Support BMG PAC!

Make a secure credit card contribution using Google Checkout:

Or send a check to BMG PAC, PO Box 877, Medford, MA 02155.

Make a New Account

Forget your username or password?

FREE COPY OF BOB'S BOOK Barack Obama for Beginners to every 50th Facebook Friend!

BMG on Facebook

About

About us
Rules of the road - please read!
Formatting and multimedia tips
Email us
RSS feed

BMG TRAFFIC REPORT
Blue Mass. Swag

Event Calendar

February 2010
(view month)

S M T W R F S

* 01 02 03 04 05 06

07 08 09 10 11 12 13

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 * * * * * *

<< (add event) >>

Active Users

Currently 22 user(s) logged on.

Blog Roll

Massachusetts Left
.08 Acres
Below Boston
Berkshires Blog
Blue News Tribune
Chimes at Midnight
Eisenthal Report
Granby 01033
Health Care for All
Left in Lowell
MA lefty blogs
Marry in Mass.
Mass Engagement
Massachusetts Liberal
Michael Forbes-Wilcox
My Dedham
Progressive Mass.
Quriltai on the Shore
Ryan's Take
Someday I Will
ShrewsBuried
Talking Stoneham
The Fray
Universal hub

Differently-Winged
John Daley
Mass. Pro-Life
No Looking Backwards
Peter Porcupine
Pundit Review
Red Mass Group
Scaling the Hill 2010

Mass. Media
David S. Bernstein
Cambridge politics
CommonWealth Unbound
Globe bloggers
Herald bloggers
Hub Blog
Jon Keller
MassBeacon
Media Nation (Dan Kennedy)
Open Media Boston
Adam Reilly
Toll Talk (Mary Connaughton)
Weekly Dig Blog

Legal
ACS Blog
Balkinization
Election law
How Appealing
SCOTUSblog
Volokh Conspiracy

General
Accountable Strategies
Billionaires for Bush
Blue Works Better
Crooks and Liars
Daily Howler
Daily Kos
Democracy Arsenal
Eschaton (Atrios)
Glenn Greenwald
Grist (environment blog)
Hullabaloo (Digby)
LiberalOasis
MyDD
Oliver Willis
Pandagon
Political Animal
Political Critic
Political Wire
Poor Man
Progressive Blog Digest
Real Climate
Senate Guru
Swing State Project
Tapped
Talking Points Memo
Think Progress
Truth and Progress
Turn Maine Blue
Wonkette

Live Blogging Tomorrow's ConCon and Who's Going to Be There

by: Ryepower12

Wed Jun 13, 2007 at 23:39:48 PM EDT

( - promoted by Bob)

I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm going to be liveblogging tomorrow's ConCon, probably making a few posts based on what I hear (during lunch, etc.). I'll be posting both at my site and here, on BMG.

Mike is going to be there too, but he's posting afterwards. Chris Mason is going to be there as well, I just don't know what he's up to in terms of blogging.

Update: I can't sleep tonight, so spent a while and wrote something I hope people find a little extra worthwhile. It's time this thing is over, for good. Enough is enough.

Update:

So, the liveblogging did NOT work out. Sorry guys - I tried everything, I walked about 20 minutes trying to find a suitable place... there was no signal outside the state house.

Anyway, I'm going to write one helluva diary to make up for it. Technology, as great as it is, can also suck =p When will Boston go wireless? (Soon, but not soon enough).

Ryepower12 :: Live Blogging Tomorrow's ConCon and Who's Going to Be There

Tags: Random, (All Tags)

Print Friendly View

Send As Email

Live Blogging Tomorrow's ConCon and Who's Going to Be There | 17 comments

webcast also (6.00 / 1)

The debate will be webcast too. I'm glad you'll be there, Ryan, commenting on what the webcast can't cover (all the action outside the chamber doors)!

Click HERE and sign up: Campaign For Military Partners.

by: Laurel @ Wed Jun 13, 2007 at 23:10:02 PM CDT

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

for an additional take (0.00 / 0)

Bay Windows is also blogging the concon.

Click HERE and sign up: Campaign For Military Partners.

by: Laurel @ Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 08:25:14 AM CDT

[ Parent ]

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

I Couldn't Sleep Either (0.00 / 0)

This day is going to live on in history as the turning point for gay civil rights, and we will have been there to see it. Ryan, Mike, I will look for you. Best wishes to all!

by: John Hosty-Grinnell @ Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 04:52:25 AM CDT

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

Thanks Ryan this is grassroots work at its best. (0.00 / 0)

I followed the link to your blog -- which I had never seen before --- and you are doing some excellent work.

