Tag Archives: Politics

Yes On Proposition 8 — Money to Burn

By Gib | November 18, 2008

Andrew Sullivan has been writing many posts about the Human Rights Campaign and their inneffectiveness in preventing the passage of Proposition 8 and altso their general lack of impact around marriage equality and civil rights — their raison’ d’etre.
Something that sort of blows my mind is that the No On 8 ads were so useless…. [...]

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McCain is “The Vet Who Did Not Vet”

By Gib | October 31, 2008

One of the cutest politcal tube creations I’ve seen this season.
And I’ve seen a lot.
Amazing how much is packed in!
I especially loved the tanning beds.

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Michiganders, To Regster to Vote, Dial 555 - Oh, Oh, Oh!

By Gib | October 30, 2008

Too funny.  And 100% true.
The Associated Press: Mich. Dems’ typo directs voters to phone-sex line

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Republicans Against Prop 8

By Gib | October 24, 2008

The group that produced this also has a website.
Bravo!
I found some of the images kind of awful, but they make a good point.

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Prop 8 Projections

By Gib | October 24, 2008

Graphic from FiveThirtyEight.com: Prop 8 a Toss-Up

Kip commented on a recent post that Proposition 8 “likely won’t” pass.
Looking at the numbers above from FiveThirtyEight, I can see why the queer blogosphere and people I know against Prop 8 are saying “we’re loosing.”
It looks like the Yes folks are gaining ground.
Kip mentions in his comment:
A little [...]

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When Prop 8 Would Go Into Effect (if it passes)

By Gib | October 23, 2008

Some laws voted into effect by initiative have gone into effect January 1st of the next year.
I had to do some digging, and found this in the California constitution:

A proposed amendment or revision shall be submitted to the
electors and if approved by a majority of votes thereon takes effect
the day after the election unless the [...]

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New Mailing Rules for Voter Registration

By Gib | October 22, 2008

I mailed my father’s change of address voter registration on Monday.
Paranoid, I took the form to the post office and asked the clerk to bless it — inspect that it was OK.
First she said, “Fine, put it through the slot marked ’stamped.’ ”
Then I asked her to examine it again.  She said, “Oh, yeah, you [...]

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Republicans for Obama: The Video

By Gib | October 22, 2008

A surprising video with a thoughtful article in the Huffington Post.
Honestly, a very weird part of this video for me is that people so readily identify with their party.
The video subjects seem to be sort of justifying (or trying to find justification).
Are our politics really ourselves?
It seems sometimes to me that all politics are identity [...]

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Sarah Palin Plays Tina Fey In Hotels

By Gib | October 20, 2008

Cute and funny.
While at the hotel, the Alaska governor also used an alias–Tina. Yes, like doppelganger Tina Fey.

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The Obama Channel on DishNetwork

By Gib | October 5, 2008

After watching Meet the Press on my DVR, I started watching an episode of South Park on Comedy Central’s Cartman weekend I’d also recorded.
I was surprised to see an advertisement for Obama on health care with a continuum placing his plan dead center between national health care and privatization.
Lo and behold, there was an embedded [...]

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