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Posted by Mithras on July 24, 2008 at 09:57 AM in Political | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: racism Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Woman Kills Herself So Life Insurance Will Save Family House From Foreclosure Ownership society:A 53-year-old wife and mother fatally shot herself shortly after faxinga letter to her mortgage company saying that by the time theyforeclosed on her house that day, she would be dead.Police said that Carlene Balderrama used her husband's high-poweredrifle to kill herself Tuesday afternoon, shortly after faxing theletter at 2:30 p.m. ... The auction was scheduled to start at 5 p.m. and interested buyers arrived at the property in Taunton, about 35 miles south of Boston, while Balderrama's body was still inside ....[A] suicide note found next to Balderrama told her husband, John, and24-year-old son to "take the (life) insurance money and pay for thehouse."I think it's 50/50 that the insurance company refuses to pay off and 100% the mortgage company will proceed with the foreclosure if it doesn't. Posted by Mithras on July 24, 2008 at 07:08 AM in Piteous | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: Carlene Balderrama, sucide as financial planning Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Local Programming: If You Need a Good Roofer in Philadelphia If you need repairs or maintenance on your roof in the Philadelphia area, I'd highly recommend Brad Zacharia of Zacharia Roofing, 215-969-5757. His reputation is a guy who knows how to get it done right at the lowest cost, and my experience bears that out. Also, he shows up when he says he will and returns calls. Posted by Mithras on July 23, 2008 at 08:54 AM in Whatever | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: Zacharia Roofing Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Link Dump Too busy to actually blog, and I wanted to close some tabs, so here:1. Copyright law sliderule:When it comes to copyright law, not knowing the rules can get you in alot of hot water, but figuring out the rules can be just asfrustrating. Luckily, the American Library Association has created asimple tool that tells you whether or not you need to hunt down arights owner to use a book, movie, song, or other work in a project.2. Clinton's Debt Reveals Flaws in Campaign Finance Laws: An interesting analysis of an issue that I have wondered about. If Hillary Clinton can't pay off her massive campaign debt by the deadline (the convention), then what? The way it is handled undermines the purposes behind legal limits on campaign contributions.3. The American Constitution Society has Aaron Zisser blogging the military trial of Salim Hamdan at Gitmo, here, here and here so far.4. Mistress Matisse on how a mainstream magazine uses a cover photo of a cartoon dominatrix to sell itself:As usual, while the mainstream media (and the psychology community) isfar from totally enlightened and accepting of my life, they have noobjection whatsoever to using our imagery to sell magazines. Thank you ever so, Psychology Today. ...Reality check: I cannot recall the last time I saw someone wearing alittle Zorro mask like that at a kink event. It might be, oh, never. If I did, I would probably snicker, frankly.5. VoteGopher.com: A one-stop shopping site for all information on the policies positions of Obama and McCain. Put together by college students and recent grads, so pretty usable. The constant gopher imagery is a little weird.6. Over-educated internet users as a class don't do manual labor and are fat. So invent an exercise routine that mimics actual work: Shovelglove. I have a better idea: Buy a run-down house with your friends, and fix it up. You'll get muscles quick and have something to show for it at the end. Posted by Mithras on July 23, 2008 at 08:32 AM in Whatever | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: Clinton's debt, copyright, dominatrix, Salim Hamdan, shovelglove, VoteGopher Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Holy War on Terror, Batman! A summer blockbuster apparently has political overtones. Compare Spencer Ackerman, who thinks it is pro-Cheney:[The threat of a devastating terrorist attack] creates an awful burden on those entrusted to protectothers. "When Cheney spoke about it on national television a few daysafter the attacks," writes Ron Suskind, in his surprisingly sympatheticbook explicating Cheney's weltanschauung, "The One Percent Doctrine,""he had given it a note of recognition -- this is what we must do,where we must live, like it or not."That recognition is how Batman attempts to square his moral circle. Hecreates a surveillance technology that gives him limitless power,something that horrifies his ally Lucius Fox, and vows to destroy itafter its first use. (In the comics, it's known as the Brother Eye,and it leads to disaster.) Only by abusing the trust of Gotham City canBatman redeem it. But through it all, he reassures himself -- at leastimplicitly -- that his awareness of his betrayal is what separates himfrom the Joker: intentions. It is this, and not consequences, thatmatter here. As