http://intelligentdiscontent.com Serving Up Snark Since 2005 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:41:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We can only hope... are you joking?! We can do a hell of a lot more than that! Join Montana for Obama, get in contact with your local Obama people (they are everywhere and Obama has a dozen-something offices set-up around the state, so it shouldn't be hard), volunteer, donate, ... http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2008/07/05/obama-can-paint-montana-blue-again/ What binds us, as Americans, together? What makes us "American"? The simplest answer may be this: a shared ideology embracing the principles of freedom, independence, and equality. Unfortunetely (I think), this results in people, especially Americans, equating themselves and America with the government charged with ensuring and protecting our shared ideology. ... http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2008/07/04/happy-4th-and-a-thought-or-two/ Jesse Helms - the famous, über-conservative, former US senator from North Carolina - passed away this morning at 86 years of age. Ironic, as it is Independence day and now we're free from yet another suppressive influence. [The] Senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged ... http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2008/07/04/jesse-helms-died/ I’m never going to enjoy a Toby Keith song about America, or  demand that my neighbors "love or leave" this country. It’s unlikely that I will ever refer to an American media outlet as traitorous, or demand that we build a fenced wall between the United States and Mexico. I ... http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2008/07/03/liberals-love-the-united-states-too-a-note-for-the-fourth-of-july-reprise/ Maybe I am just channeling my childhood memories of family picnics and fireworks, but remember when the Fourth of July was a holiday to celebrate American Independence and unity? For one day, in the middle of summer, we could all put away the rhetorical knives and try to acknowledge that, ... http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2008/07/03/american-teachers-must-all-speak-french-theyre-teaching-us-to-surrender/ Rasmussen has him currently winning the state, 48-43, over McCain. It’s within the margin of error, but that’s an enormous shift. I’d say the resurgence of the Democratic Party in the state, led by people like Governor Schweitzer and Senator Tester, the feckless Bush Administration’s eight year legacy, and the ... http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2008/07/03/can-obama-win-montana-yes-he-can/ It’s always been abundantly clear that Dennis Rehberg is more interested in those who make millions than those who struggle to make ends meet. While you and I are struggling with gas prices that seem to have no ceiling, Representative Rehberg says we shouldn’t tinker with a “free market” that ... http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2008/07/03/dennis-rehberg-on-gas-prices-choosing-speculators-over-consumers/ This substance of this Obama's opposition to a ban on gay marriage is underwhelming, but the message that it conveys is encouraging, more than. The substance is this: Obama aides emphasized he has opposed similar state bans in the past. They said the Illinois senator does not support gay marriage, but ... http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2008/07/02/obama-no-to-marriage-bans/ Another example of how little attention should be paid to hyped-up media speculation: Obama is destroying McCain in the polls when it comes to the Hispanic vote. A Gallup survey put Obama up 59 percent to 29 percent over his rival among registered Hispanic voters across the United States. The community ... http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2008/07/02/from-racial-tension-to-59-percent/ Our interrogation techniques in Guantanamo Bay are actually modeled after Chinese Communists techniques during the Korean War, "...techniques to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners... [what] the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantánamo Bay, ... http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2008/07/01/wait-a-second-from-china/