The music on her announcement is not my cup of tea, but how can one fail to be impressed by her in this announcement?

And come back soon, Rep. Giffords. Arizona (or at least Arizona Stinquer Jamie Sommers) deserves sane political leaders.

Oh holy hell to the YES. I think I have a new ring tone for my phone.

Obama at the Apollo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-hDt2E8MoE

Have you ever read the full text of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”?

Perhaps you know a key passage:

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

[…]

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.”

After the jump, your chance to read the rest.

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No doubt Mittens, et al., will hyperventilate to see the definitive proof that President Obama wants to declare class warfare on the capitalist 0.00001%:

Black Eagle shares a terrorist fist-bump with a janitor in the Executive Office Building! Hide the Bentley! Hide the billions! Hide the hookers! They’re coming for you, Mitones!

Parents of third graders at a Norcross, Georgia elementary school are demanding an apology after their children were given word problems in math class that used images of slavery and beating slaves.

Among the questions:

“Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?”

“If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?”

“Frederick had six baskets filled with cotton.  If each basket held five pounds, how many pounds did he have altogether?”

The response from the school shows a need for increased training in Media Crisis Relations 101.  The spokesperson for Gwinnett County school district described the questions as “cross-curricular activity” attempting to incorporate social studies into math.  Stinquer RptrCub, we worry about you living in this state.

[ABC News]

Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary that Jared Lochner killed six people, including a 9-year-old girl and federal judge, and injured 13, at a “Meet the Congresswoman” event hosted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson.

Today, Rep. Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly joined in a hike at the Gabe Zimmerman Memorial Trailhead at Davidson Canyon park outside of Tucson.  Zimmerman was one of her staffers murdered in the attack.

[Photo: Giffords’ Book of Faces page]

What happens when you combine Christmas carols with Hall & Oates songs? Some pretty funny videos filmed in JNOV’s hometown.

SF Chronicle