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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 |
Big Arizona Endorsements for Dean - Former Gov. Babbitt & Hattie Babbitt
Bruce Babbitt and Hattie Babbitt Endorse Dean for President. PHOENIX, AZ --Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and former Ambassador Harriett "Hattie" Babbitt endorsed Governor Dean today at a rally in Sun City, Arizona.
Former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt said, "I believe Governor Dean has what it takes - executive experience, vision, knowledge and a burning desire to change the wrongs of society. I know he would carry these same attributes with him to the White House and make this a better country for our citizens. I am pleased to add my voice to those of former Vice President Gore and others in our support of Governor Dean."
Bruce Babbitt, who served as the Secretary of Interior during the Clinton Administration, was the Governor of Arizona from 1978 until 1987. He served as State Attorney General from 1975 through 1978. Babbitt is presently of counsel in Latham & Watkins Washington D.C. law office, where his practice focuses on environmental and natural resources matters.
Hattie Babbitt, senior vice president of Hunt Alternatives Fund in Washington, D.C, is former deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. From 1993 to 1997, she was U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States.
"My vast experience in international matters has shown me that we need to have a President who understands the importance of rebuilding our alliances and partnerships with other nations in advancing our values and interests around the world. Dr. Dean appreciates our historical relationships and economic interdependency with other nations. I am pleased to add my endorsement for his Presidential candidacy," she said.
In response to this morning's joint endorsement, Governor Dean said, "I'm proud that Secretary Babbitt and Ambassador Babbitt have decided to join our campaign. They have proudly served our country for many years, and they are an important addition to the greatest grassroots campaign presidential politics has ever seen." [Blog for America]
2:34:01 PM 
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Dec. 16, 1773 Boston Tea Party & Dean E-mail Message
Dear Gary,
On this day 230 years ago, patriots boarded three ships and dumped hundreds of cases of tea into Boston Harbor -- and forged a new nation. Like those Sons of Liberty, you have made a commitment to taking back your country. Your contribution has helped transform us from an asterisk in the polls to the greatest grassroots campaign in modern history.
Now, with just five weeks until the Iowa caucuses, I want to ask for your help in reaching out and spreading the word to more Americans about our campaign. Please use this link to invite five additional friends today:
http://invite.deanforamerica.com
During the American Revolution, patriots passed around copies of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," the pamphlet that ignited the movement for self-government. Now you can download "Common Sense for a New Century." Please read the pamphlet, print it, then pass it around. Use it to build our campaign during the holidays and to continue the great American conversation that you have sparked:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/commonsense
Also visit our new Documents of Our Democracy webpage, where you'll find important documents from our shared past, including the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, and Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. Read them and re-read them -- for these are the ideas that inspire us to make our country great:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/democracy
Your efforts are making a difference. Let's widen the circle and grow the campaign -- and win the White House in 2004.
Governor Howard Dean, M.D.
PS: Please read the foreign policy speech I gave yesterday in Los Angeles. It's available online: http://www.deanforamerica.com/foreignpolicy
8:55:24 AM
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Connected
You Down With OPC, Yeah You Know Me. The back cover of Steven Shaviro's Connected calls him a DJ theorist, and for once the cover blurb is spot on. Like a DJ in the mix, Shaviro never pauses the flow of information, there are no chapters. Instead he cuts back and forth between what we'll call, in homage to Naughty by Nature and D&G, "Other People's Concepts" or OPC for short. Of course like many a good DJ me makes sure to mix in a good amount of his own creations in the proceedings. But make no mistake about it this is a mix, and its pretty seamless.
So we have the DJ, but what about the party? Connected plays like the dark afterhours club we stumbled into after the bright eyed euphoria of the dot com party got harshly shutdown. The venture capitalists and marketing bunnies have all gone home to nurse their stock option hangovers, but many of the interesting people are still around. Or maybe finally gotten out of the house. The vibe is dark, hard sci fi cyberpunks, mixing it up with west coast, Whole Earth/Wired school thinkers and euro cultural theorists.
There are A list stars in the mix, Baudrillard is cut together with William Gibson for instance. But Shaviro brings in a lot of gems that well known only to the trainspotters, KW Jeter serves as something of villain/antihero, while Warren Ellis, Ken MacLeod and Georges Bataille's concepts are prominent in the mix. In fact the bibliography serves as a damn good guide to turn of the century cybertheory.
Like many a good afterhours Connected makes plenty of sense while your in the midst of it. Whether you will take anything away is another question, and one that might take time to answer. From Jazz through Electroclash, many a music form has been born in the dark spaces of illicit entertainment. Shaviro would have us believe that he dark spaces of hard science fiction and radical theory are equally as fertile, and he may well be right.
[Abstract Dynamics]
8:15:37 AM
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