http://www.struat.com/election Political discourse. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:36:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I guess by making her announcement on one of the biggest News Dump Day of the year, the day before Independence Day Weekend, Sarah Palin foregoes the pontificating of the chattering class.  The "A Team" on the Cable "News" networks are on vacation, and the "B Team" is probably pushed ... http://www.struat.com/election/2009/07/04/a-farewell-to-palin/ Christopher Hitchens on the Richard Nixon tapes:  the face of Moderate Republicanism. Soccer Moms and Dads Banned Rush Limbaugh advocates American Coup... flippant joke, I suppose. A Ron Paul fan keeps hope alive. July 4th another Halloween -- excuse to dress like sluts?  (It helps that it's the Hottest Day of the Year.) http://www.struat.com/election/2009/07/03/4250/ Okay.  I'm a couple of days later in changing my calendar page from June to July, so I guess I'll do so now. Hey.  July 4 is tomorrow.  Independence Day!   Great! Hm.  I wonder if August's photograph will be the one that went around the Internet last election season.  Flag based, focused ... http://www.struat.com/election/2009/07/03/change-the-page-on-the-calendar/ This is Garfield's congregation.  Which puts into perspective Garfield's diary excerpt the week before calling a sermon "a very stupid sermon on a very great subject". He who studies the movement of American society cannot fail to see that we are under a reign of selfishness in striking contrast to 40 years ago.  ... http://www.struat.com/election/2009/07/03/garfields-assassination-part-2/ Apparently stung by the net effect of sparodic blogs reporting, in combination of mock and irritation, meetings with Larouche card-table deployments, LPAC has stuck this report -- a distillation of some scattered comments into something of a rallying call.  It is... funny, in that moribud way all of these things tend ... http://www.struat.com/election/2009/07/03/a-little-less-flippant-than-my-last-several-larouche-posts/ Bear with me.  There will be at least two more posts of this type.  Relating to the news coverage and debate surrounding the assassination of James Garfield, from July of 1881... on a couple months.  Why?  It seems to provide provides some tangeantal historical context for current debate surrounding political ... http://www.struat.com/election/2009/07/01/on-garfields-assassination/ It's always interesting to see how the parties position their fund raising pitches, tending toward an unrealistic Villiany.  Try this story for instance. The Democratic Governors Association sent a fundraising e-mail to supporters Tuesday highlighting Minnesota, Alaska, Florida and Georgia as "top pickup prospects."  [...] He also invoked DFLers' biggest opponents -- Rep. ... http://www.struat.com/election/2009/06/30/the-pitch-against-reality/ The Fight to keep the David Rohde Kidnapping off of wikipedia. ... the peculiar take from alex jones and "prison planet". To commemerate the 40th Anniversary of Stonewall, Fort Wayne Police Storm Gay Bar!  Stay classy, pigs. Drudge uncovers Obama's Evil Eye Michael Jackson:  On the Road to Transhumanism Hondoras General in the Coup (off of ... http://www.struat.com/election/2009/06/30/4231/ Rush Limbaugh explained Mark Sanford's affair as an opt out of the Obama's Destuctive System of Governance. Michael Savage furthered along to the grand Obama Political Destruction Conspiracy:  "We’re also going to talk about the hit job on Gov. Sanford. Yes he committed adultery by admission, but you have to ask yourself a few questions. How ... http://www.struat.com/election/2009/06/30/obamas-mode-of-operation-in-destroying-his-political-opponents/ For the life of me, I can't tell from what perspective this is coming from. But it does link the two current stories in the "Ron Paul Revolution" -- the ACLU and "Campaign for Liberty" backed lawsuit against a TSA search of a cash-wielding Ron Paul supporter. Go one further step to the ... http://www.struat.com/election/2009/06/29/dispatches-from-the-ron-paul-revolution-2/