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I don’t watch American Idol but I stumbled across this on Google News while searching for Asian American news. Ramiele Malubay, 19-year-old Filipino-American, is one of the top 24 finalists of this season’s American Idol.

Here’s her casting video. And she does have a great voice (although she went a little flat at one part).

I really half-expected for Simon to say something racist when he tripped all over Ramiele’s name. Nonetheless, Ramiele seems infinitely more talented than Jasmine Trias, Sanjaya Malakar, and of course William Hung.

If you watch American Idol, keep an eye out for Ramiele. I’m actually curious to see how she does.

Incidentally, I was pretty annoyed that the announcer guy on this segment (is that Ryan Seacrest?) talked about Jasmine’s success in “her native Phillipines”. Jasmine is Filipino-American, born in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is no more native to the Phillipines than you or I.

Following weeks of divisive conflict within the Asian American community, 80/20 returned to the negotiating table with the Obama campaign and agreed to alter two of the questions in their questionnaire so that Obama could respond with all yes-es. Both questions were remedied to remove any reference to a quota, but left the remainder of all six questions unaltered.

80/20 noted that two members of the Obama campaign worked diligently to arrive at an agreement with 80/20. 80/20 says:

80-20 considers the commitment from Senator Obama to Asian American issues to be at least as strong as the commitment from Senator Clinton, Senator Edwards, and Governor Richardson. Henceforth, with the exception of California, 80-20 is neutral in the primary contests between Senator Clinton and Senator Obama.

It’s not entirely clear what 80/20 means in its “exception” of California, particularly considering most of the Asian American population is located in California; does it really mean much if 80/20 remains “neutral” in Idaho?

Nonetheless, I hope this represents an end to the shockingly inflammatory rhetoric and misinformation we’ve seen coming out of 80/20. And it certainly demonstrates to me Obama’s commitment to finding solutions between disparate parties.

And perhaps, as reader Ada has suggested, we can unite behind building a better world for our community. And for many Asian Americans, that means voting for Senator Barack Obama on February 5th.

Here's a perfect example of why it is dangerous to believe anything you hear from the mainstream media, especially if it involves the evil ways of the Clintons. Always, it's wise to do some research to make certain that the outrageous 'fact' you just read did not come from a 'journalist' as brain-dead or biased against the Clintons as Jake Tapper.

Either Jake Tapper, senior national correspondent at ABC (!), hates Bill Clinton and so willfully lies about him, or Jake Tapper is a moron who is an embarrassment to ABC News and the discipline of journalism.

Jake Tapper states that Bill Clinton said: “We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.”

Yet further down on Jake Tapper's website, we find the transcript of what Bill Clinton actually said:

“And maybe America, and Europe, and Japan, and Canada — the rich counties — would say, ‘OK, we just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren. We could do that.

“But if we did that, you know as well as I do, China and India and Indonesia and Vietnam and Mexico and Brazil and the Ukraine, and all the other countries will never agree to stay poor to save the planet for our grandchildren. The only way we can do this is if we get back in the world’s fight against global warming and prove it is good economics that we will create more jobs to build a sustainable economy that saves the planet for our children and grandchildren. It is the only way it will work."

Tapper titled his manufactured story: Bill: “We Just Have to Slow Down Our Economy” to Fight Global Warming. I've been staring at the lying headline over at memeorandum all day. Gawd only knows how many news organizations, blogs, Obamamanians and anti-Clinton charlatans have picked up the story. You may well see it on Clinton-hating MSNBC later tonight.

Mainstream media morons like Tapper pull this crap all the time. Many mainstream 'journalists' couldn't pass an undergrad journalism course if their life depended on it simply because the first requirement is reading comprehension.

Sadly, No! has the story: Depressingly stupid goddamn journalism

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Is Erica Jong insane?

It appears to be quite possible.

I’m all for greater discussion about male circumcision. Personally, I find circumcision seriously troubling. I wouldn’t do it to my kid. If you want to be circumcised, more power to you, but I think parents have an obligation to allow their children to make decisions about permanent body modifications for themselves, once they’re old enough to understand all the of the issues involved. That said, I don’t blame individual parents who have made the decision to circumcise their children – at least for my generation in the United States, circumcision was billed by the medical establishment as “clean,” as “healthy,” and as “normal.” I don’t have stats on this, but I would guess that the majority of boys born in the 1980s in the United States are circumcised. I don’t think that those boys have parents who are cruel or stupid. I don’t think that these boys are mutilated; I don’t think there’s anything wrong with them or their bodies. I think that religious and cultural reasons behind circumcision are compelling, and I believe that most parents have the best interests of their children in mind. But I do think that circumcising children without that child’s consent (and at an age where the child is totally unable to give consent) is wrong.

But that isn’t really what Jong is talking about. Instead, she writes a bizarre screed about how Jewish men have issues with women, and manages to not only insult Jews and men in general, but Asian, Asian-American, black, African-American and Eastern European women in one fell swoop.

Ever wonder why Jewish boys are so fucked up about sex? Ever wonder why they fall for mile-high models from Slovenia who wear those big cold crosses? Ever wonder why they like Chinese girls, Chinese-American girls, Blonde shiksa cheerleaders from Kansas? Or those cool black models who dance like Beyonce?

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Silly Site o' the Day

There’s now a t-shirt just for you. Two pages of shirts, even. And all the proceeds go to NARAL — what could be better?

Thanks to Laurie for the link.

6pm, Link Lounge — 15th and Irving Pl.

I’ll be there around 7:15. Hope to see some of you!

Hillary and Obama face off tonight in the Democratic Debate at the Kodak Center in Hollywood, and it's being billed as Hotter Than the Oscars!

This is the last Democratic Debate before Super Tuesday and the first debate which will feature a match between 'the last Democrats still standing:' Hillary Rodham Clinton v. Barack Obama.

A woman versus an African American competing for the job of President of the USA. What an historic event!

CNN makes the debate sound like the The Super Bowl Debate or the World Championship Boxing Match.


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This headline is from an article in The L Magazine promoting a ladies' night in Manhattan. Hilarious, don't cha think? I mean, rape always is.

Thanks to Darcee for the link.

I recommend Hildegard von Bingen's music for meditation and for those times when everything is just too much.