Obama wins Wyoming
Bob Morris @ Mar 8th 2008 20:31 - Category: Election 2008 ;
58-40% too.
Will there be a unity ticket? Sure. But will it be Obama / Clinton or Clinton / Obama? Big difference there.
Archive for March 8th, 2008
McCain’s temper
Bob Morris @ Mar 8th 2008 18:34 - Category: Election 2008 Tags: McCain;
He lost his temper publicly yesterday, and since he’s reputed to have a nasty, vicious temper, I’m guessing that skilled teams of the Democratic opposition research are happily digging into his past to determine what is the best way to make him explode in a screaming rage as the video cameras are running and the whole world is watching.
Twitter Feed
Bob Morris @ Mar 8th 2008 15:08 - Category: Blogging Tags: twitter, twitter feed;
Twitter Feed sends your blog posts to Twitter for you on a schedule of your choosing. Thus, you can find new audiences for your blog.
Twitter is the first social networking tool I’ve found that is simultaneously fun, powerful, easy to use, and not kludgy. It’s sort of like a multi-casting IM or something in between IM and email, with a limit of 160 characters per message.
(If you have no idea what I’m talking about, that’s ok too!)
Ron Paul quits race
Bob Morris @ Mar 8th 2008 10:45 - Category: Election 2008 Tags: Ron Paul;
So now we bid Ronulans a fond farewell. From their perplexing conspiracy theories to their bizarre embrace of 19′th century monetary policy, Paul’s supporters ran one of the most interesting political sideshows in a century. But it’s time for Ron Paul to board his dirigible and sail into the sunset.
Indeed, what I found most charming was the huge enthusiasm coupled with startling political naiveity that characterized many of his libertarian geek devotees.
Why don’t they just put in a traffic light?
Bob Morris @ Mar 8th 2008 07:16 - Category: Unfiled ;
Gay and lesbian forced deportees face death in Iran
Bob Morris @ Mar 8th 2008 03:38 - Category: Unfiled ;
Two Iranians, a gay man and a lesbian woman, are facing forced extradition from Britain back to Iran where they could be executed. His boyfriend in Iran has already been executed for being gay and her girlfriend has been sentenced to death.
Yet the British government does nothing to stop it.
In turning down Ms Emambakhsh and Mr Kazemi’s asylum applications, the Home Office has said that, provided Iranians are discreet about their homosexuality, they will not be persecuted. But Omar Kuddus, of Gay Asylum UK, demanded that Britain follow the example of the Netherlands and Germany in imposing a moratorium on all deportations involving gay and lesbian Iranians. He asked: “How many more young Iranians have to die before the British Government takes action?”
Green collar jobs
Bob Morris @ Mar 8th 2008 00:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
Lawyer activist Van Jones calls for a green collar job corps to train “train urban youth of color to retrofit U.S. cities so that they are environmentally sustainable” and for the politics of environmentalism to become more inclusive and include the working class too.
We are seeing a new kind of social-uplift environmentalism, and a new image of an environmentalist with a hard hat, a lunch bucket, and rolled-up sleeves: somebody who says, “Give us the tools. Give us the technology. We can fix America.” I believe this kind of working-class eco-populism will become the dominant political mode for progressives in the new century as we put people to work weatherizing buildings, installing solar panels, building windmills, and creating public-transportation systems.
The people who are dominating the environmental discussion right now want everybody to watch their movie, sign their petition, and march in line behind them. But the movement cannot grow the way we need it to unless we let the working-class guy and the undocumented worker and the poor kid from the inner city articulate their own agendas.
Absolutely. Not only does the working class need to be a part of the environmental movement, their inclusion will change it for the better too.
Celcias has more on Van Jones’ ideas.
