http://partisandiscourse.com Disagreeing Without Being Disagreeable Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:14:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Why is it that a kid never forgets the beer his grandpa drank?  For me, Pabst beer was that great unknown of my childhood, the beer the older family members drank when I was served Kool-Aid. Diane Meyer points out a few good items, now that the Belgians own A-B: Now that ... http://partisandiscourse.com/2008/08/12/pabst-coming-backst/ Is it really going to be 100 degrees today.  Ugh. How 'bout some random thoughts on this mornings news coverage? Rasmussen reports something hotter than the weather, the race for the Presidency: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows the race for the White House is tied with Barack Obama ... http://partisandiscourse.com/2008/08/04/the-presidential-pageat-and-other-monday-morning-duldrums/ Diane Meyer of Respublica wrote this morning... Where oh where has Partisan Discourse gone? ...Prompting me out of my hole to write at least this much.  I need to call Mark and see why he's been so quiet lately.  Is it fair to say that I'm still exhausted from flipping all those ... http://partisandiscourse.com/2008/07/31/respublica-x-4/ Because talking about the Sheltered Care Home never gets old: Madison County officials' plans to close the county's sheltered care home in Edwardsville violate public votes, previous promises and an agreement with the Illinois Department of Public Health, according to a lawsuit filed today on behalf of several of the home's ... http://partisandiscourse.com/2008/07/24/sheltered-care-home-development/ I'm an avid KMOX listener.  Some political ads just focused on TV might miss me completely, but when a new radio spot shows up on KMOX, chances are it catches my attention.  Recently, the Farm Bureau and Med Society have had interesting advertising campaigns.  But, one ad campaign in particular ... http://partisandiscourse.com/2008/07/22/t-boone-better-than-t-bone-on-capitol-hill/ From an e-mail from the American Cancer Society: In less than one week, the Fight Back Express Bus Tour will roll into Illinois starting in Chicago and making its way throughout the state. Sponsored by The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the Fight Back Express bus tour is building a grassroots movement ... http://partisandiscourse.com/2008/07/16/acs-can-bus-tour-rolls-to-alton-mt-vernon/ Any kid growing up in St. Louis in the early-80s had to have known about Slobo.  I can remember playing soccer in our front yard and blocking shots to cries of SLOBO SAVE! Slobodan "Slobo" Ilijevski, 58, a fan favorite on the St. Louis Steamers, died Monday in a Seattle hospital ... http://partisandiscourse.com/2008/07/16/slobo-passes/ Is it any wonder why voters become apathetic?  I ran across these two articles nearly consecutively today... In a lively appearance before the National Council of La Raza, one of the most important advocacy groups in the United States for Hispanic Americans, McCain rejected the organizers' attempts to ... http://partisandiscourse.com/2008/07/15/presidential-summer-duldrums/ An interesting letter popped into my inbox yesterday.  An "open letter" from xx different airline companies, the letter suggests that reform of oil commodity markets would be a meaningful way of lowering gas prices.  Their new announced website, StopOilSpeculationNow.com has more, but here's a sampling of their argument: Twenty years ago, ... http://partisandiscourse.com/2008/07/11/airlines-take-on-oil-speculators/ Newsflash: Obama is not going to lose Illinois. However, despite that fact, the numbers in Illinois are not stacking for Obama to thump McCain at the same level as Obama's 70-27 drubbing of Alan Keyes in 2004.  According to the latest Rasmussen poll, Obama leads 50-37 in a generic ballot test ... http://partisandiscourse.com/2008/07/10/mccain-obama-in-illinois/