Steve found this in a shop in Northern Virginia yesterday:
At €15, that’s pretty cheap too! You can only imagine what an Irish shop would charge for that.
In other news, Steve is going to be standing beside Barack when he takes the oath of office. The bastard (Steve, not Barack – we’ll give Barack the benefit [...]
January 19th, 2009 at
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Politics (Outside Ireland) | tags:
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cake we can believe in,
inauguration,
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Well, that was some two weeks. The Obama campaign is over – ending in victory, of course – and I’m back to Ireland today. (…well, it was “today” when I started writing this last Sunday.)
The Obama campaign was, overall, a masterclass in grassroots activism. The sheer numbers of people contributing to the campaign – be [...]
November 17th, 2008 at
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decision making,
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ireland,
john kerry,
john mccain,
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Well, it’s all come to an end. There’s a more detailed post in the works about the Obama campaign and my experiences, but that’ll take a couple of days to complete.
From all-you-can-eat sushi to getting thrown out of a restaurant, I’ve had a really great time here, mainly thanks to the great people I ran [...]
November 8th, 2008 at
20:35 in
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jeff le,
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stage door cafe,
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Greetings from the Data Cave in the Obama for America Alexandria, VA, Field Office.
Polls have been open in Virginia for just over four hours now, and voting has been brisk, although there haven’t been the extraordinary queues seen last time. This has a lot to do with the very strong early voting showing – more [...]
November 4th, 2008 at
16:30 in
Politics (Ireland),
Politics (Outside Ireland),
Technology | tags:
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gotv,
krispy kreme,
local elections,
pizza hut,
starbuck's,
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This story, about a staffer on a US senate campaign who used a fake name to sign up to the opposition’s press releases, and was suspended without pay for her troubles, raises a few causes for thought.
In Ireland, someone who did that would probably be promoted in most parties (FF & SF anyway) for being [...]
