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Entries from October 2004

One Hundred Facts

October 30th, 2004 · Comments Off · Politics, Schmolitics

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 [...]

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Support Our Cloned Troops

October 28th, 2004 · 5 Comments · Politics, Schmolitics

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 [...]

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Big Time

October 28th, 2004 · Comments Off · Politics, Schmolitics

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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The One-Fingered Victory Salute

October 27th, 2004 · Comments Off · Politics, Schmolitics

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 [...]

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My Marriage Is NOT Irrelevant

October 27th, 2004 · 2 Comments · Childfreedom, Good and Joyful Things, Politics, Schmolitics

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,” [...]

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