane went down in a frozen cornfield near clear lake, and in holly’s hometown of lubbock, texas.

billy powell, keyboardist for lynyrd skynyrd, died yesterday @ the young age of 56. latimes:

police received a telephone call at 12:55 a.m. from powell, who complained that he was feeling dizzy and was having a hard time breathing, orange park police chief james h. boivin said by phone.

when police and rescue workers arrived, they found powell in his bedroom with the phone nearby, boivin said. powell did not respond to cpr and was pronounced dead at 1:52 a.m., the chief said.

get ready, blogonauts! (and yes! we coined that phrase, too!)

this upcoming weekend skippy the bush kangaroo will be celebrating the second anniversary of blogroll amnesty & blogroll bloodbath anniversary remembrance day!

president barack “to the future” obama left no doubt who’s in charge today @ a meeting w/repubbblicans concerning his proposed stimulus package. politico:

president obama listened to republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders friday morning – but he also left no doubt about who’s in charge of these negotiations. “i won,” obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.