part of his burden, he recognizes that he has become anoutlaw, and accepts the ensuing persecution from the Gotham PoliceDepartment.To publius:[O]ne of the central issues in the new movie is Batman’s vigilanteism.Batman acts outside of the law, but does so for what he – in his andour minds – believe is the greater good. When the movie starts, though,we learn that there are new copycat Batmans, trying out the vigilante’shat for themselves. And what’s to stop them? After all, Batman doesn’thave any real legitimacy. Why does he get to dress up as a bat, whileothers can’t?While these imitation Batmans are fairly harmless, the Joker is afar different story (Ledger/Nolan’s Joker, to be precise). The Joker –like Batman – is acting for his own reasons. I don’t want to give awaythe whole film, but he has a different sort of philosophical vision inhis head and – like Batman – goes about making it reality. And likeBatman, he acts outside of the law. ... [A]s long as [Batman's] using the authority, we’re all ok. But onceone person can break the law because they subjectively think they’redoing “good,” then what’s to stop everyone else? More to the point,what’s to stop the Jokers? What makes the Joker’s worldview objectivelyworse than Batmans? ...From here, you can see the connection to the problems with theunitary executive and Yoo-ism in all their glory. These people brokethe law, but did it for subjectively good reasons (or let’s assume theydid). Except for the US Attorney scandal, there’s no evidence thatthey’ve been breaking the law (torturing, spying, etc.) for nakedpolitical reasons.But once the legitimacy threshold is crossed, it’s hard to see howJokers won’t eventually arise. After all, if we can break the law tobeat terrorists, why can’t we break the law if we’re convinced (really firmly convinced in our heads) that electing Democrats or Republicans will destroy the country? Posted by Mithras on July 22, 2008 at 07:59 AM in War | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: Batman, torture, warrantless surveillance Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Local Programming: Drinking Liberally Tonight, Again If it's Tuesday, it must be Drinking Liberally Center City Philly edition. Duncan does a great job of advertising the thing, but it only reaches people who read political blogs. We need to create a little advertising slush fund so we can get the word out to people who don't do their activism online. Posted by Mithras on July 22, 2008 at 07:48 AM in Food and Drink | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: Drinking Liberally Digg This | Save to del.icio.us I'm Enjoying This Once upon a time James Dobson made the Republican Party dance to his tune, and the GOP got the boot from the electorate as a result (along with such things as, oh, the war, the economy, incompetence, lying, and lawlessness). Now:"I never thought I would hear myself saying this," Dobson said in a radio broadcast to air Monday. "... While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the possibility is there that I might." ...Dobson and other evangelical leaders unimpressed by McCain increasingly are taking a lesser-of-two-evils approach to the 2008 race.Aww, what's so evil about Obama, Jimmy?"Barack Obama contradicts and threatens everything I believe aboutthe institution of the family and what is best for the nation. Hisradical positions on life, marriage and national security force me toreevaluate the candidacy of our only other choice, John McCain."What a nutcase. Obama's a dedicated centrist on abortion, gay marriageand national security; he holds positions that are well in themainstream of American public opinion.Earlier, Dobson had said he could not in good conscience vote for McCain, citing the candidate's support for embryonic stem cell researchand opposition to a federal constitutional amendment to ban gaymarriage, as well as concerns about McCain's temper and foul language.Dobson said on the radio program he must consider McCain's recordagainst abortion rights and support for smaller government, and addedMcCain "seems to understand the Muslim threat." He also indicatedMcCain's choice of a running mate will be a factor. "The Muslim threat." Bigot. Maybe someone should ask Sen. McCain if he agrees that Muslims are a threat to the U.S., hmm?Last month, Dobson accused Obama, in a 2006 speech on faith andpolitics, of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcakeinterpretation" of the Constitution.Obama replied that Dobson was "making stuff up" and portrayed hisspeech as an attempt by people of faith, like himself, to "try totranslate some of our concerns in a universal language so that we canhave an open and vigorous debate rather than having religion divide us." The problem for Dobson is that Obama poses a serious threat to the ideological basis of Dobson's power - the idea God loves white, heterosexual, American patriarchy (at home) and hegemony (abroad). If Obama gets in, he could shatter Dobson's rice bowl forever, by demonstrating to the voters who used to follow Dobson what a real liberal Christian devoted to secular principles in government looks like.I don't know if