tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:52:23 +0000www.thechiefsource.comhttp://thechiefsource.com/noreply@blogger.com (Kyle)Blogger2617125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-3638310066972865201Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:12:00 +00002008-11-19T10:56:48.189-05:00 Let Detroit Go Bankrupt By Mitt Romney "IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. There's more...Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/oh-shit-i-agree-with-mitt.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert)23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-9150700286094163091Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:34:00 +00002008-11-18T23:57:20.705-05:00 These Somali pirates operating off the Horn of Africa are absolutely fascinating because I can't wrap my head around how they pull off these hijackings. Over the past couple of days they have hijacked one tanker with 36,000 tons of wheat and one with 2 million barrels of oil estimated to be worth $100 million dollars. The oil tanker itself is estimated to be worth $120 million and is http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/somali-pirates-stealing-giant-ships.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kyle)19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-5811836815094608703Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:00:00 +00002008-11-18T01:00:00.885-05:00 Joe Lieberman pinned his political hopes on John McCain winning and was a lead attack dog against Barack Obama. I saw him several times on the Sunday news shows as a surrogate for Senator McCain and I wanted to throw things at the television as I listened to him. He is definitely my least favorite Senator. That said, I think Senate Democrats are doing the prudent thing by compromising on Joehttp://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/losing-joementum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kyle)16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-1189697642952546642Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:01:00 +00002008-11-18T00:01:01.604-05:00 Tres Potrillos Saturday night with my friendshttp://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/photographs-mexican-in-montrose.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kyle)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-2799107705289891038Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:04:00 +00002008-11-17T21:44:09.397-05:00 As we have discussed over the past week, this site has been going for four years and I've been asking myself how much longer so we keep it going? I started when George Bush beat us and got to see it through to Barack Obama's win. Why not go out on top? Well, my answer as I talk to myself is that I really enjoy this site and am not ready to give it up. I'm flattered by the fact that people http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/as-we-have-discussed-over-past-week.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kyle)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-7535343368389919959Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:55:00 +00002008-11-17T00:03:46.405-05:00 Most of you know how I feel about Hillary. I thought that of all 15 horses she ran the second dirtiest race. Second only to Romney. When you look back, she pulled some cold blooded crap. But assuming that Obama is less vindictive than I am, let's talk about this Secretary of State rumor. At first it made no sense to me. After mustering the will to deny the so-called Dream Ticket, why now - http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/secretary-of-state.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert)28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-6195729548526552444Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:56:00 +00002008-11-16T12:57:25.504-05:00 I know that much of the last week was dedicated to reminiscing and staff sendoffs, but before we get back to normal business I'd like to take one quick look back. Get this: There have been 2,723 posts at our blog since July of 2004. Those posts generated 31,450 comments (that doesn't count "wow gold"). Think about that for a sec. This pie-chart shows the post break-down by author. It's called http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/one-last-look-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-272078758824784809Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:02:00 +00002008-11-14T11:50:29.719-05:00 Chuck made his debut on The Chief Source on December 1, 2004. I was having surgery to fix a broken ankle and asked Chuck to fill in. Bob joined the site shortly after. The three of us are a good team and see a value in the role each of us play. I was the nuts and bolts, Chuck was the ranter, and Bob was our creativity. Our readership was small, but we had a lot of fun learning to blog http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/thank-you-chuck.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kyle)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-3210135577446139483Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:01:00 +00002008-11-14T12:04:10.783-05:00 It looks like our favorite pork-omaniac, Senator Stevens is finally toast.http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/up-in-flames.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-4017509563689317194Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:01:00 +00002008-11-13T09:46:56.663-05:00 I am sad to see the site come to a quasi-end, but proud to be ending on such a high note. I remember when the site started, I felt as low as imaginable, with George W Bush getting reelected. Four years later, we are ending on a great high note, with the conservative agenda having been rejected nationwide, from Obama's win to Congress to state legislatures nationwide, in a way that has never http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/i-am-sad-to-see-site-come-to-end-but.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chuck)15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-2306173209668975069Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:22:00 +00002008-11-12T18:16:38.828-05:00 In our period of post election transition, I wanted to thank five of our staff members for their commitments to stay with us through the election and for their contributions during the past year. Having this large team of writers has been a rewarding experience and the exchange of ideas we have had over the past year has been fantastic. As The Chief Source begins to scale down to non-electionhttp://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/thank-you-annie-chandra-sophie-kevin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kyle)12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-3412467510778345594Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:29:00 +00002008-11-11T09:18:05.422-05:00 I invited my brother Carson to write a guest post in memory of his good friend Captain Michael Medders who was killed September 24, 2008 in Jisr Naft, Iraq. November 4th would have been his 26th birthday. By Guest Columnist Carson Kutuchief Putting politics aside, it's never easy to write about tragedy, but it's important for me to pay tribute my friend and a hero. I met Mike at BGSU my http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/remembering-army-capt-michael-medders.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kyle)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-9007713917810277387Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:28:00 +00002008-11-10T13:32:10.945-05:00 Click image for story.http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/bushs-approval-rating-lowest-in-history.