Your Walmart Dollars at Work
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 10/18/2005 - 12:04Chris Cillizza in his Washington Post Blog reports that two days after Tom Delay was indicted, Walmart PAC donated $5,000 to Delay.
Hat tip to Craggie for pointing this out.
Rambling around the Internet, Part 2
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 10/13/2005 - 12:36In other political news:
Yesterday, Pax pointed me to this audio mix of President Bush doing Imagine and Walk on the Wild Side. Perhaps this is what he was playing when this famous photo was taken.
Meanwhile, Barking Dingo talks about Jerry Kilgore swift boating Tim Kaine. Apparently, Tim Kaine is a conscientious pubic servant who takes on even unpopular jobs of defending murderers. Apparently Jerry Kilgore doesn’t believe in the rule of law or that people should be given fair trials and has attacked Tim Kaine for doing his job.
As a side note, I’ve also been following Tim’s campaign blog for quite a while. I’m also closely following Deval Patrick’s campaign up in Massachusetts. Yesterday I got a fundraising request from them that asked me to set up a fundraising page on their site. You can see it here. I hope that after you stop by and toss a few bucks to the DeStefano campaign, you do the same for Deval Patrick.
Homeless Children, International - Kenya
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 10/11/2005 - 07:56Back in May, I wrote about Homeless Children, International - Kenya.. Yesterday, I received an email from Megan White, which I thought I would post here:
CT Dems Fundraiser with Gov. Dean
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 10/09/2005 - 21:34This evening, Kim, Fiona and I went to a fundraiser for the Connecticut Democratic Party with National Party Chairman Howard Dean. Of course, Fiona had to have her photo op. You can see her photo here. You can see the other photos here.
All of the usual suspects were there. There was some friendly banter between Gov. Dean and Congressional candidate Diane Farrell over who Fiona liked better. Fiona is over at her grandparents’ house and is not available for comment.
I wore the ‘Blogger’ shirt that Kim had embroidered for me. Early on, one person asked how I knew if my blogging was having any sort of effect. I said I didn’t really know. I can measure the number of times pages on my blog are accessed, or how many different Internet addresses they are accessed from, but I can’t tell for sure what sort of effect this was having. What matters is that people get ideas and then they talk with other people about these ideas. However, for the rest of the evening, people came up and spoke with me about reading my blog.
State of the Heart
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 10/08/2005 - 09:12On September 26, Joe Salvati wrote a blog post about his efforts to get life insurance. He and his wife were expecting their first child. Things didn’t turn out the way he expected. Since then, he has been writing blog entries about his journey, with a wonderful audio post by his wife yesterday.
I don't know Joe. I found his blog in my search for Connecticut blogs. I'm glad I found his blog and read his posts. You really should go read through the blog entries and listen to the post by his wife.
