‘Net Roots’ Event Becomes Democrats’ Other National Convention Last month, in a straw poll on the popular liberal blog Daily Kos, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), the front-runner for her party’s presidential nomination, won only 9 percent of the vote, lagging far behind former senator John Edwards (N.C.) with 36 percent and Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) with 27 percent. She couldn’t make it past 4 percent for most of the year. But as the who’s who of the progressive blogosphere — the “Net roots” — gather in Chicago for the YearlyKos convention, which started yesterday, Clinton will be there. Her…
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Greenberg Quinlan Rosner | News Washington, DC. Democracy Corps and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner have completed a comprehensive and multi-modal survey of America’s youth ages 18-29. This major, multi-mode survey of America’s young people shows young people profoundly alienated from the Republican Party and poised to deliver a significant majority to the Democratic nominee for President in 2008. Involving a combination of land-line telephone survey, cell-phone interviews and web research, surveyors overcame the inherent difficulties and biases of researching this population. The survey finds young people profoundly alienated from the Republican party and its perceived values. Both Hillary Clinton and Barack…
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Greenberg Quinlan Rosner | News Washington, DC. Democracy Corps and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner have completed a comprehensive and multi-modal survey of America’s youth ages 18-29. This major, multi-mode survey of America’s young people shows young people profoundly alienated from the Republican Party and poised to deliver a significant majority to the Democratic nominee for President in 2008. Involving a combination of land-line telephone survey, cell-phone interviews and web research, surveyors overcame the inherent difficulties and biases of researching this population.The survey finds young people profoundly alienated from the Republican party and its perceived values. Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama…
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UPDATE:Yes, yes, I know that ATMs have to be ADA-compliant, but still, this one is in a drive-up only bay, where signs clearly say that pedestrians should visit the ATM in the entrance lobby for safety’s sake. The only way a person with severe vision impairments could safely visit this one is if he or she is in the left-hand rear passenger seat. How often does that happen? Clearly, not often, even though someone has added a somewhat helpful addendum to the notice about the audio assistance: “Blind people shouldn’t drive.” Via: Flickr Title: Blind people shouldn’t drive By: GinnyRED57…
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Boing Boing: Happy Sysadmin Day, Ken! Today is the last Friday in July and that makes it Sysadmin Appreciation Day! As I said in my acceptance speech when I won the Locus Award for my story, When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth: Systems administrators are the unsung heroes of the twenty first century, our tireless morlocks who keep the entire universe running. The best sysadmins I’ve met treat their jobs as holy callings. They understand that they’re keeping the infrastructure of the information age alive and functional. Hey, I did not know this. My husband David is a kind of sysadmin…
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Via: Flickr Title: 07-28-07_1237.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 28 Jul ’07, 12.38pm CDT PST
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Via: Flickr Title: 07-28-07_1230.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 28 Jul ’07, 12.32pm CDT PST
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AP: New Details on Tillmans Death – Forbes.com Among other information contained in the documents:_ In his last words moments before he was killed, Tillman snapped at a panicky comrade under fire to shut up and stop “sniveling.” _ Army attorneys sent each other congratulatory e-mails for keeping criminal investigators at bay as the Army conducted an internal friendly-fire investigation that resulted in administrative, or non-criminal, punishments. _ The three-star general who kept the truth about Tillman’s death from his family and the public told investigators some 70 times that he had a bad memory and couldnt recall details of…
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The Democrats Contempt Play – TIME Conyers, in his own nod to civility, warned three often-outspoken members of his own caucus to respect the civil tone of the hearing before they made their remarks. Indeed, nary a member on either side raised their voice and the panel had occasional moments of laughter, as whenRepresentative Chris Cannon accidentally voted against his own amendment in a voice vote. Oh, they’ll love this in Utah. What a maroon.
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The Salt Lake Trib has a surprisingly robust editorial on the passing of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner. I’ve never approved of televangelists whose conspicuous consumption while spouting the so-called “prosperity gospel” seemed out of keeping with the Biblical message of helping the poor – it was too much like helping themselves to as much cash they could cadge from a gullible public. But even so, “nil nisi bonum” and all that. Although, I’m pretty taken with the image of Tammy Faye’s spackle – you know, that stuff she laid on with a trowel. Salt Lake Tribune – Tammy Faye Messner:…