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Nominations Now Open for Netroots Awards
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We are now accepting nominations for the 2008 Netroots Awards, sponsored by the Florida Democratic Party Netroots Coalition. The purpose of our second annual awards is to recognize the best and brightest of the progressive/liberal/Democratic Netroots and blogs. Between now and Sunday, May 25, please nominate your favorites in the categories below. You can nominate one person in one category or multiple people in every category, that's up to you. In the end, we will narrow the lists down to the top people in each category and offer a final voting period to determine the winners. The final winners will be announced at the Netroots Conference at the Florida Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson Weekend in Hollywood on June 14 (and then announced online). Before voting, please observe the following rules:
2. The nominees in each category must be based in Florida and they shouldn't be Republicans.
3. Anyone can nominate anyone (you can nominate yourself) and you don't have to be a Floridian to nominate anyone.
If you have questions, send me and e-mail at quinnelk@hotmail.com. Here are the categories (with a brief description and last year's winner, who, again, is ineligible to win this year):
1. Best National Blog (Last year: Blast Off!): Blogs written by Floridians that covers primarily national politics.
2. Best State Blog (Last year: FLA Politics): Blogs about statewide politics in Florida.
3. Best Local Blog (Last year: Tampa Bay Blue): Blogs about city/county/regional politics in the state of Florida.
4. Best Media Blog (Last year: The Buzz): Blogs written by professional journalists at Florida publications.
5. Best Professional Blog (Last year: Miami-Dade Dems): Blogs written by state or local political parties, candidates or party operatives in Florida.
6. Best Party Website (Last year: Draft Katherine Harris): Best Florida-wide website associated with a political party or political party unit (such as a caucus or coalition).
7. Best Candidate Website (Last year: Chris Chiari): Anyone running for statewide or local office in Florida can win this one.
8. Best Local Party Website (Last year: Nassau Democratic Party): This one is for Florida DECs, clubs or local chapters of statewide caucuses or coalitions.
9. Best Interest Group Website (Amateur) (Last year: Space Coast Progressive Alliance): Any Florida-based nonparty activist, charitable or grassroots group with an annual budget under $100,000 is eligible for this one.
10. Best Interest Group Website (Professional) (Last year: New category): Any Florida-based nonparty activist, charitable or grassroots group with an annual budget over $100,000 is eligible for this one.
11. Best Writer (Last year: Litbrit): Anyone whose writings is published at any of the above websites is eligible for this one. Winners should have one or more of the following qualities: good grammar and presentation, provides original reporting, has a good sense of humor, shows creativity, has a strong personal touch, or has an affect on the real world because of their writing
12. Netroots Candidate of the Year (Last year: Michael Calderin): The Florida candidate at any level who has best incorporated the Netroots into her/his campaign and done the best job of treating Netroots activists as valid constituents and not just another group of people to exploit.
13. Netroots Activist of the Year (Last year: Susan Smith): The individual who has done the most to advance the goals and activities of the progressive Netroots in the state of Florida.
14. Netroots Organization of the Year (Last year: Florida Progressive Coalition): The organization that has done the most to advance the goals and activities of the progressive Netroots in the state of Florida.
15. Best New Blogger (Last year: New category): This one should go to the best blogger who has been blogging about Florida politics for no more than a year and a half.
16. Best Online Campaign (Last year: New category): This is an award for the best use of the web and related technologies to achieve some kind of goal, such as fundraising, fighting legislation or other activism.
17. Best Post (Last year: New Category): The best-written post since last year's awards.
18. Best Ongoing Series (Last year: New Category): The best regular feature that incorporates at least five posts since last year's awards.
19. Best Grassroots Website (Last year: New Category): The best website devoted to supporting a candidate, organization or issue that is created by amateur supporters for little to no money and without official connection to a party, candidate or interest group (at least initially).
20. Florida Progressive Coalition Progressive Hall of Fame (Last year: New Category): FPC is sponsoring a virtual "Progressive Hall of Fame" that should be awarded as sort of a lifetime achievement award to a person or organization (amateur or professional) that has made a significant contribution towards making Florida a bluer, more progressive state. This award may have more than one recipient.
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"what goes around, comes around"--
HD, no matter which way you look at it, he's there in 2008:
http://www.tommcmahon.net/images/mugDean2008.jpg
Sorry to see that your beloved redwings choked....................
