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Sorry for the lack of posts.

So in the mean time, AutoTune The News 3.

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Bush's Legacy

'This latest batch of memos, after all, offers us the proposition that U.S. citizens wouldn't be protected by the Fourth Amendment if the military were deployed against suspected terrorists in the United States and that the president (as channeled by then-OLC lawyer John Yoo) had secretly granted himself the right to suspend free speech and a free press.'

Obama, Bush Secret-Keeper

Caught this over the weekend...

'Dan Quayle With A Ponytail'

'JUNEAU, Alaska - A couple of weeks before the Alaska legislature began this year's session, a bipartisan group of state senators on a retreat a few hours from here invited Gov. Sarah Palin to join them. Accompanied by a retinue of advisers, she took a seat at one end of a conference table and listened passively as Gary Stevens, the president of the Alaska Senate, a former college history professor and a low-key Republican with a reputation for congeniality, expressed delight at her presence.

Would the governor, a smiling Stevens asked, like to share some of her plans and proposals for the coming legislative session?

Palin looked around the room and paused, according to several senators present. "I feel like you guys are always trying to put me on the spot," she said finally, as the room became silent.

Gone was the self-assurance that Alaska had come to know in its young Republican governor, well before her life and career were transformed by Sen. John McCain's selection of her as his vice presidential running mate. "She looked ill at ease, more defensive than we've been accustomed to seeing her," said one legislator who was there and spoke on the condition of anonymity because he said he might need to work with Palin.

A number of factors seem to have contributed to the bumpy homecoming: a residual anger among Democrats for the attack-dog role Palin assumed in the McCain campaign, lingering resentment from Republicans for the part she may have played in McCain's defeat, and a suspicion crossing party lines that the concerns of Alaska, at a time of economic crisis, will now be secondary to her future in national politics.

Nearly every move that Palin makes or does not make, acknowledges Joe Balash, one of her closest aides, is analyzed through a new political prism, scrutinized for its effect on a possible 2012 presidential candidacy. "There's nothing we can do to stop it," he said. "People wonder why she's doing something or not doing something."

The result of all this scrutiny and second-guessing, says one Republican ally, is that "the governor has been feeling beaten up."

The lists of her doings and not doings include a growing leeriness of the media -- she declined requests for an interview for this article -- as she pursues an aggressive strategy on the national political front.

She has established a political action committee, SarahPAC, designed to fund her national appearances. She sat for a lengthy interview with a conservative documentarian exploring the reasons behind President Obama's election, during which she reiterated her belief that she was unflatteringly exploited by such TV personages as Katie Couric and Tina Fey, and suggested she was mishandled by the McCain campaign.'

Full article here.

Interesting...

'But the truth is that until very late in his presidency, Lincoln was deeply conflicted about whether to liberate the slaves, how to liberate the slaves and what to do with them once they had been liberated.

Whereas abolition was a central aspect of Lincoln’s moral compass, racial equality was not. In fact, Lincoln wrestled with three distinct but sometimes overlapping discourses related to race: slavery, equality and colonization.

Isolating these three—like the three strands of a braid of hair—helps us to understand how conflicted the man was about African Americans and their place in this country.

Interspersed among these three discourses is the manner in which Lincoln seems to have wrestled with his own use of the “N-word.” Lincoln used the word far less than did Stephen Douglas, his Democratic challenger for the U.S. Senate, but he did indeed use it in prominent contexts including debates and public speeches.

Even as late as April 1862, James Redpath recorded Lincoln’s saying of President Fabre Nicholas Geffard of Haiti (who had offered to send a white man as his ambassador to the United States), “You can tell the President of Hayti that I shan’t tear my shirt if he sends a nigger here!”

Lincoln despised slavery as an institution, an economic institution that discriminated against white men who couldn’t afford to own slaves and, thus, could not profit from the advantage in the marketplace that slaves provided.

At the same time, however, he was deeply ambivalent about the status of black people vis-à-vis white people, having fundamental doubts about their innate intelligence and their capacity to fight nobly with guns against white men in the initial years of the Civil War.

Even as he was writing the Emancipation Proclamation during the summer of 1862, Lincoln was working feverishly to ship all those slaves he was about to free out of the United States.

