cassandra_m
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm
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Late Night Video — Close Guantanamo
One of the benefits of being snowed in this week is that I’ve had a chance to catch up on some blog reading, and discovered that I had missed this really good video about missing the one year anniversary of the commitment to close Gitmo.
20 Years Ago Nelson Mandela Was Released from Prison
Does anyone remember when Mandela was released from prison? I was in Salt Lake City that day and couldn’t get to a TV or radio until after the day’s work. Mandela’s speech was clear and strong — and it seemed clear that this was the day apartheid died its well deserved death. And the day […]
Late Night Video — Rahm Emmanuel Apologizes
The SNL version of Rahm Emmanue apologies, that is. This is likely NSFW, but strikes me as old school SNL — taking a famous person’s weaknesses, making them funny and using that the comment on a bigger picture. There is likely no chance that they could maintain this sharpness as a regular feature, but I liked this.
Answering Their Questions in Bullet Time
You know that there was some discussion of President Obama doing another version of Question Time with the Republican Senate Caucus. The response?
Breaking: NJ Fire in Progress/ Fire Over!
This comes to us via an anonymous tip, and seems to be confirmed on Twitter. Not sure yet of any details, except it looks like people have left the building. Picture of fire truck at the building. Picture of ladder on the roof. Hoping everyone is OK. Updates as we get them. Well that was […]
The Running of the Hypocrites
Which is really the only name you can give the Federal government’s budget season opened by the release of President Obama’s budget blueprint last Tuesday. The plan calls for letting the BushCo tax cuts expire (except for people making less than $250K), eliminating the tax subsidies for the oil and gas industry, raising taxes on hedge fund managers; and it calls for investments in public education and college, domestic energy production, the beginning of a fund to finance health care for the uninsured. It is a pretty strong plan (I do have some reservations about some of the energy initiatives) that begins to retilt the playing field back towards the middle class.
Super Bowl Snack Stadium and Pre-Game Thread
As always, the spectacle surrounding the Super Bowl is often way more fun than the event itself and in that spirit, I give you:
The Super Bowl Snack Stadium
Governor Markell Surveys the Political Landscape on CBS News
…and pretty much owns this interviewer. He talks about the Coons-Castle race at about the 5 minute mark and says nice things. The Gov is quite good at this kind of thing, I think — he needs a better questioner than this reporter tho. If you hang until the end, there is a piece on […]
Delaware Green Matters Forum
This Wednesday begins a 5-week forum series focusing on multiple environmental topics at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Newark (www.uufn.org) from 7-9pm.
The first topic is:
- February 3: Environmental Policy and You
Late Night Video — Axe Ball Cleaner
First thing to know is that this is totally NSFW. Second thing to know is that this it totally NSFW. Third thing to know is that this is screamingly funny, which means you probably should not be watching this at work!
Actual Corporation Runs for MD Congressional Seat
The corporation is Murry Hill, Inc (with a designated spokeshuman to to speak the acceptance text required by campaign finance law), who have decided that they no longer need lobbyists and campaign contributions to buy democracy — they can just buy it out right now: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHRKkXtxDRA[/youtube]
Generic News Report by Charlie Brooker
Completely Brilliant dissection of the TV News conventions — and I thought I was watching CNN there for abit:
Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — You’re Doing It All Wrong Edition
Cooking your bacon, that is, according to this video from Chowhound (there is a quick commercial at the beginning): But there’s lots of ways to cook bacon and lots of partisans for those methods too. I’ve cooked LOTS of bacon for events in the oven — you get uniformly flat and crispy bacon (think of […]
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