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The night that Fox News was hoping for didn't happen. The DNC didn't implode into a Hillary/Obama schism. Some other things to note.

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Here are some tidbits I saw during the DNC telecast last night.

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As usual when confronted with a budget impasse and revenue short-fall, Ahnold's only solution is to increase the sales tax "temporarily". Is it really a good idea to make spending money more expensive during sluggish economic times? Probably not. It's also disappointing that the Dems are on board with this.

Once again the proposal to ban car traffic on Market street rears its ugly head. Its this kind of single-minded thinking that leads to a transit first policy that is really a transit only policy. I don't car how many laws you pass, you are not going to get people out of their cars. And shifting traffic to Mission and Howard will only add to the congestion that already exists on those streets.

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The can call it whatever they want. The fact remains that the cover depicting Obama and his wife as Islamic terrorists and revolutionaries is inflammatory and a complete political smear of Obama's image. Regardless of what their goals were, all they've really done is reinforce the efforts of Murdoch's bunch to paint Obama as anti-American.

The Simpering Simian and the rest of his oil-lapdog party seems bound and determined to despoil every inch of the country and coast-line for a measly 7% increase in U.S. oil production by the year 2030. Can anything make it more clear which party is ready to move into the future and which one is still mired in the past?

Barack Obama has decided to forgo public financing for the general election campaign. Good for him. Taking public funding is a sucker's bet ever since Kerry got Swiftboated in 2004. When the deep-pocket funded anti-Obama ads run (and they will), Obama will be able to counter with paid ads of his own. He won't have to worry about preserving his funds or depending on the hope that people are smart enough (hah!) to see a deception for what it is.

The Meet the Press host who became more and more just another conservative tool of misinformation, has died. I personally avoid all the Sunday morning news shows because so many of them have taken on the tone of Fox News, that it's like watching Conservative policy propaganda.

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Scott McClellan's new book excoriates the president's policies that led the U.S. into war in Iraq. He's got some nerve after helping to sell that war to the American people. If he thought the war and the president's actions were so wrong, why didn't he come out at the time and just say so? Instead he waits until the damage has been done. So now he just looks like another disgruntled, back-stabbing ex-staffer trying to sell book.

The Chronicle has an article about JPG Magazine and 8020 publishing. The article mentions the company's "founder", Paul Cloutier, and portrays him as something of a visionary. The truth is that JPG was the brainchild of Derek Powazek and his wife, Heather Powazek Champ, two people who can truly be called visionaries. The whole story behind JPG and 8029 can be read at Derek's site.

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