Scott,
Thanks so much for that. BTW, here's something I just sent out to
some friends, in case you're at all concerned with what's happening
down here. (you heard we ditched the Magna Carta and Habeas Corpus, eh?)
Judith and I were invited by some friends to the HUGE fundraiser in
SF last night for the DCCC (2.5 million, the largest amount in this
election cycle).
Rahm Emanuel did great Bill Clinton imitations and reminded us of
what a great delegation we have in Northern California (Nancy Pelosi,
Zoe Lofgren, George Miller, Anna Eshoo, Mike Honda, Barbara Lee), not
to mention our two Senators from the Bay Area. He talked about the
political situation, and in how many races the democrats are ahead,
but reminded us there were six days to go, and we shouldn't be
spiking the ball on the twenty yard line.
Nancy Pelosi rocked the house, though she deflated some of the more
vengeful-minded (me?) by saying she planned on using the Golden Rule
as speaker. If you saw her on 60 Minutes two weeks ago, she was very
insistent that impeachment was NOT on the agenda. Of course that
doesn't meant Conyers can't hold hearings. But I'm consoled by
recalling that both Agnew and Nixon resigned. Yes, I'm optimistic!
The highlight of the evening was not Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and
Graham Nash singing 'I am a Patriot' but Bill Clinton. He gave a
rambling, thoughtful talk about the administration's use of fear to
divide the country ("America is not about fear" brought great
applause). He urged us to support Prop 87, California's Alternative
Energy Plan (he had a good phrase that was better than "future-
proofing" but I don't remember it now), for which he has been in many
commercials out here. He talked a lot about how the Democratic Party
is becoming home to a broad array of patriots, both conservative and
progressive, and the huge responsibility we will have to work
together for the good of the people.
He closed by coming back to politics and fear. He said there were a
lot of people out there who have never voted for us, and need a
little encouragement. His analogy was being on a diving board for
the first time -- that democratic water sure looks good, but you
still have to jump.
So with (now) five days to go, let's see if we can encourage some of
our conservative relatives and friends to make the plunge. For some
of them, I think we can point to the Democratic Party as the Big Tent
-- Jim Webb in Virginia was Ragan's Secretary of the Navy is running
as a Dem. The Chair of the Kansas Republican party in 2003 is
running as a Dem. Hundreds more of these.
In order to see some change we need power, and we need their votes.
See what you can do.
Thanks again.
On Nov 2, 2006, at 6:39 AM, Scott Cadillac wrote:
Hi Bill,
Here's an example (and shameless plug for my wife's book):
http://www.libertyandjustice4all.us/
An excellent book, by the way ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: William M. Conlon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 12:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: BLOG
I needed a blog a few months ago and was hoping that Phil's
blog would do the
trick, but there just seemed to be too much additional work
needed. I
evaluated a number of open source packages and decided I
liked WordPress the best.
Here's an example (and shameless plug for my wife's book):
http://www.libertyandjustice4all.us/
--
Bill
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From: Wayne Irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:38:42 +1100
Subject: Witango-Talk: BLOG
In the same week I have been asked by two clients to set up
BLOG software.
I'm not al that familiar with the functionality of a BLOG but I
assume it allows public submission with centralised admin and
approval. The results showed in a some chronological order
on a page.
I've got several systems pretty close to this but was
wondering if anyone
else has some BLOG code I could look at or use?
Wayne Irvine
Byte Services Pty Ltd
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