Hillary For VP: Going To A Hillary Event

Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - HHH at HK with d.j. Keo Nozari Today, March 14 at 7:00pm

Date:	Friday, March 14, 2008
Time:	7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:	HK Lounge
Street:	523 Ninth Avenue at 39th Street
City/Town:	New York, NY

$20 per person

http://www.mayadays.com/video/feelit.html

Bhangra Meets Brazil Tomorrow, March 15 at 11:45pm

04/06	NYC Rally March Central Park to Times Square (New York)	7 miles
	Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Support & Signatures Rally for Hillary Rodham Clinton! Meet-Up WE WILL ARRANGE FOR YOU TO PICK UP YOUR MATERIALS SIGNS and OTHER CAMPAIGN ITEMS Location in Central Park will be from Columbus Circle Entrance at 60th Street / Central Park South / Cen...

Republicans for Obama 2008 (Organizing)

Friday, March 14 at 7:00 PM

Border's cafe @ Time Warner Building (New York, NY) - 9.2 miles away

Katie Santohigashi

11:21pm Mar 8th

I've sent the friend request already. The english service at the temple starts at 11:30 tomorrow. Here's the website:
http://www.newyorkbuddhistchurch.org/
Hopefully I'll see you tomorrow.
332 Riverside Dr
New York, NY 10025
(212) 678-0305

Spitzer Resignation

Fucking FBI. Don't respect nothing.



In The News

Paterson Says He Is Ready Wall Street Journal
Paterson Faces Early Test With State Budget New York Times
Obama: Clinton Should Not Get Florida and Michigan Delegates CBS News
McCain, Clinton, Obama together again in Senate Baltimore Sun
Movie Stars Help With Obama Ad The Associated Press Oscar clout like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
Michael Jackson will keep Neverland Ranch Los Angeles Times

Friends defend call girl who took down Spitzer MSNBC they have known Dupre for three years, but had never suspected that she was a call girl who adopted the name “Kristen” while allegedly employed by the Emperors Club VIP escort service. ..... “She’s a great person,” Mysterious said. “A lot of people are portraying her as this monster, which she definitely isn’t. She has the biggest heart.” ...... “The leftover food she wanted to take with us just so she could give it to the homeless — the guys who were sleeping out on the street ..... was leaving public life to “atone” for his “personal failings.” ....... “When I was 17, I left home. It was my decision and I never looked back. Left my hometown. Left a broken family. Left abuse. ..... Dupre until recently shared an apartment in an upscale building in the Flatiron district of New York City with a boyfriend ..... a 22-year-old aspiring musician from Manhattan.
Obama talks Spitzer, race, FL-MI MSNBC race and gender issues are very powerful in our society ...... I'm not naïve enough to think that we're going to solve the country's racial problems, and some of these other divisions in the span of six months or a year. What I do think is that our campaign has pointed towards the future, an era where these distinctions are less prominent in our politics ...... "Our campaign has been in conversations with the Michigan delegation, the Florida delegation, and the DNC
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton camps reject Michigan revote-by-mail MLive.com
Maybe Bill Clinton should stay home Los Angeles Times As for Obama, the more voters saw of him -- or, at least the more they learned about him -- the more they liked him.
How a Michigan Do-Over Would Hurt Obama BusinessWeek Obama, in recent weeks, has not connected with working class white voters the way Clinton has in Ohio and Pennsylvania. ..... The official unemployment rate in Michigan is about 7%. But the real number is higher, perhaps in excess of 10% ...... one in ten homes currently in foreclosure proceedings. ...... The University of Toledo, Bowling Green State University, and Kenyon College were among the Ohio schools on spring break for the Mar. 5 election. ....... the Obama campaign favors seating the Michigan delegation in the convention, with 50% going to Clinton and 50% going to Obama. ..... Axelrod says the best course for a Michigan do-over is a series of caucuses .... If Obama is forced to have a rematch in Michigan, one source of strength may be the Arab-American vote. Southeast Michigan is home to some 400,000 to 500,000 Arab-Americans.
A WiMax Breakthrough in India ...... Tata Communications unveils an ambitious plan to become global leader in wireless broadband by launching the world's largest commercial network India is about to become the frontier for high-speed, mobile Internet connections. ....... countrywide rollout of a commercial WiMax network, the largest anywhere in the world of the high-speed, wireless broadband technology. ..... by next year Tata will offer service in 115 cities nationwide. ...... "WiMax is not experimental, it's oven-hot" ...... a WiMax network in Washington next month, and in other U.S. cities next year. ..... Predicting that the new technology will make other types of Internet access obsolete, he boasts "Tata will set the cat among the pigeons." ....... The company has invested about $100 million in the project, which will increase to $500 million over the next four years as it begins to near its goal of having 50 million subscribers in India. ...... And as WiMax scales up fast, it will give service providers greater flexibility and costs will drop equally rapidly. ....... an early morning worship service at the famous Balaji temple in South India. The temple permitted Tata to install cameras so that Hindu devotees from around the world could watch the proceedings in the temple around the clock. ...... To get connected initially, users will simply have to go to a store, buy a router, install it, and then they become instantly connected. It will be as easy as buying apples ...... a chance to launch a brand new. fourth-generation technology that the world can follow. "India is becoming the knowledge center of the world; it should take the lead in this"
Obama counters with brass Chicago Tribune nine retired generals and admirals entered a room Wednesday with military precision ..... "no shock Barack" and "no drama Obama"
Nepal party says 10 hurt in Maoist attack on rally Reuters India
More than 4000 candidates to contest key Nepal election Earthtimes
Maoists struggle to win in Kathmandu Hindustan Times In 1768, Prithvi Narayan Shah, the conquering Shah King from Gorkha had attacked the kingdom of Kirtipur (Prachanda's constituency) and after a tough siege, the kingdom was captured. Angry with the resistance, King Prithvi Narayan Shah had ordered to cut off nose and lips of all the male residents. The people of Kirtipur have still not forgotten the ghastly king's torture.

