tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75806440244838945322011-04-21T17:53:51.827-04:00Rarely extreme, always opinionated.MamaDebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13738057939429244193noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580644024483894532.post-13855286351646689472009-01-19T18:29:00.001-05:002009-01-19T18:29:23.120-05:00

I need to get my thoughts in order about this, because they're very complex.Number one, it simply doesn't feel real to me. I've been waiting for this day for eight years in a way that I hadn't waited twelve years for Clinton's. The election of 2000 was horrible and heartbreaking. It's not about the long, drawn-out recount, or the way it was eventually decided, or whether or not it was stolen -

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1. Obama as symbol of hope and pride.2. Thanks Cheney and his parents, wife and daughters. Thanks us for our trust - yeah, that got us far.3. Talking about 9/11, and how it affected him. Talking about the morning briefings to keep us safe. Um. Talked about Homeland security - how it gave us new tools. And we've taken the fight to the terrorists.4. Iraq is our friend? Really?5. Seven years

MamaDebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13738057939429244193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580644024483894532.post-30062385232365792552009-01-02T09:59:00.001-05:002009-01-02T09:59:23.853-05:00

It's a bunch of mostly modern Orthodox Jews - men in crocheted kippot, women in hats and skirts.  And it's been fun, mostly.  The smaller kids, fascinated by the yarn I was winding, gravitated to me, and I ended up making both a tiny hat and a tiny purse - dolly sized.But there's also politics.  And this crowd believes that the only focus should be Israel, and many also believe that only

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Rod seems to have found the one person who wouldn't turn him down if offered the job.  He must have gone down a list to find him - and I also suspect he doesn't like Burris very much, since all this appointment has done is humiliate the guy and all his guilelessness - I get the impression, he's regarded as a lovable loser in Illinois.Ah,  *just* the person one wants as one's senator.  I'd take

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This is an ugly situation and ugly things are happening. I could wish, and do wish, that Israel could have or would have found another way to defend herself. The facts are that they tried not responding, and that didn't work (big shock.) They tried a blockade, but Hamas doesn't care about the ordinary Palestinians under their control, and it failed. It also got Israel into a lot of trouble,

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He doesn't actually seem to have committed one. He has all these expletive-laced phone calls (expletives not being a crime) about what he'd *like* to get for naming a senator, with the threat that otherwise he'd name himself, yes.But there is no record of his actually asking for these bribes. There were some dealings with Jesse Jackson, Jr's people, but even those don't seem to be incriminating.

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President-elect Barack Obama (and it's really interesting how that title is so easy to say these days) asked Reverend Rick Warren to say the invocation at his inauguration, and that bothers me immensely.One reason is the same as pretty much anyone else - Obama ran on a platform of human rights, which include women's rights, reproductive rights and LGBTQ rights. Warren opposes gay and

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US Judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf.Why am I calling this religious privilege? Because you know that if a woman not overtly identified with any religious group (and therefore assumed, by default, to be Christian) came in wearing a covering of some sort - hat, scarf, wig - because she's undergoing chemotherapy, she'd not have been asked to leave. I suspect, although I do NOT know, if a

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And after I said such nice things about the Republicans just the other day, too.The Southern Republican senators *could* have said that they were simply looking out for the best interests of their constituents employed in the foreign auto plants in their states. That would have been reasonable and right - it's their jobs to look out for their constituents.But they didn't. Not once. What did

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There's this thing I've been noticing over the past few weeks - since the election, actually, and it's a good thing.I remember clearly the anger when Clinton was elected, after twelve years of Republican control of the White House. People were declaring loudly and on TV that he "was not their president." The opposition went to work immediately (while then President-Elect Clinton went on a

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Hi.Why yet another blog from the left? For a whole host of reasons. I wanted a place I felt more comfortable saying what I think than in my beloved LiveJournal, although I have no intention of abandoning my permanent account there. Because I've been paying close attention to the media and politics since the primaries and I needed a forum of my own.Because you get far enough on the left, you

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