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Monday, May 26, 2008
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Same sex marriage
I support same-sex marriage. The civil right and incidents of civil marriage should be available to two consenting adults. I know a lot of Americans disagree. I know a lot of California Americans disagree. Finally, I know that those California Americans who disagree are not stupid. Through the initiative process, they enacted a law which bans same-sex marriage in California. That laws has been overturned.
I see that Article 18, section 3 of the California constitution gives the residents of California the right to amend the state constitution by initiative. But how? How many votes? If it's the same number of votes to enact a new law or amend the constitution, why not amend the constitution? Is there a stigma attached to a constitutional amendment?
I really don't know. If the voters of California can ban same-sex marriage by a simple majority vote for a constitutional amendment, why are they voting on this now, rather than 8 years ago in Prop 22? Is it the difference between refusing to recognize other states' marriages versus recognizing California marriages?
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Math-ly hilarious
Dude, partisanship is teh awesome! Here's Lanny Davis suggesting a totally fair solution to the Michigan delegate problem:
So what is the fairest solution for the Rules Committee, taking into account Michigan's and Florida's willingness to revote but for the failure of the Obama campaign to sit down and work out details to solve their "concerns"?...In Michigan, Clinton received 55 percent of the vote. According to Thegreenpapers.com, she thus should receive 73 pledged delegates based on that percentage.
What about the 50 remaining uncommitted delegates, and 7 collectively cast for Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, who were also on the ballot?
Some of those 50 delegates might have been for Clinton as a second choice to candidates other than Obama, so it would be totally unfair to award all 50 delegates to Obama.
...The Rules Committee has several options. The fairest would be to allocate those 57 pledged delegates, to Clinton and Obama by the same ratio of their standing to one another in the average of the most recent Michigan statewide polls prior to the Jan. 15 primary. Or perhaps one Solomonic compromise, more generous to Obama than to Clinton, would be to divide the remaining delegates approximately 50-50 between the two of them, 28-27 (giving Clinton the extra delegate since she led in all the latest statewide polls prior to Jan. 15).
Yep. That's right. The suggestion from the Clinton camp is to first award Clinton delegates based on the people who actually voted for her in the rule-breaking Michigan primary and then (THEN!) take the allocable delegates from the people who specifically chose NOT to vote for Clinton and award them based on polling.
The fair thing, then, is to make sure that Clinton gets 75% of the delegates from a state where she would have gotten roughly 50% of the vote.
Hillary ... please quit. Two months ago.
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Sunday, May 25, 2008
He's 67 today? Really?
Man, they're all getting old. And so am I, I guess.
Labels: music video
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Monday, March 03, 2008
Because I like Wesley Clark...
and hate John Hinderaker I have to rip off TBogg's post wholesale:
Power Line's John Hinderaker, most famous for this:
It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.
...has this to say about Wesley Clark:
In my opinion, retired general Wes Clark is one of the least impressive people who have entered public life in recent years. He is, among other things, a partisan hack.
That would be this Wesley Clark:
General Wesley Kanne Clark, (born December 23, 1944) is a retired four-star general of the United States Army. Clark was valedictorian of his class at West Point, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in PPE (Philosophy, Politics & Economics), and later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense, receiving many military decorations, several honorary knighthoods, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
[...]
Clark was assigned a position in the 1st Infantry Division and flew to Vietnam on May 21, 1969 during the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He worked as a staff officer, collecting data and helping in operations planning, and was awarded the Bronze Star for his work with the staff. Clark was then given command of A Company, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry of the 1st Infantry Division in January 1970. In February, only one month into his command, he was shot four times by a Viet Cong soldier with an AK-47. The wounded Clark shouted orders to his men, who counterattacked and defeated the Viet Cong force. Clark had injuries to his right shoulder, right hand, right hip, and right leg, and was sent to Valley Forge Army Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania to recuperate. He was awarded the Silver Star for his actions during the encounter.[19]
In 1975, Clark was appointed a White House Fellow in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as a special assistant to its director, James Thomas Lynn. He was one of only 14 appointed out of 2,307 applicants.[24] Lynn also gave Clark a six-week assignment to assist John Marsh, then a counselor to the President. Clark was approached during his fellowship to help push for a memorial to the Vietnam War. He worked with the movement that ultimately helped lead to the creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Clark took two commands with the 1st Armored Division based in Germany from August 1976 to February 1978, first over the 3rd Battalion 35th Armor and then the entire 3rd Brigade.[21] Clark's brigade commander while in the former position said Clark was "singularly outstanding, notably superb." Regarding his term as brigade commander, one of his battalion commanders called Clark the "most brilliant and gifted officer [he'd] ever known."[25] He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for his work with the division.
