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Obama Shows CNN’s Ed Henry What’s Up
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Mar 252009
Bristol Palin, fiance Levi Johnston split. Surprised?
Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol Palin and Bristol’s fiance, Levi Johnston, have broken up a little over two months after the birth of their out-of-wedlock son, Tripp.
People.com reported Wednesday that the split between Bristol, 18, and Levi, 19, happened a few weeks ago.
Johnston actually confirmed to the Associated Press that he and Bristol mutually decided to end their relationship “a while ago.” No details, sorry.
According to Fox News, Palin’s statement to the Associated Press says she is “devastated.”
In a recent interview with Greta Van Susteren, Bristol said she and her fiance would marry after they both finished high school.
“Eventually, we’d like to get married. We’re focusing on, like, getting through school and just getting an education and stuff, getting a career going,” she said.
Let’s hear from Sarah Palin. In the video above, Sarah talks about how proud she is of Bristol in a surprise visit to Van Susteren’s studio.
In her usual folksy, aw-shucks manner, Sarah says, “I’m proud of her to want to take on an advocacy role and um, just let other girls know that this is not the most ideal situation but certainly, make the most of it.”
Despite the break-up, Levi still sees his son. Levi’s dad, Keith Johnston, told People recently that his son is a devoted and “proud father.”
So lets get this straight. Abstinence doesn’t work, as Bristol herself admitted.
And now it turns out that teenage marriages based on unplanned pregnancies may not be such good idea either.
Are we really surprised?
via Bristol Palin, fiance Levi Johnston split. Surprised? | The Dish Rag | Los Angeles Times.
I Stumped Steve Hildebrand.
Interesting, Iraq, News, Politics
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Feb 182009
Well, he didn’t answer my question, anyways. Steve was the Deputy National Campaign Manager for now President Barack Obama. He gave a pretty nice talk on Tuesday night to a group of eager college kids, weird community members, and the rest of the people who were lucky enough to actually hear about this event. (Thanks, College Democrats, for sucking ass at things like PRESS RELEASES)
Regardless, it was a really cool event. We were actually the first group he’d given his speech to, which included an extensive (albeit slightly boring) PowerPoint presentation, and a too-short Q&A session on the end. I was able to get in one question, to which he didn’t have a response. It was: “What was your favorite endorsement?” I don’t know how he couldn’t come up with an answer, honestly. He just stood there thinking for a good 45 seconds or so before I finally offered up, “What about Oprah?” which caused him to reveal an interesting tidbit that I had never really though about before right then. Oprah is a blessing and a curse; mainly because she elevated the “Celebrity” status of Obama, which was the very thing that McCain’s attack dogs latched onto shortly afterward. However, Oprah did do wonders for his street cred and his standing with women. I attended an event with Oprah, Obama, and of course Gale, in USC’s football stadium last January. It forever changed the way I thought about politics, to say the least, and was probably one of the most inspiring days of my life. Steve ended his lecture without ever actually answering my question, so I’m going to see if I can contact him via email… Continue reading »
Jan 062009
CHANGE you can WALK IN!
Humorous, Interesting, News, Politics
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Jul 122008
Have you ever been accused of wearing your political views on your sleeves? Well now you can wear them on your feet. A new Nike Air Force One design has presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama emblazoned on the shoe. So go ahead, walk your way to Change in true liberal style, and for those who dont like it, feel free to take off the walking political -advert- and show them just how “Fired up and Ready to Go” you really are!
Feb 282008
I’ve seen Barack Hussein Obama—the self-termed “skinny kid with a funny name”—sobriqued as many things over the past few months: domestic insurgent, kafir infidel, hope monger, cult leader, the black candidate, a presidential candidate who happens to be black, Kennedy reborn, Senator Galahad, etc. None of these are adequate. The moniker that best embodies everything he represents to us, the American People, and in particular to this generation is Human Prozac (credit Kathleen Parker).
We like Obama because he makes us feel good. It is that simple.
Now, even though we’re young and naive, we’re not complete idiots. We know he is less experienced on the national scene than Hillary Clinton. We know that his health care plan is probably not as comprehensive as Senator Clinton’s. We know that his chances of pushing Congress to actually get things done are slim to none. We know that real life isn’t like The Little Engine That Could. We know that we don’t get anything done by repeating that mantra “Yes, we can.”
Yet, we’re willing to sweep all these considerations under the rug. Why? It’s because we’re desperate to have something make us feel good about ourselves. It’s because the defining moments of this generation haven’t. There has been no giant leap for mankind, no Miracle on Ice; most of us are too young to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall. In fact, the one defining moment of this YouTube-generation is something that reminded us of the evil side of the human spirit. The ensuing reactions showed us its fearful and hateful sides. Continue reading »
Senators Clinton & Obama, how would you regulate the harvesting and retention of personal information by social networking sites?
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Feb 272008
There seems to be a lot of interest in certain issues revolving around facebook and myspace. Some of them strike me as naive, such as the claims that anyone can see all your data, since you can limit people who can see your profile to just your friends. That, and you have choice over what goes up. The only exception is when you’re tagged or receive a wall-post — there’s a delay between when that happens and when you might get around to untagging yourself or deleting the post.
The more substantial issue is that it’s very hard to delete your facebook profile and nearly impossible to do permanently. On the group, “How to permanently delete your facebook account”, they recommend first deleting everything and then contacting facebook and requesting account removal. Of course, you can deactivate your account, but this is apparently not a preferred option. It’s not clear to me from any of this whether deactivation is dispreferred because (a) while no one can still see your data, it still exists on facebook, which is unsettling, or (b) deactivation doesn’t work as one would think, and some data are still viewable to other users.
I don’t see why no one has explored what is to me the obvious way of getting your account deleted: posting a lot of pornographic or hateful material. I’ve never encountered any on facebook, and so I assume that watchdogs exist, perhaps based on user complaints. I guess not everyone would want their account associated with hardcore pornography and racist treatises, however briefly, but it would no doubt be fun.
The Debate on the Outside
Environment, Politics
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Feb 122008
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It has been weeks since I attended the South Carolina Democratic Debates in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, but the resounding messages that were heard there still make their way into my thoughts. One of my passions is documenting events as they happen, so that I can look back and realize how profound those moments truly were. While the battles behind the walls of the Palace Theater were hours from being fought, the fierce battle on the outside had begun. So, with my camera I give a perspective view of what these groups on the outside were saying. Perhaps the most verbal of the groups was the organization I traveled down with, a coalition of student leaders promoting a clean energy future. In this short video presentation you can see the direct opposition posed from the group Clean Coal. Continue reading »