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert)44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-3500490408310127881Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:46:00 +00002008-11-09T18:47:08.301-05:00 This is going to be my last post as a contributing writer to The Chief Source. I'd like to say thanks to Kyle for bringing me on board, thanks to Bob for his technical help and thanks to the readers who have, for the most part, been supportive and interested in what I've had to say. 2008 has been a busy and good year for me: I got married, am beginning a new job; and have a President-elect http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/two-party-system.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chandra)9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-8366927622766299994Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:55:00 +00002008-11-09T18:41:47.215-05:00 I know that there has been talk amongst pundits and advisers about what President Obama's Cabinet will look like and there have been bits and pieces in other TCS threads so I decided to start a thread dedicated to this topic. Now, I will not pretend that I am enough of a wonk to understand the ins and outs of many of these positions and I'm certainly not a pundit with insider knowledge so http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/whats-in-your-cabinet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chandra)9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-3691442017530034067Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:31:00 +00002008-11-08T13:02:41.349-05:00 Note the seemingly misplaced Obama logo floating over Eastern Nebraska. Since the call came late and the election coverage has moved onto puppy/cabinet selection, no one is talking about the fact that Obama successfully siphoned a vote from Nebraska's Second Congressional District, bringing his total to 365 not 364 (Remember Nebraska and Maine are the only two states that don't have a http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/obama-wins-omaha-ev-365.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-7990574334593750205Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:37:00 +00002008-11-08T12:06:05.995-05:00 I wanted to take a moment to thank Hillary Clinton Democrats for doing all that you did to help Barack Obama get elected. Tensions between us Obama-bots and you guys were pretty tense during the primary and that was evident to those who read The Chief Source during those primary months. It was amazing to me how much our party was able to come together by the time the convention finally came.http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/thank-you-hillary-clinton-democrats.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kyle)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-1190204377672376800Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:15:00 +00002008-11-07T15:59:48.678-05:00 Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are Yesterday, I presented a lecture on the significance of elections in contemporary American politics. I argued that, unfortunately, participatory citizenship in America has increasingly become defined solely by the act of voting. American politics have devolved into what Benjamin Barber might call "weak democracy" - a http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/just-beginning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kevin)13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-7397511386874435872Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:17:00 +00002008-11-07T15:12:58.535-05:00 I'm taking a trip with an old buddy of mine over the holidays: two weeks in the state of Morocco. At least that's what it'd have to be if Africa was in fact a country as opposed to a continent (as Governor Palin reportedly believed). That's right, now the McCain folks - that defended Palin's international savy - are spilling the beans. Watch this Fox News reporter admit that they discovered http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/trip-to-state-of-morocco.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-8845438203083330601Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:57:00 +00002008-11-06T17:57:00.965-05:00 Ben Keeler and I are scheduled to be guests on NewsNight Akron this Friday, November 7th. We will be discussing election results and how new media influenced the outcome. The program will air at 9:00pm on PBS, which is channel 10 on Time Warner Cable in Akron.http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/guests-on-newsnight-akron.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kyle)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-7229925262391893970Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:28:00 +00002008-11-06T17:36:08.597-05:00 As Republicans begin to discuss more candidly how they lost in a landslide* to a black guy with the middle name Hussein, a pattern is emerging: McCain was the best shot they had, but in the end no Republican could've gotten out from under the shadow of the ominous Bush Legacy, not even a GOP maverick. This image is one I made back in June of 07 when Bush's Immigration Bill died. But now a http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/2009-and-beyond.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert)24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-6262361321965020569Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:02:00 +00002008-11-05T23:57:12.340-05:00 Wednesday, November 5th was my last day as an employee at a local non-profit social service agency dedicated to providing social and economic parity for all persons, particularly African-Americans--and it was a truly monumental day. With our staff being about 90% African-American and largely Democratic, it was amazing and moving to walk into work and see everyone hugging and enjoying the Obamahttp://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/audacity-of-hope.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chandra)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-9100513473865421960Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:25:00 +00002008-11-05T09:33:24.984-05:00 The day before the election I predicted a blow-out of epic proportions. While Barack won't hit my 397 mark (which included ND, GA and MT), if he pulls in MO and NC (and Omaha) he'll end up with 376; 100 EVs more than needed to clinch. A landslide by any measure.http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/landslide.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert)37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-851555498371197340Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:31:00 +00002008-11-05T09:16:23.986-05:00 They said a black guy couldn't win. They said that he would lose the Hispanic vote. They said he couldn't compete in Appalachia. They said that he would under perform in "big" states. They said he couldn't compete along the Southern Coast. They said he couldn't win with blue-collar voters. They said that the youth vote wouldn't show up. The talked endlessly about the Bradley Effect. But the onehttp://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/they-said.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575974.post-1802967019090605979Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:33:00 +00002008-11-05T08:28:59.814-05:00 This is our moment. This is our time. Ever since I have been active in the political sphere (just since 2001), I have worried: we are passed the time for a movement. I felt if we could not rise up against Bush in 2004, after the crap he put this good nation through, we may not be capable of a movement. And certainly, as this nation has struggled along and been consumed with petty "joe six http://thechiefsource.com/2008/11/what-night.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Chuck)6