Dude Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Very excited, Obama campaign e-mailed me a Grant Park ticket at the last minute (4:23 PM) so I will be heading down there. Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 I kinda liked that Reed story, even though it is sentimental and cheesy. You know what else is cheesy? For much of the day, I've been listening to Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come" on repeat. Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Something different - I am quite fascinated by the Amish - and I found this article mentioned on a blog about the Amish that I read. Amish Looking Upward SOMERTON, Ohio - While many Americans fret over getting to the polls on or before Election Day, local Amish residents are simply waiting to see what happens in this year's presidential race. They believe God will guide society to the right conclusion. and Who Is The Mystery Man Behind Prop 8? Who is funding California's Prop 8, the country's most controversial ballot measure? The Mormons' donations are well known, and are a source of outrage among the church's more moderate elements. But little attention has been focused on two of the proposition's biggest individual donors: Elsa Broekhuizen, the mother of Blackwater founder Erik Prince, and Howard F. Ahmanson Jr., the reclusive theocratic millionaire who inherited $300 million from his philanthropist father at age 18. When I profiled Ahmanson in a 2004 article for Salon.com, I became the first journalist in 20 years to interview him. Yesterday I resurrected my reporting for The Daily Beast, updating it to cover Ahmanson's recent machinations, particularly his role in Prop 8. As I wrote, Ahmanson few Americans have heard of Ahmanson -- and that's the way he likes it. His extreme politics and eccentric personality reveal the draconian underside of a ballot measure billed by its proponents as "pro-family." During a 1985 interview with the Orange County Register, Ahmanson summarized his political agenda: "My goal is the total integration of biblical law into our lives." Though Ahmanson's rhetoric has softened over the years, his politics are derived from the radical Christian Reconstructionist theology of R.J. Rushdoony, a far-right theologian who advocated replacing the US Constitution with biblical law. "God's government prevails," Rushdoony wrote, "and His alternatives are clear-cut: either men and nations obey His laws, or God invokes the death penalty against them." Those eligible on Rushdoony's long list for execution included disobedient children, unchaste women, apostates, blasphemers, practitioners of witchcraft, astrologers, adulterers, and, of course, anyone who engaged in "sodomy or homosexuality." Rushdoony was the father Ahmanson never had, bringing him to radical right-wing Christianity not long after the anxiety-ridden, Tourette's-afflicted scion of wealth checked out of the Menninger Clinic. Ahmanson bankrolled Rushdoony's religious empire; in return, Rushdoony made Ahmanson a board member of his think tank, Chalcedon, which to this day advocates theocratic revolution in the United States. Ahmanson and his wife were at Rushdoony's bedside when he died in 2001. My article is accompanied at the Daily Beast by a new video by Michael Wilson, creator of the brilliant documentary, Silhouette City. Wilson also co-produced my video documentary about Sarah Palin's belief in spiritual warfare, "In The Land Of Queen Esther." On November 2, Wilson went to San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium to cover "The Call," an 80,000-strong Pentecostal rally for Prop 8. The Call organizer, Lou Engle, gathered his troops together for several days of fasting and prayer to stop what he called the "sexual insanity" of Prop 8 opponents. The rally culminated with Engle imploring his fervent crowd to become martyrs, to be willing to lay down their lives for the cause. The defeat of Prop 8 would be a nightmare for the Christian right. As Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said of the ballot measure, "It's more important than the presidential election... We will not survive [as a nation] if we lose the institution of marriage." But behind the Christian right's panicked pleas for preserving "traditional marriage" lies a more deep-seated fear. California's rejection of Prop 8 would represent a decisive repudiation of the theocratic fantasy outlined by Rushdoony and mainstreamed by Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Lou Engle and countless evangelical minions. Ahmanson has spent what he could to keep his mentor's dream alive, but the movement's nightmare may arrive nonetheless. Link to post Share on other sites
embiggen Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 christ@! Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Democrats snag Va. Senate seat, seek more gains Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Pennsylvania for Obama!! Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I'm flattered you read all my posts. Actually, no, I've never said Leno is "hilarious". I HAVE said I enjoy his monologues and some of the bits he does before the guests come on. Yeah, the story by this Reed dude makes me puke. It's corny as hell. Are you the type that cries when you read that shit? [T]he lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Tradegy just struck my house! Of all days to die, it had to be today ...my tv is no longer with us. I had planned on watching 12 hours straight of MSNBC, FOX, and CNN all @ once till we know O is the winner. Now, I must run off to buy another and try and figure out how to connect all the damn stuff to it. FHF is working at the polls till they set him free late tonight, so he's no help. Send positive tv vibes for election night my way! I'm sending you new tv vibes! This is not a night to be missed! Link to post Share on other sites
Tweedling Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Were there any "Black Panther" sightings at your polling place? Link to post Share on other sites
embiggen Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Pennsylvania for Obama!! Link to post Share on other sites
Party @ the Moontower Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I'm sending you new tv vibes! This is not a night to be missed! All good! I just spent 600 bucks on a flat screen(I had no idea they cost so much). I'm sad to see my 200 pound tv go, but I'm doing ok. I'd hate to throw it away, maybe theres an old tv-fix-it dude out there I can find. ~GO OBAMA/BIDEN~ [quote name='Đ Link to post Share on other sites
Mrs. Peel Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Pennsylvania! Link to post Share on other sites
Griddles Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Pennsylvania! With O% reporting. Link to post Share on other sites
ikol Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 So all those ignorant rednecks in PA went Obama... Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted November 5, 2008 Author Share Posted November 5, 2008 So all those ignorant rednecks in PA went Obama... I guess that "and I couldn't agree with them more" gaffe came back to bite McCain. Link to post Share on other sites
kimcatch22 Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 So all those ignorant rednecks in PA went Obama...Kinda like all the ignorant rednecks in McCain gear breaking electioneering laws that PigSooie's friends saw at multiple polling places in Arkansas! Link to post Share on other sites
ikol Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I guess that "and I couldn't agree with them more" gaffe came back to bite McCain. They went double maverick on him. Kinda like all the ignorant rednecks in McCain gear breaking electioneering laws that PigSooie's friends saw at multiple polling places in Arkansas! I swear it wasn't me. I've avoided polling places like the plague. Link to post Share on other sites
stickman Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I was wearing a tshirt with Albert Camus smoking a cig on it and one of the dudes working thought it was an Obama t shirt. Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I guess that "and I couldn't agree with them more" gaffe came back to bite McCain. good one. Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Virtual world keeps tabs on presidential election By DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer Derrik J. Lang, Ap Entertainment Writer Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted November 5, 2008 Author Share Posted November 5, 2008 This is going well. Link to post Share on other sites
viatroy Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 O H I O pfucking A!!! (and dare I say it: FLA and NC!!!) Link to post Share on other sites
embiggen Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 O H I O pfucking A!!! Link to post Share on other sites
thecowboyangel Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 My home state and my current states go to Barack! Link to post Share on other sites
viatroy Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 cmooooon Missouri!! Link to post Share on other sites
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