So taken was he with the concept of colonization that he invited five black men to the White House and offered them funding to found a black republic in Panama, for the slaves he was about to free. Earlier, he had advocated that the slaves be freed and shipped to Liberia or Haiti.

And just one month before the Emancipation became the law of the land, in his Annual Message to Congress on Dec. 1, 1862, Lincoln proposed a constitutional amendment that would “appropriate money, and otherwise provide, for colonizing free colored persons with their own consent, at any place or places without the United States.”

Full article here.

Figures.

Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages

'Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts.

What does that mean in 21st-century terms? No Facebook to communicate with supporters. No outside e-mail log-ins. No instant messaging. Hard adjustments for a staff that helped sweep Obama to power through, among other things, relentless online social networking.

"It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said of his new digs.

In many ways, the move into the White House resembled a first day at school: Advisers wandered the halls, looking for their offices. Aides spent hours in orientation, learning such things as government ethics rules as well as how their paychecks will be delivered. And everyone filled out a seemingly endless pile of paperwork.

There were plenty of first-day glitches, too, as calls to many lines in the West Wing were met with a busy signal all morning and those to the main White House switchboard were greeted by a recording, redirecting callers to the presidential Web site. A number of reporters were also shut out of the White House because of lost security clearance lists.

By late evening, the vaunted new White House Web site did not offer any updated posts about President Obama's busy first day on the job, which included an inaugural prayer service, an open house with the public, and meetings with his economic and national security teams.

Nor did the site reflect the transparency Obama promised to deliver. "The President has not yet issued any executive orders," it stated hours after Obama issued executive orders to tighten ethics rules, enhance Freedom of Information Act rules and freeze the salaries of White House officials who earn more than $100,000.

The site was updated for the first time last night, when information on the executive orders was added. But there were still no pool reports or blog entries.

No one could quite explain the problem -- but they swore it would be fixed.

One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could be used for which purposes. The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers outfitted with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software. Laptops were scarce, assigned to only a few people in the West Wing. The team was left struggling to put closed captions on online videos.'

I noticed this too.

How at the other balls, this didn't happen but at the Youth Ball it did.

And the crowd was almost entirely white.

The Youth Ball Welcomes Obama with a Sea of Digital Cameras

Prop Hate - An Update

From Commenter h.l.m:

'Guess what? Jim Domen is an Ex-Gay

Here's the image that started it all:
http://img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/3/11/5/f_latimesm_d551cda.jpg

Here's a letter that I received from a Pastor who thinks that I'm in favor of Prop 8. He's informing me that people have been contacting Jim Domen and they're angry.

Text of the email is below:

YORBA LINDA—Pastor Jim Domen of Rose Drive Friends Church has been the target of persecution by marriage opponents; not just him, but his girlfriend as well. Jim is one whom the Lord delivered from a life of struggle with same-sex attractions. He has been a vocal supporter of Proposition 8. He was photographed on Election night celebrating the results of Proposition 8, both he and his girlfriend. The photographs were published in The Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register, and The Chicago Tribune. Since then, blogs were established to target both Jim AND his girlfriend for verbal persecution, particularly when it was discovered that he is an “ex-gay.”

Please email/phone Pastor Jim and offer your words of encouragement and your prayers as we stand with this dear brother of ours who is suffering persecution for our Lord’s sake.

Pastor Jim Domen
Rose Drive Friends Church
4221 Rose Dr
Yorba Linda 92886
714.528.6496
jimdomen@me.com

Some numbers of the other people in the picture

Bob Knocke (949) 472-1249
Louis Kanoke (949) 472-1249
25292 Campina Dr, Mission Viejo, CA 92691
His church: http://www.stkilianchurch.org/


Jim Domen, Catalyst Pastor at Rose Drive Friends Church, jimd@rdf.org 714.528.6496 ext. 130
Rose Drive Friends Church. Jim LeShana, Sr. Pastor 4221 Rose Drive, Yorba linda, CA 92886. 714-528-6496
http://rdf.org/
http://tinyurl.com/63o69j
http://tinyurl.com/65yvk4

Amanda Stanfield, M.A.
Assistant Director, Graduate Center Client Services
Azusa Pacific University
(626) 815-4560

You can also reach Amanda's Office:
Graduate Center
Azusa Pacific University
PO Box 7000, Azusa, CA 91702-7000
Phone: (626) 815-4570
Fax: (626) 815-4545
http://www.apu.edu/graduatecenter/'

Prop Hate

From J'adore Joey:

'We want you to pay very close attention to the faces of these people above. These are the faces of hatred. These are the faces of ignorance. These are the faces of hypocrisy, injustice and intolerance.

