drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - 19 days ago | funny, politics, religion
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 21 2009 | washington, elections, news, politics
Going to have to check this one out.
Quoted: “HouseQuake,” a new film on the 2006 midterm elections, features Rahm Emanuel, as relentless a campaigner as he is a White House chief of staff.
Quoted: “I said, ‘How much time do I spend away from my family?”‘ Mr. Shuler recalls on camera. “‘Oh,’ he said, “it’s not as bad as you may think.’ So he decides to start calling. ‘Heath, I’m just calling to say I’m on my way to school to take my kids.’ ‘Heath, I’m on way now back to school I think I’m going to eat lunch with the kids today.’ ‘Heath, just letting you know I’m picking up my kids from school.’ ‘Hey, we’re going to soccer practice, we’re going to recital.’ He did this for two solid weeks.”
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 29 2009 | michigan, law, politics, stupid
Hopefully, Human Services just earned themselves a huge cut in the soon-to-be-announced budget. And I say this as someone who usually loves big, regulatory government.
Quoted: IRVING TOWNSHIP (AP) — A southwest Michigan woman has been told that she's in danger of being arrested if she continues to watch her neighbors' children each morning before they get on the school bus.
Quoted: State law says no one may care for unrelated children in their home for more than four weeks a year unless they're licensed.
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 17 2009 | business, government, news, media, politics
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 14 2009 | news, media, business, politics
Conservatives can't argue with the market. Ditch this guy, FN.
Quoted: In what is shaping up to be one of the more effective boycott campaigns in years, advertisers are abandoning the "Glenn Beck" show on Fox News following the host's incendiary comments that President Barack Obama is a "racist" and has a "deep-seated hatred for white people."
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 25 2009 | detroit, boats, property, cities, politics
This article is about much more than rare sloops, and a lot of fun to read. You're going to want to learn about that goat on the wall.
Quoted: “There were only 27 Crescents ever built,” Hume says, noting that 24 are here at the club. He is clearly a dedicated admirer. “The Crescent is the most valuable object in the universe!” he says with glee.
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - May 06 2009 | law, government, politics
Put Al Gore on the Supreme Court says Hendrik Hertzberg. As he admits, it isn't going to happen. But after reading this I have to think that Jennifer Granholm is a strong candidate. She's lacking in some departments, but she's barely 50 and she's not a judge.
Quoted: The heart of a Justice’s job is interpreting and applying the Constitution, and for that things like a knowledge of history (including Constitutional history), a feel for the workings of government, a strong moral sense, an ability to think and write clearly, and a temperamental affinity for the long view—all of which Gore has in spades—are much more important than a professional familiarity with the details of contract or case law.
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 24 2009 | politics, government, media, intellectual consistency
Quoted: [The right] went along with Bush's $700 billion bailout of Wall Street and incinerated its populist pitchfork. Even those who opposed the bank bailout, like Santelli, did so pretty tamely. Santelli never called John McCain Fidel Castro for supporting the bank bailout: In fact, as Santelli told Chris Matthews, he voted for McCain. Oddly, the right only becomes truly apoplectic when individual "losers" are involved, not enormous institutions. Its principles become mysteriously squishy when the engines of advanced capitalism are involved.
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 21 2009 | news, inaugural, politics, obama
Nice look behind the scenes at Obama's advance man. Maybe he wishes he set up a rehearsal of the swearing in, but it was a minor blip in a great day.
Quoted: As the media and advance staff jumped out to get into position, Mr. Beliveau chided a sprinting staffer, "Remember, no running -- that's our rule." Frowning on the unnecessary show of panic, he calmly called out to the aide: "Speed walk."
Quoted: "It was never about playing to the camera but to the people," says his advance deputy, David Cusack.
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 15 2009 | photos, politics, newsSlideshow of Inauguration prep.
Quoted: Work has been going on for months to get Washington D.C. supplied with all the seats, viewing stands, portable restrooms and other amenities it will need for the inaugural ceremony for President-elect Barack Obama on Jan. 20.
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