Posted in Buffalo, politics, ramble on 7 November 2008 - 10 חשון 5769
ER HOST Had a spate of Retail Therapy this week. I purchased a couple of things on Amazon and, as always, I needed to break the $25 limit to get the free shipping.
I picked up a copy of the 2009 ECOlogical Calendar, always an incredibly beautiful celebration of God’s Earthly Cycles disguised as [...]
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Posted in politics on 6 November 2008 - 9 חשון 5769
O LAST Night at the Housing Co-Op we had our weekly pot luck. For afters we had some tasty homemade cakes frosted in a way that many will recognise:
I took the cake and cut the first slice. As I passed it to my right I said, “This is my Obama, given for you.”
No [...]
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Posted in teh internets on 5 November 2008 - 8 חשון 5769
NY ONE Else amused by the ideas offered in the opening line of the advert that the BBC chose to put next to its Election Coverage?
The Ad came from Liberty Mutual, btw.
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Posted in politics on 4 November 2008 - 7 חשון 5769
S MANY Of my regular readers will no, I predicted we’d not even get to have an election this year - because I thought that the possibility of Obama winning would be too scary for certain parties. But then Obama caved on civil rights as vrs national security and I saw there’d be no [...]
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Posted in politics on 22 October 2008 - 24 תשרי 5769
KAY, OKAY. I have to post this one - even though it breaks my promise to stay out of the presidential silliness. Complete with a quote from noted Revolutionary, Socialist, (and personal hero) James Connolly…
This takes on our ideas of race as much as our politics. For any white American who said he [...]
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Posted in other geekery, other paths on 13 October 2008 - 15 תשרי 5769
EALITY SANDWICH Points out some disturbing astrological parallels between Obama and Lincoln. If you’ve been reading closely for, oh, the last 10 years, you know I think Lincoln may have freed the slaves (on paper, at least) but he enslaved the rest of us. Thus hearing that Obama has some kind of newage [...]
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Posted in AnarXPistos, politics on 3 September 2008 - 4 אלול 5768
NCE AGAIN We’ve reached that curious juncture in American Poltics where Christians on the Left and Christians on the Right are trying to make the other side into Canon Fodder, pardon the pun.
Palin is a pious, Christian who was baptised Roman Catholic and apostatised as a child. Now she speaks in tongues, thinks [...]
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Posted in politics on 27 August 2008 - 27 אב 5768
NYONE Else fascinated by the idea that Obama has ties to 60s-era radicals? Admittedly: these are ties that are meaningless to his politics. The man is as centrist as John McCain (as far as Washington goes). Of course, Ayers is only as radical as most 60 year old hippies.
For the last [...]
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Posted in jocularity, politics on 23 August 2008 - 23 אב 5768
HEN YOU Put ‘em both together you end up with this odd word:
Obamabiden
Obamabiden: clearly a Germanic word, it’s the sort of thing that the Governator said in his youth. “Ya! Ve vent down unt zaw zee Obamabiden.”
Maybe, in Germanic, “biden” means person who lives there so, in the case of an [...]
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Posted in other geekery, politics on 28 July 2008 - 26 תמוז 5768
T COMES To me today, as I’m driving up from North Carolina that the current political climate could be sketched out in Tarot cards, using both the esoteric and exoteric meanings. (This is your brain, this is your brain after 13 hours driving, any questions?) This is a work in progress…
The Fool, Barack [...]
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