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Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2002 - Kamala Harris - VEEP - Change is Gonna Come - Musical Monday on Tuesday for 2008.11

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2002 - Kamala Harris - VEEP - Swing Down Sweet Chariot - Musical Monday on Tuesday for 2008.11

There was going to be a full mix of music and lots of photos from recent protests, but then Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his running mate, and I was so busy this week that it's Saturday night 8/15 as I write these words. So this and all the following posts will be quickies.

One song in this one. The classic Sam Cooke tune.

Also an extra tidbit from a You Tube channel I just found, Afro Marxist, and a video clip of the first African-American woman to run for president.

A historic photo: @JoeBiden asking @KamalaHarris to join the ticket -- taken just a few hours ago, from his home in Wilmington. Your next President and Vice President!! pic.twitter.com/vLNHxnvkb3
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) August 11, 2020

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https://www.wonkette.com/kamala-harris-is-your-new-vice-president-now-lets-go-win-this-motherf-cker

Kamala Harris Is Your New Vice President, Now Let's Go Win This Motherf*cker

Evan Hurst

August 11, 2020 04:52 PM

KAMALA HARRIS! All right, kids, let's do this!

Old Handsome Joe Biden has chosen Kamala Harris to be the next vice president of the United States. Which ... Ann Coulter, you were SO CLOSE.

Wow, Republicans are getting better at comedy, and the left is worried.

Anyway, Wonkette would like to be the first to say congratulations to the first woman vice president of the United States, who will also be the first Black vice president, first Black woman vice president, first Indian-American vice president, first Asian-American vice president, and just a whole lot of other firsts.

She will also be the first vice president in history who can do this:

You know, unless Mike Pence does that all the time in his bathroom when Mother isn't around. He doesn't look that cool doing it, obviously.

Biden made the announcement on Twitter and on text messages that come in one at a time every 45 minutes (if you know what we mean, you know):

Biden made us wait all day for the announcement, after Democrats tried to pull some kinda silly goose misdirection this morning when they announced the speakers for the Democratic convention next week. (Slogan: Be there! On your couch! To watch it!) Senator Harris was listed as a Thursday speaker, whereas "VP" was listed for a Wednesday slot. Did this mean Biden had not picked Harris, and had maybe gone with Susan Rice instead? Or were they doing a MALARKEY?

We don't have much to say here, except that kAmaLA iS a cOop and also that we cannot wait to watch Harris kick ass as the vice president of all of America, just like she did to Jeff Sessions's face and Bill Barr's face. We have to get her and Joe Biden there first, though, so if you need to make a donation to the Biden/HARRIS campaign, please click here. When you go to that page, you will be greeted with this picture of the next president and vice president of the United States.

Also if you need some clothes-wearing supplies to put on your midsections, we have t-shirts for both Biden and also Harris. Also panties and coffee cups, which you don't have to buy as a set, but we guess some people probably do. Also Rebecca is still updating "aprons" and "shot glass duos" so be on the lookout for those.

Hooray, three cheers for Kamala Harris, let's go win this motherfucker.

AfroMarxist

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News footage from July 16th 1968 featuring a press conference with Charlene Mitchell, who ran as a Presidential Candidate for the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) in the 1968 Presidential elections. She expresses the hope that "anti communist" voting laws (some states didn't allow communist candidates on the ballot) won't prevent the American public from having a chance to engage with Communist Party USA policies. It should be noted that Mitchell was the first African American woman to ever run for US President.

My sister's wedding took place in 2002. Above, L-R, that's me, Mom, my Dad, and my cousin JulieAnna.

THE YEAR IN NUMBER: 2002

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/2002.html

United States President George W. Bush "Axis of Evil" speech

U.S. President George W. Bush makes his first public speech since taking office.

More Information for President Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech.
In January of 2002, only a few months after the World Trade Center tragedy of September 11, 2001, United States President George W. Bush makes one of the most memorable State of the Union Addresses of any president. In his annual presidential speech he addressed the pressing problem of terrorism and the development of weapons used for mass destruction. During the speech he also describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea. He outlined plans for combating terrorists such as Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban and urged for a greater focus on “Homeland Security.” This was his first public speech as President of the United States.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/this-is-what-the-world-was-like-in-2002

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, and Spider-Man were the three biggest films of the year.