Former Obama aid discusses 'monster' moment Seattle Post Intelligencer the Harvard professor has been hot news on two continents. ..... Power, a 37-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner ..... Power's 12-city U.S. tour for her new book, "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World" a 535-page biography of the late United Nations commissioner for human rights. De Mello once was described as "a cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy." The Brazilian native was widely admired at the time of his death as a fearless troubleshooter around the globe. .......... Until last week, Power seemed to live a charmed life. .... She had gone to Bosnia as an unknown freelance reporter. and her work there led to her first book -- "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide," winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. ....... Only one U.S. official ever contacted Power to discuss her genocide book, a new senator from Illinois. Her long dinner with Barack Obama persuaded her to take a leave from Harvard and work in his Washington office. ........ He tended to care more about the needs of strangers than the needs of those around him. ...... the most compelling international figure of the last half-century, the most important person that no one had heard of ..... It's not a question of whether to engage but how to engage. Humility without paralysis is incredibly important.

Visits on previous 'day': 450.

Woman at the Center of Governor’s Downfall New York Times has spent the last few days in her ninth-floor apartment in the Flatiron district of Manhattan ..... she said she had slept very little over the past week .... “This has been a very difficult time. It is complicated.” ...... She left “a broken family” at age 17, having been abused, according to the MySpace page, and has used drugs and “been broke and homeless.” ...... moved to Manhattan in 2004 and “spent the first two years getting to know the music scene, networking in clubs and connecting with the industry.
Obama on Race and the Race Washington Post
Clinton Apologizes to Black Voters The Associated Press
Democrats in a Fight to Define ‘Winner’ New York Times
Super delegates likely to be needed to split Obama, Clinton ABC Online
McCain in Dead Heat With Both Obama and Clinton, Poll Says Bloomberg
Ferraro Leaves Clinton Camp Over Remarks About Obama Washington Post
Obama's team accused of 'racist spin' Telegraph.co.uk
Clinton and Obama Split Over Florida and Michigan New York Times
Clinton's advisor steps down post racial controversy NDTV.com
Clinton demands re-run of Florida and Michigan primaries Times Online

CCC

Brick Wall

CCC: Chapter Caputo is hereby closed.




Gender Neutral

This time the messengers were two female receptionists. I guess that makes it very gender neutral.

Digital Democrat

I am a digital democrat. My best work I do in the 2.0 environment. It feels like meditation.

Not Into Shaking Hands

That is what politicians do. I am not one.

Obama 08 Events

The movement does not end in November. It begins in January. I will have plenty of political events to go to. There are quite a few Barackface fans among the Obama crowd.

Nobel Peace Prize 2010

By then Nepal will have a new constitution, and will have had all its elections, and will be back on track. (पाँच बुँदा, पाँच चुनाव)

Startup

Every fiber in my body, every ounce of energy needs to go to the startup. Anything else will not do. It is high risk behavior. It has to feel intense.

