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Homeless Sims are surprisingly depressing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
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From Boing Boing: "Robin Burkinshaw, a British games design student, created a homeless father-daughter pair in The Sims 3, "moved them in to a place made to look like an abandoned park, removed all of their remaining money, and then attempted to help them survive without taking any job promotions or easy cash routes." The results are surprising heart-rending: This is Kev and his daughter Alice. They're living on a couple of park benches, surviving on free meals from work and school, and the occasional bucket of ice cream stolen from a neighbour's fridge."
- Mark Trapp
from Bookmarklet
I’m profoundly sad and I’m furious and I think the American people need to understand that we have a fascist movement in this country. We don’t have to invade Iraq to find terrorists. They’re right here killing abortion doctors. Every doctor that does abortions has been under an assassination threat for decades. The anti-abortion movement message... - http://nbr.tumblr.com/post...
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My GAY MOM deserved the RIGHT to publicly recognize her relationship through MARRIAGE.
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Since she can't stand with me tonight, I will stand for her and ask the world to end hate and bigotry.
- Kenley Neufeld
HELL YES. 1UP Kenley!!
- Derrick
Your gay mom, your black mom, your hispanic mom, your muslim mom, your jewish mom, your widowed mom, your divorced mom, your chineese mom, your handicaped mom, and all the mom's through our short but shameful history as a nation where we've continually taken way to long to observe basic human equality deserve the right to happiness via marriage.
- SteVe C
Thanks Baroness I would also like to think of it as common sense but I guess I'm wrong. :(
- SteVe C
I don't think common sense has come into play yet.
- Kenley Neufeld
National Day of Reason - http://www.nationaldayofreason.org/
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Sadly, I don't hold much hope for today...
- FFing Enigma
In other words, I should take my thought process to the logical extremes?
- Anika
"Many who value the separation of religion and government have sought an appropriate response to the federally-supported National Day of Prayer, an annual abuse of the constitution... There is great potential this year to give voice to our shared concerns about the serious threats to the wall separating religion and government."
- Tinfoil 2.0
LE, not that I don't agree with you, but just to debate this rationally. What about the National Day of Prayer is the government establishing a state religion?
- Ladyepiphanybug
I will grant that the NDP task force goes way-the-f*ck overboard, however.
- Ladyepiphanybug
Yeah, the co-option is the worst part, but I'm one of those strict (thick brick wall) separation types. I'll fight to the death for the rights of people to believe what they want (as long as it doesn't harm, etc.), but the government has no place meddling in belief.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I just ate a mango
- Josh Haley
That seems reasonable, Josh.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Why are UAW contracts less important than AIG contracts? - http://www.dailykos.com/storyon...
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"Back in December when it was the Big 3 automakers instead of Wall Street criminals financial institutions, one of the big sticking points on a proposed bailout was the requirement that the UAW contracts be revised so that the autoworkers (who earn an incredibly small amount as compared to many of the financial institution employees – especially those who are receiving insane bonuses for driving the respective companies into the ground) would have to give up more and earn less:"
- Vox
from Bookmarklet
Homes Of The Billionaires - Forbes.com - http://www.forbes.com/2009...
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"In today's tough economic climate, Warren Buffett is setting a good example. The world's second richest man lives in the same five-bedroom, gray stucco house he bought in 1958 for $31,500. That's right. Legendary investor Buffett, 78, still calls his humble digs in Omaha, Neb.'s Happy Hollow suburb home, despite a $37 billion fortune. That famous folksiness is, of course, in keeping with his investment philosophy. "If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years," he once told a reporter, "then don't own it for 10 minutes.""
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Those who live lavishly are usually not the same as those who save lavishly.
- TranceMist
FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: George F. Will Takes on Science, Loses Credibility - http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009...
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"And yet, according to George F. Will, many scientists were convinced in the 1970s that global cooling was a significant threat to the planet. And if those scientists were so wrong before, why should we trust them when they say that global warming is a threat now? There's just one little problem with this story, which reappears every so often in conservative discourse on the environment. Specifically, it's a crock of shit."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Krugman: "It’s hard to exaggerate how much economic trouble we’re in." http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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And still nobody is talking about the real reason. The biggest Ponzi scheme in history is finally unraveling. No, not Madoff. It's Fractional Reserve Banking. It had to collapse on itself eventually. Well, today's the day. It's the end of the world as we've known it. Governments, economies, the banking system, and money will have be remade from scratch. It's a hell of thing.
- Gregg H.
@Gregg: I highly doubt it. We've survived multiple recessions with the fractional reserve system before. That money has a multiplier effect in the system doesn't mean equate to economic downturns. What brought us here was a combination of a fixation on short term returns, a dependence on leverage, and the belief that this time (unlike all the other times) bankers had finally gotten a...
