I volunteered for the Obama campaign and called voters in swing states yesterday and today. I really wish I’d gotten involved sooner! It was actually a lot of fun, and it was amazing to see the huge diversity of people who showed up at the headquarters to help. I wish I could have [...]
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Did you know that the Federal Govt. spends about $91,687,500.00 (that’s nearly $92 million, for those of us who don’t often see numbers bigger than 4 or 5 digits) a year on the salaries of 551 people?
Did you know that our president makes $400,000 a year? (sources: 1, 2) The average US [...]
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On the Virginia race:
An Associated Press count Wednesday night showed Webb with 1,172,538 votes and Allen with 1,165,302, a difference of 7,236, or less than one-third of 1 percent.
Wow. There are more people enrolled in some high schools than that. My high school was something like 6,000 people when I was enrolled. [...]
Cassady just told me that voter turnout exceeded 40% for yesterday’s midterms (preliminary analysis). I know that I was one of those people who decided to stop feeling apathetic and start actually trying to understand what’s going on and get people to vote. Seems I wasn’t the only one.
Other news is saying they [...]
Oregon:
Did you see the OregonLive results yet??
I’m pretty happy about pretty much everything there. :) Except, uh… laughably 47 is passing without 46. Considering that 46 ALLOWS laws regulating campaign funds in the first place, you can’t pass a MEASURE THAT WOULD REGULATE FUNDS (measure 47) without it. And thus… right [...]
I don’t care much for reality tv. In fact, I pretty much hate it. Yup. But this opinion on the “Racial” Survivor show was funny and intelligent:
First, unless four white cops get caught on videotape billy-clubbing a black man, and then all get let off the hook, television has little or no power to [...]
The Corvallist recently wrote about Nathanael Blake’s recent anti-islam piece that yesterday incited peaceful protest by Muslim students on campus. The Corvallist’s blog post is a much more serious criticism than mine is, but I did write about it too in my blogspot blog. I really want to cross-post it here, but I [...]
I’m not sure if Nathanael Blake is guilty of hijacking a religion to hurt people, but he IS guilty of hijacking a pen (or an apple computer in Snell Hall) to instill anger and hate. Although the article I’m writing about is almost a month old, the Corvallist drew my attention to this [...]
Just for a second, I’m going to pretend that I’m a political/news blogger…
This story is CNN covering Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks about the Holocaust being a “myth” as part of his argument for the elimination of Israel and the reinstall of a Palestinian state. Now, these comments are absolutely deplorable, unacceptable, and evil. The [...]
I went to http://www.moveon.org/unitednotdivided/ and said
I believe that the democratic system we employ in the United States is a useful and usually a very just and fair system. However, I believe that if left to a majority vote by the population in America, the American people will vote to ratify this amendment to the [...]