tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93075742024-03-07T18:27:09.247-08:00HOWIEINSEATTLE<b>I started posting on HowieinSeattle in 11/04, following progressive American politics in the spirit of Howard Dean's effort to "Take Our Country Back." I decided to follow my heart and posted on <a href="http://seattleforbarackobama.blogspot.com/">seattleforbarackobama</a> from 2/07 to 11/08.--"Howie Martin is the Abe Linkin' of progressive Seattle."</b>--<a href="http://blatherwatch.blogs.com/">Michael Hood.</a>Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.comBlogger11009125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-55039673829697445362016-02-08T10:28:00.003-08:002016-02-08T10:28:45.606-08:00Greetings,<br />
It's been a while since my last post; I hope you all are well.<br />
With the upcoming election, I thought I'd post something funny from Bernie Sanders...<br />
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FEEL THE BERN!<br />
May he fare well in tomorrow's caucus!<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
HowieHoward Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-85367545956142491302016-02-08T10:21:00.002-08:002016-02-08T10:21:26.965-08:00Bernie Does Saturday Nighthttp://www.npr.org/2016/02/07/465892623/with-a-little-help-from-larry-david-bernie-sanders-does-snlHoward Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-31884676730607752222013-06-06T10:56:00.000-07:002013-06-06T11:46:38.506-07:00Video: "Microhousing in Seattle"-With increasing density do we need more open space and impact fees?<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hyFJpXsSVwQ" width="420"></iframe>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hyFJpXsSVwQ#!">Michael Oxman, video (08:34).</a><br />
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<b>Howie P.S.:</b> A West Seattle political activist pops up at the end of the video. And a progressive radio voice is also heard at the end. Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-61896731786456276792013-05-31T07:53:00.003-07:002013-05-31T07:53:46.578-07:00Howard Dean on Morning Joe: "Column on AG Holder is 'silly, right-wing nonsense." (video)<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" height="245" id="msnbc93aadb" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" /><param name="FlashVars" value="launch=52042793&width=420&height=245" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed name="msnbc93aadb" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" width="420" height="245" FlashVars="launch=52042793&width=420&height=245" allowscriptaccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><br />
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<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3036789/ns/msnbc-morning_joe/vp/52042793#52042793">NBC News, video (08:23).</a>Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-62637532116356289042013-05-25T11:33:00.001-07:002013-05-25T11:33:09.080-07:00Jane Mayer: "Obama’s Challenge to an Endless War"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/05/obama-speech-drones-closing-guantanamo.html">Jane Mayer (The New Yorker):</a><br />
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One first impression left by President Obama’s much-anticipated speech re-casting U.S. counterterrorism policy is that of the contrast between Bush’s swagger and Obama’s anguish over the difficult trade-offs that perpetual war poses to a free society. It could scarcely be starker. While Bush frequently seemed to take action without considering the underlying questions, Obama appears somewhat unsure of exactly what actions to take. That is not a bad thing: at least he is asking the right questions. In fact, by suggesting that, after a decade and seven thousand American and countless foreign lives lost, and a trillion dollars spent, it might be time to start downsizing the “war on terror,” he is leading the national debate beyond where even most Democrats have dared to go. <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/05/obama-speech-drones-closing-guantanamo.html">MORE...</a></blockquote>
Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-12744379393687599002013-05-25T11:19:00.005-07:002013-05-25T11:19:52.031-07:00"Seattle Against Monsanto" (LIVE STREAMING VIDEO)<iframe frameborder="0" height="392" scrolling="no" src="http://www.ustream.tv/embed/14526263?v=3&wmode=direct" style="border: 0px none transparent;" width="480"> </iframe>
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Andy Borowitz, Lizz Winstead, Hendrik Hertzberg and Jeffrey Toobin give their take on what the future holds for the USA.</blockquote>
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Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-15258902172828671702013-05-23T19:51:00.004-07:002013-05-23T20:11:46.377-07:00GOT INFRASTRUCTURE? If you were thinking of heading north out of Seattle, think again.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqM0FRztNyhuIXjRCtpNR6aZX3j-7xqriEBr7Gf72BJTBZK-JjB4maxXpRWLek-KKLk4zEek3O36VLfIMdjdK0Dv27SoMuLhU5fpQ2jJAzefpDcx0ral09RlKfSkIhGtKcOOKrLg/s1600/BRIDGE.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqM0FRztNyhuIXjRCtpNR6aZX3j-7xqriEBr7Gf72BJTBZK-JjB4maxXpRWLek-KKLk4zEek3O36VLfIMdjdK0Dv27SoMuLhU5fpQ2jJAzefpDcx0ral09RlKfSkIhGtKcOOKrLg/s320/BRIDGE.jpg" /></a><br />
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<i></i>This is also an example of all the deferred maintenance that many have been concerned about. This "collapse" should not have been a surprise.Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-8698977056418445612013-05-23T17:14:00.003-07:002013-05-23T17:38:53.798-07:00"Awake Zion: a Documentary about the Links between Rastas, Reggae and Judaism" (with video)<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monicahaim/awake-zion-a-documentary-about-the-link-between-r/widget/video.html" width="480"> </iframe>
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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/psc2pqa">"Awake Zion: a Documentary about the Links between Rastas, Reggae and Judaism" (KICKSTARTER.COM), with video (01:53):</a><br />
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Zion – It’s closer than you think…
Awake Zion is a documentary that explores the surprising and unsuspecting connections between Rasta, Reggae and Judaism - through one woman’s beat-laden adventure into the meaning of identity.
All the way back to the alleged sultry affair between the Jewish King Solomon and the African Queen of Sheba, Jewish influence is evident in the spiritual history of Ethiopia - turning up consistently in Rastafarian lifestyle and, inevitably, Reggae.
Uniting Jewish and Jamaican musicians, scholars, and historians in a celebration of roots and culture - Awake Zion travels from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where Caribbean and Jewish cultures share a history of adversity - to Jamaica, the birthplace of reggae - and ultimately to Israel, where a sizzling reggae scene thrives today.
Awake Zion challenges our shared preconceptions of what it means to be Jewish, to be Rasta, to be white or black - and, most importantly, the universal search for “Zion”, and what it means to be "home". <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monicahaim/awake-zion-a-documentary-about-the-link-between-r">MORE...</a>
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Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-9525565296411294242013-05-20T07:25:00.001-07:002013-05-20T07:28:08.923-07:00the FIELD NEGRO: Telling "black folks business."<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGOSrhD16T1s5lhXJgQfSOcDf8ZauQXIn1At0QIcqPTlfKhJenKAABQX8CuBqp77T35NGNgreJKptJg8NYV6xuSMtAPaWO_uwE775I1_HPMBhExWlXawZAw2GI6e3L9Pj2Lw7lYA/s1600/MOOREHOUSE.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGOSrhD16T1s5lhXJgQfSOcDf8ZauQXIn1At0QIcqPTlfKhJenKAABQX8CuBqp77T35NGNgreJKptJg8NYV6xuSMtAPaWO_uwE775I1_HPMBhExWlXawZAw2GI6e3L9Pj2Lw7lYA/s320/MOOREHOUSE.jpg" /></a>
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President Obama was at Dr. King's alma mater today, and he had some strong words for the young men there.
Some of you Negroes are saying that he was just having a Sistah Souljah moment at the expense of the Morehouse men, and that he is always airing black folk's dirty laundry when he speaks to a large black group.
