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38 Million View Obama’s Speech; Highest-Rated Convention In History
August 29, 2008, 2:00 pm
By Brian Stelter
Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday as an estimated 38 million viewers watched on television, setting a new record for convention viewership, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president on August 28, 2008, before 84,000 people at Mile High Stadium, in Denver, CO.
Watch it:
(08-27) 14:57 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin, whose trailblazing activism spanned more than five decades, most recently in the battle for same-sex marriage, died Wednesday, just two months after she made history again by wedding her longtime partner in San Francisco City Hall.
Check out the list of tributes to Del posted over at Pam’s House Blend.
but you probably knew that already.
I was washing my car this morning when Nhut noticed that one of the aforementioned Redneck morans wrote on the “Obama ‘08″ sticker that was on the rear window. You can see it in the image below (click to see full size) after he took it off the car, it says “Rag Head”.
Fortunately, I had another sticker, and have a few more still on my desk, so I put the new one on my car after I finished washing it. (click to see full size) 
The right-wing American Family Association (AFA) launched an action page and petition drive today against Hallmark. Hallmark Greeting Cards recently announced it will begin selling same-sex wedding cards. AFA wants people to ask Hallmark to “stop promoting a lifestyle that is not only unhealthy, but is also illegal in 48 states.”. 
http://www.afa.net/Petitions/Issuedetail.asp?id=329
The nice thing about AFA’s petition drive web site is it has a totally free-form text box where you can edit your message to Hallmark to thank them for supporting the LGBT community.
Seems that Obama has reached out to the GLBT blogging community and is hosting several of the major bloggers who are cross posting to this new site. Check it out here.
via News 8 Austin Top Stories on 8/21/08
IBM’s EXITE camp takes place at IBM locations nationwide with the goal of getting more girls interested in engineering as a career.
Christy and Dominique brought the girls in to the Austin Extreme Blue lab for a bit yesterday during a break in their camp activities and fired up the Wii console. 
From TPM Election Central:
The McCain campaign is road-testing a new argument in responding to Obama’s criticism of his number-of-houses gaffe, an approach the McCain camp has never tried before: The houses gaffe doesn’t matter because … he was a POW!
“This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years — in prison,” spokesman Brian Rogers told the Washington Post.
It’s interesting how being a POW explains away so much… check out the list of things being a POW explains at The Carpetbagger Report:
When the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, a close Bush ally, publicly questioned McCain’s marital infidelities, the McCain campaign responded by highlighting McCain’s background as a prisoner of war.
When Dems attacked McCain’s healthcare plan in May, McCain responded by noting his background as a prisoner of war.
Asked by a local reporter about the first thing that comes to his mind when he thinks of Pittsburgh, McCain responded by talking about his background as a prisoner of war.
Accused of possibly having heard the questions in advance of Rick Warren’s recent candidate forum, the McCain campaign responded by highlighting McCain’s background as a prisoner of war.
wow. 
Check out this slashdot article, and update your settings in gmail to always use https.
That was easy.
Despite Assurances, McCain Wasn’t in a ‘Cone of Silence’
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: August 17, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. — Senator John McCain was not in a “cone of silence” on Saturday night while his rival, Senator Barack Obama, was being interviewed at the Saddleback Church in California.
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