A new twist on Disney and their recurring theme of dead mothers and traumatized babies — this time its dead babies and traumatized mothers.
Bob and I saw (part of) the new Disney movie, “Earth”, tonight.
Typical Disney set-up of moms and babies in danger, you just know somebody’s gonna get killed because the music tells you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Election 2008’
Disney is Evil Movie Review by Sue
Mirror image
Listening to the ultra right currently getting paranoid about re-education camps reminds me of what some of the ultra left said during the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush regimes, that concentration camps were being planned.
Didn’t happen, did it?
Inside Obama’s bank CEOs meeting
Politico
The bankers struggled to make themselves clear to the president of the United States.
But President Barack Obama wasn’t in a mood to hear them out. He stopped the conversation and offered a blunt reminder of the public’s reaction to such explanations. “Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn’t buying that.”
“My administration,” [...]
Source440. Where musicians share their skills by video
Our friend Catherine Goldwyn who runs SoundArtLA.org, a nonprofit providing contemporary music training and education to children in underserved areas in Los Angeles, is a co-partner in the just-launched Source440, a website where musicians can share their skills by uploading video lessons.
Source440 is “about sharing information and making musical knowledge free for anyone who wants [...]
Google Voice
Google Voice is about to launch, it is “one phone number for all your phones, for life.” Give one phone number out, and then route the calls to wherever you want.
It has texting, voicemail transcription, ability to route specific numbers to certain phones or voicemail, conference calls, cheap international rates – and it’s free.
But [...]
Computer surveillance by CIA?
We welcome Josh “UJ” Mull as a Polizeros contributor.
In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 3, I was doing some research for the latest episode of Alive in Baghdad, specifically looking for Iraqi reactions to President Obama’s speech announcing the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. One of the reactions I came across was [...]
What she said…
Democrats are Dancing in the Streets. (Martha and the Vandellas)
For Republicans, a Wipeout (The Surfaris)
Kick Donkey (8 seconds)
Original Video- More videos at TinyPic
Time to stop hyperventilating…
From Brad DeLong, who also notes.
By this evening 3/4 of American Jews will have voted for a guy whose middle name is Hussein: if we cannot use this lever for good in the Middle East, we do not deserve to be a superpower.
Caveat
Ten reasons why you should ignore exit polls
Why the World watches America
Oriental Morning Post, China (translated from Chinese)
The world has never paid so much attention to a single election.
Now, people around the world believe that the changes brought by the American election with not be confined to America alone. Guardian columnist Jonathan Friedlander says the history of the past seven years has made the world concerned [...]
Networks may call election before some polls close
“There’s no way to get around it,” CBS News senior vp Paul Friedman said. “If one man gets 270 electoral votes before the West Coast polls are closed, we’re not going to pretend (he doesn’t).”
Sounds like the networks think it’ll be a short night, at least for president. The Senate and House races may take [...]
Wil B. It’s a Brighter Day
Clifford J. Tasner (one of the Billionaires) links to Wil B’s optimistic “It’s a Brighter Day.” from HuffPo.
Yes, better days are almost here. Get out and vote if you haven’t already.
I met Wil B some years back at an antiwar meeting in L.A. He said he was going to try hip hop and if it [...]
Why Sue will be happy when the election is over
I generally wake up before Sue does. So, by the time she’s up and about, I’m already hyper-caffeinated and tend to greet her with a torrent of election news and poll results.
Aria preparations continue
USA Today/Gallup: Obama 53%. McCain 42%.
Financial Times: “Obama extends lead.”
WaPo/ABC poll: Obama holds a “sizable advantage.”
ABC pollster. Obama “closing strongly.”
