Dear Edward McClelland of the Ward Room

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0[/youtube]

Worst analysis ever:

Awesome

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTtiieTSe4I[/youtube]

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Pretty similar, but there’s a payoff at the very end that’s worth it in the second.

It Gets Better

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This is a really moving story told by a Council Member in Fort Worth Texas.

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Visit the Trevor Project for more

While my mother is conservative, homophobia in its strongest forms was not in our home.  She had friends who were gay and viewed them as they are–normal people.  One friend likely died of AIDS largely in secret because Central Illinois was just not the place that gay men were out 20 years ago. 

My mother had a strange history with gay men–she married one in her second marriage (I wasn’t born yet).  He was a Naval Officer and she was his unwitting beard.  While in Morocco he was discovered by the Military Police. They came and got my mother and sister and packed up their stuff and they never saw him again.  While she was hurt and bitter, it later taught her how difficult and unfair that was. 

As a kid, I didn’t bully other kids–but I am guilty as many if not most of us at my age of teasing and laughing at guys who weren’t traditionally masculine. I can never take that back, but I can hope that young people today learn better and I certainly raise my children that way. 

Cruella Da Brady Updated X2

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nvBtioirsg[/youtube]

Cruella De Vil: Any way you want. Poison them, drown them, bash them on the head. Got any chloroform? I don’t care how you kill the little beasts. Just do it, and do it NOW!

Get me those puppies!

Sorry, it was just too easy.  Quinn is getting a lot of press making fun of the ad and while I tend to have a far more complicated view of animal rights (I don’t see why we can’t slaughter horses if we slaughter hogs) it’s  a legitimate issue.  Just because it sounds like a parody doesn’t mean it’s not a valid issue.  Is it as clear cut as Quinn makes it in the ad?  No, but it’s also not the first political campaign ad to be a bit sensationalistic.

That said, it’s not my fault the Republicans didn’t nominate Kirk Dillard.

I am interested to see how Brady is going to respond to this.  Most of the ways I’ve imagined it so far don’t do much good. Imagine, “I only want to allow dogs to be gassed when…”

UPDATE: Aaron has a slightly different take–I’m not sure the pure emotional strategy isn’t the best, but he has some good points about this being an example of responding to the wishes of an individual constituent.

Photo Credit: Birdwatcher  Thanks!

Countdown on Kirk

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Dorf did a great job putting the comments in context:


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And, of course, the site gets listed as a source.  Not much, but for a small state blogger, hey!

Worst Person in the World

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Chicago Board of Elections:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7D5W5ct400[/youtube]

Thought I’d do the last segment first, didn’t ya!

From The Comments

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Sigh

Hey NUTSUCKER LOVER show me where in the Commerce Clause it states that the Commerce Clause of the Constitution DEMANDS I HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE. You can’t can you little NUTBAG LOVER. You NUTSUCKER, BAG LICKER’S are going to find we are feed up with you little pussy coward asses, NUTBAG LICKING, dope smoking, can’t shower, basement dwelling little COWARD’S. SEIU THUG’S? What an oxymoron. (S)PECIAL (E)D (I)DIOT’S are (U)S. Bash the face of any Union pussy that screws with YOU is my motto. You Procrap’s wanted a WAR and YOU got it. We will find you and destroy you as we destroy any THREAT to this GREAT COUNTRY.

The thing that still baffles me about these is the use of caps.

I’m also trying to decide if that’s an actionable threat…your thoughts.

For the old inhabitants of usenet-one guess on what service provider the IP is from.

The Grave Danger of Sharia Law

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The woman is completely nuts.

Whether it be just affecting a segment of the population, a demographic, certainly not in its entirety all over our country, Americans will not stand for this because Americans are smart enough to know Sharia law, if that were to be adopted — allowed to govern in our country, it will be the downfall of America. And too many Americans are onto this already and are starting to rise up and send that message to our federal officials and say, no, we will not put up with any hint of Sharia law being any sort of law of the land.

One might note the First Amendment if some wingnut brings up Sharia Law.

Or one might point out that is a ridiculous idea and that danger of Sharia Law being imposed in the United States is far down the worry list around alien invasion with Galactus showing up to gobble the planet up.

Eddie asked me to be a part of it, so I went out there to meet with them

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The appropriate answer when Eddie Vrdolyak asks you to do anything is to flip him the bird.

Joe Berrios doesn’t think so, however.

Cook County Democratic Party Chairman Joe Berrios, who also attended the luncheon, said he distributed coats at two sites in the city for the charity.

“Eddie asked me to be a part of it, so I went out there to meet with them,” said Berrios, who is running for Cook County assessor.

Whitey

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It’s awful and stupid:

SPRINGFIELD — The last name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney is misspelled as “Whitey” on electronic-voting machines in nearly two dozen wards — about half in predominantly African-American areas — and election officials said Wednesday the problem cannot be corrected by Election Day.

The misspelling turned up on touch-screen machines in 23 wards overall. Whitney’s name is spelled correctly on the machines’ initial screens showing all of the candidates’ names, but it is misspelled on review screens that later show a voter his or her choices, said Jim Allen, spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections.

“This is a difficult situation. We’ll make the best of it. But the important thing is the name is spelled correctly where it counts, and that’s where people are making the selection,” Allen said.

Allen said there is not adequate time to reprogram and test machines before Nov. 2. He predicted about 90 percent of the ballots cast that day will be on paper ballots, where Whitney’s name is spelled properly.

The city election board plans to post a “candidate-neutral” list at polling places, showing the correctly spelled names of all candidates on the ballot, Allen said.

The snafu, however, has Whitney contemplating legal action to force a fix.

“I don’t want to be identified as ‘Whitey.’ If this is happening in primarily African-American wards, that’s an even bigger concern,” Whitney told the Chicago Sun-Times. “I don’t know if this is machine politics at play or why this happened.”

“In any event, whether it is or not, this has to be disconcerting to a voter, and I wonder how this will impact the vote.”

But Rich, you aren’t getting a whole lot of black votes anyway.

And it really shouldn’t be that hard to reprogram the machines.