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- David Wynn
from fftogo
This isn't a recession. This isn't the start of a depression. This is the beginning of the collapse of the global monetary system.
- Gregg H.
Betting on the collapse of the global monetary system.
- Sean McBride
The beginning of the collapse of the global monetary system you say? Mind if I short that position?
- David Wynn
from NoiseRiver
Be my guest. From the standpoint of my own self-interest, I hope my predictive powers are failing.
- Sean McBride
400 richest Americans' incomes doubled under Bush - http://rawstory.com/news...
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"“The conservative approach of putting big corporations and the very wealthy ahead of the middle class has failed to create prosperity that can be shared by all Americans,"
- Todd Hoff
Is anyone surprised?
- Amit Morson
Heh.
- Ladyepiphanybug
The article says their income doubled and their income tax rate fell by a third. That would make the total income tax increase by 4/3, not by 3. What tax tripled?
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
How many of these 400 richest Americans created and produced useful goods and services in 2008, I wonder.
- Sean McBride
Mark, this article has a link to the Bloomberg article, which in turn has a link to the IRS document, where it shows the percentage of itemized deductions rising from 2000 to 2006 (p. 7). If you have another source that says the IRS is wrong, please cite it.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
They are paying more taxes because they are being rewarded for buying and selling investment class assets like stocks, bonds, and real-estate. And of course the market was going up. They were just trading. They weren't adding to the economy. They just moved paper around. By contrast people who did real work and who produced real goods paid a top rate of 35% and were not in markets that could be so easily manipulated to rise. With an AGI of $105 Billion these people are paying a paultry rate.
- Todd Hoff
When Eisenhower was president the top tax rates were in the 90% plus range. When asked about high taxes, Ike said the rich paid for the free market, the open society and the unlimited possibilties of American society. They could move elsewhere if they didn't like the sweet deal they got in America. Sadly, that kind of Republican is long gone.
- Phil Boiarski
We need a Teddy Roosevelt to clean up the mess created by (sometimes parasitic) oligarchs and financial manipulators who couldn't care less about a free marketplace and an even playing field. And I am coming from a basically libertarian perspective on this issue.
- Sean McBride
There are no Teddy Roosevelts left. McCain wanted to be Teddy sometimes but he couldn't live without support from that Old Time Religion.
- Phil Boiarski
Phil -- exactly; religious fundamentalists undermined his progressive intentions. They are useful tools of the very oligarchs who created these problems. McCain couldn't get his head straight on these issues.
- Sean McBride
Speaking as a libertarian, I've noticed that nothing is more corrupt and dysfunctional than a society in which too much wealth and power has accumulated in too few hands, and especially in hands which are contributing nothing of creative or productive value. Nothing could be more anti-meritocratic and self-destructive. The tendency always in such societies is for a small club of...
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- Sean McBride
Drinking a glass of Goats do Roam (not côte-du-rhône!) and waiting
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Only a glass ;)?
- Fee501st
I thoroughly enjoyed a wine and cheese tasting at their estate winery. http://fairviewtower.wordpress.com/about... ... I especially enjoyed their various styles of goat cheese.. ..the visit here was one of the many good highlights of my trip to South Africa...
- David HC Soul
LOVE Goats Do Roam!
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
hmmm never had this wine
- Susan Beebe
I've had both Cotes and Goats! And the goats is actually pretty good.
- James D Kirk
I've had that! South African wine right?
- Adam Turetzky
Adam, yes! It was good, I liked it a lot. Hope they sell it somewhere in SF!
- Veronica
Try Beverages & More in SF - http://www.bevmo.com
- Michael Listberger
I got it at Safeway in Potrero Hill... in SF. Grocery store wine in the Bay Area = AWESOME!
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
Lisa, I know! We could only buy beer at Stop & Shop back in CT, and then not on Sundays. Buying wine and liquor at grocery stores in Cali is very convenient!
- Veronica
I passed on the wine tonight and went straight for home shaken lemon drops... choice of wine in CA is great though!
- John
I remember drinking some of this about 8 years ago when I was at University, we bought it purely because of the name, and it had a little bit on the back with an address to write off to, to find out the full story of the Goats. We did, and we got back a nice letter from them. The name stuck in my head, but I haven't actually had any since.
- Benjamin Watt
Did our cosmos exist before the big bang? - 10 December 2008 - New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
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"The loop quantum cosmology (LQC) theory is poised to make testable predictions. If they are verified, the big bang will give way to a big bounce and we will finally know the quantum structure of space-time. Instead of a universe that emerged from a point of infinite density, we will have one that recycles, possibly through an eternal series of expansions and contractions, with no beginning and no end. (Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article...)"