At an Irvine Hotel yesterday, Bob Knocke of Mission Viejo, CA, Amanda Starfield of Monrovia, CA, Jim Domen of Yorba Linda, CA and J.D. Gaddis, also of Yorba Linda, CA, celebrated as early returns came in showing the approval of a ban on Proposition 8 which calls to overturn the right that California's Supreme Court had granted gays to marry.

Currently, the proposition is at a 52% approval rate which means that it will most probably be voted into effect. We are completely stunned and utterly shocked that, in this day and age, in a state which we truly believed to be a liberal leader supporting the challenges which minorities face daily, an active motion towards inequality could be a reality.

This isn't just a major loss for the people of California, it's an incredible setback for the country as a whole which historically looks to California as a trendsetter on their own similar issues.

Read more about this travesty at Los Angeles Times, and visit No On Prop 8 to help make a change......if it's not too late.

UPDATE: A few friendly readers wrote in with contact information for the horrible Bob Knocke, Jim Domen and Amanda Starfield pictured in the above photo. Please give them a call or email them and let them know how you feel.

Bob Knocke (949) 472-1249

Jim Domen, Catalyst Pastor at Rose Drive Friends Church, jimd@rdf.org 714.528.6496 ext. 130

Amanda Stanfield, M.A.
Assistant Director, Graduate Center Client Services
Azusa Pacific University
(626) 815-4560

If they disconnect her number, call her boss:
Graduate Center
Azusa Pacific University
PO Box 7000, Azusa, CA 91702-7000
Phone: (626) 815-4570
Fax: (626) 815-4545
http://www.apu.edu/graduatecenter/'

I'm at least hopeful that it will be contested at some point in the future.

If we can overcome racism, we can overcome homophobia.

Nano-bama

Nanobama: Barack Obama in Nanotubes

Huh.

You would think the Chinese government wouldn't be to keen on letting the people vote.

Even in a mock election.

Obama gets China’s youth vote

BEIJING – Judging by the reactions to the life-size cardboard cutouts of Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, the latter was the clear favorite in a hotel conference room in Beijing early Wednesday morning.

Crowds of young Chinese waited impatiently to pose with the cardboard Obama for their cameras. One female student stealthily turned away the McCain cutout so she and her friends could huddle more comfortably beside the president-elect.

It was all part of a dual-pronged effort by the American Embassy in Beijing to educate Chinese on the U.S. electoral process and to celebrate the election results for what some call the most historic presidential race in decades.

The U.S. Embassy, with assistance from the American Chamber of Commerce and the American Center for Educational Exchange, set up mock voting booths and handed out pamphlets explaining the process.

First ‘vote’ for many Chinese

Crowds of young Chinese read the mock ballots, diligently filled them out, and then stood before cameras in front of the ballot box. It was the first time any of them had cast a vote – real or imaginary.

"It’s exciting," said She Rui, a 24-year-old graduate student in international relations at People’s University. The election, he said, "is very important, because it gives the people a chance to express their needs [and] to choose their leaders."

He and some of his fellow students said they were happy Obama won. "He is young and can give fresh blood to American society," said 21-year-old Xing Yu Jie.

George W. Bush Urinal Pees Tribute to the Last 8 Years

Chuck Baldwin For President!

Man. Some people.

'"I have kind of a general feeling of near panic on occasion," says St. Gelais, a 48-year-old McCain supporter in Ormond Beach, Florida.

"The thought of Obama winning right now is scaring me to death. ... I'm just anxious and even a little depressed."

St. Gelais, like many, says she's not sleeping well, is watching television nearly all day, and "lives on her computer," following all of the polls and the latest news. If Obama wins, she'll be devastated.

"I would equate it to a death," she says.'

Dems, GOP agree on something: anxiety

Now she knows what us felt like when Bush won a second term.

Ha.

Vacated

This was a picture of I-25 during RUSH HOUR when they blocked off the highway during Obama's speech at the DNC.