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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Fasten your seat belt, or you may fall out of your chair laughing at this report of some Republicans who failed miserably at creative agitprop at a Florida polling place Sunday. But the place was stamped with politics. Distributing the cold bottles of Zephyrhills were about dozen NAACP Voter Fund volunteers in yellow shirts. Others distributed folding chairs for people who wanted to sit in the line. An Election Protection corps in black uniforms passed out flyers printed with voting rights. A couple of Kerry/Edwards people handed out candy from plastic pumpkins. And then there was this other curious contingent,…
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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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Woo! TAR promo video links! What A Wonderful, Amazing World Girl Smacks Boy The two-hour premiere is Tuesday, November 16th. Woo!
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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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Just in case I have to retreat from the Reality-Based Community into absurdity, the new Stitch’s Great Escape attraction opens Nov. 16 in Disney World. A cow-orker is taking vacation time then specifically for this very event. When we went to Dizzy Whirled and did the Alien Encounter (which has been re-worked with a Stitch theme) it was a pretty good freak-out, and we bought funny pictures in the gift shop. Could be much, much more fun to have Stitch running around in the dark breathing down our necks…
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my husband David and I had a chance to test-drive a Ford Escape Hybrid today – meaning a partly gas-powered, partly electric-powered vehicle (a decent sized SUV) that gets great gas mileage and is touted as environmentally friendly. The technology behind it is interesting, innovative, and impressive from my point of view, since it’s designed to be fully integrated and automatic. There is no maintenance required on the battery pack and it never need be recharged (in fact, it can’t be recharged the way it’s designed) because it is continuously recharged by either the generator motor or by “regenerative braking.”…
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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.