Just finished reading this DailyKos recommended diary, Inauguration Ball 2009, and actually got goosebumps. Update: I am as lily white as you can get. I grew up in a small town in eastern Canada (Clarenville, Newfoundland – 2200+ people) until I was 16. I never knew a black person in all the time I lived …
Archives for October 2008
I Didn’t See This One Coming
This one honestly surprised me: Granted, it’s probably (okay, certainly) not true. But if that crazy person who runs Atlas Shrugged is right and Barack Obama really is the son of Malcolm X, that would make my day. Honestly, who wouldn’t give Malcolm props for that one? And think there’s anyway we can fit Tupac …
Missing The Point
Patrick Ruffini and the Next Right: What will it take to turn this around? If you’re a conservative blogger, the question you need to ask yourself is this. Is the main purpose of your blog to express your personal opinion? Or is its primary purpose to build political power for a cause? If you cannot …
Not Socialism
Lots going on in bailout news today: U.S. banks getting more than $163 billion from the Treasury Department for new lending are on pace to pay more than half of that sum to their shareholders, with government permission, over the next three years. The government said it was giving banks more money so they could …
The Obama Chronicles
My Peak Wingnut theory has got to be an early front runner for the von Hoffman award of the year. Obama has not even won the election, yet here is a 67 page, 192 footnote pdf file titled “An Examination of Obama’s Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches.” Deep in the spittle, you …
Country Palin First
This is awesome: In an interview with ABC News’ Elizabeth Vargas, the Republican vice-presidential nominee was asked about 2012, whether she was discouraged by the daily attacks on the campaign trail, and would instead pack it in and return to her home state of Alaska. “I think that, if I were to give up and …
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Obama TV Open Thread
I actually forgot about the damned thing.