Not to be outdone, in 1976 George W. Bush was awarded a DUI.
Contrast and compare.
Yeah, first in his class at West Point (wasn't McCain something like 5th from the bottom at Annapolis?), wounded in Vietnam, four star general. Nothing impressive here, folks, move along. Many people see Clark as a likely VP for a Clinton ticket. I think he'd be an even better one for Obama. I think especially with McCain as the Republican candidate the Dems need to go with a military man. Plus he's from the south. If he could bring the Dems Virginia and his home state of Arkansas the race is over.
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Star Tribune: Here's what the CUNT leader thinks of Obama
The online version of the Star Tribune runs this AP story suggesting that Barack Obama isn't patriotic enough to run for President. He doesn't wear a lapel pin. Yikes. He didn't put his hand over his heart during the singing of the national anthem. Scary. Michelle Obama said she's not always proud of her country.
These charges are ridiculous enough that they don't merit any response. As George Carlin once said, I'll leave symbols to the symbol-minded.
On the other hand, the AP story quotes one Roger Stone, Republican consultant:
"The reason it hasn't been an issue so far is that we're still in the microcosm of the Democratic primary," said Republican consultant Roger Stone. "Many Americans will find the three things offensive. Barack Obama is out of the McGovern wing of the party, and he is part of the blame America first crowd."
Whatever Obama is, at least he's not part of the Call Hillary Clinton a Cunt Crowd. I mention that, because Roger Stone is:
A couple of days ago, a group called Citizens United Not Timid filed papers with the IRS as a "527" organization. Then we saw that Roger Stone had signed on as the group's "assistant treasurer." Uh oh.
Stone, regular TPM readers know, is a Republican operative who prides himself as something of an elder statesman of GOP dirty tricks. He went to work for Richard Nixon at age nineteen, making him the "youngest Watergate dirty trickster." He continues to idolize the man, even sporting a tattoo of Nixon's face between his shoulder blades. On his website, the StoneZone, he proudly touts Nixon's endorsement of him as "one of the very few excellent political professionals."
The cleverness of C-U-N-T is on display here. The logo and t-shirts make clear that the aim of the group is to educate the nation about "what Hillary Clinton really is".
The Star Tribune's readership deserves to know who Roger Stone, Republican consultant, really is.
Labels: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Instead of live blogging tonight's eclipse
Which was pretty cool, BTW, here are some moon songs.
Even recorded on a handheld camcorder she still has a voice that would make bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.
I was on may way out of a hotel room in Hawaii in 1999 when this stopped me dead in my tracks. "Holy crap, is that Nick Drake in a TV commercial?" I don't always like hearing favorite songs used to sell products but this was too beautiful not to love.
Some people claim that a recording just can't do justice to a live performance. I never believed that until I saw Neil Young do a solo acoustic show. This song in particular.
One of the top five shows I've ever seen was a double bill with these guys and New Order at Northrup in about 1986. I had to buy both t-shirts. Ironic to finally see a video after all these years since I discovered the band when I saw an ad for "Ocean Rain" in Rolling Stone that (taking a shot at the then new MTV) said something along the lines of "In a world of music for the eyes Echo & the Bunnymen make music for the ears." True enough. It's a great song and a lame video.
Labels: music video
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Political wives in glass houses
For those not glued to the news today, Michelle Obama said something kind of dumb and the right wing jumped all over it. Par for the course. Then Cindy McCain takes a little shot at her as well. Guess I can't blame her for that. But it turns out, and this was all news to me, that maybe Cindy McCain shouldn't be putting herself too far into the limelight if the campaigns get nasty. I had no idea that she had supported a drug habit back in the 90s by stealing drugs from a non-profit relief agency she worked for and escaped jail time mainly by being the wife of a sitting US senator. (Read about it here.) I don't really think this is the sort of thing presidential campaigns should be about but I'm amazed that this isn't something that all that many people have heard about. Can you imagine if a Democratic candidate's spouse had that in their background? Fox wouldn't let a day go by without mentioning it. If the linked article can be believed the McCain camp actually managed to work the issue as a way to distract from the fact that Senator McCain was at the time knee deep in the Keating 5 savings and loan scandal. Now past corruption by a presidential candidate? There just might be a president for that being fair game in a campaign, tho.
