Maiello: Defeat the Press
Ramona: Pointers on Bad Disaster Coverage
Miami Fans Mistakenly Chant "Let's Go Eat" During Playoff Game
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Maiello: Defeat the Press Ramona: Pointers on Bad Disaster Coverage Miami Fans Mistakenly Chant "Let's Go Eat" During Playoff Game |
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I don't have anything to say about the election today. It's crunch time.
If you're ready to knock on some doors, makes some phone calls, or dig deep for one last donation, the Obama campaign could use you. Just follow the link.
A bridge collapsed over Skagit River tonight near Mount Vernon. This was on Interstate 5 both north bound and south bound, four lanes total. No word yet on how many cars went into the water. This is so sad. How many of these will we have to have before we start financing infrastructure? Most of our bridges are in sad shape.
I'm not sure how many of you have read the Seattle newspaper The Stranger. "Goldy" is a sudonym (I hope I spelled that right) - the writer is pretty hardcore and unrelenting on many progressive issues, gun ownership no exception.
By Cass R. Sunstein, Bloomberg View, May 20, 2013
There is no standard definition of the all-important term “wing nut,” so let’s provide one. A wing nut is someone who has a dogmatic commitment to an extreme political view (“wing”) that is false and at least a bit crazy (“nut”).
A wing nut might believe that George W. Bush is a fascist, that Barack Obama is a socialist, that big banks run the Department of the Treasury or that the U.S. intervened in Libya because of oil.
When wing nuts...
By Elias Groll, Passport @ ForeignPolicy.com, May 22, 2013
[....] The rioting -- the worst social unrest to strike the country in many years -- was sparked by the lethal police shooting of a 69-year-old, knife-wielding man last week in the suburb of Husby, the epicenter of the riots. Roaming gangs of angry youths have since clashed with police and Husby residents have complained of racist treatment by police officers, who they say have used epithets such as "monkey."
What's happening in Husby is clearly a symptom of Sweden's failed effort to integrate its massive immigrant population. Housing segregation is rampant in the country, and Husby is a case study in how immigrant populations have come to dominate Stockholm's outer...
GO TEAM!! Four years ago, the media crap was the same, but I was out knocking on doors and could feel that the media was out of step with the atmosphere on the ground. Now, for me, there is no on the ground. I have to rely on the media crap and I'll tell you, I am freaking out. Please go knock on some doors for me. Pretty, pretty please. I can't face going outside of my house if we elect another numbnuts who doesn't know anything about the greater world. I'll have to start pretending to be Canadian, eh.
Donated. Making calls this Sunday. Working voter protection in Richmond the day of.
I'm glad you posted this. I've not had time to blog at all over the past several weeks because of work, but at this point I would just like to say that I have absolutely no patience for anyone--anyone--with an ounce of a progressive inclination in his or her body, to sit this one out. If you sit this one out, or worse, if you vote for Romney because you are sore at a tepid Obama, you are saddling your children, and perhaps theirs too, with a Supreme Court that is uncomfortable with Roe v. Wade and every piece of progressive legislation enacted in the last several decades. That is the one fundamental truth that no disappointed uber progressive should ignore. "Moderate" republicans, of the sort that Mitt Romney is playing this week, have a tendency to mollify those on their right with Supreme Court nominations--not always of course, but I say one Clarence Thomas by a "moderate" Bush No. 1 is all the evidence anyone should require on this point.