Assaulted by Trump supporter while my back was turned.

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Sunday May 29, 2016 · 3:13 PM PDT

2016/05/29 · 15:13

So this happened today.

YouTube Video

Less than five minutes after I posted this video on Twitter under the hashtag #SDTrumpRally, somebody sent me a link to the cover photo of the San Diego Union Tribune’s facebook page with the perpetrator’s name on it.

It’s such a pretty picture, I bet they put it on the cover of the print edition tomorrow.

UPDATE: it wasn’t on the cover of the Union-Tribune, but “The Donald” scraped it and it’s got 100,000 views. I sent them a DMCA takedown notice but it’s been 48 hours now. Please report it for anyone of these reasons: Hateful or abusive content, Harmful dangerous acts, spam or misleading.

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They think they doxxed me but I’m not 47 years old. Apparently, there’s more than one Erik Anderson in San Diego. I hope it’s not the Environment Reporter for the local NPR station, but if they actually do try to harass him in any way, it would be newsworthy, to say the least.

I also got an inquiry from a news service who wants to distribute it.

UPDATE 2: The scraped version has been removed. “The Donald” has a copyright strike on it now.

The 'Lady al Qaeda' Case is Out of Control

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Wednesday January 27, 2010 · 7:08 PM PST

2010/01/27 · 19:08

According to the good people at the New York Daily News:

She's not just out of control - she's out of her mind.

Or so lawyers for the so-called "Lady al Qaeda" claimed Tuesday as asked a judge to bar their client from taking the stand in her own defense.

Lawyers for MIT-trained scientist Aafia Siddiqui say her request to testify "is driven by her severe mental illness and would turn the trial into a spectacle."

"It has been and continues to be our belief that Dr. Siddiqui suffers from diminished capacity," the lawyers wrote in a letter to Manhattan Federal Richard Berman.

The bid to muzzle Siddiqui - charged with attempted murder for opening fire on Americans in Afghanistan - is a longshot since she's already been found competent.

What the heck does "already found competent" mean? Don't they know that people can decompensate at any time? Judges have an obligation to not let litigants go crazy in courtroom. It is clear this woman is going to do it every day. She should be found incompetent!

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Tuesday August 11, 2009 · 10:48 AM PDT

2009/08/11 · 10:48

Take West Chester Pennsylvania, April 1996, for example:

2.2.208-222 - What do you read my lord - words, words, words - for yourself, sir, shall grow as old as I am, if, like a crab, you could go backward

William F. Buckley, Jr., the father of modern conservativism himself, rolled his eyes and 200 rich white people with nice watches began yelling at me.

"Go home!", I remember hearing them say, after I asked the man what his position was on the "Timber Salvage Rider".

Then, he said "the world is a giant ashtray that we put things into", as he made a gesture as if to put a cigarette out on his podium. I was officially frightened.

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Monday June 29, 2009 · 5:43 PM PDT

2009/06/29 · 17:43

* Greetings Well-Wishers and Nay-Sayers! * It's Shakespeare Trivia Time!

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question 1

Which character in a Shakespearean Tragedy spoke these words?

'Twill out, 'twill out: I peace!
No, I will speak as liberal as the north:
Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,
All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

Without googling it, name the character and the play.

For double brownie points, describe what happened to this character after these words were spoken?

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To see Question 2, which is more difficult, do the jump...

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Does this bode well for our country? (Answer yes or no, then discuss)

8 votes Vote Now!

Does this bode well for our country? (Answer yes or no, then discuss)

Yes

1 vote

7 votes

Please request "Bombs Away in Old Bombay" at your local Radio Station

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Thursday November 27, 2008 · 8:20 AM PST

2008/11/27 · 08:20

Greetings-

When I was in college, my best friend Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, whose father was a high ranking Congress Party Official, loved the rock band the Police. He claimed to have once jumped in a pool in a big hotel in New Delhi somewhere that Sting was swimming in. He couldn't keep up with him, but he attempted to swim with synchronicity with Gordon Sumner himself. Something not many people can claim to have done. Venk was always talking about this big historic concert that the Police headlined in India. It was a big day for him, and he always talked about it.

"Message in a Bottle", "Canary in a Coal Mine" and "Man in a Suitcase" were some of Venk's favorite songs.

Today I am thinking about "Bombs Away in Old Bombay", which we both loved to sing and dance around to in our dorm rooms.

So I am asking you to please call your local Classic or Progressive Rock Stations and any other radio station that might play it to honor my friend and his country.

Thank you,

Erik B. Anderson
Hackettstown, New Jersey

Lyrics and more over the Jump

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Saturday November 22, 2008 · 2:20 AM PST

2008/11/22 · 02:20

Unity March in Hardwick, New Jersey

In defiance of a cowardly act of ignorance and intimidation a community comes together to march for peace and form a circle of hope.