Labels: John McCain, Obama, politics
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Friday, February 08, 2008
Klobuchar, Coleman vote to extend unemployment compensation
Credit where credit is due: both Amy Klobuchar and Norm Coleman voted in favor of the Senate bill which would extend unemployment compensation benefits. For a stimulus package to be effective, it has to put money in the hands of people who will spend it. The men and women who have been out of work for months need help now.
Good for Sen. Klobuchar. Good for Sen. Coleman.
I'm still voting for Al Franken.
Labels: Amy Klobuchar, Smilin Norm
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Bearded lady writes about the circus
Actually, I got nothin' on this, it's just that it's been over a year since I took a cheap shot at Minnesota's Worst Writer™. Today's one sided hatchet job is no worse than most of her drivel but I just didn't want to pass up the headline.
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Don't worry, you still have one more guess
0 commentsStanding Wednesday amid the debris field of twisted metal and pink insulation, Carmon Lagunes struggled to grasp why God would take her sister.
"That's his wrath," she said, looking toward the wreckage. "For some reason, he's not happy right now and this is. ... Nobody understands God's will. I sure as hell don't understand it.
Said Anita Goodnight, the sisters' aunt: "God didn't do it. Satan did."
Monday, February 04, 2008
What to do tomorrow, what to do?
My caucus is tomorrow night and I have vacillated on this race for months. I was an Obama fan as soon as I heard him at the 2004 convention but eventually found myself leaning towards Hillary this year. But as the caucus date got closer I still was not really sure and finally decided I was going to go with Edwards since I was closer to him on the issues. And with the Minnesota caucus moved up I was going to finally, FINALLY, get to vote for my first choice for a change. I never got that chance with Gary Hart, Bob Kerry, Bruce Babbit or Wesley Clark, but this year... But of course, true to form, it was not to be. So the last few days I've been in a quandary. So I took the Jerjo approach and asked myself, what would the crew of the Starship Enterprise do? Dr. McCoy would definitely be an Obama man, while I'm sure Spock would be supporting Hillary. Kirk, I'm afraid to say, might be leaning towards McCain. Screw the Prime Directive! (Picard? I'm sure that wanker is going to support whoever the Tories run against Gordon Brown.)
So where does that leave me? I think I will likely support Obama tomorrow night. I'm a little worried about him, tho. He seems to be running to the right of Hillary and I fear the Republican slime machine (you know, the thing that convinced half the public that a three time purple heart winner was more of a coward than the man who went AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard) will eat him alive. I think Hillary would be a more effective president, get more accomplished, and be able to go toe to toe with the toughest bastards the Rs can throw at her. But I have spent my entire adult life supporting who I thought was the most capable and intelligent candidate only to see the Republicans win by running some amiable dunce. (Obama is by no means a dunce. You don't get to be Harvard Law Review Editor without being pretty darn bright. Hillary, however, is smarter still.) So maybe it's time to give charisma a try. And maybe slime doesn't stick to someone people (and importantly, the press) actually likes. We'll see.
(Oh, and the rest of the crew? Uhura speaks Swhahili so I'm sure she's in the Obama camp. Scotty was a Biden man, Chekov was too. Sulu supported Kucinich and Nurse Chapel strikes as a woman with a thing for Chris Dodd. Yoeman Rand I'm sorry to say lies awake at night fantasizing that Rudy Giuliani will take her up to his Ground Zero love nest and unbraid her hair. All the guys in red shirts don't get to caucus since they're stuck in Iraq. The M113 Creature (aka salt vampire) is not just supporting Fred Thompson, it IS Fred Thompson. The horta is of course all for Huckabee, gotta protect them silicon nod...er I mean, babies! I don't usually bother myself with thoughts about TNG but I'm sure Wesley Crusher is out stumping for Mitt Romney.)
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The da Vinci coed
This is kind of a letdown. For years I had been hoping it really was the artist in drag, just because that would make so many people uncomfortable.
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Too late to amend the complaint?
Sometimes I'm disappointed we don't get more comments here at 3WN. But when you get comments, sometimes this sort of thing happens. Wouldn't want that. Of course none of us here at 3WN are quite as stupid as Confederate Yankee so maybe the chances are small.
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Thursday, January 03, 2008
What would Elliot Lowdermilk say?
The over-the-top comedic parody from Scrooged:
The Rudy Giuliani campaign, going one better:
Labels: Giuliani
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