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16 January 2009

Hope, Change and...

...Crawford, Texas...
The incoming Obama administration will vigorously defend congressional legislation immunizing U.S. telecommunication companies from lawsuits about their participation in the Bush administration's domestic spy program.

That was the assessment Thursday by Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for attorney general, who made the statement during his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
That's weird. So far the new guy is behaving a lot like the old guy.

Only now... seems like nobody's getting insane with rage.

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RELATED: They could teach Mao a thing or two...

...about "cult of personality"...
-- BRAMPTON -- Rowntree Public School is grooving to a reggae-infused hip-hop beat; Grade 4 boys are breakdancing beside Ms. Boudreau's desk while Grade 1 kids bop tentatively in a room down the hall.

From the speakers blasts Michael Franti and Spearhead's uplifting "Obama song": "Building blocks of a new vow/ A million stops and a new route ..."

"We listen to classical music every day, but this week we're listening to Barack," says fast-talking, fast-walking principal Kyra Kristensen-Irvine.
Sounds a little too much like "re-education" to me.

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