Obama is going to win or not. I do know he's made the right enemies. On a related note, from Professor Bitch, this true-life dialogue:Mr. B.: Well, I'm not voting for Jeremiah Wright. I'm voting for Obama. He left that church.Man: But he attended it! With that black pastor saying "goddamn America" . . .Mr. B.: Wait a minute. Why is it important that the pastor is black? Man: . . . .Mr. B.: You made a point of saying that. Does it matter to you?Man, aggressively: Well, maybe it does.Mr. B.: Well then, you can vote for John McCain. Even his hair is white.As Dr. B says, "I hope McCain's proud of his supporters." Heh. Indeedy. Posted by Mithras on July 21, 2008 at 06:50 AM in Political | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential election, Barack Obama, James Dobson, totalitarian theocrats in America Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Chocolate Rations Are Up! The radio tells me there is no diesel fuel available on the Pennsylvania Turnpike at the Allentown and Dowingtown truck stops. I am too lazy busy to check on the reason, so I will assume it's Bush's fault. Posted by Mithras on July 21, 2008 at 06:41 AM in Political | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: fuel shortage Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Don't Get Excited Over Favorable But Reversible Events A bunch of people got very happy yesterday that Maliki supposedly endorsed Obama's Iraq withdrawal timetable:This could be one of those unexpected events that forever changes theway the world perceives an issue. Iraq's Prime Minister agrees withObama, and there's no wiggle room or fudge factor. This puts JohnMcCain in an extremely precarious spot: what's left to argue? to argueagainst Maliki would be to predicate that Iraqi sovereignty at thispoint means nothing. ...Via e-mail, a prominent Republican strategist who occasionally providesadvice to the McCain campaign said, simply, "We're fucked."Predictably, that quote spread across the blog world very quickly. And predictably, today Maliki says it's all a big misunderstanding: Comments al-Maliki made to the magazine were "misunderstood and mistranslated'' and were not "conveyed accurately,'' [government spokesman Ali] al- Dabbagh said in the statement.Whatever the truth is (we'll never know), in general people should not put too much stock in a mere statement by a politician. When the story broke yesterday, I thought to myself that Maliki's check from the Bush administration must not have cleared. Today, it did, so the story is different and "the way the world perceives an issue" is not forever changed. Posted by Mithras on July 20, 2008 at 09:32 AM in War | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign, Barack Obama, Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, withdrawal Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Local Programming: Philly AIDS Thrift, a Great Thrift Store If you want to support a great thrift store with your donations (especially if you dislike supporting religious institutions like Salvation Army), or if you are on a budget and need a good deal on clothes, housewares, music, furniture and books, I highly recommend Philly AIDS Thrift, located at 514 Bainbridge St. So far, PAT has made $97,500 in donations to Philly area HIV/AIDS organizations. Posted by Mithras on July 20, 2008 at 07:13 AM in Whatever | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: Philly AIDS Thrift Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Muslims Are Going to Kill Us McCain surrogate sez:One of John McCain's fellow POW's in Vietnam defended the war in Iraq, saying, "The Muslims have said either we kneel or they're going to kill us.''In a phone call with reporters arranged by Republican Party of Florida, Colonel Bud Day added: "I don't intend to kneel and I don't advocate to anybody that we kneel, and John doesn't advocate to anybody that we kneel.''I wonder sometimes about otherwise normal people who vote Republican. They themselves may have no animosity towards particular groups of people, they aren't themselves corrupt or immoral, but they associate themselves with evil, incompetent, venal bigots. Why?(Via Oliver Willis.) Posted by Mithras on July 19, 2008 at 07:45 AM in Political, Republican reprehensibilities, Stupid people | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential election, Bud Day, John McCain Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Who Wants Nukes Anyway? An interesting read from zenpundit:[F]or a certain class of nation-states, possession of nuclear weapons, even a crude handful, remains a worthwhile expenditure even at the cost of great national sacrifice ( the ”We will have them even if we have to eat grass!” scenario). North Korea has starved upwards of a million of it’s citizens to death; Pakistan is desperately poor, economically backward and has a regime that can only govern only a portion of the territory it claims to rule but both Islamabad and Pyonggyang are nuclear armed today. These states value nuclear weapons because, simply, they desire to be independent powers at the least and dominating hegemons of their neighborhoods if possible. Nuclear