I have to respectfully disagree. That message the president sent today was on point and it needed to be delivered. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/khb23oj">MORE...</a></blockquote>
Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-29086156138089690542013-05-15T15:29:00.003-07:002013-05-15T15:29:45.785-07:00Cornel West: "where Obama is going wrong"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What of America? "We elected a black president and that means we are less racist now than we used to be. That's beautiful. But when you look at the prison industrial complex and the new Jim Crow: levels of massive unemployment and the decrepit unemployment system, indecent housing: white supremacy is still operating in the US, even with a brilliant black face in a high place called the White House. He is a brilliant, charismatic black brother. He's just too tied to Wall Street. And at this point he is a war criminal. You can't meet every Tuesday with a killer list and continually have drones drop bombs. You can do that once or twice and say: 'I shouldn't have done that, I've got to stop.' But when you do it month in, month out, year in, year out – that's a pattern of behaviour. I think there is a chance of a snowball in hell that he will ever be tried, but I think he should be tried and I said the same about George Bush. These are war crimes. We suffer in this age from an indifference toward criminality and a callousness to catastrophe when it comes to poor and working people." <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/13/cornel-west-they-say-i-am-unamerican?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20main-2%20Special%20trail:Network%20front%20-%20special%20trail:Position1">MORE...</a></blockquote>
Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-19160338176248362862013-05-14T08:53:00.004-07:002013-05-14T08:53:57.512-07:00Seattle Mayoral: "Deconstructing the Candidates' Yeses, Nos, and Maybes"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9nzoxQxOdt9J_tSEhqQFl5SfLcoa2lN5wPXYvvwydE4ol5D0Vs_ZgCvlbCn50obb2ZtUirgkh_e_f9yyJ_O_b5EoMvVJh-FfhdMWwF9rgFdGp4a4fA7k3BuNLUls8DX5Tdn2ECA/s1600/MAYBE.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9nzoxQxOdt9J_tSEhqQFl5SfLcoa2lN5wPXYvvwydE4ol5D0Vs_ZgCvlbCn50obb2ZtUirgkh_e_f9yyJ_O_b5EoMvVJh-FfhdMWwF9rgFdGp4a4fA7k3BuNLUls8DX5Tdn2ECA/s320/MAYBE.png" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-profiles/publicola/articles/deconstructing-the-candidates-yeses-nos-and-maybes-may-2013">Josh Feit and Erica C. Barnett (publicola):</a>
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Many people in Seattle still aren't clear where the candidates for mayor "stand on the issues." Josh Feit and Erica C. Barnett try to herd their answers into some consistent semblance of "positions." It's tough job, since the candidates are politicians trying to make lots of friends, in a hurry.</blockquote>
Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-49445161571533452192013-05-03T06:36:00.002-07:002013-05-03T06:51:56.696-07:00"What does the sequester mean for Obama's second term?" (video) " (video)<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" height="245" id="msnbc7dfc37" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" /><param name="FlashVars" value="launch=51721397&width=420&height=245" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed name="msnbc7dfc37" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" width="420" height="245" FlashVars="launch=51721397&width=420&height=245" allowscriptaccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><br />
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<b>Howie P.S.:</b> Ari Melber and the panel discuss.Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-17931243898198371332013-05-02T18:24:00.001-07:002013-05-02T18:26:42.250-07:00SEATTLE: "On higher ed funding, immigration, gun control and the failure of the Democratic Party" (video)<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=3431303&file=1" width="480"></iframe>
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<a href="http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-profiles/publicola/articles/last-night-mayeducationfunding-2013">Josh Feit (publicola@SeatleMet) with video (58:00):</a><br />
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My "Last Night" isn't nearly as exciting as Erica's, probably because, rather than being about a pepper-spray riot, it's about a panel discussion I was on called "Civic Cocktail" where people like Seattle Times editor Joni Balter showed up and paid $15 to watch people like me talk about urban agriculture and higher education funding. And, of course, my theory about why the NBA told Seattle "No": it's because the current voting owners didn't want to sign off on a deal that set a precedent where they couldn't rely so heavily on public money and instead had to make a personal guarantee.