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
This particular model of the universe has been advocated by quite a few mystics for millennia. (And that is why Gregory Lent is right when he gives mysticism an honored seat at the table of human understanding and learning along with science.)
- Sean McBride
What? You mean science changes their positions based on available evidence? Say it ain't so. Yep.... those Yogis are much more consistent I'm sure.
- Jeff Jones
Gregory - what do the yogis say about dark matter? do they believe it fluctuates? Do they believe it is connected to our consciousness? btw, NASA is streaming a media briefing on findings about dark energy on Dec. 16, http://www.nasa.gov/news... altho they may not address these specific questions.
- Maryam
A world view not grounded on a scientific method can easily map itself to new findings. A brane universe, a heat death universe, an inflationary universe, a steady state universe etc can all be made to work with a facile enough mind.
- Todd Hoff
The trap was set and less than 24 hours later, the Odessa narcotics unit raided the house only to find KopBuster’s attorney waiting under a system of complex gadgetry and spy cameras that streamed online to the KopBuster’s secret mobile office nearby. - http://reason.com/blog...
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the busted cops were taken to sublevel 5 of the nearby Primatech headquarters...
- Tudor Bosman
Near-Flawless Run Is Credited in Victory [New York Times - 11/5/08] - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
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The McCain campaign team often seemed to make missteps and lurch from moment to moment in search of a consistent strategy and message, while the disciplined and nimble Obama team marched through a presidential contest of historic intensity learning to exploit opponents’ weaknesses and making remarkably few stumbles.
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
The two captains of his effort, the disheveled David Axelrod, his close friend and political strategist, and the meticulous David Plouffe, the campaign manager, had never been on a team that had won a presidential nomination, much less a general election.
- Mitchell Tsai
Mr. Obama, Mr. Schmidt continued, “was a once-in-a-generation orator. A good debater. And an eloquent message. He was the beneficiary of favorable media coverage. Ice-cold disciplined about the execution of his campaign message. He was an extremely formidable candidate.”
- Mitchell Tsai
What proved critical to Mr. Obama’s campaign was the “Feb. 5 and Beyond Room” that Mr. Plouffe set up, an operation staffed by aides who focused only on the later primaries and caucuses.
- Mitchell Tsai
“It would be difficult for an African-American to be elected president in this country,” said Cornell Belcher, a pollster who worked for Mr. Obama’s campaign and studies racial voting patterns. “However, it is not difficult for an extraordinary individual who happens to be African-American to be elected president.”
- Mitchell Tsai
Through weeks of focus group testing and polling, Mr. Obama’s advisers came to believe that the single best way to allay those concerns [doubts about Mr. Obama’s background and experience] was to produce commercials in which he spoke directly into the camera.
- Mitchell Tsai
“He had to be an incredibly individuated figure,” said Mr. Belcher, meaning, he said, that Mr. Obama — whose white grandparents appeared in many of his advertisements — should be seen as someone gifted enough to be president and who happened to be black.
- Mitchell Tsai
Mr. Obama’s strategists consider it [opt out of the system and raise money on his own] one of their most important decisions. They had online fund-raising down to a science, and as tens of millions of dollars flowed in to the campaign, they were sent out to support field operations in 50 states and to pay for record amounts of advertising.
- Mitchell Tsai
That unpreparedness [for Sarah Palin] led to a rare, halting moment for Mr. Obama’s campaign. Bill Burton, an Obama spokesman, released a statement the day of her announcement that read, “Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.” The statement opened the door to an examination of whether Mr. Obama, with less than three years in the Senate, had any more experience.
- Mitchell Tsai
Aides were distraught days later when Mr. Obama told the CNN anchor Anderson Cooper that his experience outstripped hers, lowering him to a back-and-forth over experience with the No. 2 candidate on the Republican ticket. Mr. Obama would not go there again.
- Mitchell Tsai
Mr. Obama’s financial advantage was drowning out most of what Mr. McCain was trying to say. Mr. Obama’s campaign ran four advertisements to every one from Mr. McCain.
- Mitchell Tsai
But Mr. McCain’s spots were beginning to seem increasingly out of sync with the heightened public anxiety surrounding the financial crisis. The meltdown of the financial markets ultimately ended any hope of a comeback for Mr. McCain.
- Mitchell Tsai
As Americans were increasingly worried about their futures, Mr. Obama’s message of help for the middle class and promise of steady leadership was resonating with the white, working-class voters he had been seeking to win over for nearly two years. He managed to cast his rival as out of touch and erratic, and repeatedly linked him with what he portrayed as the devastating policies of the Bush administration.
