A story in Two Pictures

I need an Obama icon.

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Found by way of willshetterly here.

20 January 2009. This is a new day.

On the way up to my parents to help with the getting up to speed of the new computer system, I remembered to look up at the sky when I went outside (not the head-down not-looking not-attending avaoid-being-present-in-the-moment thing that has been my all too common state). There was a brilliant sun-dog running ( Read more... )

My ballot was the 144th deposited into the box at my precinct. The polling place had about 10 booths, and 8 were occupied when I got there, with several people coming in after me at 9:15. There were quite a few notations in the registrar list of Early Voting (AZ has an absentee ballot for the asking ( Read more... )

On the wall of the Starry Plough in Berkeley is a quote about how when a cause has caught the imagination of the people, the people make songs that draw in more people and express feelings in ways that mere words cannot (this is very much a paraphrase. I would love to find the actual quote.)

It occurred to me, while watching this:
( YouTube vid of great wonderfulness )

willshetterly, in this post, makes clear a thing that I have long been trying to articulate to my self:

People who exclude are terrified that they will be excluded, and so they fear that Obama will favor "his people." What excluders don't understand is that includers will even include them.

Word.

Via rydra_wong and synecdochic: The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your OWN lj to spread the fun.

(First public appearance is with dakiwiboid, and, uh, vaguely partisan. *snicker*)

Lawrence vs Texas. 2003. In the 6-3 ( Read more... )

Huh, I'd say this is a pretty accurate description.

Results ( behind the curtain )

By way of my sister -- I'm kind of surprised I haven't seen this on LJ yet ( Read more... )

First off: Happy belated birthdays to kyrakai and baroness_eilis, and happy birthday tomorrow to bearmum! I hope your days were/will be lovely ones and the coming year even better ( Read more... )