I didn't actually talk about urban agriculture; that fell to a couple of wonks from the city's Department of Neighborhoods. (I don't know anything about urban agriculture except that Seattle's P-Patch program (editor's note: Josh thought they were called "pea patches," for peas) seems incredibly cool.) <a href="http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-profiles/publicola/articles/last-night-mayeducationfunding-2013">MORE...</a></blockquote>
Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-66846647844658065042013-05-01T18:41:00.000-07:002013-05-23T23:05:07.544-07:00"Andy Borowitz, Lizz Winstead, Hendrik Hertzberg and Jeffrey Toobin give their take on what the future holds for the USA." (video)<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://new.livestream.com/accounts/1249127/events/2055138/videos/17798162/player?autoPlay=false&height=360&mute=false&width=640" width="640"></iframe>
<a href="http://new.livestream.com/92Y/BorowitzReport">Andy Borowitz: The Borowitz Report, video (1:29:12)</a><br />
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Andy Borowitz, Lizz Winstead, Hendrik Hertzberg and Jeffrey Toobin give their take on what the future holds for the USA.</blockquote>
Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-84011433917812901252013-05-01T09:02:00.002-07:002013-05-01T09:02:19.134-07:00"Joan Walsh on the Progressive Agenda" (video)<object align="middle" classid="clsid:d27cdb6eae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" height="500" id="cspan-video-player" width="410"><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='true'/><param name='movie' value='http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=312442-4'/><param name='quality' value='high'/><param name='bgcolor' value='#ffffff'/><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'/><param name='flashvars' value='system=http://www.c-spanvideo.org/common/services/flashXml.php?programid=309199&style=full'/><embed name='cspan-video-player' src='http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=312442-4' allowScriptAccess='always' bgcolor='#ffffff' quality='high' allowFullScreen='true' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' flashvars='system=http://www.c-spanvideo.org/common/services/flashXml.php?programid=309199&style=full' align='middle' height='500' width='410'></embed></object>
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<a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/312442-4">CSPAN, with video (44:11):</a><br />
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Joan Walsh talked about progressives' agenda for President Obama and congressional Democrats, and she responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Topics included the first 100 days of President Obama’s second term, sequestration, and gun control and the NRA. She criticized Democrats for often compromising their constituencies rather than standing up to Republicans, citing as one example the bill allowing the Federal Aviation Administration more flexibility in dealing with sequester budget cuts. She said that Democrats should have demanded a fix for all sequester cuts rather than just one.</blockquote>
Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-56709612560589001112013-04-30T07:23:00.006-07:002013-04-30T08:25:03.553-07:00"Super South Seattle Mayor’s Forum @ SSCC-Georgetown" (with video)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lysSNbhMkis" width="420"></iframe>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lysSNbhMkis&feature=player_embedded#!">West Seattle Blog with video (01:30:40):</a><br />
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The eight candidates are starting off answering a question about the moment when they decided to run for mayor. <br />
<b>7:06 PM:</b> The wi-fi signal in here is intermittent, which is preventing reliable live-chronicling. So we’ll point you to <b>Twitter</b> for the rest of the way – look for hashtag #seamayor (can’t get a direct link right now but find it via our account at <a href="http://twitter.com/westseattleblog" target="_blank">twitter.com/westseattleblog</a>)<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lysSNbhMkis&feature=player_embedded#!"></a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lysSNbhMkis&feature=player_embedded#!">MORE...</a></blockquote>
<b>Howie P.S.:</b> For me the star of the night was the moderator, C.R. Douglas.
Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-41253882803903478382013-04-27T20:37:00.005-07:002013-04-27T20:39:47.978-07:00John Stewart on The Daily Show on Guns, NRA and the CIA (video) <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_grter4qbZr7bwFtI4oG0hiqwpoDABqqIun8DsXRtgp7wcsIdzrviaw5cPJ93JlLE_UXX_l6KLE-NbE05C4OChCjpA2w81upALC4yOfO2gQOD9OZsl_Vy_-nf62ULromhRrO_FQ/s1600/STEWART.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_grter4qbZr7bwFtI4oG0hiqwpoDABqqIun8DsXRtgp7wcsIdzrviaw5cPJ93JlLE_UXX_l6KLE-NbE05C4OChCjpA2w81upALC4yOfO2gQOD9OZsl_Vy_-nf62ULromhRrO_FQ/s320/STEWART.jpg" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/thu-april-18-2013-mark-mazzetti">Comedy Central (The Daily Show), video (32:07):</a><br />
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The Senate fails once again, John Oliver proves that gun control actually does work, and Mark Mazzetti sheds light on the CIA's secret wars.</blockquote>
Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-73403616550293831332013-04-27T20:27:00.000-07:002013-04-27T20:27:10.672-07:00"WATCH LIVE: 2013 White House Correspondents Dinner" <object height="300" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/modules/wh_multimedia/EOP_OVP_player.swf"></param>
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<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-live-2013-white-house-correspondents-dinner/">MEDIAite with video from whitehouse.gov:</a><blockquote>
Tonight, Saturday, April 27th, the 2013 White House Correspondents Dinner will be held at the Washington Hilton Hotel. This year’s host, Conan O’Brien, is returning to the event 18 years after he first emceed the event towards the end of President Bill Clinton’s first term. O’Brien and President Obama are both expected to deliver comedy monologues to the crowd, which will include some of the most powerful people in Washington, Hollywood and the media. /blockquote></blockquote>
Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-41018954767558644272013-04-27T16:25:00.004-07:002013-04-27T16:26:08.770-07:00"Let Stephen Colbert’s Nerd Prom Speech Remind You Want Kind Of President George W. Bush Really Was" (with video)<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="421" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://videos.mediaite.com/embed/player/?content=B5D1BL2SSW9VQ3M7&content_type=content_item&layout=&playlist_cid=&widget_type_cid=svp&read_more=1" width="420"></iframe>
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<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/let-stephen-colberts-nerd-prom-speech-remind-you-want-kind-of-president-george-w-bush-really-was/">Matt Wilstein (MEDIAite) with video (24:10):</a><br />
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It is somehow fitting that our week of all George W. Bush, all the time is ending with the 2013 White House Correspondents Dinner. Because, while he spent the whole week basking in the glow of polite revisionist history, it was seven years ago on the dais of that event that Stephen Colbert delivered the definitive dismantling of our 43rd president, while he was sitting just a few feet away. <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/let-stephen-colberts-nerd-prom-speech-remind-you-want-kind-of-president-george-w-bush-really-was/">MORE...</a></blockquote>
Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-67084393505360141302013-04-18T08:10:00.000-07:002013-04-18T08:19:20.937-07:00"President Obama Speaks on Common-Sense Measures to Reduce Gun Violence" (video)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yr9x1CzW2Yw" width="560"></iframe>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yr9x1CzW2Yw">whitehouse, video (18:20):</a><br />
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President Obama makes a statement from the Rose Garden following the Senate's vote to block common-sense measures to reduce gun violence. April 17, 2013.</blockquote>
<b>Howie P.S.:</b> The <b>money quote</b> from Obama: "A shameful day for Washington."
Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-61842012120468697152013-04-18T07:36:00.000-07:002013-04-18T07:37:46.607-07:00"A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTM5DTuSI4C7tFo5uggSwOBxkf1KNCa-fMhHQun9qQFhHnuiRQ0ETybKuz3wMT8icvQXfni_FflzNMdhtUT022OCtRItvEwJdazecKARgB6P0xnkCvQTCZRrJEYs7aRMi1X7pxA/s1600/GABRIELLE-GIFFORDS-PHOTO.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTM5DTuSI4C7tFo5uggSwOBxkf1KNCa-fMhHQun9qQFhHnuiRQ0ETybKuz3wMT8icvQXfni_FflzNMdhtUT022OCtRItvEwJdazecKARgB6P0xnkCvQTCZRrJEYs7aRMi1X7pxA/s320/GABRIELLE-GIFFORDS-PHOTO.jpg" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/opinion/a-senate-in-the-gun-lobbys-grip.html?_r=2&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews&">Gabrielle Giffords (NY Times, op-ed):</a> <br />
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SENATORS say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The fear that those children who survived the massacre must feel every time they remember their teachers stacking them into closets and bathrooms, whispering that they loved them, so that love would be the last thing the students heard if the gunman found them. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/opinion/a-senate-in-the-gun-lobbys-grip.html?_r=2&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews&">MORE...</a></blockquote>
Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-62057127483825800062013-04-17T17:24:00.002-07:002013-04-18T12:30:45.580-07:00(Updated) WA: "4/13/13-Auctioning off an assault rifle to raise money?" (with video)<b>UPDATE:</b> <a href="https://twitter.com/NatashaChart">Natasha Chart</a> has come up with the word to describe this: "Gunsturbating.'<br />
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E-mail from Jaxon Ravens (Executive Director-Washington State Democrats) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jk1H-mgWhIc">with video (00:18)</a>:<br />
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I guess we know how the Washington State Republican Party feels about gun violence.
