By Shtuey Shtuey on Dec 28, 2008 in Current Affairs, Obama Administration | View Comments
cross posted from Oh…My Valve! Apart from conducting the Resident-Select’s whitewash of his transition team’s involvement with Blagogate, soon to be White House Council Greg Craig has been flying somewhat under the radar of late. At the outset let me say that I’m sorry, but unless you’re a singer, actor, or circus performer, having a [...]
By Shtuey Shtuey on Dec 16, 2008 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Add the environmentalist camp to the growing list of those waking from the Obie kool-aid with the announcement that the Resident-Select is planning on naming Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior. Apparently 150 environmental groups signed a letter to Pampers urging him to nominate Democrat Congressman Raul Grijalva to the post, seeing him as [...]
By Shtuey Shtuey on Dec 10, 2008 in Current Affairs, Human Rights | View Comments
“Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.” ~UDHR Article II [...]
By Shtuey Shtuey on Dec 6, 2008 in Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Russia | View Comments
In 1991, on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, I went to visit my grandmother in Florida (all those stereotypes you hear about retirees and the early bird special…they’re true). She was born in Ukraine and immigrated with her family to the United States when she was a teenager, shortly before the [...]
By Shtuey Shtuey on Nov 28, 2008 in Current Affairs, Feminism, Human Rights | View Comments
Firstly, I’d like to thank Larry Johnson, and the other outstanding writers here at NQ, for inviting me to be a contributor here. In a year when waking up became a moral imperative, this community has been a standout force. I’m honored to be a part of it. ********************************************* In his book Cosmos, the late [...]
By Shtuey Shtuey on Nov 3, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Democrats, Ed Rendell, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Joe The Plumber, John Murtha, McCain/Palin 2008, Pennsylvania | View Comments
First, I want to address those supposed internal poll numbers that have McCain ahead in PA, MI, NJ and closing in on CA. I have not been able to verify those numbers. They could be true, they might not be. I said back during the primaries that a Pampers nomination would put PA, MI, and [...]
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