Tag: politics
member name: Eben Brooks
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September 07, 2008 02:11 PM EDT --
I've heard recently from multiple sources that Obama's "six point lead" over McCain has "evaporated" since the end of the RNC, or that it has dipped low enough that it's . . .
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November 06, 2008 02:57 AM EST --
Proposition 8. Yeah, we hates it, we does. And yeah, it passed yesterday by a slim but incontrovertible margin.
Guess what? Doesn't matter one damn whit. Why? Because the people who put it on . . .
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September 22, 2008 04:42 PM EDT --
I can't begin to express how utterly sick this article makes me:
http://www.truthout.org/article/mccain-and-pow-cover-up
Frankly, McCain's involvement in this is insignificant . . .
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October 03, 2008 06:24 PM EDT --
A while back, I did a video blog about Disparity between mental health and physical health insurance coverage . Well, imagine my surprise when I heard about this:
Mental Health Parity gets OKed . . .
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October 10, 2008 01:46 PM EDT --
PLEASE NOTE: Disrespectful comments will be deleted. Period.
On May 15th, 2008, California became a state that grants equal protection and equal rights to same-sex couples. This was indeed a victory . . .
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September 30, 2008 01:55 AM EDT --
Dear Senator Obama and Staff,
I don't know if any of you saw this, but Andrea Sorkin, in the voice of one of her most famous characters, President Jed Bartlett of The West Wing, had some . . .
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September 29, 2008 04:49 PM EDT --
Wall Street has actually convinced a lot of us that what's good for the Dow Jones Average is good for us real people. But for eight years, while bankers raked in billions, ordinary Americans have seen . . .
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September 08, 2008 12:04 AM EDT --
I just realized that I've posted three posts without introducing myself.
My name is Eben Brooks, and I'm a musician in San Diego. I play several shows a month, both solo and with my band, . . .
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April 13, 2009 12:43 AM EDT --
After considerable self-examination and reflective thought, I have come to the conclusion that I have been being a bit of a troll.
It was not my intention to be so, but I have looked again at some . . .
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September 15, 2008 06:55 PM EDT --
Okay, when Carl Rove says that McCain's political campaign has gone 'too far' in its dishonesty...
...all I can say is "God DAMN, that's one dishonest campaign!"
(Okay, . . .
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October 04, 2008 03:38 PM EDT --
If you go to Pollster.com and look at the numbers and the graph, Obama is now at over 50% (averaged over all polls surveyed) for the first time ever .
Take that, all you "Palin nailed the . . .
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December 09, 2008 10:22 PM EST --
Though I am a musician, I am in no way a fan of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The RIAA, as most of you are aware, has been the 800-pound gorilla behind the anti-music-"piracy" . . .
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October 04, 2008 02:25 AM EDT --
I just saw this video of President Bush's speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on March 29th, 2007.
I was absolutely guffawing in places. It's really funny! (And not in . . .
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October 02, 2008 03:43 AM EDT --
Both Barack Obama and Joe Biden voted for the "revised" bailout plan. So did both of my state's Senators.
This is the letter I sent to all four of them:
Senators:
I am deeply . . .
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September 08, 2008 09:07 PM EDT --
This is a live performance of my song "Waiting For the Countdown", recorded on April 4th, 2008 at It's A Grind in Encinitas, CA.
This song is track #1 on Mirrors , available at http://cdbaby.com/cd/eben2 . . .
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September 29, 2008 12:56 AM EDT --
This is episode #14 of my YouTube video blog , in which I interview a friend of mine who has volunteered for the Barack Obama presidential campaign. She talks about how and why she got involved (it may . . .
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October 01, 2008 01:47 PM EDT --
Dear Senators Obama and Biden,
I have heard that you are planning to vote in favor of the Bush Administration's proposed "bailout" of Wall Street. As someone who believes in change, I . . .
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October 02, 2008 07:51 PM EDT --
I've already commented on the fact that Congress did the right thing by voting down the irresponsible Bush/Paulson bailout of Wall Street.
I've also already commented on how disappointed . . .
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October 03, 2008 05:14 PM EDT --
In 2002, a blogger named Dwight Meredith posted a series of analyses on his blog, P.L.A. These analyses compared Democratic presidential administrations with Republican presidential administrations . . .
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October 03, 2008 07:14 PM EDT --
(I found this through a non-Gather friend of mine, Jim Davis [no, not THAT Jim Davis...].)
McCain's Miserable Record of Not Supporting America's Troops and Veterans
by Brandon Friedman . . .
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