I figured I’d preface this post with Keith Olbermann, who said it best. As you likely have heard, proposition 8 in California passed. It is: a California State ballot proposition that amended the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman. It overrode a decision of […]
Read More Proposition 8 RamblingsAgain, I’d like to stress the fact that the Coleman-Franken race that is being re-examined is being done so by mandatory recount. Because the margin is so small, under the point at which a recount is required by state law (>0.5%), at just 238 votes, the Secretary of State, Mark Ritchie, is organizing a recount. […]
Read More More on the Minnesota RecountAs you are all aware, or at least I should hope you are, Barack Obama has succeeded in his run for office. I thought I would take a little time to run the stats here in Minnesota, just for fun. Barack Obama and Joe Biden took Minnesota last night a short time after the polls […]
Read More The Minnesota Election RundownI don’t have much to say besides we asked for change and it’s come. We are part of a great moment in history.
Read More EcstaticI’m sure everyone is going to say it, but I feel impelled to do so as well. Tomorrow is November 4th, election day. Everyone needs to go out and vote. In fact, I’ve come to the decision that if we all go out to our polling places and vote, we’re more likely to have a […]
Read More Vote!After Norm Coleman decided to pull all his negative ads, after they had run for a long enough time to slander opponent Al Franken, other groups have decided to take up the mantle. A new one, from the group Americans for Job Security, is attacking Franken on the topic of sub-prime lending. A transcript: Sub-prime […]
Read More New Franken Ad“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.” -Hubert H. Humphrey It’s old news now that John McCain has been calling Barack Obama a socialist. Mostly, he’s citing what Obama said to everyman archetype “Joe the Plummer” when they met. Joe: “Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, […]
Read More The Big S: Its Implications and Relations to Modern SocietyNow that the NRCC pulled its funding from Michelle Bachmann’s campaign after her “misstatement,” in her own words, on Hardball with Chris Matthews, it looks like she’s running her own ads. And here’s one of the most recent I’ve seen: It’s called “Shocked” and is horribly flawed. First, if you’ll notice, she doesn’t even bother […]
Read More Bachmann’s Bad AdHere’s the ad, just to help out.
Read More Oh Minnesotans! – A PollSarah Palin, discussing the McCain/Palin policies, said this: “Too often, even in our own day, children with special needs have been set apart and excluded,” said Palin, whose infant son Trig has Down syndrome. “Too often, state and federal laws add to their challenges, instead of removing barriers and opening new paths of opportunity. Too […]
Read More The Fear of Science
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