Things tagged with politics:

In today’s segment we’re going to post what is probably one of those videos that completely undermines your faith in America as a country. Of course, it’s a select video to show the craziest of the crazies but, these days, you don’t have to look very hard. This woman: Yells “Heil Hitler” at a Israeli…

A basic refresher for those that haven’t read the Constitution in a while.

What “I Have a Dream” means to an Asian Australian living in the Pacific Northwest.

Do we have some new Obama mamas?

You think I’m sick of talking about politics yet? Nope. I need to empty all these thoughts in my head. Over the course of this election campaign, some pretty awful things were said. The thought bounced around my head while I listened to McCain’s concession speech and Obama’s acceptance speech. They were very gracious and…

FYI: This entry was written at 6am on November 5th, 2008. The results are in and I’ve been proven to be… cynical. All the talk of the voter suppression and disenfranchisement that occurred in previous elections was unnecessary because Obama has won the presidency with hugely strong numbers. Not to say that the voting process…

Report Voting Weirdness CNN has a voter irregularities map. If you’re voting in a state where you think The Man is going to steal your vote away, please write the number down and take it with you to the voting booth. It may take hours to line up and exercise your right as a US…

I sometimes wonder how many readers I’ve driven away with all the political links I’ve been posting lately. There’s the obvious liberal bias: linking to Obama speeches, moderately left places like HuffPo and attack dogs like Daily Kos and Andrew Sullivan. And I do have this mildly-disturbing man-love thing going for Obama in the same…

DILO Sep 07 – Lipstick by Auntie P My head is swimming. But I’m going to try to talk about today’s political attacks. And I’ll most likely be wrong because I’m stupid enough to get my news from the internet. I don’t know how journalists write about this crap for a living. No wonder they…

Welfare is, as I understand it, financial aid given to those who we deem require it. Money doesn’t grow on trees so I guess we need to take money from those that have it and give it to those who don’t. There’s a lot to argue inside this space because sometimes the government takes too…

I’m starting to get excited about politics again. It’s been a while since the fumbles of John Kerry and I’m being suckered into believing that people are going to vote for someone who genuinely wants to turn around this administration’s mess. It feels like I’m waking from a long 4-year hibernation. It’s been many quiet…

Quote: The end of the Roman Empire is traditionally, if not strictly accurately, placed at 4 September AD 476, when the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, Romulus Augustus, was deposed and not replaced. There’s a long-ish Wikipedia page about the fall of the Roman Empire. More accurately, it’s a page listing all the…

Wow. This movie may be Michael Moore’s most important work to date. If you haven’t heard, Michael Moore’s SiCKO is a movie that examines America’s market-driven health insurance system and the glaring lack of universal health care that the majority of other developed nations provide. Michael Moore’s introduction to the movie and a call to…

I hate watching TV sometimes. Today’s case in point: 9am with David and Kim and the likes of Today Tonight. First, 9am. David mentions something about this day in history being the day that the Dutch discovered Australia. Shortly after, Kim studiously reads off her prompter about a new music video released by Anthony Mundine…

Thanks to things such as religious family groups with political agendas, creationism in schools and a host of other things rooted in greed and blind faith rather than moral and ethics, I mentally flinch around the word “Christian”. And that’s a shame; it really is. Our school priest was a funny guy I grew up…

Seriously? One of the Victorian Liberal Party’s promises just confounds me. They promise to provide free public transport to students (PDF 90kB). Little Johnny Look, public transport is expensive. But to me, it feels like it is money being thrown into the wrong place. For one thing, you’re not making the education any better. Don’t…