- Mitchell Tsai
In Mississippi, Stuart Stevens, a longtime political strategist who had worked for both Mr. McCain and Mitt Romney in the primaries, was surveying polling data for a Republican client. He was picking up on an unexpected shift for Mr. Obama, even among white voters. As he put it in an interview: If a house is on fire, the owner does not care what color the fireman is.
- Mitchell Tsai
"He transcended race,” Mr. Stevens said. “At the time of crisis, it became particularly irrelevant."
- Mitchell Tsai
Back in Washington, Mr. Belcher, the pollster, was finding something similar. Mr. Obama was showing strength even among white voters Mr. Belcher had identified as having racial biases. It was a phenomenon captured in a photograph he shared last week of a homemade sign with the Confederate flag. It read: “Rednecks for Obama. Even we’ve had enough.”
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Mitchell that was fascinating. Especially liked the following...."extraordinary individual who happens to be African-American"
- Toby Graham
Thanks Toby. I thought it was a great (though very long 6-page) summary. Here's the one-page version http://nytimes.com/2008...
- Mitchell Tsai
If there was a love or super love button, I would have clicked it. Mitchell, that your for sharing this and taking the time to summarize it in the comments.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Anthony: Mucho gracias for the high praise.
- Mitchell Tsai
I'm tired of being polite about this. If you think having to pay taxes is "spreading the wealth" and "socialist", then you - sir or madam - are a pussy. I pay a fair bit of taxes every year and I'd be completely embarrassed to be caught whining about it the way all these rich fuckers are.
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It's not the rich people who are complaining though. At least not on friendfeed.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
i certainly don't share the same level of enthusiasm for paying taxes and dont forsee ever parting with my hard-earned money without getting a very clear and damned good reason why it is needed in the first place BUT i am getting a little tired with every freaking intersection between the government and the economy being labeled socialism
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I don't complain about paying taxes. I complain about the inefficient way they are collected and distributed. It's a bit like giving $1 to charity and finding that only 30 cents gets to the intended target. That's my beef with big government, not the paying of tax itself.
- Ian May
Oh, I agree with Marco though... It's like Socialism is the 'evil word of the week' It's quoted by many, although few understand what Socialism actually is.
- Ian May
well put ian
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
When those who whine about paying taxes, rich or poor, can continue the conversation with what programs and services they'd like to cut, I'll listen. It is our collective shame that we've allowed the argument to be framed this way.
- Warner Crocker
There's nothing inefficient about the way they are collected. The IRS is very good at collecting money.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex, The IRS might be good at collecting money, but I meant the amount that gets spent on that collection, and the amount that gets wasted deciding how to re-distribute that money afterwards.
- Ian May
My guess is that no talking head I've seen on TV decrying "socialism" makes less than $1M per year. Marco, saying I'm enthusiastic is trying hard to misread me. It's not a joy to pay them but I do understand that's the price of an orderly society.
- Dave Slusher
And how come the main pushback on this is from Colbert, Stewart, Letterman, et al? No one who supported the $750B gift to wall street has any leg to stand on opposing Obama on fake socialism when they support the public purchase of this private equity at $2 on the $1. Straight from the Bush/Cheney/Paulson axis of douchebag.
- Dave Slusher
lol fair enough
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Warner, I don't feel the slightest bit of shame. I've been pushing back on this every day for the last 3 months. How about all the news organizations (sic) that blindly repeat this credulously as if it wasn't obviously false by inspection?
- Dave Slusher
Paying taxes isn't an issue, but increasing taxes on a few people, or increasing taxes on corporations because "no people will be affected" - that's an issue.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
How about rolling back the 2001 "XMas for the wealthy" tax cuts?
- Dave Slusher
Ian, you can't throw that shit out without numbers. Pop quiz, what is the budget of the IRS and what are the total receipts of the treasury? You seem to think that collection efficiency is low, which is a common meme. Do you know the actual numbers? After a few minutes research, I now do.
- Dave Slusher
If you don't like this or anything, just hide it or block me or whatever but keep it to yourself. Leaving the comment is just douchebaggy and unnecessary, dude.
- Dave Slusher
Dave, I agree. The mythmakers unfortunately do too good a job.
- Warner Crocker
@dave to clarify "fair enough" was in ref to your statement on enthusiasm - asking for #'s and a deepr analysis from ian is great and would certainly lead to a more substantive debate but i have to admit the reliance on emotionally loaded descriptive terms like douchebaggery and xmas for the wealthy makes it difficult
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Marco, you are asking for more linguistic fairness in my pushback on equating raising taxes on incomes > $250K by 3% with SOCIALISM? The other side of this is not constrained by fairness or sanity. I started by calling these people "pussies." It's a standard ploy that the GOP arguments begin unfair and then they call for fairness, and the Dems go along with it. Fuck that, what comes around goes around.
