Hey, America: are your politicians stupid or do they just think you are? Check this new analysis of Thursday night’s “debate”: An analysis carried out by a language monitoring service said Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin spoke at a more than ninth-grade level and Sen. Joseph Biden spoke at a nearly eighth-grade level in Thursday night’s debate between the vice
Read moreWe’ve mentioned Lee Camp’s performance at the DNC in Denver a time or three, and our friends at Eccentric Production/Zero Coordinate have now posted it for your viewing pleasure. Funny stuff – enjoy…
Read moreAs noted a couple weeks ago, the S&R team hooked up with the crew from Zero Coordinate and Eccentric Production at the DNC in Denver. In addition to their invaluable help in shooting the Lee Camp interview, we also worked together in covering the Returned Soldiers/Rage Against the Machine/Tent State march on the DNC. Natalie Ashodian and her team have
Read moreWe just did another audio session with Edmundo Rocha, who’s still under curfew in Houston. He talks about the aftermath (as he’s able to perceive it) and examines where the preparations may have gone wrong. edmundo_houston_530_1 edmundo_houston_530_2
Read moreWe’ve been asked if we can pull together an index page with links to all of our Hurricane Ike coverage. If you want, bookmark this and we’ll add everything we do in here as the story develops. Edmundo Rocha on Ike: one third of 911 calls are from Latin areas that should have been evacuated Audio w/ Edmundo, 8:35 CDT:
Read moreI spoke with Edmundo about an hour ago. He’s fine, but Ike is all that was advertised and then some. Power is out for 99% of those in the area and they’re being told it will be weeks before it’s fully restored. As of 8:30 Houston time he was reporting that the worst of the storm – the back side
Read moreEdmundo has some video taken from his apartment. Still looks fairly tame, huh?
Read morePost Updated at 4:35 PM MDT. Click on “Full Story” to read the update. First, Ann Ivins reports that “traffic is starting to pick up along Interstate 10 coming in from Houston. They haven’t created evacuation lanes yet. Gas prices have jumped in the last two hours by a few cents.” Second, Edmundo Rocha will be tweeting on Ike from
Read moreA couple disparate pieces of information have come together in a way that’s potentially a little scary. Earlier, Ann Ivins noted that: Even with the terrible planning and deadly highway gridlock, San Antonio was full by the time Rita hit – and she was headed further north. Galveston’s already flooding. There’s no one here. The hotels and motels along 37
Read moreAs Edmundo Rocha noted earlier today, things are looking pretty dire for those in Ike’s path. For those interested in what it looks like on the ground, he’s liveblogging as best he can over at ¡Para Justicia y Libertad! Meanwhile, we’ve gotten a few more e-mails from him. Here are the relevant parts: Most of Surfside Beach was submerged by
Read moreEditor’s Note: The S&R team just received the following e-mail from our friend and colleague Edmundo Rocha, who lives in Houston. The city has had time to prepare, but it sounds as though significant errors have placed people in greater danger. Fingers crossed for Edmundo and everybody else down there – we’ll keep you posted as we hear more. UPDATE:
Read moreOn February 23, comedian Lee Camp appeared on FOX News, where he proceeded to sound off on the hosts and their audience. “What is Fox News?” asks comedian and activist Lee Camp on the air. “It’s just a parade of propaganda, isn’t it? It’s just a…festival of ignorance.” Obviously Camp is a man with some political convictions. He’s also a
Read moreby Jennifer Angliss Let’s take Sarah Palin at her word that Trig is her biological son. We do not currently have any hard evidence to say otherwise, despite all those pictures floating around the internet. But the evidence we do have is disturbing enough. At 36 weeks of pregnancy, Palin was in Texas for an energy conference. She began leaking
Read moreThis just in from Jack, who’s on the scene with the Tent State crowd: Tent State is about to march from the Coliseum down Brighton and Broadway to the DNC. Rage is walking with them. Looks like 4,000 people or more. This could be fun. Stay tuned. UPDATE: A group of police in riot gear just offloaded near Blake and
Read moreI hate to sound a negative note, but it’s time to call a few DNC attendees on the carpet. Word flying around the waiter and bartender network in downtown and LoDo is that the DNC crowd isn’t tipping very well. (Sorry, no names or locations here – you’re just going to have to trust me.) I’ve talked to several bartenders
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