"Sorry to see that your beloved redwings choked."
Yes, I too was sad that they could not break the franchise's record for consecutive playoff victories in one postseason, but it was a lot to ask. Since they are deliberately strangling the life out of Dallas nonetheless, I'll have to settle for a longer series to see when they move on to the Cup finals, if they do.
Hillbillies, Nascar Morons, and eleven-fingered folk go big for Clinton.
CNN: Analysis: Clinton crushes Obama across the board
The Unstoppable One wreaks more havoc in the Democratic Party trying to prove that she's the only candidate white people will vote for.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonshake/125275092/
ed gentry gets captured by hillbillies in john boorman's deliverance (1972)
On the sidelines so far as this year's elections--the best place for him.
Remember his endorsement of Howard Dean in 04?
That worked well..................
Personally, you gotta be half baked to want that job these days......Gore was far above it, even in 2000 and him even being on the same stage "debating"(yeah right) Bush must have been a terrible lowering of personal standards and hygeine for Gore..................the idiots voted Bush in, 2x much less...........and got what they deserved.........
Bumper sticker for 2008........"Since 1/9/2001, learned anything yet"?
While delivering an address before the Israeli parliament commemorating the 60th anniversary of Israel, President Bush said that Sen. Barack Obama and Democrats favor a policy of appeasement toward terrorists. CNN reports that Bush was comparing Obama to “other U.S. leaders back in the run-up to World War II who appeased the Nazis.”
In his speech, Bush said, “As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”
Meanwhile................
Reacting to Bush’s comments, Obama issued this statement: “It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack. It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel.”
like Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer's Yukon Cornelius who throws his mountain-climbing spike into the air and pulls it up from where it stuck into the ground and he licks it saying "nottin", there's Hillary sitting awaiting some uptick from her 5/13 win in WV:
http://www.wvgazette.com/News/ElectionCentral/200805140862
May 15, 2008
is such a beautiful state with a reputation I suppose. Abercrombie and Fitch sold a tee-shirt which read: West Virginia - it's all relative.
"You all better hope it's Hillary who is the nominee, because the kind of supporters Obama has attracted with their attitutudes, finished off any chance of him getting enough support to win the GE."
The breadth of ignorance reflected in this comment is staggering. To wrestle away the nomination, Clinton will have to blow off the results of every caucus that occurred this year, ignore the total number of votes cast by Democrats for her, dismiss the relevance of the pledged delegates for Obama and the democratically enacted rules by which they were selected, argue against the broad based financial support for her opponent in favor of her significantly self-financed campaign, and lobby for the undemocratic primary results of Florida and Michigan that she herself has already declared do not count.
She'll have to get the superdelegates to agree with this argument for her candidacy, and she'll have to secure the nomination from them at a convention that will both destroy the reputation of Howard Dean in history forever, and spell the certain end of the Democratic Party. Under the circumstances, it's beyond argument that over half of its core constituency will bolt upon the party's authorization and ratification of a presidential nomination awarded through the right of privilege, as bestowed by the party's inner circle of influential kingmakers and loyalist favor-seekers. Needless to say, this will not result in her election as President.
I doubt Linda will be supporting Barack. Just a hunch.
Yep, looks like Linda pooped (err popped) in last night for another of her infamous hit and run posted comments.
Or, as John Harwood said on MTP last week, HRC could win if:
"Tim, let me qualify that this way.... Stuff could happen to Barack Obama. If we found out that there was a secret poker game when Tony Rezko was paying Barack Obama to write Jeremiah Wright's sermons and to organize Muslim English professors for a new Weather Underground chapter, maybe Barack Obama could be stopped."
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/15/1850/99010/658/515972
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Judy and Monica -- World is overpopulated - I would venture the theory that the China earthquake and cyclone were Mother Earth trying to rid herself of too many people and too much pollution - to the Chinese's credit they legislated (sort of) a population control and one of the tragedies of the recent disasters was that people lost their only children.
Want to be in Ontario and see the trillium. Want to be in Boston and smell the lilacs. Want to be in Iowa and find out what the H a morel is.
Obama and Sweetie -- I DO hope it turns out his 'sweetie' was directed at a little kid. Altho I've found his use of the word charming (Daddy-like in its innocence) I have been worried that it would come to bite him in the b*tt. Too many EEO and sensitivity training sessions during corporate enslavement days.
