Quoted (in muddled fashion) in my favorite paper
Matt Gunterman October 30th, 2007
When I lived in Glasgow in 2001-02, one of my favorite morning pleasures was picking up a copy of The Guardian on my way to the coffee shop before heading into the dark recesses of the library for a good day’s work. (Of course, since it’s Scotland, for much of the year anyway, everywhere is a dark recess.) I loved this time with that paper; it was like nothing I’d ever seen before (this was, of course, before the rise of the blogosphere).
So, you can imagine I was tickled to find in my email inbox this morning a Google Alert that had a quote from me [albeit a little muddled in the online edition]. Lots of people get quoted in The Guardian everyday, but it’s nice to be a small part of a narrative that you’re proud of and that you feel will make a difference — that difference being the defeat of the American conservative bile and bigotry that not only infects our nation’s politics and culture, but adversely affects the lives of so many millions around the world.
One of the biggest players in this election cycle in Kentucky towards the defeat of the conservative machine has been organized labor. Their level of commitment and, appropriately, organization, is amazing; they are not sitting down as Republicans rip apart the shared American prosperity that’s taken generations to build.
The humiliating defeat of candidates like Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R) and Rep. Stan Lee (R) for attorney general next week will send a strong — and encouraging — message to the rest of the nation and world that a healthy majority of Kentuckians are ready to fight the intellectual filth, churlish bigotry, and general idiocy of the Kentucky GOP and its conservative ranks.
We are beginning the process of pushing social conservatives to the margins of our society, where there delusions can no longer harm the middle class, workers, children, students, ethnic and sexual minorities, or the elderly.
- 2008 KY U.S. Senate Race , DitchMitchKY.com , Jonathan Miller , Matt Gunterman , Organized Labor
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You can find some truth in overseas news, unlike here.
FROM TODAYS FINANCIAL TIMES:
Oil rallied to a fresh record high above $93 a barrel on Monday as the dollar tumbled to a record low, after Bush imposed new sanctions on Iran.
The UK pound has hit its highest level against the US dollar in 26 years. At one point the pound touched $2.070
Housing prices suffered their biggest drop in 16 years.
A build-up of bearish data fuelled fears of a US economic slowdown as consumer confidence slumped to a two-year low.
Housing starts fell 10 per cent and applications for building permits declined to the lowest level since 1991. Building permits fell by the most since 1995, sliding 7.3 per cent to an annual rate of 1.226m.
In its beige book survey of economic conditions, the Fed found “the pace of growth decelerated” in September and early October as consumer spending slowed. The Fed noted that amid the decline in housing, “in some instances, buyers could no longer secure financing”.
The dollar slid on fresh fears that a housing downturn would slow the economy.
Core consumer prices, excluding volatile food and energy costs, rose 0.2 per cent for the fourth consecutive month, the government said, while rising energy costs pushed headline inflation to 0.3 per cent.
and locally;
Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased from 5.6 percent in Aug. 2007 to 6.1 percent in Sept. 2007. The monthly estimate of the number of unemployed Kentuckians for Sept. 2007 was 125,629, up 9,849 from the 115,780 Kentuckians unemployed in Aug. 2007, and up 9,079 from the 116,550 unemployed in Sept. 2006.
Time to sweep these inept republicans out of office ? YES!!!!!!!
Typo. Last paragraph…..”there” should be “their”.
Sorry typos just bug me.
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