Williamsburg (Real America)
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If you haven’t registered to vote, unfortunately, its too late. If you have registered to vote, and are not sure where to go or what to do when you get there, NAG has put together a nice little (non-partisan) guide to voting.
As for my partisan take, for four years, George W. Bush has fiddled while Rome burned. We don’t need an encore.
So vote already.
Andrew Sullivan is one pissed off conservative. He’s also been one of the most consistent critics of Bush-Cheney hijacking of the constitution.
> No economic mismanagement can compare with this attack on the basic institutions of our democracy and the constitution. No incompetence in conducting an occupation can be deemed comparable with this level of criminality and indecency. No reaction to a natural disaster, however hapless and negligent, is as grave as this crime. No financial crisis eclipses it in gravity. The president’s oath is to protect the constitution from enemies foreign and domestic. Instead, the president himself became an enemy to the constitution he swore to uphold.
As a patriotic progressive, nothing makes me more angry, more sad or more despondent than watching the systematic squandering of our national legacy on the world stage. Eight years ago, this country was poised to lead the world into a new millennium. Seven years ago, a small group of religious fanatics hijacked four planes, and our government’s response has led our leaders to turn their backs on everything this country is supposed to stand for. The perpetrators of 9/11 (an attack on NYC, USA, Ms. Palin) are still at large, our constitution is in tatters, and our position as a world power (morally, economically and politically) is precarious at best.
And yet some people think that four more years of Republican thugocracy wouldn’t be so bad. Sullivan is right, until we can heal our democratic institutions and our reputation, we will not lead in the world.
This has been around a while, but its still an inspiration.
NY Water Taxi had announced that it was suspending its East River commuter service effective 1 November. Now, they’ve announced that they are “working with the City of New York to continue the East River ferry service through the winter months“.
Grand Street, Williamsburg
Primary in Greenpoint
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Greenpoint
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Open Space Alliance is holding a community committee meeting on Monday evening.
> We are VERY EXCITED to announce this meeting for the formation of the Community Committee for the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn! Organized by GWAPP and others, the purpose of this meeting is to formally introduce OSA to the community and for all interested community organizations and residents to discuss the purpose of the Community Committee, ideas for how it will function, how it will be organized, etc.
