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At any rate, congratulations, America, you’ve elected a group of people who believe government doesn’t work, yet will still take a nice cushy job in it doing absolutely nothing productive on your dime. I can’t possibly see how that wouldn’t work out.

via The Black Guy’s Still The President – The Superficial

Belgians Just Don’t Speak the Same Language

JEZUS-EIK, Belgium—Rudi Coel scowled at the sight of the Thai restaurant advertising "Takeaway."

"We’re in Flanders, so that should say ‘Meenemengerechten,’ " said the 50-year-old social worker, using the proper Dutch word.

The euro zone is in turmoil, and Belgium’s heavy government debts are drawing comparisons with those of Greece. But the main issue before [...]

Goodbye Huntsman, Hello Herbert

First from KUTV 2 (CBS):

Governor Huntsman May Accept Post As Ambassador

KUTV 2News has confirmed through multiple sources that Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. may resign and accept the position of Ambassador to China in the Obama Administration. We hear the official announcement may come as early as Saturday. Governor Huntsman served as Ambassador to [...]

The Promised Land?

Most blacks say MLK’s vision fulfilled, poll finds – CNN.com

WASHINGTON (CNN) — More than two-thirds of African-Americans believe Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for race relations has been fulfilled, a CNN poll found — a figure up sharply from a survey in early 2008.

The CNN-Opinion Research Corp. survey was released Monday, a federal [...]

Nostalgia? Already?

I must be suffering from Post-Election Withdrawal Syndrome (PEWS); George W. Bush isn’t even out of office yet, and I’m already beginning to feel some nostalgia towards his Presidency of the past 8 years.

Not because I think he was a good President; far from it, in fact, but the Bush Administration has given me [...]

Great expectations and great challenges

Three more great articles from The Economist on this past Tuesday’s election excerpted below. The first article deals with the expectations that President-elect Barack Obama will face once he takes the Oath of Office on January 20th.

Great expectations of Barack Obama | The Economist Nov 6th 2008, From The Economist print edition

Barack [...]

Fingers crossed

The drive to defeat Prop 8 isn’t completely dead yet … seems the proponents of Prop 8 didn’t get legislative approval for a Constitutional revision before placing the prop on the ballot; so it’s possible that Prop 8 constitutes an unlawful amendment.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Same-sex marriage ban wins; opponents sue to block measure [...]

It’s time

Sometimes, I really wish I didn’t have to turn to the foreign media to get the best news from an unbiased and objective perspective. The Economist has long been one of those foreign sources of news to which I have turned to get a broader perspective of world events.

The Economist generally has a [...]

I’ve done my part …

… by going to Holladay City Hall after work today, and casting my ballot. Now the rest of y’all need to go do the same.

Voting is not just a right and a privilege, but also a duty.

Going negative doesn’t help

Tonight is going to be the final debate between Barack Obama and John McCain. I wonder if McCain will be able to drop his condescending, petty, mean, attacking manner to actually engage Barack Obama in a fair discussion of the issues, without resorting to distortion and lies.

I doubt it.

Thankfully, McCain’s approach hasn’t [...]