Recently Congress voted to deny regular Army extended leaves-of-absence. The vote was 56(yea, to extend) to 44 (nay, not to extend)*. After that, they convened to decide whether they would collectively condemn an advertisement in a privately owned newspaper- the Moveon.org ad condemning Petraeus.
More Democrats showed up to vote FOR the condemnation than showed up [...]
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Joe posted a few days ago about Black folks taking a stand against the use of ‘nigga’ in their community. Specifically Black Enterprise Magazine against Eddie Griffin’s use of the word at their event in Miami.
I’ve made my feelings regarding the use of the word quite clear here.
An excerpt for those too [...]
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I’m exceptionally boring tonight. All writed out (I know it’s not a word, you damned grammar nazis!). So I was surfing my blogroll and found something fun and entertaining. If I can remember where I originally found the link to this gem I will most assuredly give a tip o’ the hat. Anyway, NTodd’s non-pledge:
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