Palin is a 'Post Turtle'

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Friday October 03, 2008 · 8:09 AM PDT

2008/10/03 · 08:09

Not much to add to this, but living deep in the heart of a red state I thought yall might like a little Texas wit with a blue perspective. From the Austin American Statesman reader blogs, CommunityMatters writes:

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Saturday July 19, 2008 · 8:43 AM PDT

2008/07/19 · 08:43

Texas Kaos Presents Netroots Nation after party and art exhibit hosted by Bay6 Gallery and Studios,
Saturday July 19th 7:00PM to 10:00PM. 5305 Bolm Rd Bay6 Austin TX.

As the Netroots Nation conference winds to a close Saturday evening, we invite you to join us and Bloggers from across the nation at Bay6 Studios to 'Kick Back and Kick it Up before We Kick 'Em Out!'

Sponsored and hosted by Texas Kaos and Bay6 Gallery and located five minutes from the Austin Convention Center in East Austin, the event will feature music, food, drink and present a group art exhibition "Blogging from the Right Side of the Brain" featuring work by Texas artists, Marilynn Fenn, Daphne Holland, Jack Howe, Darvin Jones, Mindy Kober, Sharon Kyle-Kuhn and Brooke Wilton

For more information and direction see, www.texaskaos.com or www.bay6studios.com

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Tuesday July 01, 2008 · 11:26 AM PDT

2008/07/01 · 11:26

For the Republican Elite and their higher eschelon minions there is nothing quite so refreshing at the end of a long hard day of larceny and treason as an ice cold adult beverage. They gather at night, toasting each other on their collective genius and partaking of a drink for for titans such as themselves.
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Tuesday April 01, 2008 · 6:13 PM PDT

2008/04/01 · 18:13

I came across this picture on the internet and the strategic placement of the slide just screams for some sort of joke about how Republicans are made somewhere just beneath the surface.

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Monday March 31, 2008 · 4:18 AM PDT

2008/03/31 · 04:18

Our precinct had a total of 30 delegates to the county convention which had split 20 delegates for Obama, 10 delegates for Clinton. Our mission: Elect two delegates to represent us at the state convention. I was one of the Obama delegates.

Tuesday before the County Caucus, our precinct chair (who was an Obama delegate) called all of the Obama delegates together to meet a a local watering hole to discuss voting strategy for the upcoming county convention. The parking lot was full with 20 cars circling around looking for spots that didn't exist so I pulled out of the lot and parked on the highway and pretty soon a line of cars had followed me up the hill and parked too. The woman who parked in front of me said, "That was a smart idea parking out here." and we proceeded to walk down to the ice house together. I asked her as we were walking, "Are you here for the Obama meeting?" to which she responded, "We prefer to think of it as the Clinton meeting."

Oops. Not the first time I have put my foot in my mouth, it's why I always make sure to wear good shoes.

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Thursday March 01, 2007 · 7:13 PM PST

2007/03/01 · 19:13

They have been a part of us ever since we have been. The current incarnation in the US is based on religious fundamentalism/evangelicism but religion is merely the vehicle through which they rampage through society. They sometimes serve society in the form of a posse, but can also turn, to the detriment of society, into a lynch mob.

Russian pogroms, Nazis and Facsists, the Chinese cultural revolution, the Moral Majority all have common roots in our collective psyches. In trying to understand this phenomenon we tend to focus on the Hitlers, the Stalins, the Idi Amins, the Dick Cheneys, the James Dobsons. While these people are part of the problem for every one of them there is a class of people ready to saddle up and bash heads for the cause.

Who are these people?

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Wednesday December 13, 2006 · 9:06 AM PST

2006/12/13 · 09:06

On Tuesday December 12, Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted "Operation Wagon Train" an immigration raid that shut down six Swift Meatpacking facilities in six different states. If you want to get a good perspective on how these heavy handed raids affect communities there is a great set of articles at the Grand Island Independent about the impact on one small community (registration required).

There was, however, one thing about this raid that stood out for me.

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Thursday December 07, 2006 · 8:40 AM PST

2006/12/07 · 08:40

I am surprised more people on both the left and right haven't spoken up on this yet but I have to admit as liberal as I am, given the circumstances I think it is wrong to Mary Cheney to have conceived this child. It is hard enough for a child to make their way in the world today without having to carry the kind of stigma this child will have to.

Strangely enough, I find myself agreeing with Janice Shaw Crouse over at town hall.

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Friday November 17, 2006 · 5:48 AM PST

2006/11/17 · 05:48

The families here today have either adopted or given up for adoption frozen embryos that remained after fertility treatments. Rather than discard these embryos created during in vitro fertilization, or turn them over for research that destroys them, these families have chosen a life-affirming alternative. Twenty-one children here today found a chance for life with loving parents.
I want to thank Nightlight Christian Adoptions for their good work. Nightlight's embryo adoption program has now matched over 200 biological parents with about 140 adoptive families, resulting in the birth of 81 children so far, with more on the way.
The children here today remind us that there is no such thing as a spare embryo. Every embryo is unique and genetically complete, like every other human being. And each of us started out our life this way. These lives are not raw material to be exploited, but gifts. And I commend each of the families here today for accepting the gift of these children and offering them the gift of your love.
President George W. Bush

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Tuesday September 12, 2006 · 8:27 AM PDT

2006/09/12 · 08:27

Lifted from The Public Eye about the 1981 to 1991 NEA Maplethorpe battles:

At the same time, a student artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dread Scott Tyler, became the subject of controversy for his work, "What is the Proper Way to Display An American Flag?" that displayed an American flag on the floor in a way that encouraged viewers to stand on it. The U.S. Senate voted 97-0 on March 17 to make it a federal crime to display an American flag on the floor or ground. Veterans marched on the museum; the school was rocked by bomb threats; and the Governor of Illinois, while expressing his disagreement, nevertheless signed a bill in July, 1989 that eliminated state grants to both the School and the Illinois Arts Alliance, a state advocacy group which had defended exhibit.

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Tuesday August 01, 2006 · 8:41 AM PDT

2006/08/01 · 08:41

To the people of Cuba from the people of America.

Today in the news our president said:

"If Fidel Castro were to move on because of natural causes, we've got a plan in place to help the people of Cuba understand there's a better way than the system in which they've been living under," he told WAQI-AM Radio Mambi, a Spanish-language radio station. "No one knows when Fidel Castro will move on. In my judgment, that's the work of the Almighty."

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