Yes We Can Hope for Change

By Maui Curmudgeon

On the National Front
The terrorist-hugging closet Muslim and non-native born Marxist has won by a landslide, as the conservatives would have us believe. Hide your guns and your children, they’re no longer safe. Oh, and your wallet because you’re about to be taxed to death.

I’m sitting here knowing that the better man won the election but wondering where all that hate goes, the hate and fear which Republicans have been masterful at whipping up and focusing against decent, intelligent people who would have been so much better at being president than Reagan and Bush.

Initially the fear doesn’t go anywhere, of course. The first reaction to John McCain’s concession speech was several people yelling, “Bullshit!” when McCain said he congratulated Obama on a great win.

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Guy Fawkes  Day (GB) Day 310 of 2008 5 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Lanakila: Victory
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Brumin: Sweep
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Gladness follows in the wake of victory.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “He conquers twice, who restrains himself in victory.” – Anon

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WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Washington Post Election Crystal Ball
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Noami Klein & Alan Greenspan on Crony Capitalism
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Left Wing Conspiracy
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Media Matters

NATIONAL NEWS TODAY – November 5, 2008:
Barack Obama Wins the U.S. Presidency. Barack Obama made history last night, becoming the first African-American, and the first person born in Hawai’i, elected president of the United States. When innaugurated on January 20, he will become the 44th U.S. president.  More >

INTERNATIONAL NEWS ARCHIVES – November 5, 430 BCE:
The Peloponnesian War began between the Greek states of Sparta and Athens, depending upon when you want to start counting. The militaristic Spartans claimed the war was initiated to bring freedom to the Greeks. In truth, the war began not with a formal declaration, as historian Donald Kagan has written, but with a stealthy and deceitful raid in peacetime by a powerful state against a much smaller adversary. In fact, the fighting began after incessant prompting by a vocal but minor group within Sparta. 2,433 years later, the Iraqi war began. The militaristic American government claimed (one claim of many) that the war was initiated to bring freedom to the Iraqis. More >

EVENTS ON THIS DAY – November 5
1492: Christopher Columbus first learns of maize (corn) from the natives of Cuba
1605: The Gunpowder Plot: in an attempt to regain the British throne, Catholics plan to blow up the English Parliament but leader Guy Fawkes is arrested before the attempt (he is eventually executed by hanging)
1872: Susan B Anthony is fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant (she never pays the fine)
1895: The first U.S. patent is granted for the “original application of an internal combustion hydrocarbon motor to a motor vehicle” – the gasoline-powered automobile (to George B Selden of Rochester NY)
1917: The U.S. Supreme Court determines strikes down a Louisville Kentucky ordinance requiring persons of differing races to live in separate areas (Buchanan v. Warley)
1935: The board game “Monopoly” is introduced by Parker Brothers Company
1974: Ella Grasso (CT) is elected to become the first female U.S. governor not related to a previous governor
1994: Former President Ronlad Reagan discloses he has Alzheimer’s disease
1998: A study is made public showing strong genetic evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child by his slave, Sally Hemings
2006: Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for crimes against humanity. (He was executed the following month.)
2007: Hollywood writers went on strike.
2007: Police in major Pakistani cities fired tear gas and clubbed lawyers protesting President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s emergency rule.

BORN ON THIS DAY – November 5
1855: Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
1885: Will Durant, writer/historian
1911: Roy Rogers, film cowboy
1931: Ike Turner, singer
1942: Art Garfunkel, singer/actor
1942: Elke Sommer, actress
1943: Sam Shepard, actor/playwright
1952: Bill Walton, NBA basketball player/broadcaster
1955: Vivien Leih, actress
1959: Bryan Adams, singer
1963: Tatum O’Neal, actress

DIED ON THIS DAY – November 5
1956: Art Tatum black pianist, dies at 46 in Los Angeles
1960: Ward Bond actor, dies at 55
1977: Guy Lombardo orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne), dies in Houston at 75
1979 Al Capp cartoonist (Lil’ Abner), dies at 70
1989: Barry Sadler singer (Green Berets), dies at 49 in Murfreesboro Tn
1989: Vladamir Horowitz pianist, dies at 85
1990: Radical rabbi Meir Kahane is assassinated in New York City
1991: Fred MacMurray actor (My Three Sons), dies at 84
1991: Robert Maxwell Billionaire publisher (NY Daily News), dies at 68