Changing the Frame: The Ronald Reagan Healthcare Act

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Monday August 10, 2009 · 1:23 PM PDT

2009/08/10 · 13:23

As always, progressives have done a lousy job of framing the health care debate. Look folks, letting the other side call it Obama Care just adds an already hated label to a difficult to understand issue. The far right already is appalled that Obama is president, and by adding his name to the proposals being kicked around by congress just lets those same haters add another thing to the list.

IsraelHand

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 11:30 AM PDT

2008/09/10 · 11:30

Turn off this box, go down to the local campaign office and start working those lists! Your neanderthal neighbor next-door is already down at the Republican office, doing his best to completely eliminate everything that you have ever been proud of about your country. Don't let the fascist butthead win! He's never going to bring back your lawnmower, anyway--- he ruined it mowing for the Klan meeting and figured you were too spineless to complain.

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I am

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I am

Volunteering

15 votes

Donating regularly

34 votes

Driving my co-workers nuts about Caribou Barbie

6 votes

Wearing an Obama pin under my jacket

0 votes

Phone banking

4 votes

Blogging in the echo-chamber

6 votes

Registering my neighbors to vote

1 vote

Losing sleep over the possibility that Krusty and his attack Veep might win

16 votes

Doing something about it!

10 votes

Buying IH's book, but not taking time to read it until after the ballots are counted

0 votes

BREAKING: 20th Hijacker Charges Dropped Due to Torture

IsraelHand

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Monday May 12, 2008 · 9:41 PM PDT

2008/05/12 · 21:41

I'm sorry, "Harsh Interrogation."

From the AP

Charges dropped against '20th' hijacker
U.S. officials have said Saudi was subjected to harsh treatment

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks, his U.S. military defense lawyer said Monday.

the AP

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Sunday March 30, 2008 · 1:50 PM PDT

2008/03/30 · 13:50

How often do you get to praise the Wall Street Journal?

Check out my story today at Every Day Fiction: http://www.everydayfiction.com/...
The publisher, Jordan Lapp took a chance on a boxing story, remembering that many of the great writers, pulp and otherwise, wrote 'em. Now, as I am best known as a fantasy writer, this was a double chance on his part. Comment is greatly appreciated!

IsraelHand

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Sunday January 27, 2008 · 6:33 PM PST

2008/01/27 · 18:33

Charles de Gaulle once asked "how can you govern a country in which there are 246 kinds of cheese?" Well, the answer is, you can't. Up until now I was a firm supporter of Stilton, though as a life-long Democrat and a cornflake traditionalist I occasionly took a nibble at brie. I ignored the the consant hammering of supporters of other types of cheese, the Limburgerists with their mock-hair plugs, the Gruyere-supporters who cannot seem to get over the fact that their cheese has never been much more popular in the polls than toe fungus, and of course the pseudo-Nadarite feta favorers with their continual litany of claims of their cheese being the first to support an independant Curdish state, regardless of the whey we get there.

IsraelHand

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Saturday January 26, 2008 · 2:47 PM PST

2008/01/26 · 14:47

In the 1980’s science fiction went through one of its periodic transformations when cyberpunk burst onto the scene. Writers like William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and later Neal Stephenson brought us a less than bold new world based on then current trends in technology, social breakdown and economics, and the dystopian style changed entirely the direction that Science Fiction was going. Gone was the sterile utopia of the Star Trek Universe, with everyone trim and dressed in form-fitting lycra walking hospital-clean decks of the far future. The world of cyberpunk was just around the next graffiti-covered corner, waiting only the next mega-corp merger to unfold its high-tech with broken windows visions.

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So what new Fantasy are you reading?

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So what new Fantasy are you reading?

Neil Gaiman

10 votes

George R.R. Martin

8 votes

C. J. Cherryh

2 votes

Robin Hobb

2 votes

Various small press

2 votes

I only read the classics, this new stuff is not for me

10 votes

Wuxia

0 votes

other

15 votes

What is the truly worst Science Fiction/Fantasy you have ever endured?

IsraelHand

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Monday January 14, 2008 · 1:28 PM PST

2008/01/14 · 13:28

So yesterday we discussed what the really good stuff was in the Fantasy/Science fiction world. It was fun, so I thought we might venture into the realm of the scary-bad.

This is awards season--- I myself am in the running for some recognition for my fiction, which you are of course very welcome to participate in. (Details below the fold.)

But the truly nasty, cringe-worthy stuff many times goes unnoticed. We all have a favorite all time worst. What's yours?

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Worst SF/Fantasy Evah--- any medium

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Worst SF/Fantasy Evah--- any medium

Eye of Argon-- fanfic

2 votes

Eregon-- fanfic/film

7 votes

Eeeagah!-- film

1 vote

Atlanta Nights-- hoax

2 votes

Battlefield Earth-- book/film

47 votes

Plan Nine from Outer Space-- film

5 votes

OMG there are sooo many!

31 votes

Other

9 votes

Science Fiction and Fantasy-- your favorites?

IsraelHand

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Sunday January 13, 2008 · 11:11 AM PST

2008/01/13 · 11:11

I came home last night from RustyCon, a Scince Fiction and Fantasy Convention here in the Seattle area, where my pal Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is the Guest of Honor. During one of my panels I noticed that when most writers gave an example of something, they reached back to the classics, while most readers seemed a lot more grounded in the newest, hot freshness.

IsraelHand

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Friday January 11, 2008 · 11:38 AM PST

2008/01/11 · 11:38

As of this morning my story "Stand, Stand Shall They Cry" is in 10th place in the Preditor and Editors Poll, and my book, Servant of the Manthycore is in 14th.

I have been honored again this year with nominations in the annual Preditors and Editors poll, one for Best Novel for Servant of the Manthycore, and for Best SF/F Short Story, "Stand, Stand Shall They Cry" which appeared in Flashing Swords, here: http://flashingswords.sfreader.com/...

IsraelHand

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Thursday January 10, 2008 · 6:28 PM PST

2008/01/10 · 18:28

Preditor and Editors Poll
I have been honored again this year with nominations in the annual Preditors and Editors poll, one for Best Novel for Servant of the Manthycore, and for Best SF/F Short Story, "Stand, Stand Shall They Cry" which appeared in Flashing Swords, here: http://flashingswords.sfreader.com/...

IsraelHand

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Tuesday October 23, 2007 · 6:07 PM PDT

2007/10/23 · 18:07

Last night my wife, Rose Ehart, was named the Warren G. Magnuson Washington State Democratic Rising Star of 2007 at the Maggie awards at Benaroya Hall (the opera house) in Seattle. Hillary Clinton was there, and over 1200 of the state party movers and shakers--- we didn't even know that she had been nominated until after we got there.

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Tuesday August 07, 2007 · 1:24 PM PDT

2007/08/07 · 13:24

Ten questions to determine if you are a Scumbag Blogger

Do you exercise your first amendment rights without permission or guidance from Rupert Murdoch?

Do you spend much of your time arguing with fellow bloggers on the Great Orange Satan?

Do you get your news from a variety of sources other than television?

Have you ever eaten your dinner cold, or skipped it entirely to blog?

Do you have conversations that start with "Meteor Blades says..."

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