Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: Politics

  • Far graver than Vietnam

    Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Far graver than Vietnam “We have a growing, maturing insurgency group,” he told me. “We see larger and more coordinated military attacks. They are getting better and they can self-regenerate. The idea there are x number of insurgents, and that when they’re all dead we can get out…

  • A sleazy remark from Cheney

    Yahoo! News – Gore: Cheney ‘Wrong Choice’ Remark Sleazy “The claim by Bush and Cheney that the American people must give them four more years in office or else be ‘hit hard’ by another terrorist attack is a sleazy and despicable effort to blackmail voters with fear,” Gore said. “They are going back to the…

  • Oh my F**king God.

    I know I posted a link to her site yesterday but Annatopia has posted lots of updates from her time in NY for the RNC last week. You have got to go read them, each and every one of you reading this. Click here to go there and read them. You won’t believe it. I…

  • LitBlogs: Update: My War, Over and Out

    LitBlogs: Update: My War, Over and Out I decided to go visit some blogs that I haven’t been to in awhile and noticed that the blog, My War, had only one post, a quote from Johnny Rotten. And the name has been changed from My War, to Over and Out. I clicked on a few…

  • Kerry’s DNC speech, revisited

    I’ve been spending some time burning cd’s for various people this morning. One of those cd’s has Barack Obama and Kerry’s speeches at the DNC for my mom. I’m sitting here listening to Kerry’s speech again. It really is fantastic. It’s a great speech. It is so hopeful and positive. Listening to him, I can…