- Dave Slusher
Chuck, I'm richer than most Americans and way richer than most of the rest of the world. That makes my argument stronger, not weaker. Nice try at a gotcha. Not a match, the board goes back.
- Dave Slusher
No numbers came in overnight, so I'll do it. The budget I found for fiscal year 2007 was $11B for the IRS, receipts of $2.4T. That puts the cost of collecting the money at approximately 0.45% . This isn't the definitive number but gives us an order of magnitude. Is the point that 0.45% is the number of crazy inefficiency?
- Dave Slusher
As a comparison, I took the revenues of my company and the number of people that work in collecting the money, guessed about their salaries and compared. It worked out to about 0.5% .
- Dave Slusher
@dave problem is you aren't talking to "the GOP" you are talking to individual human beings who - I work for GOP candidates - I ran McCain's field operation in Iowa until August of last year - I did not have to commit to "a standard ploy" that from that point forward I would begin my arguments unfairly "and then call for fairness" - the "what goes around comes around" cop out is EXACTLY what has lead to the deterioration of debate - because when someone like me tries very hard to....
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
...rationally discuss a topic someone like you decides that it makes sense to try and hold me or anyone else with values different from yours accountable for things other people have done. get over it man - we are all our own people with our own views and our own ways of doing things
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Marco - I am talking mostly about the pundit class that we see on TV here, but your point is fair. I remain steadfast that the basic frame is ridiculous, and arguing on its merits just gives the nonsense credence which is why I don't feel unfair in my counter-frame, re "only pussies fuss about 3% of their large salaries." This is the same class that got a tax cut during A WAR!
- Dave Slusher
i appreciate that - i think those are completely valid points of view - i even think it is completely valid to express problems we have with the policies or approaches of corporate bodies like "the gop" - but we must take care to remember that while a generalized approach can accurately be conferred on a corporate group like a political party we cant automatically assume that everyone who identifies with that party will instantly support or exhibit the same approach
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Ditto Ian May's comments.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Paying taxes isn't socialist or "spreading the wealth". Taking money from one group of people (productive members of society), and giving it to people who don't is. This is exactly what 0bama wants to do.
- Spencer
Spencer, your definition of "socialism" fits the Wall Street bailout perfectly. That's exactly what McCain/Bush/Cheny/Paulson want to do, take money from the people who work and give it to the rich with no strings.
- Dave Slusher
Spencer I take offense to that. My net taxable income is less than $250K and I'm pretty certain I'm an order of magnitude more productive member of society than a lot of wealthy people. I really don't understand why everyone assumes all of the increased tax revenue is just going to be handed over to deadbeats. Please post a link from a neutral source that clearly describes this. You can't listen to either party's statements standalone.
- Paul Reynolds
The bailout was a mistake, but lets remember 0bama supports it as well. Just yesterday, he said it's a "step in the right direction". It really doesn't matter who the money goes to, taking money from one taxpayer and giving it to another is nonsense. We have an economy in trouble, and we have a nominee who wants to raise taxes on employers, producers, etc. and give it to someone else. That is just crazy.
- Spencer
this where things get muddy though - i absolutely would have preferred that we would have never had to consider the bailout but i do think it was better than the potential outcome of the alternative - regardless of who was at fault etc we have to make decisions of what will provide the best outcome in an imperfect environment
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Nationalizing businesses == socialism. Paying taxes on wages from capitalist system == capitalism. It's really quite simple, y'all. I'm out for the weekend, let the debate rage without me!
- Dave Slusher
++++ dave well said
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Well said. Not sure there's much to add beyond this: Privatizing government so that the revenues can then be turned toward political agendas like Prop 8 really completes the greed/power circle.
- Karoli
the initiative process has tremendous potential in theory - unfortunately elected officials in states that has strong initiative processes have used them as an excuse to abdicate their responsibility to make tough decisions by saying "hey - lets let the people decide!"
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I've put together a voter's what-to-do if your vote gets suppressed at this easy to remember address: http://goodvote.org/
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Callie Shell - Obama - Digital Journalist - http://digitaljournalist.org/issue08...
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Great shots from a photo journalist following Obama around for over a year. My favorite is the first one I clipped here of Michelle and Barrack.
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
"Four years ago Time photographer Callie Shell met Barack Obama backstage when she was covering presidential candidate John Kerry. She sent her editor more photographs of Obama than Kerry. When asked why, she said, "I do not know. I just have a feeling about him. I think he will be important down the road." Her first photo essay on Obama was two and half years ago. She has stuck with him ever since."
- Bret Taylor
Yeah, I'm loving this... still going through them... Nice share!