Obama and Reparations -- This is just one more 'btw did ya notice he's black' things, but I've heard several callers on Washington Journal mention they want his stance on reparations. He is going to need to answer the questions.
We've had this respite from summer weather in north Florida for several days -- dry, dry air, breezy, highs in low 80s, lows in 60s. Feels like SF Bay Area. Blooming? Wildflowers I guess - red, pink, blue, yellow, white. I don't know the names.
OH YES! BRILLIANT IDEA! Our stalwart IT Tim should program the blog so that when you reply to a post, the reply is posted on the end of the LATEST thread with the SUBJECT being the SUBJECT of the post being replied to. :~)
anni ~~ as ugly as it looks to you the first time you see, even so wonderful it tastes, the first time you eat one. It's up there with the really great foods of the world ~~ avocados, caviar. . . .
"Sweetie" is almost a reflex with me for sweet women. Doesn't seem pejorative, condescending, even if a tad sexist in some contexts.
I giuess as an old putz of 71, I can be forgiven. The women I call that don't seem to mind.......................
Except for the super liberated women post 60s that feels its somehow beneath them for a man to open a door for them, give up a bus seat etc...........i dont anymore except foe the Big 3( pregnant and shows, elderly, sick)...............
A woman of colour calls me "sugar" all the time...............I se nothing wrong with it personally..............me personally I try and keep it formal with the exception for children.......
71 year olds can say anything they want Hujo -- at 65 I get more honest every day. I don't think Sweetie is appropriate for a subordinate tho.
Yep, 'sweetie' was directed at a little kid. I agree it could become a problem since the rumor already that he said it to a reporter. sheesh.
HuJo, sweetie :-)
anni ~ about morels... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morel
Glad you asked about 'em, I didn't know they were poisonous eaten raw!
Your answer to Linda's post was right on, and gracious.
In my book you are the best, kindest, smartest. Love ya.
I wonder if he has heard about the JE endorsement. Don't know if he is in a remote location.
From looking at other blogs it looks as if some of Edwards pledged delegates are coming out for Obama.
No tool bar this morning.
I'm probably the only one old enough to remember Melvin Dummar. He is getting another shot at Howard Hughes' money.
http://www.kutv.com/content/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=c88187c1-1b75-42e2-a1aa-617d247f212b
They made a movie Melvin and Howard (1980) about it. Not too bad a movie.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/john-mccain-and-al-qaeda_b_101823.html
[McCain], a formerly "maverick" Republican, one who was sensible enough to understand the dangerous perversions involved in this radicalization of American politics, will find himself repeating the idiotic mantra that we are "fighting al Qaeda in Iraq so we don't have to fight them here."
John McCain knows better. I know he knows better. But it is appalling when a serious patriot like McCain is forced to fall into line with these radical perverters of language, one of the most dangerous things that can happen in a democracy, in order to lead a party that is so far off the mainstream rails that it will take decades to return to civility and normality.
If John McCain seriously believes we are at war with al Qaeda in Iraq, that alone is such a serious error in judgment as to rank him with George W. Bush at his worst and therefore disqualify him from any chance to govern this country.
John McCain is intelligent enough to know that our tragically flawed invasion of Iraq has indeed kicked open a hornets nest, a 1300 year old hornets nest of violent rivalry inside Islam, and that for us to put all the hornets back in the nest will take decades and trillions of dollars, that it will assure the decline of the American republic, and that it will represent a grasp at empire that would cause all of our founders to revolve in their graves.
Why then would he, a combat veteran, a courageous prisoner of war, permit himself to be captive to the perverters of language? Does he want to be president so badly that he will join that band of radicals who have seriously damaged American democracy, who have tortured and lied, who have twisted our very Constitution so wrongly that it is hardly recognizable?
I refuse to believe it. It is not the John McCain I have known for 30 years.
John McCain can redeem himself and redeem the soul of his party by admitting once and for all that what is flawed about Iraq is not our military strategy, not our lack of will, not our failure of national commitment. It is that we chose the wrong war at the wrong time with the wrong enemy. John McCain's problem is not al Qaeda. His problem is George W. Bush and the people he chose to advise him.