weapons are a critical means in formulating strategies to realize these ends, not ends in themselves.He lays out the general strategy a small, poor country is engaging in when it pursues nuclear weapons. Posted by Mithras on July 18, 2008 at 08:16 AM in War | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: nuclear weapons proliferation Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Another "To Do" For the Next Congress Not a high priority, but definitely something to fix - DOMA:The Census Bureau says the federal Defense of Marriage Act bars the agency from recognizing gay marriages in the nation's 10-year count, even though the marriages are legal in Massachusetts and California.I'm surprised Republicans didn't reclassify members of disfavored groups as 3/5ths of a regular, white, straight Christian.[Census bureau director Steven] Murdock said the bureau will strive to count same-sex couples in the2010 census, just as it has in the past. But those people who say theyare married will be reclassified as unmarried, same-sex partners.Correction: "Married people will be reclassified as unmarried." There, fixed.Same-sex couples with no children will not be classified asfamilies, according the bureau's policy. Those with children who arerelated to the head of the household will be classified as families.Again, correction: "Families will be counted as strangers living together." Voila! If you aren't counted, you don't count. Conservatism is so simple. Posted by Mithras on July 18, 2008 at 07:11 AM in Stupid people | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: anti-gay discrimination, census, Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA, separate and unequal Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Smirk  Posted by Mithras on July 17, 2008 at 07:20 AM in Piteous | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: Holley Wimunc, John Wimunc Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Thought of the Day  Posted by Mithras on July 16, 2008 at 08:56 AM in Whatever | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: dick joke Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Nevada ACLU Adopts Individual Gun-Rights Model American Constitution Society:Breaking with the national organization’s stance on a right to beararms, the Nevada affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Unionsupports individual gun ownership rights. In a statement posted on its Web site,the Nevada ACLU said it “respects the individual’s right to bear armssubject to constitutionally permissible regulations. The ACLU of Nevadawill defend this right as it defends other constitutional rights.” TheNevada affiliate’s board of directors reached the decision followingthe U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in D.C. v. Heller, which found that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.ACLU National's response to Heller:The ACLU interprets the Second Amendment as a collective right. Therefore, we disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision in D.C. v. Heller.While the decision is a significant and historic reinterpretation ofthe right to keep and bear arms, the decision leaves many importantquestions unanswered that will have to be resolved in futurelitigation, including what regulations are permissible, and whichweapons are embraced by the Second Amendment right that the Court hasnow recognized.They get justifiably pasted as hypocrites in comments.This is the first time that I know of that ACLU National has taken a position that is less rights-protecting than that of the Supreme Court, indeed, than that of the right wing of the Supreme Court. Posted by Mithras on July 15, 2008 at 03:34 PM in Law-talking guy | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: ACLU, Nevada ACLU, Second Amendment Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Local Programming: Drinking Liberally Tonight From our leader, Brendan:Drink Liberally this Tuesday July 15 with your Drinking Liberally pals,at the Tangier, 18th and Lombard Streets, in Philadelphia! Drinkingstarts at 6:00 PM, and includes free wings for early birds and drinkspecials! Posted by Mithras on July 15, 2008 at 07:18 AM in Food and Drink | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: Drinking Liberally Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Update on Voter Registration Efforts I've been remiss in posting the numbers from the Vote for Change voter registration events I have been running or attending, but I caught up today by making some backdated posts. So far, I have run 14 events since May 10th, at which we registered a total of 403 people. If it's not been clear already, one of the strategic pillars of the Obama campaign is to register as many new voters as possible, for two reasons: First, obviously, more votes for Obama, and second, to drive the media narrative about him being a game-changer, producing the tidal wave of support from those who hadn't participated in the electoral process before.Just for informational purposes, about 7,260,000 people are registered to vote in Pennsylvania, of which about 4.1 million are Democrats. Total adult population