On the evening of the 2008 U.S. Presidential elections, an eight-year-old girl created a banner which read "President Obama - Victory '08!" With a little help from her parents the banner was hung in their front yard. The next night the banner was stolen. Later it was returned, wrapped around a cross and on fire. On Saturday November 15th, a march and rally, organized by a group of concerned citizens and supported by the Warren/Sussex County branch of the NAACP, took place.

Speakers included Elaine Koplow, Gary Grewal, Kevin Duffy, Talia Young, and Melvin Warren.

The song "Heal the World With Me" was written by Andy Rajeckas and sung by Gwynne Michaels.

Watch the Video Over the Jump

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Tuesday November 11, 2008 · 6:33 AM PST

2008/11/11 · 06:33

Greetings from Independence Township, New Jersey:

This is me ringing my Atoke Bell that I got in Ghana in 1995 after the Warren County War Memorial 10th Anniversary Ceremony on Saturday.

Since my father, who was a veteran and a winner of the James E. West Fellowship Award from the Boy Scouts of America, died of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy in 2003, I have been waiting to hear Amazing Grace on the bagpipes.

I finally did that day. It was wonderful.

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The other half of the battle is over the fold.

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Sunday September 21, 2008 · 9:47 PM PDT

2008/09/21 · 21:47

Greetings-

I worked on a congressional campaign as a staffer in 2004 in New Jersey's 5th District. Anne Wolfe, her husband John, and many people I worked with then, were very good to me, and I still consider them friends and I am proud of many things from that time, but I got into lots of arguments with anybody and everybody about too many things at the time, so let's just say I learned a lot and leave it at that.

I've been following the current race, and all Dennis Shulman has been doing is getting coverage about being a "blind, rabbi, psychologist" who has overcome a lot of challenges, but the only challenge that I have seen that he ever actually described anything about how he he did it was when he figured out how to use one of those computers that read newspapers out loud for blind people.

Most of the other coverage he gets is from surrogates. Talking about how he's a rock star, a breath of fresh air. And on the BlueJersey radio Podcast last spring, he giggled a lot and made a comment about the fake applause, saying that he wished all of his callers would be clapping for him or something.

I'm generally supporive of Dems, and Obama and Biden are my candidates, especially Biden on this issue, but...

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Thursday September 18, 2008 · 8:32 PM PDT

2008/09/18 · 20:32

Greetings Everyone-

I went to a Toastmasters meeting for the first time tonight. It was not bad at all.

The first time I got to speak was when someone asked me who I was. I said I knew this person through my Mom and this other person through an acting class we took together two years ago. I hesitated, and my Mom's friend said I didn't have to say anything, but I ended up getting out that "the depression has lifted. I have confidence now, and I was looking for ways to channel it."

Later, they were going around the room and everyone was supposed to talk in a pirate voice. "Arrr" was very popular. Some people made names for themselves. I didn't put on a voice, but I said I had a pirate story, and someone giggled. I then said that I had been visiting my Aunt in Hong Kong in 1987. She told me a story about how one of her friends, who had children my cousins' age (5 and 2 at the time) had once been on a boat. She might have been murdered, I don't remember exactly, but I think the story was that she had gotten her hand cut off.

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This story is crossposted at Democratic Underground

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Wednesday August 27, 2008 · 1:41 AM PDT

2008/08/27 · 01:41

This was the number one story on the Greatest Page of Democratic Underground the other day when I saved this draft.

JFN1 is the author.

I was at our local Quicky mart today, in line to pay for my gas. There was a fairly long line, and as I often do waiting in long lines, I grew bored. I checked out the candy on the isle next to me, noting the new 'Pop Rocks Chocolate Bar' while casually wondering how the hell they came up with that, when I noticed the woman in line in front of me had a pin on her bag that said "Obama/Biden '08."

I should preface this by stating that I live in a small southern Midwest town, there is a church on every other corner, and it is a rather Republican/conservative leaning area. We're not quite the 'South' - but close.

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Sunday August 24, 2008 · 10:41 PM PDT

2008/08/24 · 22:41

I heard this on CNN's Late Edition today:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BIDEN: You talk about how much you're worried about being able to pay the bills. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's not a worry John McCain has to worry about.

It's a pretty hard experience. He'll have to figure out which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BLITZER: All right. A clever line referring to how many homes the McCains own. But what do you think?

SPECTER: Well, I think that when the voter goes into that polling booth, he's going to be a lot more concerned about what Russia's doing in Jordan -- Georgia on their invasion or what's happening with Iran and their developing a nuclear bomb.

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Shakespeare Trivia

Please request "Bombs Away in Old Bombay" at your local Radio Station

Cross Burnt in NJ, Community Rallies: "Heal the World With Me" - Yes We Care

Check Mate

My House Candidate -Dem- is a psychologist, but mental health is not an issue yet.

Toastmasters Topic Tonight: "If you wish to lead, you must serve."

At the Quicky Mart

Arlen Specter: "The voter" more concerned with Russia, Georgia and Iran than paying bills.