“Race played a significant factor in Ohio,” said Cuyahoga County Commissioner Timothy Hagan, who supported Obama. The state’s white voters aren’t “bigots, but the image they see every day of black America is drugs, crime, guns and violence.”
but they aren’t bigots!
losers.
~ we can’t wait until the texas presidential primary is finished, and the only reason is not just to stop hearing from hillary ‘she voted for the war’ clinton until 2012. what annoys us more than that charlatan is the repeated use of the term ‘firewall’ to describe states that some candidate has to win in order to continue campaigning. we heard it first about new hampshire, but we only found it mildly irritating in the sense that it did not sound nearly as ‘plugged in’ as the person who coined it might believe; we also believed that the phrase would never be uttered again, once hillary ‘nafta was a good idea’ clinton was trounced in new hampshire. however, clinton cried on tv and won enough sympathy votes to carry on. now that every time hillary ‘defense of marriage act’ clinton loses a primary, the next set of primaries become the new set of states that she ‘must win’, ‘firewall’ does not die a ‘quiet death’; it has maintained ‘staying power’ as this season’s ‘must have’ turn of phrase for every npr reporter and politico-blogger. ‘firewall’ is this ‘cycle’s‘ ‘parse‘.
~ they got that right:
Word of the Day for Friday, February 15, 2008
ennui \on-WEE\, noun
~ happy valentine’s day.
~ though we consume mostly soy garden; we would like to congratulate earth balance on the redesign of their packaging. we have spent untold hours in the kitchen grousing on the principle which seems to govern decent foods: the ‘healthier’ the food, the more confusing and off-putting the packaging – which provokes people to eat more disgusting but more attractively packaged food. now that its container no longer resembles something you would pour into an automobile engine, less people will be eating trans fats. our hats are doffed to earth balance!
HO!
Having accepted the Fun-A-Day challenge thrown down by Philadelphia”s Artclash Collective, the work.group [w] has passed the month of January 2008 executing the design of 31 houses – a house a day. Having succeeded heroically in this task, the work.group hereby issues an urgent summons to witness its triumph at the presentation of “house-a-day” as part of the 4th annual Fun-A-Day exhibition.
Fun-A-Day 4
7 to 11pm
February 16, 2008
4522 Baltimore Avenue
West Philadelphia
see house-a-day progress at: www.sisyphean.com/31houses
~ where are these photos of mercury we were promised?!
~ anyone who reads newspapers knew all along that the recent ‘incident’ with the u.s. and iranian ships in the strait of hormuz, the location of which no american knows, was more staged than a scene on insidethecastle.org, but the late, quiet revelation that the whole thing might have been the work of an anonymous ham radio operator who spends his time insulting passing ships has to be the best story about a private individual stirring shit up since that homeless guy started a fire that shut down the subway in new york.
A heckling radio ham known as the Filipino Monkey, who has spent years pestering ships in the Persian Gulf, is being blamed today for sparking a major diplomatic row after American warships almost attacked Iranian patrol boats.
–guardian.co.uk
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“I don’t think this campaign is about gender, and I sure hope it’s not about race.” hillary clinton
that’s rich!
~ hfs! just last week we told someone to avoid using network solutions when registering a domain name, because we suspected that if you don’t purchase a name when you search for it, they will snatch it up. now look what is reported:
New domain name practice criticized
NEW YORK – A company that sells Internet domain names is facing criticisms for holding some in reserve as a consumer-protection measure, a move that also prevents interested parties from shopping around for better prices.
After weeks of testing, Network Solutions LLC began this week to grab names that people search for on its Web site but don’t immediately register.
we knew it!