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On The Eve of The Dawn of a Brand New Day

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

MY HOPE IS THAT WE CARRY THIS FORWARD. This energy now rising. That we all carry on with this decision to work for a new day and a new way of seeing. A way out of the hate and the fear and the small-minded paradigms that keep us running in circles as we try to spiral up to the Top of the Shining Heap and step on other hands to get there. That we continue to open our minds and our hearts and become this change we want so much to believe in.

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What Lurks Under the Folksy

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

THE CUTE AND FUN SARAH PALIN, while grinning and winking and droppin’ gs galore, is very cleverly tossing rancid scraps to the beasts of violence and fear that shuffle in the shadows cast by John McCain’s campaign and the GOP. You’ve heard it before, but here’s a lingual breakdown that makes the case in a convincing and terrifying way.

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Choosing the Lesser of Two Evils…

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

THE ROOTS OF OUR GOVERNMENT have wound up from the ground of a less enlightened time. And yet they reach into today and still feed the same power base. The framers created US Government around the idea that the elites know best how to rule the rabble, and this continues. Is a vote for a third party a good idea now? Is a vote for Obama any different than a vote for McCain?

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Ready to Strike!

Monday, October 27th, 2008

NOBODY likes to think this way, yet we are well aware of how much the Right does not want to let go of the grip on power they thought they had and thought they would have forever. From Delay to Rove to Bush; from the last two stolen elections to the recent DOJ vote purge, the thieving Republicans have shown us that Democracy means nada to them. So we must prepare.

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A Loathsome Day On Parade

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

MY HEART RACED faster and faster and when it was over I…I let the sadness wash through me as it had to for a few moments. The bold ignorance and hate and bigotry was…terrifying. And sad. And loathesome. And real. But not new. This energy takes people’s lives every day in some part of this land. But maybe we move closer to a new time. And simply that possibility is inspiring.

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Final Throes of the Big Boss Monster

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

WATCHING THE WELL-WORN WEAPONS OF THE RIGHT being grappled and thrown and dropped and whipped about in frenzy; watching the GOP throw McCarthyism, Racism, Terrorism, Greedism and everything else at both Barack Obama and the American populace reminds me of the final writhings and wailings of the Boss Monster before you take its life.

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McCain Insults Thousands of People to their Faces

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

I KNOW, I KNOW, you’ve seen this one at least two times already. I had a browser window open for a while, a few hours, dunno, half the day, and when I refreshed it, the view count jumped from 21,000 to 173,000 roughly. Wow. But I have to post it here for one thing, because [...]

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That One Bigot

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

SOMEONE UP IN HERE HAS A BIGOTRY PROBLEM or some kind of creepy fetish that stretches across the entire racial spectrum. Guess who? You might never know.

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Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

COLIN POWELL ON OBAMA: “He has energized a lot of people in America. He has energized a lot of people around the world. And so I think he is worth listening to and seeing what he stands for.” Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced today that he will be voting for Barack Obama.

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Obama Admits Secret Origins!

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

JOHN MCCAIN turns out to be right in that Obama is hiding some family affiliations that the world really needs to know about. “Who is Barack Obama?” Obama posits rhetorically, repeating McCain’s ads—and then proceeds to tell us. And then, to smile as he takes John McCain apart piece by violet-hued and gummy-looking piece.

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Angry McCain & Stately Obama

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES ARE OVER and unless a fireball comes blazing out of the sky with Osama bin Laden handcuffed to it bearing an oxygen tank to resuscitate the Free Market Philosophy wrapped in a economic surplus-scented plan to win Afghanistan, John McCain’s anger and slurs won’t be enough to yank the Republican brand out of the septic muck in which it has mired itself.

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LiveBlogging the Last Presidential Debate of 2008

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

THE TENSION MOUNTS as we approach a historic and final round of debates slated to test the candidates for President of the United States of America. Will John McCain finally make clear to the national audience just how dangerous community organizing is to the health of a Republic such as ours? Will Barack Obama fess up to his secret plan of normalizing cocoaliciousness? Tune in to UMX for a liveblogging extravaganza!

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McCain’s Newest Attack Ad – Obama’s Dark Past

Monday, October 13th, 2008

A LEAK OF MCCAIN’S NEWEST ATTACK VIDEO shows us just how far the McCain Campaign is willing to go in their quest for the White House. I have to admit, though, this angle is pretty devastating and I’m not sure what Obama can do to counter it. It is, I think we can all admit, the Dark Elephant in the room.

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Carne Blogsada Sábado Roundup

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

¡BIENVENIDOS! And welcome to our Carne Blogsada Sábado Roundup wherein I feature brief commentary and links on a few news topics that may be important to Latin@s y los otros and some choice links harvested from the fruitful and fertile blogsoil of El Blogarrio. Enjoy!

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John McCain and the Three Week Minute of Hate

Friday, October 10th, 2008

GLARINGLY ABSENT NOW are discussions of a cult, of cultishness, of a hypnotized and dangerous mob. Now, when John McCain and Sarah Palin are whipping their followers into a sick, bubbling, dangerous tangle of elbows and fear and bubbling vitriol. Where is the talk of scary mobs? So often we mention Change. Let us not forget that with real change always comes resistance and pain.