-Gitmo trials are on hold (including one of a 15 year-old). Obama has signed a resolution ordering the camp closed within a year.
-Effective immediately, the Mexico City Policy (global gag rule) has been rescinded. Non-profits can now give unfettered information and access to medical care to women in need worldwide.
-the FDA has issued a report ( Read more... )

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He's got a lot of reasons - he's married to a sexy, intelligent woman, he just nominated an actual scientist to head the Department of Energy, he might be able to keep his Blackberry once he's president, he's going to be in charge of all the nukes soon (which Elliott assures me is a geek wet dream), but there's one reason that takes the cake:

He's ( Read more... )

Obama has been writing Lincoln/Obama erotic fan fiction on his secret livejournal.  Excerpt:  Lincoln lay back on the bed, nude save for his trademark stovepipe hat.  'Tell me,' he purred seductively, as he and Obama formed a more perfect union. 'When you come, is it 10% ethanol?'

...why Obama has to act like he hasn't spoken to Governor Blagojevich recently? It really doesn't look good to have to backpedal and call your chief of staff 'mistaken,' especially when talking to someone committing fraud doesn't mean you were also participating in it.

Especially given that there's wiretapping evidence that Blagojevich had no hope ( Read more... )

Fully half of our course is left-handed, a fairly impressive irregularity, so it comes up occasionally in conversation. A friend of mine belongs to a newsletter for lefties, and I asked for her to send me along a copy. Turns out, they voted on "Left-Hander of the Year" recently!

"...Barack Hussein Obama II was born August 4, 1961. He is the nominee ( Read more... )

From this Daily Telegraph article:

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
• He is left-handed
• He has read every Harry Potter book

OMG - he's such a geek, I love it!

• He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice ( Read more... )

A friend of mine is in the Peace Corps in Kenya, and this is the blog she posted about the election response there:

"Kenya has succommed to Obama Mania! There are parties going on in Kisumu and Nairobi.  People are talking today of nothing but the American election. Thursday Nov. 6 has been declared a public holiday (Obama Day) and there have been, ( Read more... )

Alarm went off at 5:30, and I had to listen to the shipping forecast for 15 minutes before I heard the great news.

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!

But in crushing news, miri_d  let me know that Proposition 8 passed in California. How could this happen - are Democrats voting for it in large numbers, or did they just not vote on it? That is a complete travesty. Let ( Read more... )

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