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Associated Press just reported that North Carolina, that "still no definite word" state, has just been called for Obama, bringing him to 364 electoral votes.

I know that plus winning is still winning, but it means one more state won't have a major hate on for him, and he's going to need that in the months ahead!

So hooray, North Carolina! Welcome back to the Union! We've been missing you!

From the afternoon edition of Buzzflash:

Bush Lied, Soldiers Keep Dying.
4,189 U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq
625 U.S. Military Fatalities in Afghanistan
30,872 U.S. Military Maimed in Iraq (source: DoD Update as of October 22, 2008)
96,766 Iraqis Reported Killed (source: Iraq Body Count)
1,273,378 Iraqis Reported Killed (source: justforeignpolicy.org)


No, I'm not saying I'm more worried about Ir… Continue

Most of you haven't met my beloved Spouse-Creature, Tim Liebe. Those of you who have probably have not engaged him in political converse. Well, Sarah Durst may have heard him. The thing is, when my Spouse-Creature begins to talk politics, he gets a little . . . excited. Eager. Emphatic. Particularly when we come to certain subjects, like . . . Bush (père or fils--or Barbara). Cheney. Rove. Gonzalez. Rice. Ashcroft. McCain. Palin. He gets red in the face about everything Republican… Continue

Yep. And maybe Representative Murtha was right--there are a lot of racists there. My maternal grandfather was one, with a captial K--as in, KKK. But my mother was not. She was an abusive alcoholic, but she was not a racist, and she taught her daughters not to be racist, as it was defined in the 1960s.

Most of my friends in high school were not racists. I went to two high schools in western Pennsylvania, and we were all on a "wait and see" basis, blacks and whites alike. We younger ones had to o… Continue

Last night (10/22/08) Keith Olbermann aired the complete encounter between Barack Obama and the now up-to-20-undeserved-seconds-of-fame Joe Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. "Joe the Plumber." The part that concerns me now--since I've already discussed how I feel sorry for this mope who's been yanked unasked into the limelight by Senator McCain (who is still mentioning this guy like he is a vote fertility talisman that the priest swore would work before election day)--is that Joe mention… Continue