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Spontaneous protest at the Florida capitol of state, county and city workers bolstered by students. The numbers were in excess of 1000.

MoveOn is attempting to capitalize on the discontent with a rally this Saturday. Turnout could be huge.

I'll be there with my new IWW credentials.

My sense is the beast is roused. But the scope of the upshot will remain to be seen.

Lambert likes photos so I'll try to get some. But digital isn't cheap. Then, OTOH, neither is poverty.

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Once I saw a prizefighter boxing a yokel. The fighter was swift and amazingly scientific. His body was one violent flow of rapid rhythmic action. He hit the yokel a hundred times while the yokel held up his arms in stunned surprise. But suddenly the yokel, rolling about in the gale of boxing gloves, struck one blow and knocked science, speed and footwork as cold as a well-digger's posterior. The smart money hit the canvas. The long shot got the nod. The yokel had simply stepped inside of his opponent's sense of time.

Ralph Ellison

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I've been watching these two flirting while pretending not to flirt since about 2002. The elephant would watch the donkey all the time, and the donkey would watch back, while they pretended to hate each others' guts. The donkey would pretend not to give a shit -- not speaking to him, not returning his calls, but the whole time she'd look for excuses to be around while the elephant was in the room. It got to be pretty annoying after a while -- the donkey would be flirting her ass off, and the whole time saying it was nothing, just a little bipartisanship, all in a spirit of compromise. Read below the fold...

The "Shoe-In" crowd marches from Dupont Circle to the White House. Read below the fold...

(This one isn't a Blast From Yer Past as such, as it's only about a year old. It had been only a year since Barack Martin Luther Aquinas Gandhi Timberlake Obama The One came out on top in what the Democrats called The Most Important Election Since The Earth Cooled To A Temperature Conducive To Life. Read below the fold...

(Another golden oldie, this time from the mid '00s, published just after the '06 midterm elections which, as any Democrat would've told you, was a really really super-duper important election -- in fact, The Most Important Election Since The Last Mass Extinction Event. Read below the fold...

(Here's another slight oldie, another piece reproduced as stickers and slapped all over the streets of Denver and Minneapolis during the '08 convention protests, but which is still pertinent today...)

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(This one's a bit of an "oldie", as it was done in April of '08, to be made into stickers for plastering on the streets during the party convention protests, but it's still apropos to the current mid-term fracas.) Read below the fold...

(When I first published this one, it cause quite a wonderful shitstorm in the comments column when it was picked up by Stop Me Before I Vote Again.)

They range from borderline delusional to flat-out certifiable -- and they vote. Read below the fold...

"Don't Tread On Me"?
"We Tread On Thee", more like.

In light of the recent incident at a Rand Paul appearance in Kentucky, in which a couple of his goons assaulted and stomped on the head of a woman counterdemonstrator from MoveOn, we thought it was time to update the design of the historic Gadsden Flag -- a.k.a. "Don't Tread On Me" flag. Read below the fold...

Hey, now, folks... I was just checking out the Oil FAIL posting, and I thought you all might get some sad-assed cheap laffs out of this piece I posted at my blog this past summer:

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Here’s another piece inspired by an article I saw at one of my all-time favorite Leftie blogs, Stop Me Before I Vote Again — specifically, this entry, containing an especially pithy comment by another one of my Leftie blogozone faves, The Drunken Pundit, who comments:
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"Though I could not caution all, I yet may warn a few:
Don’t lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!"
–grateful dead.

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"You're obsolete, my baby--my poor, unfaithful baby,
I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time!"
--Rolling Stones

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