For those of you dreaming of a White Christmas, you could have one every year if the Blue states seceded and joined Canada. In exchange, they get Maui Canada, Disney Canada, and a whole lot more hockey teams. They’re not sure about the football teams, since there’d be some compromise involved. Click the image for the full story. Hey, it could work. UPDATE: The folks over at Salon. com have posted some tips on emigrating, but that seems a bit extreme. At least our Canadian friends (and more than a few Australian ones as well) have been supportive (ooh la…
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I don’t happen to think our leaders’ ideal republic has a lot of room for overeducated lefty feminist childfree gay-friendly non-religious Spanish-speaking ex-Jewish librarians, either. I’m with you, Dorothea – right up to the Spanish-speaking part, and I’m quite friendly with the final two constituencies, too. And I’m definitely in the “It’s a womb, not a clown car” club. I saw a Discovery/Health show on the Duggars brood the other night – the combination of fundamentalism with fecundity gave me the heebie geebies just before the election, so it was just great timing. Oddly enough, I have some rooibos tea…
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BBC NEWS | Technology | US duo in first spam conviction Now that's GOOD news. Amazingly, they made a fortune estimated at $24m selling useless crap to stupid people. All AOLers, alas (I still retain my AOL account for old times' sake, but I read it behind 3 anti-spam filters and a firewall).
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I know that all 2 of you have been complaining about the comments being slow or funky. So my husband David did some tinkering under the hood, and it should improve performance. Theoretically. If you were to bother to say anything. Heh.
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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,…