A sampling on this topic: Clack: Georgians Overwhelmingly Approve Of Discrimination ***DDtB: The Morning After The Night Before Josh Claybourn’s Domain | Election 2004: The Unspoken Undercurrent Via ***DDtB, – a cogent argument that it’s all about the morals. And also it’s all about the simplicity, too. Make the message simple, effective, and scary, and you will do well in this country politically. You’ve got two politico-cultural moeities in this country – faith-based and reality-based – and you’ve got to make your message easy for the former to believe, and difficult for the latter to disprove. Which, of course, this…
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Obviously, this is a little TOO early, as the polls haven’t closed yet in the East. It’s a test message: US Pres Sum 9 minutes ago By The Associated Press Here are the latest nationwide election returns in the race for president with 0 percent of the nation’s precincts reporting. The winner is marked with an ‘x’. Kerry 13,149 – 42 percent Has won 0 state with 0 ev. Leads in 0 state with 0 ev. Bush 17,597 – 57 percent Has won 0 state with 0 ev. Leads in 2 states with 19 ev. Others 264 – 1 percent…
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Political web sites gave Senator John Kerry (news – web sites) an early lead over President George W. Bush (news – web sites) in key states in the presidential race, jumping the gun on the US networks by citing what they said were pirated early exit polls. (From Slate.com) Florida Kerry 50 Bush 49 Ohio Kerry 50 Bush 49 Pennsylvania Kerry 54 Bush 45 Wisconsin Kerry 51 Bush 46 Michigan Kerry 51 Bush 47 Minnesota Kerry 58 Bush 40 Nevada Kerry 48 Bush 50 New Mexico Kerry 50 Bush 48 North Carolina Kerry 49 Bush 51 Colorado…
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You’d better believe I’m listening live to Air America Radio today. I’ve been watching the Sundance 1-hour highlights shows for the last couple of weeks rather than trying to listen online at work. I’m becoming quite a fan of Katherine Lanpher, who has the most unfettered laugh in radio. Her job on the show is to keep Al on track and to pipe up when she finds an update or a correction online, and also when she has the occasional difference of opinion with Al. She also asks good questions of their guests. And of course, she’s a good sport…
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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…