Do yourself a favor and spend the 5 minutes watching Obama talk about the Stimulus bill.
It's actually pretty entertaining. Especially the parts where he refutes some recent GOP arguments about it.

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All right everybody. Here's the deal ( Read more... )

There have been so many positive things that the new administration has accomplished this week, I'm having trouble remembering them all.

* They began the process of shutting down Guantanamo. It is to be completely closed no later than a year from now.
* Explicitly required _all U.S. personnel_ to abide by the US Army Field Manual which prohibits ( Read more... )

That's right. I has a new president. And I'm very happy about it. So there.

An actually balanced discussion on the humanitarian crisis going on in gaza - provided by an American News TV show. How unusual.

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Also that "no one is above the law".
That's promising.

Daily Kos: Cheers & Jeers from the Great State of Maine

Highlights:
* Whoever named the bill is a genius: "An Act to Prevent Discrimination in Civil Marriage and Affirm Religious Freedom."
* Michael, my partner of 16 years, and I are registered as domestic partners here, which is nice but not quite the same as marriage (or civil unions). I believe ( Read more... )

( Senator Casey wrote me this. )

I recently wrote this letter to my Senators:
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Daily Kos: BREAKING Balgojevich to name FMR ILL AG Burris to Obama Seat UPDATEDApparently, the Senate's warning that it wasn't going to seat anyone appointed by disgraced Illinois govenor Blagojevich was not sufficient. For whatever reason (pride? to stir up the pot?), word is he's going to assign the seat to former Illinois attornery general ( Read more... )