- Christopher Galtenberg
The captions are really enlightening, too. "I loved that he cleaned up after himself before leaving an ice cream shop in Wapello, Iowa. He didn't have to. The event was over and the press had left. He is used to taking care of things himself and I think this is one of the qualities that makes Obama different from so many other political candidates I've encountered. Nov. 7, 2007." re: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue08...
- Bret Taylor
I liked that one too - so will my wife :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
These are beautiful. I do like the one of he and Michelle but like the one of the two little boys staring up at him even more.
- Carla Thompson
I think the key to getting these kinds of pictures is getting access. Not everyone gets to ride on the campaign bus while candidates are sleeping. By the way, I have the same rule about no pictures after my jaw has dropped. :-)
- Jeff Eddings
You clipped the same photos I did when I posted this a few days ago. All of them are aweome, but these 3 are just outstanding.
- Anika
Even if Obama does not win the election, I wish I get to meet this man once in my life.
- The Fat Oracle
I'm excited by the idea of a President that is openly affectionate and desiring of his partner.
- Mai
Awesome pictures, thanks for sharing this Bret.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
These are really beautiful candid pics. I really can't contain my excitement with two weeks left. I really feel like this is going to happen; that this man is going to be our next president. And I've never been so excited.
- Derrick
I love how photographic this family is... I've seen some great pics this whole campaign.
- Heidi Blanton
The captions on the photographs brought tear to my eyes. Thanks for sharing this Bret
- Shakeel Mahate
@JMS I'm not the type to think that Obama's gonna come in like a magical negro a la Morgan Freeman and make everything better with a sweep of his arm, but given the options, I'm behind him. I don't agree with everything, but I feel like we've got something going with him.
- Derrick
I'm just concerned about the more global issues. With the husband in the Army, I have some serious concerns about what Obama's talking about doing. He's really not the best choice for the military. But then neither is the other option. At least we'll see one more raise before military funding gets cut again.
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Really powerlful photos.. Weird that I had to keep scrolling to see the good ones..
- Bindu Reddy
Thanks. Great share.
- Roberto Bonini
JMS, you make war sound good. The global issues I was worried about were global warming and the financial crisis. I think everyone's job is on the line these days.
- Scott Loganbill
from twhirl
Wonderful images.
- Steve Lacey
@JMS: I wish your husband well and thank him for his service to the country. I think getting a President who has actually lived outside of the US, understands global politics and aspirations will actually make america, and its troops safer.
- Thaths
@JMS. It's a good point. Hopefully Obama can help bring your husband home safely and quickly. Please thank your husband for me and my family.
- Scott Loganbill
brought tears to my eyes, I don't really know that much about Obama, these pictures were a nice glimpse into his world.
- amelia arapoff
Beautiful!! These really capture the essence of a great man! wow!! go vote people!!
- Susan Beebe
McCain Attack Ads From Famous Directors - http://ct.buzzfeed.com/rd...
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Gallup Daily Tracking Poll. Obama 52%, McCain 41%. http://www.gallup.com/poll...
Grant Gochnauer, Jeff Jones and Tommy Williams liked this
[Washington Post]: Barack Obama for President - http://x.techwheat.com/2U7
Valley, Richard Peat, Michael Hart and 5 other people liked this
"Mr. Obama is a man of supple intelligence, with a nuanced grasp of complex issues and evident skill at conciliation and consensus-building. At home, we believe, he would respond to the economic crisis with a healthy respect for markets tempered by justified dismay over rising inequality and an understanding of the need for focused regulation. Abroad, the best evidence suggests that he would seek to maintain U.S. leadership and engagement, continue the fight against terrorists, and wage vigorous diplomacy on behalf of U.S. values and interests. Mr. Obama has the potential to become a great president."
- newsjunk.com
Unusually good writing for a Washington Post editorial. Those are pretty much the main reasons I am supporting Obama over McCain -- that and the fact that I am terrified of the warmongering neoconservatives who control John McCain's brain and who are hell-bent on igniting World War IV with just about everyone.
- Sean McBride
The rest of the world is crossing their fingers and toes that Obama wins. Bush is an embarrassment to this country and every american should be aware of that. I dont feel the average joe plumber grasps the enormity of the damage of what Bush has done to the image of the USA. Its really sad.
- Chris Johnson
License Plate Fail « FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments - http://failblog.org/2008...
Hassan Ibraheem, Pete D, Jeff Jones and 3 other people liked this
Ha!
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
The Rich Are Staging a Coup This Morning ...a message from Michael Moore - http://www.michaelmoore.com/words...
Anne Bouey, Lix, Jeff Jones and 4 other people liked this
"Let me cut to the chase. The biggest robbery in the history of this country is taking place as you read this. Though no guns are being used, 300 million hostages are being taken."
- Zee.