This weekend at their annual Gala Auction and Dinner, the Washington State Republicans actually auctioned off an AR-15 style assault rifle. This is the same type of killing machine used in Newtown, CT and Aurora, CO. <i><b>1 2</b></i>
Republicans wonder why they have trouble connecting with suburban, independent, and moderate voters. They wonder why they haven’t sat in the governor’s office since 1985.
It’s because of actions like this. This is nothing less than a slap in the face to all Washington families who fear gun violence.
<a href="http://www.wa-democrats.org/stopgunviolence?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=stopgunviolence&utm_source=130417&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=stopgunviolence">Click here send the message to the Washington State Republican Party: Washington voters support common-sense steps to reduce gun violence.</a>
It is more important than ever that we hear your voice on gun violence. The United State Senate will vote today on legislation calling for expanded background checks. Even though 90 percent of Americans support expanded background checks, the bill faces an uphill battle.<b> <i>3 4
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Gun control has also faced obstacles on the state level. Expanded background checks failed to pass out of the Washington State House in Olympia this session. <i><b>5</b></i>
But gun control advocates aren’t giving up. They are gearing up for an initiative on background checks that may appear on the ballot in 2014. We need to start building momentum now.<b> <i>6
</i></b>The Washington State Democratic Party stands by common-sense steps to reduce gun violence, like expanded background checks. <a href="http://www.wa-democrats.org/stopgunviolence?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=stopgunviolence&utm_source=130417&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=stopgunviolence">Click here and join us today.</a>
Thank you,</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/business/the-ar-15-the-most-wanted-gun-in-america.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">2</a>
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/13/background-checks-poll_n_3070954.html">3</a>
<a href="http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/16/17780515-senate-background-check-compromise-in-peril-as-gop-opposition-grows?lite">4</a>
<a href="http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/mar/12/gun-bill-proponents-secure-key-washington-vote/">5</a>
<a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020782329_guninitiativexml.htmlgun">6</a>Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-17459308729251491452013-04-12T10:03:00.003-07:002013-04-12T10:03:43.773-07:00WA: "State Tax Knife May Slice Amazon, Microsoft"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjcrEJihD8qyeKqvBySlDwjPpOnOnXzUlajOMfDOFk5W8Vu4r6VMwLPXzJaEMeKXYihKvTbCUdk6MZIvrBiEvtRYr01c9megl1MyRk1mZvlItbkYyOSLT0cowRtZo3jnZy2LM8bA/s1600/JAY2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjcrEJihD8qyeKqvBySlDwjPpOnOnXzUlajOMfDOFk5W8Vu4r6VMwLPXzJaEMeKXYihKvTbCUdk6MZIvrBiEvtRYr01c9megl1MyRk1mZvlItbkYyOSLT0cowRtZo3jnZy2LM8bA/s320/JAY2.jpg" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/11893836/1/state-tax-knife-may-slice-amazon-microsoft.html">Renee Butler (TheStreet.com):</a><br />
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Washington is a near-mythical state, where the trees tower higher than most buildings, pot is legal, and beaches or state parks are omnipresent. The state also offers another big reason people choose to live there: taxes, or rather a lack thereof.
