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Archive for November 8th, 2008
apropos of nothing #5
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Knights of the Round Table, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Star Trek meets Monty Python on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
wall street journal: the perils of republican populist chic
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2008 Election, GOP populism, Mark Lilla, Sarah Palin conservatism, the death of intellectual conservatism, The Perils of Populist chic, Wall Street Journal on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Lilla charts the descent of conservatism to the blunt instrument it has become today:
Over the next 25 years there grew up a new generation of conservative writers who cultivated none of their elders’ intellectual virtues — indeed, who saw themselves as counter-intellectuals. Most are well-educated and many have attended Ivy League universities; in fact, [...]
next prop 8 protest: salt lake city
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2008 Election, anti-gay LDS, anti-Mormon protests, marriage equality, no on 8 protest Salt Lake City, Proposition 8 Utah, Salt Lake Tribune, same-sex marriage on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From the Salt Lake Tribune today:
More than 3,000 people swarmed downtown Salt Lake City to march past the LDS temple and church headquarters, protesting Mormon involvement in the campaign for California’s Proposition 8. The measure, which defined marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman, passed this week.
. . . Former Salt Lake [...]
gail collins: a political manners manual
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2008 Election, A Political Manners Manual, Gail Collins, Joseph Lieberman, New York Times, Obama transition team, Sarah Palin on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Miss Manners meets Collins wit:
Still, there is a fine line between good sportsmanship and being played for a sucker. I am thinking of McCain’s other BFF, Senator Joseph Lieberman, who not only endorsed the Republican ticket and spoke at the Republican convention but also said, in the course of the campaign, that unlike McCain, Obama did [...]
meanwhile, back in alaska . . . should we just call it “palingate” now?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2008 Election, AK Muckraker, Alaska politics, clothesgate, dairygate, McCain-Palin meltdown, Mudflats, palingate, Sarah Palin, travelgate, troopergate on November 8, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I mean, you’ve got your troopergate (that ain’t over; civil suits to come, and who knows how the legislative and personnel board findings will be reconciled), your clothesgate, your housegate, your dairygate (damn shame that one never got more play during the national), your travelgate, your per-diem-gate… am I missing anything? Probably. There were other [...]
mormons: specializing in out-of-state hate support
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mormon anti-gay funding, Mormons anti-gay marriage, Mormons gay marriage ban Alaska, Mormons Prop 8 funding on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Americablog flashback:
Of the $600,000 anti-gay bigots had in hand to try to ban gay marriage in Alaska in October 1998, $500,000 came from one big lump sum donation from the Mormon Church. That’s 83% of the entire hateful campaign financed by the Mormon Church. In California, one study showed that 77% of the donations to [...]
revoke the mormon church’s 501(c)(3) status
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged California constitutional rights, California gay marriage, fight Prop 8 passage, marriage equality, Mormon Church Prop 8 funding, Mormon Church tax exempt status, Mormons against Prop 8, No on 8 petitions, protest Mormon Church, same-sex marriage, signingforsomething.org on November 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Hold onto your hats, here comes the Irony Express:
Marriage is a civil contract. You might as well make a law to say how many children a man shall have, as to make a law to say how many wives he shall have. (Journal of Discourses, 11:268-9)
Yes, the words of Brigham Young, folks, the man [...]
bush pushes through drilling next to national park lands
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bureau of Land Management selling federal land, Bush selling oil and gas leases, New York Times: Another Parting Gift, environment Bush Administration, Arches National Park, Grand Canyon uranium mining, Desolation Canyon up for sale, Canyonlands National Park on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sickening. What a joke that while Bush stood at his podium this week making a pretty speech pledging full support of and cooperation with the transition team, behind the scenes he’s busy rushing through as many vile deals as he can, sidestepping all checks and balances, before Obama takes office. Sure, there’s always some last-minute partisan agendas that an outgoing president tries to wedge in [...]
