Daily Archives: 08/09/2008

Obama’s National Coordinator for Muslim Affairs

(Community Matters) Rany Jazayerlie (physician, a co-founder of Baseball Prospectus and dear friend to Mazen Asbahi) quoted in FiveThirtyEight.com.

The world is at war right now, but it’s not a war of Christian vs. Muslim. It’s a war of moderates vs. extremists, and the two groups are battling it out in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. But they’re also battling here in America. This week, the extremists won.


Obama’s Lead is a Landslide

(Community Matters) Why Obama’s lead is a landslide here

Of course, there’s also the 64% to 36% lead here

Celebrating 50 Years

(Community Matters) Last night launched the weekend celebration of Senior & Betty Mitchell’s 50th Anniversary at Fonda San Miguel’s.

Betty and Melissa Henderson seated, behind from left: Senior, Julie Mitchell, Michael, Walter Mitchell (14), Steven, Eugene, Milinda Mitchell, Robert Torian, Nathan Mitchell (18), Drew Valcourt (26 this week)


of course, also celebrating the discovery on Friday that Michael’s cancer is in complete remission. As always, Fonda’s was outstanding. New favorite waiter, Stefano. New favorite drink, a Pisco cocktail (good gosh these are fantastic)

Perdenales Electric Coop

(Community Matters) Thank gosh for a wrench in the works. Let’s hope this further informs the courts so that the proposed settlement which would indemnify the former officers and board is thrown out. I realize our friends Bill Ikard and Jan Soifer who initially brought the class action lawsuit would rather see it settle; however the indemnification is outrageous and should never have been on the table. The secret Cattleman’s Bank account may finally unearth the criminality of malfeasance. Equal priority: Phelps and the rest of the legacy board have got to go.

14 year olds

(Community Matters) Fourteen year old Brandon McInerney’s killing of gay teen Lawrence King was a horrific crime here. Nevertheless, we shouldn’t be charging 14 year olds as adults. This is unconscionable. If laws don’t effectively address horrible crimes committed by youth, amend the laws.

I’m not so sure our country with the world’s largest prison population*, death sentences handed down disproportionately to the poor & people of color, and police & investigative corruption doesn’t look as backward to the rest of the world as Sharia Law appears to Americans

*one in every 32 American adults — behind bars, on probation or on parole. Annual tab approximately $60 billion.

W

(Community Matters) I hadn’t realized the connection

White supremacists — many call themselves nationalists or “White activists,” with a capital W

Ohio as a Deal Maker

(Community Matters) Ohio is the #1 state in this election. McCain’s concealed duplicity could be a deal breaker from his perspective. here