Tuesday, November 04, 2008
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- HopeSpringsATurtle
- Former DJ, contractor, and USAF officer who grew up in a San Francisco bar, loves music, girls and beer (not necessarily in that order) and looks forward to all that life has to offer.
Links-and-Blogs-To-Not-Overlook
- The World Can't Wait...organizing anti-war events and political rallies
- Camp Democracy...Marching on D.C!
- FireDogLake "My Favorite Blog" plus many great links to 'powerblogs'
- Powers & Morrison...I'm a columnist here and they have other terrific columns and news
- What would life be without a little 'Crooks and Liars'? Provocative. Informative. See it now.
- DailyKos...easily the most read blog in the world, read it!
- Huffington Post...one of the the Premiere 'Super Blogs'
- Whiskey Bar...Billmon calls 'em as he see's 'em
- Media Matters...as long as its not exclusively the mainstream media where you get your information
- Liberal Oasis...Great information/links you won't find in the main stream media
- Information Clearing House..."News you won't find at CCN or Fox
- Consortium News...This is the website Robert Parry started after Newsweek fired him for 'telling the truth'
- Iraq and Afghanistan Vets...Paul Reichoff's site, it is intense and important
- Vote Vets..."Support the Troops, Send Them to Congress"
- Center for American Progress' Christy Harvey updates us on the latest scandals in D.C.
- Great Power is a Blunt Object...This is a blog by Musclemouth...He's as handsome as he is smart and brave
- This is Nate's blog 'Get In Their Face' It is well designed and full of important info you won't find other places
- Brad Blog...Brilliant Brad Friedman takes on the bullies, worth your time
- Blackbox Voting...One of the organizations at work on making our votes count
- Votergate in conjunction with Blackbox.org is doing AMAZING work. This is a 'must-go' site
- Raw Story...It's all in the name, news you won't find in the MSM
- The Voter Integrity Project
- FactCheck...Need to check the validity of a politician's statement? I gotcher BS meter right here-->
- Election Protection...Website where you can find out what can be done in your area
- Velvet Revolution...More info on the vote fraud
- Buzz Flash...You know all those progressive books you hear about? This ia a great place to get them
- Air America Radio...You can stream from their site. Worth a listen.
- Head On Radio Network...get on the horn! Live Stream Liberal Radio
- Common Dreams NewsCenter...another wonderful alternative news site. Blessed be.
- White Rose Society... current and past archives of Liberal Radio Shows
- This NTodd's Blog, he's funny, smart and a great photographer
- Minstrel Boy's Blog. Military info and stories from a True American Patriot
6 comments:
Thanks for being an election judge. In some places, at least, we clearly don't have enough of them. This election seems to have gone better than the last two presidential races, though.
Change is coming? I'm not so sure. Obama's choice for WH CoS isn't too inspiring.
I agree Cuj..I can't stand Rahm. But He can do a pretty good bulldog when it suits him. I've thought O was a little too"soft" all along but his quiet calm and really smoothly run campaign gives me hope that his discipline will bring a new spirit to the Dems. I think he's gonna put his foot down about the "circular firing squad" we tend to become. Not only do we now have a grown-up in the WH but he feels like a dad who loves you but won't let you get away with shit. And I hope he gets a taster, especially during the transition.
Personally, I hope Obama is the sort of person who wouldn't hear of having a taster.
If Obama wants to lead, I think he can take the Democrats in Congress with him, at least on some issues. Whether he wants to will be the big question. It's not an easy thing. If you believe that past is prologue, Obama's past doesn't offer much hope in that regard.
My only real expectation is that Obama will refuse to get us involved in any more useless wars, and maybe will get the budget situation under control. Beyond that - well, I guess the good thing about having low expectations is that you're seldom disappointed...
The low expectations thing is a double edged sword -- we also need hope and my other sister, Faith. we must believe in the power of providence. That elusive but powerful confluence that occurs when we move forward in spite of doubt.
Get on my back Brother Cujo, I'll carry you across the line.
To me, the danger of low expectations is that those are what you'll settle for. Poke me once in a while when I seem to be settling, and you probably won't have to drag me very far...
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