ginny on July 30th, 2007

Greenberg Quinlan Rosner | News
Washington, DC. Democracy Corps and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner have completed a comprehensive and multi-modal survey of America’s youth ages 18-29. This major, multi-mode survey of America’s young people shows young people profoundly alienated from the Republican Party and poised to deliver a significant majority to the Democratic nominee for President in [...]

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ginny on July 30th, 2007

HAI Bulletin 96
Low blood sugar, “incompetent” adrenal glands, and potassium deficiency… not to mention ankle edema and some other familiar things. Guess I’d better keep up with the potassium pills, which are large enough to choke a horse.

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ginny on July 30th, 2007

AlterNet: In Violation of Federal Law, Ohio’s 2004 Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed or Missing

Two-thirds of Ohio counties have destroyed or lost their 2004 presidential ballots and related election records, according to letters from county election officials to the Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner.

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ginny on July 30th, 2007

Greenberg Quinlan Rosner | News
Washington, DC. Democracy Corps and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner have completed a comprehensive and multi-modal survey of America’s youth ages 18-29. This major, multi-mode survey of America’s young people shows young people profoundly alienated from the Republican Party and poised to deliver a significant majority to the Democratic nominee for President [...]

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ginny on July 29th, 2007

UPDATE:Yes, yes, I know that ATMs have to be ADA-compliant, but still, this one is in a drive-up only bay, where signs clearly say that pedestrians should visit the ATM in the entrance lobby for safety’s sake. The only way a person with severe vision impairments could safely visit this one is if he or [...]

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ginny on July 28th, 2007

Boing Boing: Happy Sysadmin Day, Ken!
Today is the last Friday in July and that makes it Sysadmin Appreciation Day! As I said in my acceptance speech when I won the Locus Award for my story, When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth: Systems administrators are the unsung heroes of the twenty first century, [...]

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ginny on July 28th, 2007

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ginny on July 26th, 2007

AP: New Details on Tillmans Death – Forbes.com
Among other information contained in the documents:_ In his last words moments before he was killed, Tillman snapped at a panicky comrade under fire to shut up and stop “sniveling.”
_ Army attorneys sent each other congratulatory e-mails for keeping criminal investigators at bay as the Army conducted [...]

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ginny on July 26th, 2007

Fundraiser to feature machine guns – Yahoo! News
BOSTON (Reuters) – A planned Republican fundraiser in New Hampshire aims to promote gun ownership in America by letting supporters fire powerful military-style weapons — from Uzi submachine guns to M-16 rifles.
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The Manchester Republican Committee is inviting party members and their families to a “Machine Gun Shoot” where, [...]

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