Halle Berry became the first black actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.

6. Christina Aguilera entered her "Dirrty" era with the release of her second album, Stripped.

7. Michael Jackson caused an international controversy after he dangled Prince Michael II off the balcony of his hotel room in Berlin.

15. Eminem's The Eminem Show was the biggest-selling album of the year — selling 7.6 million copies.

21. U2 performed during the Super Bowl halftime show and paid tribute to the victims of 9/11.

29. And finally, the Sanyo SCP-5300 became the very first cell phone to have a built-in camera to be released in the US (and the world would NEVER be the same again).

Friends: The Roadhouse crew:

I hosted another Ultimate tournament.

Played some, too. MAD DOG 2002: That's me in the front with the hat, third from the left.

MORE FROM 2002

ALSO, hey I went SKY DIVING!!!

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2008.11 - 10:10

- Days ago = 1866 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

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SENSE OF DOUBT STATUS AS OF 0705.04 - 16:45

Sense of Doubt is not currently dedicated to any themes or special interest. The subject matter is mine and may range from comic books to ultimate or from Baseball to feminist-centered media criticism. Until I feel I have enough content for multiple blogs, or until I am seized with a desire to create multiple blogs, this is it, and appropriately so. "Sense of Doubt" came about in Bowie’s Berlin period and the dark, ambient collaborations with Brian Eno. Like the Bowie of 1978, I have my own darkness that steals over me and through me, infecting everything. At the risk of sounding far too melodramatically obsessed with my own self-flagellations, this blog dedicates itself to that darkness, that infection. But it’s fun, too. Hey, I can be amusing? Or not. It’s the way of the [w]rench. Neurosis compelling action in insecure double-checking and misunderstanding evasions. It is my way.

More from the original description text that needed editing in 2015: Furthermore, Sense of Doubt is dedicated to the random. The theme is no theme. Just questions, doubt, and uncertainty. Feel the power of not knowing the answer. So dedicated on the last day of July 2006 by the Galactic Monkey Wrench.

The Galactic Monkey Wrench

This is the logo of the Galactic Monkey Wrench. I was given the nickname Galactic Monkey Wrench in college by a friend of mine who felt that I threw the monkey wrench into the cosmos at every available opportunity. Later, in discussions with my best friend, who is the Lord of Chaos (the Loc), he asked for my title and when I told him, without thinking, he blurted out "the gmr!" Since this was random and we appreciate randomness, I became the gmr, even though technically I should be the gmw. But gmw sounds like a car or some industrial manufacturing firm that makes a strange widget of which one has never heard. This acronym fetish may make no sense to anyone else, but my friend and I are quite driven to provide acronyms for many things. At the very least, it allows us to keep our conversations obscure and often private as no one knows about what we're talking.

Monkey Wrench Books

Chris's books

A Feast for Crows

by George R.R. Martin

This book is a little slower than the others. But if you become invested in this series, it provides key information about the history of Westeros and the lands across the Narrow Sea. It may not contain chapters with my favorite characters ...

A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin

Do I really need to review this book? It's one of the best books I have ever read. Martin is a great writer. All the books are great, and I am loving my time rereading them. If you have not checked out these books, start here and get ready ...

The Golden City

by John Twelve Hawks

These books are immensely entertaining. Treat yourself to some strong writing, great action, compelling characters, and a mix of metaphysics and theology. The ending of this third book, which is presumably the last, is anti-climactic and so...

Pathfinder

by Orson Scott Card

This was a fun book. Not OSC's best but very good OSC nonetheless. The best thing about is the time travel, slowing, and speeding powers of the characters and how OSC engages the reader in discussion of causality and time paradox. For fans ...

Swamplandia!

by Karen Russell

This book came to me via my wife Liesel who discovered it and urged me to read it. Beautifully written with compelling characters and a sense of the magical (yet realistic, somewhat). Funny yet full of the pathos that marks a good if not gr...

Hey, Mom! The Explanation.