jordanzimmerman

I'm posting at LiveJournal as I'm boycotting Facebook for a day. Facebook changed it's UI for the worse a week or so ago. Someone organized an online boycott. Me and probably 10 or so (!!) other Facebookers are boycotting today.

http://www.helpgerrygibbs.com/

A friend of mine is facing $60,000 in dental bills. In this day of universal health care, I'd like to show that charity doesn't require the government pointing a gun at our heads.

Please help if you can.

BB Netanyahu was brilliant and moving in his speech at the UN. This is a MUST watch.

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44HkjBDQz_k

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofIwsB7xDm8

Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gkjEUjK4as

Part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPEdIWa5H9k

I've noticed that almost everyone I know (and many I haven't heard from in decades) are on Facebook. Also, many people who used to post here don't anymore or do so infrequently. I find myself posting to FB first these days - my thoughts reach more people. But, I still see value in this blog. Facebook is like a bar - lots of quick short conversations that get lost minutes after they're said (you can scroll into the past, but it's not common). I like the permanence of this blog. It's mostly a compendium of my political thoughts in a diary form.

It'd be nice to be able to cross-post to both when I want to. I tried Posterous but it's not very good. Are there any other good cross-posting tools? I guess I could write one. Maybe I will...

I've made several posts using Posterous. They made it to Facebook, but not here. Time to find something else.

Al Franken has been declared the winner in Minnesota. This means that the Dems have a filibuster-proof majority in the Sentate. I shudder...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/29/mays.death/index.html?section=cnn_latest

I really admired Billy Mays. He embodied many great qualities of America. He was a self-made man, an innovator, and unendingly positive. I always got a laugh out of his commercials. I love TV pitchmen. I just can't take my eyes off of them. There are TV pitchmen - and then there was Billy Mays. He was the best of the best. I gained additional appreciation for him watching his show "Pitchmen". I'll really miss him.

It's Michael Jackson all day, all night, all the time. WTF!