In the state of Washington, residents don't pay state income taxes and companies don't pay corporate income taxes. As for companies, they're required to pay a gross receipts tax that's fairly low -- 0.13% to 3.3%. The state also offers a variety of other tax breaks for corporations, making it a popular spot for companies to be headquartered, especially those in technology. Point in fact, Amazon (AMZN) and Microsoft (MSFT) both call Washington state home.
Gov. Jay Inslee is proposing to cut the tax break on business and occupation taxes by 25%. Granted, Inslee's efforts are all part of a bid to patch together the more than $1.5 billion deficit projected for the budget ending in mid-2015 and respond effectively to a Washington Supreme Court ruling that the state isn't contributing enough to public education -- but he seems to have invoked a much broader reaction.
However, that could all be changing. <a href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/11893836/1/state-tax-knife-may-slice-amazon-microsoft.html">MORE...</a></blockquote>
Howard Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048708416618301954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9307574.post-40720740957994019712013-04-12T08:12:00.004-07:002013-04-12T08:12:31.006-07:00"Michelle Obama: “Hadiya Pendleton Was Me" (with video)<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" height="270" id="flashObj" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=2291777150001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slate.com%2Fblogs%2Fthe_slatest%2F2013%2F04%2F10%2Fvideo_of_michelle_obama_gun_violence_speech_hadiya_pendleton_was_me_and.html&playerID=58264559001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAASoY90~,_gW1ZHvKG_0UvBsh7aZU7MXZe77OcsGq&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=2291777150001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slate.com%2Fblogs%2Fthe_slatest%2F2013%2F04%2F10%2Fvideo_of_michelle_obama_gun_violence_speech_hadiya_pendleton_was_me_and.html&playerID=58264559001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAASoY90~,_gW1ZHvKG_0UvBsh7aZU7MXZe77OcsGq&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="480" height="270" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><br />
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/04/10/video_of_michelle_obama_gun_violence_speech_hadiya_pendleton_was_me_and.html">Abby Ohlheiser (Slate with video (01:13):</a>
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Citing the death of Chicago teenager Hadiya Pendleton, killed days
after performing at Obama's inauguration, Michelle Obama entered the gun
violence debate today in a speech to Chicago business leaders.</blockquote>
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The First Lady's most quotable line of the day resonates with her
husband's remarks following the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in
Florida. Michelle Obama, who grew up in the South Side of Chicago, said
“Hadiya Pendleton was me, and I was her,” adding:
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"But I got to grow up and go to Princeton and Harvard Law
School and have a career and family and the most blessed life I could
ever imagine. And Hadiya? Oh we know that story. Just a week after she
performed at my husband's inauguration, she went to a park with some
friends, and got shot in the back. Because some kid thought she was in a
gang. Hadiya's family did everything right, but she still didn't have a
chance. And that story, the story of Hadiya's life and death, we read
that story day after day, month after month, year after year In this
city and around this country. I'm not talking about something that's
happening in a war zone halfway around the world. I'm talking about
what's happening in the city we call home. The city where we're raising
our kids."</blockquote>
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Michelle Obama <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/09/hadiya_pendleton_michelle_obama_mourns_shot_chicago_teenager.html">attended Pendleton's funeral in February</a>.
After her speech Wednesday, the First Lady went to Harper High School,
where 29 current and former students have been shot in the past year.
Recently, the school was the subject of a two-part<i> <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/487/harper-high-school-part-one" target="_blank">This American Life</a></i> story that examined daily life amid Chicago's gun violence.<br />
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Although the First Lady's speech emphasized sustained community
responses to combat endemic gun violence, the first lady's Chicago trip
was not without reference to the president's effort to reform the
country's gun control laws in the wake of the Connecticut elementary
school shootings. The White House has been <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/04/09/harry_reid_on_gun_control_people_in_a_fit_of_passion_will_purchase_a_handgun.html">pushing hard on gun control legislation this week</a>.
On Monday, the President spoke in Connecticut, standing with family
members of Newtown shooting victims. Those family members were in
Washington on Tuesday lobbying for gun control reform, which will likely
face its first vote in Congress on Thursday.</div>
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