My major gripe with Moore is the sensationalism
- Mo Kargas
check your email Zee :) cheers
- Luca Conti
I've always wondered why people gripe about Moore's alleged sensationalism. Were he to direct his talents toward more mainstream fare, he would be considered a shrewd marketing person. It seems to me that the only unforgivable sin he's made in the eyes of some was to let his personal political feelings known.
- Steven Perez
And just for the record, SICKO was his best.
- Steven Perez
@Mo And his stretching of the "truth"
- Shey
@Chris Haha, that guy takes it to another level. I just believe if you want to get your point across, drop the buzzwords and hype
- Mo Kargas
+1 Cains.
- Sprague D
1UP Cains. Moore is nothing more than a basement blogger with a budget.
- Akiva
Oooh is it time for douche meme?
- Josh Haley
Christopher, c'mon now, are you really incapable of accepting that not everyone is going to agree with what Moore says? I really appreciate Moore's early work up until the second half of Bowling for Columbine. But, everything after that halfway mark, and everything he's done since, is less about documenting and more about creating a platform to further his opinion and agenda. There's nothing wrong with that; the man has the right. But I share an equal right to disagree with him.
- Akiva
Or, at the least, to disagree with his methodology.
- Akiva
I view Moore as a Capitalist. I like his early works, I agree with his politics but it seems like it's more about dollars now. Provocation means money.
- AJ Kohn
Christopher, that knife cuts both ways. People are extravagantly loyal to their opinions whether they're drooling over O'Reilly or Moore. Just because people are dedicated to an opinion contrary to yours does not make them any less than you. Believe me, their feelings are mutual.
- Akiva
I'm with Akiva and Cains, I really dislike Moore. He's a sensationalist and a self-aggrandizing shit-stirrer and that's irritating on both sides of the spectrum
- Soup in a TARDIS
he's a filmmaker ... sensationalism and propaganda are natural aspects of the job. you guys take him way too seriously.
- .LAG liked that
This is neoconservativism in a nutshell: An authority fetish coupled with general contempt for markets, masses, and choice. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Eric P, Jeff Jones and R. Ferguson liked this
[MSNBC]: Observations from today's Obama/Biden event - http://x.techwheat.com/1VO
Jeff Jones and Dave Winer liked this
"After watching the unveiling of the ticket, it's clear Obama hired Biden to accomplish three things: 1) Connect the ticket with blue-collar voters. Notice, Biden led his remarks with the economy. 2) Sell Obama's story. Biden owned Obama's biography in a way we've yet to see from the candidate himself. 3) Credibly attack John McCain. Biden didn't mince words about his old "friend"."
- newsjunk.com
McCain's "Faith" Plagiarism? - http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008...
Cee Bee, Jeff Jones and Russellreno liked this
"Hmm...POW story...silent meeting...the sign of a cross traced into the dirt in a show of Christian solidarity...the strength it gives to go on. Quite a bit in common wouldn't you say? Oh, but it gets better still, because it turns out McCain is a big fan of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, indeed McCain even wrote about Solzhenitsyn in an article, and even specifically mentioned "The Gulag Archipelago" in that very same article."
- Vox
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Fiscal Conservative vs. Tax & Spend Liberal - Be the signal - http://bethesignal.org/blog...
Scott Granneman, Arash, don loeb and 27 other people liked this
I dislike taxes as much as everyone else, but I always pay my bills. How else can we as a country pay our bills without the taxes? Debts always come due and the responsible thing to do is to suck it up and pay 'em.
- Kevin C. Tofel
Correction - in Canada ordinary citizens can go bankrupt if they develop health problems - I know people who have. There is NO single tier health care system in Canada. Tell me that the next time you have to pay out of pocket for prescription medication, or hand over your VISA at the emergency or they won't admit you because the ambulance ride costs money...or you have to go to Buffalo for an MRI and pay $$$...sorry to vent but I keep seeing these misconceptions and I'm getting a little tired of it.
- Kevin Cearns
I don't particularly hold to any party vision. And I'm not promoting a version of Canada. I'm merely pointing out fact. It is one thing to aspire to a particular reality, another entirely to assume that reality already exists.
- Kevin Cearns
You as well....Thanks for the conversation.
- Kevin Cearns
[FriendFeed]: Just gave $100 to Obama. McC should be careful not to run motivational ads around the end of the mon... http://friendfeed.com/e...
joshua fouts, Rick Powell and Jeff Jones liked this
Why are you people "like"ing an automated repost to FF of an automated notice to Twitter of another FF item? Don't encourage him.
- Ken Sheppardson
I liked this because of the sheer insanity of "like"ing an automated repost to FF of an automated notice to Twitter of another FF item. ;P
- joshua fouts
I wish I could "like" the fact that you "like" the sheer insanity of "like"ing an automated repost to FF of an automated notice to Twitter of another FF item. Where's the little check box so I can automatically post this to Twitter while I'm at it?