We will pay for their arrogance for years to come. Our 35,000 casualties are paying with their lives and their futures.
Nobody's "forcing" McCain to do anything, Gary. He was a turncoat POW (well-documented by NV and his fellow POWs) a philandering husband (which you know a lot about--firsthand, as it were), and one of the most disgusting, corrupt politicians that AZ, famous for corrupt politicians, has turned out.
That's why I think that McCain is a place-holder--someone to keep a seat at the media trough warm and drive us all to distraction so the September Surprise will be welcome.
McCain just live on CNN:
He says he will work with "both parties." (Hmmm, sounds familiar.)
He says he will use the veto for legislation that "is not in the best interests of the nation." (In his opinion of course and no doubt assuming he would be working with a majority Dem Congress.)
This, together with his recent environmental and other statements trying to appear like a Democrat and often like Obama and then appearing as a Republican the next day, just make him look even more like the fool that he is. Pathetic!
the role of government is to reward and punish. The pater familias writ large. I keep being reminded of a book on the social organization of some African nation in which the author claimed that the men did all the important work--making decisions for the rest of the community.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080515/pl_politico/10366;_ylt=AiV52Pt44wa9PLFJPvUWPnRh24cA
GOP cancer: Party could lose 20 more seats
John F. Harris, Josh Kraushaar
Wed May 14, 9:09 PM ET
For the past 18 months, ever since the 2006 elections, congressional Republicans have been like a hospital patient trying to convince visitors that he is not really all that sick: a bit under the weather; actually feel better than I sound; should be up and about any day; thanks for asking.
Suddenly -- belatedly -- all pretense is gone.
The Republican defeat in Tuesday's special election in Mississippi, in a deeply conservative district where, in an average year, Democrats cannot even compete, was a clear sign that the GOP has the political equivalent of cancer that has spread throughout the body. Many House GOP operatives are privately predicting that the party could easily lose up to 20 seats this fall.
Combined with the 30 seats that the GOP lost in 2006, that would leave the party facing a 70-vote deficit against Democrats in the House -- a state of powerlessness reminiscent of Republicans' long wilderness years in the 1960s and '70s.
Things are not particularly more hopeful on the Senate side, where most analysts say Democrats have a strong chance of adding five or more seats to their current majority.
Panic and blame-casting for the dire condition were flowing in equal measures Wednesday inside the House Republican Conference and among party elders and operatives outside.
In the crossfire, there was a bracing new spirit of candor that has largely been missing since 2006, when many Republicans tried to convince the public -- and perhaps themselves -- that the defeat was the result of temporary setbacks, such as the House page scandal or bad headlines for Tom DeLay, rather than something more fundamental.
"The political atmosphere facing House Republicans this November is the worst since Watergate and is far more toxic than the fall of 2006, when we lost 30 seats (and our majority) and came within a couple of percentage points of losing another 15 seats," Rep. Tom Davis, a moderate Northern Virginia Republican who previously headed the National Republican Congressional Committee, wrote in a 20-page memo to colleagues.
Former Rep. Mickey Edwards, an Oklahoma Republican, said: "I don't know that I have seen a year like this, ever. The general attitude toward Republicans is so bad nationally."
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and 4 pledged delegates:
http://www.baynews9.com/content/120/2008/5/15/348674.html
Edwards endorsement pays off for Obama
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama picked up four of John Edwards' 19 delegates as the former rival's endorsement began to pay off.
Edwards endorsed Obama on Wednesday night. Hours later, some of Edwards' delegates followed suit
...Obama picked up three delegates in South Carolina and one in New Hampshire, both states that held their primaries in January.
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Congratulations on the Boston win last night.
s m -
Indeed, it's not easy to go up against the Cleveland Lebron James powerhouse !
oh, btw, a new thread
WASHINGTON — The United Steelworkers union endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Thursday, giving the Illinois senator a powerful advocate in attracting blue-collar voters.
The endorsement comes one day after former presidential candidate and Steelworker ally John Edwards endorsed Obama, a key component in the union's decision to go with the Democratic front-runner. The union had earlier endorsed Edwards, who threw his support to Obama Wednesday night. ...more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/steelworkers-endorse-obam_n_101888.html
- WWDD?
By Tom Bearse on May 15, 2008 9:02 AM EDTDean is first.