of Pennsylvania is about 9.6 million, which leaves 2.3 million unregistered people. My new personal goal is register 1 million of them by the deadline of October 6th. Posted by Mithras on July 14, 2008 at 03:14 PM in Political | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign, Barack Obama, Vote for Change, voter registration Digg This | Save to del.icio.us QOTD China Hand at American Footprints:Thanks to the LA Times for reminding us of the difference between traditional print media and the Internet......after all, you can't wipe your ass with a blog. Posted by Mithras on July 13, 2008 at 09:38 PM in Words, words, words | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: media Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Edwards Volunteered at a fundraiser this afternoon. I got to meet Sen. Edwards. I am sure he will never forget the experience.It is true, he is the best-tanned white man alive. And his hair raised $28,000, while I watched.Relatedly, I have observed: Average rich people are rude. Two of them actually said, "Don't you know who I am?", or variants thereof, to me today. I laughed at one of them. She asked, "Do you think that's funny?" I said yeah. The benefits of being a volunteer. Really rich people, on the other hand, are always very courteous and soft-spoken. You can get more with a billion dollars and a smile than a billion dollars alone. Posted by Mithras on July 13, 2008 at 08:40 PM in Political | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: John Edwards Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Vote for Change Voter Registration Drive: Day 14 Went to the Hispanic Fiesta at Penn's Landing from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Bloody hot, and not very productive.Registered by me:Prior running total: 127Day 14 total: 5Total to date: 132 Registered by my volunteers:Prior running total: 259Day 14 total: 12Total to date: 271My next scheduled event is Saturday. Posted by Mithras on July 12, 2008 at 08:59 PM in Political | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign, Barack Obama, Vote for Change, voter registration Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Voicemail Pushing Up Daisies I was just ahead of my time:Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ll stop using it. ...It takes much longer to listen to a message than read it. And voicemailis usually outside of our typical workflow, making it hard to forwardor reply to easily. ...How many times have you called someone back and said “I saw that you called but didn’t listen to the voicemail yet, Is it anything urgent?” ...Oh, also, if you want me to pick up, don't block your number. Only telemarketers do that. Posted by Mithras on July 11, 2008 at 09:40 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: voicemail must die Digg This | Save to del.icio.us NSFW Blogging Have posted any naughty pictures in a while. Link behind the cut. Continue reading "NSFW Blogging" » Posted by Mithras on July 11, 2008 at 09:27 AM in Fucking and related | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: bondage Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Our Scientists Are Going to Build Nukes, As Soon as They Figure Out How to Use the Clone Stamp A government that makes people laugh when it uses photo-editing software is not a serious threat to the security of the United States of America. Posted by Mithras on July 10, 2008 at 10:33 PM in Stupid people | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: Iran, photoshopped missile Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Vote for Change Voter Registration Drive: Day 13 Went out to the Screening Under the Stars, a free movie event every Thursday in summer on Penn's Landing, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. A total bust.Registered by me:Prior running total: 126Day 13 total: 1Total to date: 127 Registered by my volunteers:Prior running total: 259Day 13 total: 0Total to date: 259 Posted by Mithras on July 10, 2008 at 09:56 PM in Political | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign, Barack Obama, Vote for Change, voter registration Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Unwarranted Obama votes for more warrantless wiretapping. Ugh. I read the bill and conclude that, while it says a lot of nice things about what the executive branch can and can't do with the power, and giving Congress oversight over it, it doesn't contain the feature that is essential to me as a civil libertarian: A warrant, issued by an Article III judge, based upon probable cause, when a U.S. citizen is being investigated. Part of the problem here, of course, is that this is a spying bill, not a criminal law bill, where the exclusionary rule applies and Fourth Amendment law is highly developed. When you don't have a criminal defendant, of course, there is no party opposing the government's search in court. Here what you have is a program designed to gather intelligence, not evidence. But I don't care, because for me the Fourth Amendment is not just about criminal law, it's a blanket prohibition on search of U.S. citizens without probable cause. And this program not only