Archive for July 23rd, 2010

Van Jones at Netroots Nation

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Van Jones at Netroots Nation

UI asked in the Open Thread if anyone saw this while it was live streamed earlier today. This is smart and compassionate and fun and hugely inspirational. Worth taking the time to watch:

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Newt Gingrich Endorses Sharia Law

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Newt Gingrich thinks that Muslims shouldn’t be able to build an Islamic center near Ground Zero unless Saudi Arabia allows churches and synagogues to be built.

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Friday Open Thread

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The Friday version of your semi-daily open thread.

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The ‘Lower 41’: Q: Are We Not Districts? A: We Are Paramecium!

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The ‘Lower 41’: Q: Are We Not Districts? A: We Are Paramecium!

Guidelines for drawing districts following the Census call for compactness, contiguity, and honoring the integrity of community, wherever practicable. Today, we ‘honor’ four districts that were drawn with none of those standards in evidence. Artificial constructs designed to preserve an artificial majority. Any or all of the four could have, and should have, been grounds […]

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He Likes It! Hey, Mikey! . . . Wait, Not So Much

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He Likes It! Hey, Mikey! . . . Wait, Not So Much

Mike Castle believes that the Delaware River Basin Watershed is important, but not important enough.

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Who is Contacting Me? Chip Flowers at the St. Joe’s Carnival in Middletown, that’s who.

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Who is Contacting Me?  Chip Flowers at the St. Joe’s Carnival in Middletown, that’s who.

He was working the 8th & 9th RD crowd like a champ and I stopped to have a picture taken with him (which didn’t turn out owing to the shittiness of my iphone camera and the bad lighting, so here is a picture of the ferris wheel). And here is my take on Flowers…

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