So, I voted, but I had a couple of questions afterwards. Such as, why can’t the Illinois Democratic Party draft someone to run against Terry Parke (R) for the Illinois House? I refuse to vote for that guy. Almost wrote in “Spongebob Squarepants.” When I arrived, there was a line of three (3) people. The first guy was black, had moved more than a month ago, but had not re-registered, so he was sent back to his old polling place. I checked the FAQ and that was the correct procedure. Whew. As I left, a neighbor recognized me and said…
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Conservatives repeated Bush administration’s misleading comparison between explosives, other munitions Media conservatives have echoed the Bush administration’s misleading argument that the reported 380 tons of explosives that went missing from the Al Qaqaa facility in Iraq pales in comparison to the reported 405,944 tons of munitions that have been captured in Iraq so far. In fact, explosives — many of which were reportedly in the form of white powder — weigh far less than some other types of “munitions,” which include explosives, but also “rockets, guided and ballistic missiles, bombs … grenades, mines, torpedoes … and devices and components thereof,”…
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For 23 years, Carol Sheehan and her husband, Frank, have lived in the same Holladay neighborhood and their politics have remained about as constant as their address. “My ballot is so stiff it doesn’t bend,” Carol Sheehan said. “It is very straight Democrat.” But Thursday, her right to place that Democratic vote was challenged by a Republican candidate for the state House of Representatives – who also challenged the legal registration of 1,495 other residents in House District 37. Republican candidate Brice Derek Carsno claims all of those residents do not live in the precincts they are registered in and…
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The Nation publishes 100 Facts and 1 Opinion with a handy link to a PDF file to be downloaded and distributed as necessary. Very inconvenient, these facts. Likely to bring Bushco to its knees in the end. If after reading these 100 facts, which each have links to news stories backing them up, anyone still undecided will never decide.
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From Salon.com (subscription or ad-nag screen), apparent proof that for some purposes Bushco does not oppose cloning. Such as, making it appear as if a very large crowd of soldiers has got your back. Joe Lockhart of the Kerry campaign responds: “Now we know why this ad is named ‘Whatever it Takes.’ This administration has always had a problem telling the truth, from Iraq to jobs to health care. The Bush campaign’s advertising has been consistently dishonest in what they say. But today, it’s been exposed for being dishonest about what we see. “If they won’t tell the truth in…
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Boing Boing makes the Beeb: their item on the official website of Resident W blocking international visitors showed up on the BBC News website. It seems they found the information about alternate ways to access the site useful.
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Yep, that’s the Resident. This was back when he was governor of Texas. If you click on the image, the clip should play (but it’s from Salon.com, so it may throw you into a nag screen first). Kinda makes you wonder whether that smirking badass fratboy still roams the halls of the White House after the handlers have left for the day.
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Keyes was also asked about another comment he made last week critical of gay marriage in which he declared: “Where procreation is in principle impossible, marriage is irrelevant.” Keyes said the logic of that statement would not preclude elderly people past child-bearing age from getting married. Overshare Alert! Well, in my case “procreation in principle is impossible,” because reproduction has been permanently circumvented. However, this doesn’t stop us from fooling around anyway. Yay! Therefore, I’m childfree, and Alan Keyes would think I’m a monster, with an irrelevant marriage. Apparently, he would have people who are unable or unwilling to have…
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Surfers outside the US have been unable to visit the official re-election site of President George W Bush (Ed. note: www.georgewbush.com, and hell no, I’m not linking to it). The blocking of browsers sited outside the US began in the early hours of Monday morning. Since then people outside the US trying to browse the site get a message saying they are not authorised to view it. The blocking does not appear to be due to an attack by vandals or malicious hackers, but as a result of a policy decision by the Bush camp. It may be a bandwidth…
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Bush supporters are in a remarkably stable state of cognitive dissonance according to this study: “The roots of the Bush supporters’ resistance to information,” according to Steven Kull, “very likely lie in the traumatic experience of 9/11 and equally in the near pitch-perfect leadership that President Bush showed in its immediate wake. This appears to have created a powerful bond between Bush and his supporters–and an idealized image of the President that makes it difficult for his supporters to imagine that he could have made incorrect judgments before the war, that world public opinion could be critical of his policies…