This week marks the 50th anniversary of the 1962 movie version of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
President Obama showed the movie at the White House on Thursday night, and also taped an introduction for the remastered movie that was shown on USA Network Saturday night.
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There's nothing like a Southern Election Night, ya'll!

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Update! The winner is Santorum and ... Santorum! A sweep! Now we just have to wait to see if Romney took Hawaii and American Samoa (he probably did). Gingrich is the big loser because he needed to deliver these southern states. But he vowed to stay in the race tonight. Santorum is giddy with ( Read more... )

"I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the ( Read more... )

There's a huge march going on in New York City, thousands of people, with an equally large police presence. Over 100 arrests so far, but police are allowing it to continue.

A guy named Tim Pool from Michigan has been livestreaming all afternoon ~ remarkable.

MSNBC Article: A UStream Star is Born
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I love this speech from Stephen King talking about his support for OWS.

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Happy Friday! I made some posts on my other LJ's and thought I would link to them (and shamelessly self-promote, LOL).

33 Edward Gorey Icons
Several Animated.
Some Text Icons from The Awdrey-Gore Legacy
PBS Mystery Introduction

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“These people could have personally witnessed him being born out of an apple pie, in the middle of a Kansas wheat field, while Toby Keith sang the National Anthem - and they’d still think he was a Kenyan Muslim."
~Jimmy Kimmel

"It's a beautifully, lovely spring day. It was so nice down in Washington that President Obama was out on the White House ( Read more... )

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"If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society."
~ Senator Jim Demint, Republican, South Carolina

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Goodbye, Dubya Bush!

Welcome, President Obama!


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