Memnison Journal

Right here. I think they picked the right one, personally.

No more Polaroid film.  Digital’s killed it.
Whole Paycheck Foods is having problems, and people are going for store generics everywhere in grocery stores.
Mark Penn can’t imagine how he hurt the Clinton campaign for President.
China is having serious upsets and problems due to the recession elsewhere; if nobody buys the stuff you make, [...]

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And this one shows the change of color - er, votes in this election versus the last one in the state of Ohio - the bluer the county gets, the more it moved to the Democrats, and the redder, the more that county moved to the Republicans.  The northwest went more Democratic, the area just [...]

Obama: 325
McCain: 288
Barr: 2
Nader: 3
McKinney: 1
Baldwin: 1
Total registered in precinct: 781
Total votes: 625

Congress:

Harper (D): 255
Biggert (R-Inc): 317
Green party guy: 17

The AP and others are now declaring Mark Begich, the Mayor of Anchorage (D), has beaten Senator Stevens for the Alaska Senate seat.  The margin is too wide for a free recount, and it’s unlikely that the GOP will pay for it or Stevens can - or that it would make any significant difference.
The recount [...]

Excellent editorial in the NY Times on the auto bailout, along the lines of what I was talking about.
At the same time, Congressional Democrats and President-elect Barack Obama, who are pushing for many billions worth of emergency aid for the nation’s least-competent carmakers, must ensure that tough conditions are attached to any rescue package. If [...]

Begich (D) is up 814 votes over Senator Stevens (R), with another 38,000 votes to go - in strong Democratic districts in Alaska.

Alaska Senate: 221,173 votes were already counted; a new estimate shows that the uncounted votes there are around 90,600 - about 30% of the total!  (PDF with the details as to what sort of votes and from where)  And this isn’t complete; absentee votes are still trickling in in the mail.  They’ll start counting these [...]

Panic in various circles over the mistaken notion that ‘Obama’s going to shut down gun shops and confiscate our guns‘.
Various people who were proclaiming Obama’s victory in  OMG terms now doing a ‘never mind’ response.
Dogs are adopting kittens in Jiangmen, Meredith’s home town in China, but you can’t adopt or foster children if you aren’t [...]

Alaska: Still 81,000 uncounted ballots (absentee, some early ballots and the ‘provisional’ ballots) to go to be checked out in the next couple of weeks.  The gap is presently around 3,200 out of 210,000 cast.  (PDF of where the present votes came from)
Minnesota: With a 221 vote gap out of 2,500,000 ish voting, there’s a [...]

Back when I was in high school, some of the kids thought I was half black, because of the curly hair.  Which was interesting, because the dark and curly part came from my father, who was *not* very *ah* progressive in his feelings about black people.
One of the things that struck me as the most [...]

‘Impeach Obama’ t-shirts and accessories.  No, I’m not kidding.

The 2d Congressional District of Nebraska’s electoral vote goes to Barack Obama.

One area of the country was particularly resistant to the idea of an Obama Presidency, and to recent Democratic runs…  Graphics after the cut (from the NYT)