I am one of those folks that gets too wrapped up in day to day life often to pay attention to more than one or two issues at once. Riding to work today I listened a bit to the radio and Finneran was arguing the procedural ethics of the whole thing. Looking forward to checking back tonight.

by: cadmium @ Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 07:22:45 AM CDT

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

for a pre-concon giggle (0.00 / 0)

If anyone else needs something to laugh over to dispel a little pre-concon tension, check out the Kiki & Herb retorospective at Bay Windows. I may have to make room on my Steve & Edie shelf. :-D

Well my friends, here we go!

Click HERE and sign up: Campaign For Military Partners.

by: Laurel @ Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 08:06:29 AM CDT

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

Let us hope this ends today. (0.00 / 0)

Let us hope that Deval as twisted enough arms to get the vote to go the way it should.

Let us hope that if there is a vote there are not 50 yes votes.

let us hope this issues dies today and we do not have to go through a year and a 1/2 debate before the November 2008 election.

Let us hope our state representatives have look at the consititution and know that voting on civil rights is wrong.

by: cmfost @ Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 08:37:29 AM CDT

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

BW Perking (0.00 / 0)

BayWindows is live blogging.

by: massmarrier @ Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 08:41:32 AM CDT

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

I concur... (0.00 / 0)

This has been a distraction and we need to move on, so the Legislature can focus on more important items.

Not to be mistaken, this is an important issue but one that has been slowly dragged out because those opposed to gay marriage are somewhat bigoted and cannot stand the thought of equal rights for gays.

With that said, I fully support the rights of gays and I personally am not affected by this, although I think those opposed are and I think it's damn shame because I know a few people who actually are deeply involved with anti-gay marriage campaign and they're good people, but misguided in their views.

by: JeremyS @ Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 09:37:38 AM CDT

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

public pageantry prayer (6.00 / 2)

i see on the bay windows site that the dark side has come equipped with prayer actors. let them be reminded of what Jesus said

Matthew 6:5 "When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward.
6 But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

Click HERE and sign up: Campaign For Military Partners.

by: Laurel @ Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 09:45:41 AM CDT

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

LOL. "Prayer actors." (0.00 / 0)

Saw this late, Laurel, and I'm DEFINITELY going to steal and use this!

by: Sharoney @ Fri Jun 15, 2007 at 11:04:20 AM CDT

[ Parent ]

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

I think I saw John Howard! (5.00 / 2)

Bright orange shirt advocating for peace. Big handwritten sign about sperm and eggs and civil unions.

I tried not to make eye contact...

by: eury13 @ Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 10:50:02 AM CDT

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

From Bay Windows: (0.00 / 0)

Another man is standing near the State House with a sign that reads, ?Support the Egg and Sperm Civil Union Compromise.? He is passing out literature that calls on Congress to enact a law that would create civil unions for same-sex couples while also banning all cloning. ?Same sex conception is unethical and unsafe and should not be allowed,? his peace sign-adorned pamphlet reads. ?We should all be created equal by the union of a man and a woman?s unmodified genes.?

by: potroast @ Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 11:29:01 AM CDT

[ Parent ]

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

"All the cool kids are here!" (6.00 / 1)

I was outside holding a sign for a while (and I saw the "eggandsperm" guy) then went inside. Already seen several people I know, including Sonia Chang-Diaz and Georgia Isman (who managed Pat Jehlen and Claire Naughton's campaigns and now runs Mass Alliance).

I also ran into my friend Malia who I had lost touch with, and found out she's gonna marry her girlfriend who she started dating back when we were in college!

(the quote is from Sonia :)

by: Cos @ Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 12:09:54 PM CDT

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

I thought I saw you! (0.00 / 0)

I wish I said "hey cos," but wasn't 100% sure it was you.

---
My thoughts are mine and mine alone. They should not be considered representative of any other organization, group or person - save me.

~Ryan.

by: Ryepower12 @ Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 15:22:31 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

I may not know what you look like (0.00 / 0)

We'll have to fix that someday.

by: Cos @ Fri Jun 15, 2007 at 00:07:56 AM CDT

[ Parent ]

by: you @ soon

To post this comment click here:

Otherwise click cancel.

You don't? (6.00 / 1)

Cos, I thought you knew everybody!

--
If you want to live like a Republican, you better vote like a Democrat. —Harry Truman

by: dcsohl @ Fri Jun 15, 2007 at 15:26:55 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

Sure you do =) (0.00 / 0)

We met at the Lt. Governor's Forum in Cambridge, remember?

The big problem was I - in a Britney Spears moment, while cramming to finish writing a 20 page paper - decided "hey, I've never shaved my head before," and proceded to use the buzzer on my Norelco and do a very scary hack job. It's grown in since then, but it wouldn't be easy to recognize me since we've only met once before - and briefly at that.

---
My thoughts are mine and mine alone. They should not be considered representative of any other organization, group or person - save me.

~Ryan.

by: Ryepower12 @ Sat Jun 16, 2007 at 08:05:35 AM CDT

[ Parent ]

Live Blogging Tomorrow's ConCon and Who's Going to Be There | 17 comments