Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Democratic National Convention 2012 Finalists
Thanks to an e-mail chain that began with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine and eventually ended with me, I can pass along the list of those four cities "selected as finalists to host the 2012 Democratic National Convention."
They are:
The Convention is scheduled for the week of September 3, 2012.
I have no particular favorite among the finalists. I've been to both Charlotte and Cleveland (at least a couple of times each, actually), so it might be nice to visit either of the two cities I haven't already.
The Texas Democratic Party will hold their 2012 Convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. The dates for last weekend's 2010 Convention changed more than once, so I'll let the Party nail it down before I pass along something that I'd have to change later.
They are:
- Charlotte, North Carolina;
- Cleveland, Ohio;
- Minneapolis, Minnesota; and
- St. Louis, Missouri.
The Convention is scheduled for the week of September 3, 2012.
I have no particular favorite among the finalists. I've been to both Charlotte and Cleveland (at least a couple of times each, actually), so it might be nice to visit either of the two cities I haven't already.
The Texas Democratic Party will hold their 2012 Convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. The dates for last weekend's 2010 Convention changed more than once, so I'll let the Party nail it down before I pass along something that I'd have to change later.
Labels: Convention, Democratic Party
Bad Taste
Hector Uribe (Photo Credit: Hector Uribe Camapign)
There's no way to sugarcoat this. Hector Uribe, the Democratic Party's nominee for the office of Texas Land Commissioner, put out a press release that is in very bad taste.
Saving a life with CPR is great. Bragging about it is not.
Had the press asked his campaign for comment after learning of Uribe's heroic act from an eyewitness or from the official logs of emergency responders, that would be one thing. The Uribe campaign's effort to get some ink by announcing this on their own is quite another.
The overly descriptive language of the release and Uribe's quote make the taste that much worse. Frankly, I'm embarrassed for Mr. Uribe, his campaign staff and Texas Democrats.
Hopefully, the campaign of Republican incumbent Jerry Patterson will let this gross error stand on its own.
Labels: campaigns, Hector Uribe
Saturday, June 19, 2010
All You Need To Know About Ayn Rand
Like the anti-government Conservatives she (unfortunately) continues to inspire, Ayn Rand was a hypocrite.
"She claimed to have created herself with the help of no one, even though she was the lifelong beneficiary of social democratic largesse. She got a college education thanks to the Russian Revolution, which opened universities to women and Jews and, once the Bolsheviks had seized power, made tuition free. Subsidizing theater for the masses, the Bolsheviks also made it possible for Rand to see cheesy operettas on a weekly basis. After Rand's first play closed in New York City in April 1936, the Works Progress Administration took it on the road to theaters across the country, giving Rand a handsome income of $10 a performance throughout the late 1930s. Librarians at the New York Public Library assisted her with the research for The Fountainhead."
That's probably the most important passage from an article on Ayn Rand by The Nation's Corey Robin.
It's a shame that Depression-era tax dollars were wasted on someone who would spend the rest of her life railing against government spending and praising the people whose greed and excess made that spending necessary.
"She claimed to have created herself with the help of no one, even though she was the lifelong beneficiary of social democratic largesse. She got a college education thanks to the Russian Revolution, which opened universities to women and Jews and, once the Bolsheviks had seized power, made tuition free. Subsidizing theater for the masses, the Bolsheviks also made it possible for Rand to see cheesy operettas on a weekly basis. After Rand's first play closed in New York City in April 1936, the Works Progress Administration took it on the road to theaters across the country, giving Rand a handsome income of $10 a performance throughout the late 1930s. Librarians at the New York Public Library assisted her with the research for The Fountainhead."
That's probably the most important passage from an article on Ayn Rand by The Nation's Corey Robin.
It's a shame that Depression-era tax dollars were wasted on someone who would spend the rest of her life railing against government spending and praising the people whose greed and excess made that spending necessary.
Labels: Ayn Rand, Conservatives, Hypocrisy