violates that prohibition, the very secrecy of it makes it impossible for citizens to regain their rights.Fortunately for Obama, a controversy that will be much simpler for the media to understand erupted today, which will overshadow the FISA issue in the news. Jesse Jackson was caught on video (warning: O'Reilly) saying Obama's been talking down to black people on the faith-based program issue, and Jackson would like to cut Obama's balls off for doing so. I'm guessing, but I think what Jackson meant was Obama's emphasis that he supported funding for churches that do social work because they're closer to the people, not because they're churches. Again, a guess, but to Jackson the point is that they're churches and so by definition better at doing good. Whatever, Obama had his ass saved by Jackson threatening to cut his balls off. It's getting very crotch-level this political season.So, I am extremely disappointed in Obama supporting the FISA bill. It would have passed without him, and I understand why he went along rather than filibuster it. (Basically, the people he really needs to convince to vote for him - the 4 or 5 million idiots who decide Presidential elections - couldn't care less about the Fourth Amendment and don't want to know anything much other than whether Obama is a secret Muslim and if he can make gas prices go down.) But still, I am putting basically all of my free time into volunteering for the campaign, so it makes me feel whipsawed to have my candidate do this. Still, I know Obama is not especially liberal, because I have been saying so. I support him because I think he's a very good campaigner, far better than his closest rival for the nomination was, and I want the Democrat to win. I am working to elect him because seats on the Supreme Court are at stake, and because we need to get through a good 4 to 8 years without embarking on any more disastrous wars. That's good enough. I wish a perfect candidate would win, but that would require all the people not being idiots, so the chances are low.Update from Chris Andersen at Interesting Times:The problem for Obama is that, while he can certainly make an argumentthat would convince the American people that working against the billwould have been the right thing to do, doing so would have taken timeand a considerable amount of energy. Time is limited in this campaignand I think he just made a calculated decision that spending time onthis debate just wasn't worth it.I disagree with that decision.Not only because of what was given up but because this fight is onethat needs to be made if Obama is going to be a real agent for change(if not now, when?) But Obama apparently feels different and he's thecandidate. Not me. Posted by Mithras on July 09, 2008 at 10:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential election, Barack Obama, FISA, Jesse Jackson, warrantless wiretapping Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Made for Each Other Of course:They may seem like a political odd couple, but Mark Penn, the formerstrategist for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Karen Hughes, atrusted adviser to President Bush, are joining together to providecrisis communications consulting and advice to corporate clients.In fact, Hughes and Penns share the same ideology: $. Posted by Mithras on July 09, 2008 at 11:13 AM in Political | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: Karen Hughes, Mark Penn Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Local Programming: Drinking Liberally Tonight Every Tuesday night, 6 p.m. - whenever, Tangier Restaurant, 18th and Lombard, Philadelphia. Free wings and drink specials. Come be liberal. Posted by Mithras on July 08, 2008 at 06:26 AM in Food and Drink | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: Drinking Liberally Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Vote for Change Voter Registration Drive: Day 12 Went out to Taste of Philly, the last day of Welcome America, on Penn's Landing from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.Registered by me:Prior running total: 120Day 12 total: 6Total to date: 126 Registered by my volunteers:Prior running total: 242Day 12 total: 17Total to date: 259 Posted by Mithras on July 06, 2008 at 09:51 PM in Political | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign, Barack Obama, Vote for Change, voter registration Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Quote of the Weekend Philly cop, who had been saying "Vote for McCain" under his breath to people I was trying to register to vote on Penn's Landing, to me:"Seriously, though? Only three things scare me: Osama, Obama, and Chelsea's momma."There you have the state of play folks: Republicans who equate two mainstream, moderate Democratic politicians with ... Osama bin Laden. Yes, I know he was trying to piss me off. It didn't work. I laughed at him. It's just sad that they're so fucking stupid. Posted by Mithras on July 06, 2008 at 09:25 PM in Political | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential election Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Next »
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