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Streaming footage of the canvassing board

This is awesome. Truly amazing to listen to.

I only know one person who goes by the moniker "bitwise" and so do you. So imagine my delight to see his name mentioned on the belle of the ball site-of-the-moment fivethirtyeight.com! His dailykos diary has been noticed by everybody's new best friend Nate Silver.

I mean, come on. Math, graphs, Minnesota? This is totally the same bitwise. Now we can say knew him when! (and by when I mean, "when we enjoyed playing puzzle games with him on the mean streets of the twin cities")

Subject says it all.

That's it.

There's no other detail needed, except I'll include a link (or two). But really. It just comes down to that simple fact:

Sarah. Palin. Doesn't. Understand. How. the First Amendment. Works.

VOTE TUESDAY, MOTHERFUCKERS

23/6 has ads created by a "new 527 group" If Democrats Were Republicans and they're very funny:

McCain's kid
McCain's idea that 'Obama teaches sex ed to kindergartners'
Sarah Palin's kids
McCain's slip
McCain's military service
original attack ad

Game.


Over.

The Nation has an interesting article on Ahmadinejad lecturing at some peace movement people yesterday. I especially like it because there's a typo. I'm sure they'll pull the typo soon, but I'm pasting it here:

In his preliminary speech, Ahmadinejad adopted the role of gentle, lecturing professor. Dressed in a gray jacket and off-shite shirt with an open collar, wearing glasses and sporting his trademark, unshaven look, the Iranian president also drifted from professor-like to cleric-like.

Heh. "off-shite." heh heh. S & W are pretty close on the keyboard. But still, I can't wait until I see someone in an off-shite shirt for real sometime, so I can say it out loud. . .

If you support Hillary Clinton so hard, maybe you should listen to her when she says "Let's get Barack Obama elected President." Or when she says it again.

And again.


And again.


Support might, just might, include standing with the decisions of the person you support. Sometimes.

Might.

"I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and swiftboat politics"

we must say "enough!"

That was my first thought. My second was I had to pass along what she sent me this morning:

“[M]aybe someone needs to remind Sarah Palin that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.”

Tru dat.

Course it also might mean that they plan to crucify Obama. Dang.

This is just a short note to my friends. The number one—and I mean it seems like, it's the most used phrase by far—the most used post topic or sentence starter I have seen on my friends page today is some variation on "I'm not usually very political here but..."

Most of you know that I'm very political here. And this week has been me ratcheting it up till maybe you're sick. So I just wanted to say something to you people who are not usually very political.

They did this to you. They did it to all of us. We're all in this boat together, because they chewed up our civic life and shat it out over the last 40 years (not just eight, forty). Now is the time. We cannot survive as a people, possibly as a human race, unless you, reluctant though you may be, become engaged. Now is the time to be engaged. Now is the time to rage back. Now. I'm sorry, I'm sorry you're sick of it. I'm sorry I'm so angry. We are running out of time.

We are only dimly aware of the great foreboding that any day now the weather and the climate will reach their tipping point. Or that someone will decide to force a decisively terminal conflict among nations, using atomic weapons. Or that any day now the boot of oppression will finally be lowered.

But before those things happen, it is just as likely that this nation will enter an economic depression. Not a recession. Not a downturn. A real depression. If and when that happens, if we do not engage the principalities and powers that are present in our world now, when that happens we will be cast out into a clawing howling madness. If we, including you who are not "all that political" do not engage, no one will apologize. No one will create a works progress administration or a conservation corps. No one will medicate our children or heal our broken old parents. No one will build the bread lines this time. If we are not engaged, we will be devoured. By ourselves. Now is the time. Not a moment too soon.

From the guy who brought you "how to tell people they sound racist," this is an awesome defense of community organizers: Hater's ball.

When I see the words Sarah Palin I keep transposing letters and I keep seeing Sarah Stalin. I'm not trying to, I just do.

This is the narrative: small town people are GOOD; we need not explain the implication.

When does the proposal start? We want Levi! We want Levi!

Or she's going to Washington to meet that lobbyist she paid to bring all that pork to Wasilla...

I guess this week's theme is celebrating the Grand Old Phascists and the fun damage they're doing to our culture! Yay!

First up: Your tax dollars are paying the Department of Defense to train Nazis how to make bombs and be good soldiers! The last two Republican Secretaries of Defense don't give a shit!

As a result of my thesis research I speculated that Dominionists may be on the downswing. I might be wrong! A new extremely radical group of ...uh, fellow brothers in Christ?... are recruiting for an end time army. How scary are they? The main critics of Joel's Army are right wing evangelical Christians who think they're, you know, too spoooky. more

Plan B is hard to get. Tragicomically so!

Have a great convention!