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Post-election Editorials, Services for Nonprofits, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-11-09

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

ice on the Chesepeake

    Election 

  • Op-Ed Columnist - Obama and the War on Brains - NYTimes.com
    Barack Obama’s election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second most remarkable thing about his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual.
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  • Op-Ed Columnist - It Still Felt Good the Morning After - NYTimes.com
    ON the morning after a black man won the White House, America’s tears of catharsis gave way to unadulterated joy.
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    • Resources for NonProfits

  • Message in-a-Box
    Message in-a-box: Tools and tactics for communicating your cause is a new web resources that includes tactical guides to using a wide range communications tools for social change, packaged with some open source tools for creating media. This resource is for small to midsized nonprofit organizations.
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  • JustGive.org - Nonprofit Resources | FAQs
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  • Google Checkout
    Do you already accept donations through Google Checkout?
    Enable non-profit specific features and donation buttons in minutes. Learn how. Sign up now »
    Google Checkout for Non-Profits is a fast, convenient donation process that helps you attract more donors and increase online giving to your organization – and you can use it to process donations by charging credit or debit cards for free until 2009.
    (tags: free nonprofits)
  • Free Web Services for Nonprofits - Grassroots.org
    The mission of Grassroots.org is to serve as a catalyst for positive social change by leveraging modern technologies and best business practices.
    (tags: nonprofit services)

    • A Place to Bury Strangers

  • Daily Express | Printer
    A Place to Bury Strangers’ self-titled debut LP sets tinnitus-inducing noise-pop against atmospheric echo chambers and sweet, tear-jerking melodies. The mix of blown-out guitar, reverberating basslines and beautiful chord sequences creates a heady treat from New York’s supposedly “loudest” three-piece. From the majestic opening track Missing You to the haunting, romantic Don’t Think Lover, this is ear-shattering bleakness wrapped round slender, gentle indie-pop tunefulness. An astounding first album.
    (tags: aptbs review uk)

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Obama Ads & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-11-01

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Ice on the Chesapeake Bay

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TOP 5 REASONS OBAMA SUPPORTERS SHOULDN’T REST EASY

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

TOP 5 REASONS OBAMA SUPPORTERS SHOULDN’T REST EASY 

1. The polls may be wrong. This is an unprecedented election. No one knows how racism may affect what voters tell pollsters—or what they do in the voting booth. And the polls are narrowing anyway. In the last few days, John McCain has gained ground in most national polls, as his campaign has gone even more negative.

2. Dirty tricks. Republicans are already illegally purging voters from the rolls in some states. They’re whipping up hysteria over ACORN to justify more challenges to new voters. Misleading flyers about the voting process have started appearing in black neighborhoods. And of course, many counties still use unsecure voting machines.

3. October surprise. In politics, 15 days is a long time. The next McCain smear could dominate the news for a week. There could be a crisis with Iran, or Bin Laden could release another tape, or worse.

4. Those who forget history… In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote after trailing by seven points in the final days of the race. In 1980, Reagan was eight points down in the polls in late October and came back to win. Races can shift—fast!

5. Landslide. Even with Barack Obama in the White House, passing universal health care and a new clean-energy policy is going to be hard. Insurance, drug and oil companies will fight us every step of the way. We need the kind of landslide that will give Barack a huge mandate.

If you agree that we shouldn’t rest easy, please sign up to volunteer at your local Obama office by clicking here: 

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=31260&id=14523-5268029-fiMrH8x&t=1 

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Obama & Biden at University of Mary Washington

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Barack Obama and Joe Biden were at a rally at University of Mary Washington on Saturday, September, 27, 2008,along with 26,000 of their friends.  it was an exciting and uplifting experience to hear them speak and to be with the crowd. we cam on campus a little after 1:00  and the rally was over about 8:30. Beautiful sunshine to start with, a downpour at 5,a time of clearing, and then more rain while Obama was speaking. The rain did nothing to dampen the spirit of the crowd. It really is a thrill to be in the presence of a skilled orator.

Videos of the event

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Obama Blasts McCain on Lipstickgate: Enough of the lies and distractions!

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Watch the video. Enough is enough!

Enough is Enough

“What their campaign has done this morning is the same game that has made people sick and tired of politics in this country. They seize on an innocent remark, try to take it out of context, throw out an outrageous ad because they know it’s catnip for the news media,” Mr. Obama said. “I’m assuming you guys heard this watching the news. I’m talking about John McCain’s economic policies and I said here’s more of the same, ‘You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. Suddenly, they say, Oh you must be talking about the governor of Alaska!’”

As the audience applauded, he added: “See it would be funny, it would be funny except, of course the news media decided that was the lead story yesterday. The McCain campaign would much rather have the story about phony and foolish diversions than about the future.”

By devoting a little more than five minutes to the lipstick controversy, Mr. Obama said he was finished discussing the matter and return to issues that Americans are concerned about . (Time will tell, of course, if this really is the final word on the subject.)

“Spare me the phony outrage. Spare me the phony talk about change,” Mr. Obama said. “We have real problems in this country right now and the American people are looking to us for answers, not distractions, no diversions, not manipulations.”

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Political cartoons - August 2, 2008

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Spare me any more drivel about the high-mindedness of John McCain. You knew something was up back in March when, in his first ad of the general campaign, Mr. McCain had himself touted as “the American president Americans have been waiting for.” ….

Nevertheless, it’s frustrating to watch John McCain calling out Barack Obama on race. Senator Obama has spoken more honestly and thoughtfully about race than any other politician in many years. Senator McCain is the head of a party that has viciously exploited race for political gain for decades.

He’s obviously more than willing to continue that nauseating tradition.
Running While Black, Bob Herbert,

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Very well put - Obama on offense

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

A Place to Bury Strangers
Bob Herbert has a really appropriate op-ed piece in todays NY Times, “Can Obama Run the Offense?

McCain’s constant whining is getting tiresome. Here is the opening that got my attention:

Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Barack Obama is a United States senator, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his party’s candidate for president of the United States — and yet it was somehow presumptuous of him to meet with foreign leaders last week during his trip to the Middle East and Europe.

I’ll say this about Senator Obama. He sure raises people’s hackles. I’ve never seen anyone so roundly criticized for such grievous offenses as giving excellent speeches and urging people of different backgrounds to take a chance on working together. How dare he? And 200,000 people turned out to hear him in Berlin. Unforgivable.

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