Wet Clay Group Dynamics

I am to venture into 5.0, but this is going to be wet clay group dynamics. Group dynamics has to feel like technology. 2.0 does not go, but 5.0 comes with a vengeance.

Facebook

I belong with the Facebook generation.

Not Local

I think I will stick with the presidential stuff. Local races don't get me. Not even the mayoral race.

मनका हो तो अच्छा
मनका ना हो तो अौर भी अच्छा

When what you want happens, that is good
When what you want does not happen, that is even better
- Hindi proverb

In The News

'Deeply sorry,' Spitzer to step down by Monday CNN
Eliot Spitzer Resigns as NY Governor Washington Post
Trippi on Democratic Campaigns Washington Post
Clinton insists Michigan, Florida votes should be counted Los Angeles Times
Govt mulling India-Nepal border road construction Economic Times
Ferraro 'absolutely not' apologetic on Obama remarks Los Angeles Times
For Clinton and Obama, next six weeks are critical Christian Science Monitor With wins in Wyoming Saturday and Mississippi Tuesday, Obama made up most of the delegate losses from last week's defeats in Ohio, Rhode Island, and Texas. ....... Pennsylvania's 158 delegates. .... would throw 366 delegates back into play ..... would also raise the threshold to win the nomination from 2,025 to 2,208. ...... Neither candidate is likely to pile up enough pledged delegates – those awarded through voting – in the 10 remaining contests to seal the nomination. ..... a mail-in primary. ... 338 super delegates who remain uncommitted. .... Geraldine Ferraro, who told a California newspaper that Obama owed his political fortunes to being black. (Clinton later told the Associated Press that she disagreed with Ferraro.) ...... if the popular voting does not produce a nominee by the convention, analysts say, that could demoralize voters and cripple Democrats in November.
Obama's Mississippi Win Blunts Clinton's Recent Gains (Update3) Bloomberg win gave Obama six more delegates in Mississippi than Clinton .... Clinton had a net gain of about six or seven delegates after her comeback wins March 4 in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island ...... Obama's campaign projects he'll wind up with five more delegates because of the way they are apportioned and his advantage in the caucuses. In Ohio, Clinton, a New York senator, picked up at least nine more delegates than Obama ...... as counts were finalized in some of California's congressional districts, Clinton's delegate lead in the state slipped. ...... Even a 60 percent to 40 percent victory can mean the delegates are divided almost evenly. ..... In overall votes Obama has about 13.3 million to 12.6 million for Clinton
Obama, Clinton seek to frame the race ahead Boston Globe a pledged delegate lead of 161. ..... The Obama campaign says it will not accept the January results, because Obama was not on the ballot in Michigan and did not campaign in Florida. ..... Plouffe criticized the Clinton campaign's approach to resolving the dispute as "heads we win, tails you lose."
Clinton demands re-run of Florida and Michigan primaries Times Online honour the results or hold new primary elections ...... John Corzine, the multimillionaire New Jersey governor and a Clinton supporter, has said he would be willing to largely underwrite the cost of new primaries. A postal vote in Florida could cost as much as $10 million.
Google could be superseded, says web inventor the "web of the future", which he said would allow any piece of information — such as a photo or a bank statement — to be linked to any other. ...... the "current craze" for social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace would eventually be superseded by networks that connected all types of things — not just people — thanks to a ground-breaking technology known as the "semantic web". ..... building web-based connectivity into any piece of data — not just a web page — so that it can "communicate" with other information. ..... direct connectivity between much more low-level pieces of information ..... creating a seamless web of all the data in your life. ..... One expected application is in the pharmaceutical industry, where previously unconnected pieces of research into a drug or disease, say, could be brought together and assimilated. ....... "mega-mash-up" .... "In the semantic web, it's like every piece of data is given a longitude and latitute on a map, and anyone can 'mash' them together and use them for different things." ..... security risks associated with large databases of information that were attractive to criminals and identity fraudsters. .... a new tipping point where different types of crimes become possible and lucrative
Keith Olbermann to go after Hillary Clinton Baltimore Sun Last night, on his program Countdown, Olbermann called Ferraro's remarks "clearly racist."
Clinton camp hit on race comment Melbourne Herald Sun The Clinton camp was accused of fanning racial politics when one of Senator Clinton's highest-profile supporters, Geraldine Ferraro, was said to have played the race card. ..... labeled her comments "patently absurd" and said they had no place in politics.