- Ken Sheppardson
My mind is boggling. I've seen it all now: recursive liking. :)
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
I like your wishing you could "like" the fact that he "likes" the sheer insanity of "like"ing an automated repost of an automated notice to Twitter of another FF item. Where's the little check box to subsribe to the RSS feed for these comments? :-)
- Richard Walker
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Undermine - http://www.zooomr.com/photos...
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Mrsth, Jeff Jones, idnan and 2 other people liked this
Are you moving to Zoomr from Flickr Thomas or just expanding your exposure?
- Jeff Jones
Jeff, I use both Zooomr and Flickr.
- Thomas Hawk
New blog post: "Chin-dropping photo." http://www.scripting.com/stories...
Frank Paynter, Danny Thorpe, Robert Banghart and 14 other people liked this
That really is quite a photo.
- Gus Perez
He's a rock star. I look forward to the crowd he will draw the day he is sworn in as PoTUS.
- Jeff Jones
from your mouth to G-d's ears's Jeff. :)
- Rachel Luxemburg
That photo is mind-numbing isn't it?! wow, what a strange feeling to be standing there in front of that sea of cheering fans! Neat!
- Susan Beebe
Am I the only person who thinks a charismatic leader throwing a Seig Heil salute to a packed crowd in Berlin a little bit concerning?
- Cameron Reilly
from twhirl
I don't think his ass was clenched tight enough for a Seig Heil.
- iTad
So does this make an Obama/Hasselhoff ticket more or less likely?
- Ken Sheppardson
We can only hope Ken. I've got a feeling,
- iTad
Ken... that would be AWESOME! "Meet my Chief of Staff KITT and my Secratary Of State Anderson"
- Johnny
I'm not sure I can get past his vote on FISA. That really disappointed me.
- Alan Cheslow
I blogged my thoughts about this pic. I think it's in the final nails in the Rebublican coffin. http://www.acidlabs.org/2008...
- Stephen Collins
from twhirl
I especially like the guy FILMING WTH A LAPTOP! (or is he?) Awesome. ;)
- John Bäckstrand
Washington Post liked that picture, too. Put it on page one -- big.
- Amyloo
Is there any Koolade left?
- eggsy
Recent Get Your War On posts - http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu...
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Jeff Jones, iTad, Jason Wehmhoener and jeneane sessum liked this
highly obscene language.
- Nathan Rein
from Bookmarklet
That kinda fits in with the McCain motif nathan. He has a big potty mouth.
- iTad
true, true
- Nathan Rein
WHAT THE HELL!? Who replaced the Diet Dr. Pepper with Diet *Caffeine Free* Dr. Pepper? How can I work under these conditions?
Daniel Schildt, Todd Loren Sinclair, Carlos Ayala and 10 other people liked this
Fire em'!
- Mike Wills
Don't you have a rider for Diet Dr. Pepper with caffeine and M&Ms with all reds picked out? Come'on girl, use your star power!
- Eric
There's nothing worse than people messing with a favorite product - the nerve!
- Stephanie Zimmerman
It's probably one of those Revision3 interns... FIRED!
- Vincent X
Dr. Pepper? Yuck.
- Bren
seriously? were talking Dr Pepper, is it even considered a real drink? its like squished prunes or something.. yuck :)
- Socom
Socom: What? BLASPHEMY! How dare you.
- Vincent X
Quite you Dr. Pepper naysayers. You know not of what you speak.
- Jeff Jones
Carbonated prune juice...what's not to love? (if you are 90)
- Bren
oh yes I love me some dr pepper
- Chris Jones
from twhirl
That's horrible Veronica, it would be like taking the lemons out of my lemonade, not cool!
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
Savages.
- Paul Reynolds
eww, *diet* Dr. Pepper?! How nasty!
- Dillon K. Hoops
its ok, it tastes more like regular Dr. Pepper...as if that makes it better.
- Bren
soda = fail
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
before I quit drinking any kind of soda, my soda of choice was Diet Dr Pepper. DDP is the most non-diet tasting soda of any of the diet variety. It tastes just like the regular stuff. That being said, I cannot comment on the caffeine-free stuff, I never subscribed to the notion of a soda being non-caffeinated. Now that's borderline blasphemous.
- Carlos Ayala
Scurvy bastards
- Cody Heitschmidt
Caffeine free?What an abomination!
- Mo Kargas
Caffeine and Asperin are what kept me going through marathon 30 hour lab sessions
- Robert Hafer
Not one person called it pop, you all said soda.. so sad.. so very very sad
- Socom
not sad, regional.
- Bren
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