Remember me complaining about how electronic voting machines don’t leave paper trails?
Remember me complaining about how easily these things are hacked?
Remember me complaining about how the primary manufacturers of these things were in the pocket of the GOP?
Someone has pushed the panic button. This is an article that plainly explains how to fix an election.
Yes, they are STILL telling their watchers that Foley is a Democrat.
Foley is a Republican. The people who were alleged to receive and ignore the emails were REPUBLICANS.
We all know who Mark Foley is, right? The Republican who until recently was a Representative in our nation’s House of Representatives? Accused of sending sexually inappropriate messages to UNDERAGE male pages? The Republican who has come out of the closet as gay?
Apparently, Fair and Balanced Fox News is calling him a Democrat. There’s a screen shot behind the link. Is this desperation? I mean, of all of the lies before, people aren’t actually going to believe that this guy is a Democrat, right?
I’m not so sure. I’ve heard some people call Al Gore an idiot. Literally, that a Vice President of the United States (and we’re not talking about Quayle) was of lower intelligence. I didn’t press the matter, but this came shortly after An Inconvenient Truth had its local run in the theaters, and during a neo-conservative backlash.
Gore had the balls to admit that an act that the President signed (of the same party, by the way) was unconstitutional. Does anyone remember the Telecommunications Act of 1996? The precursor to the DMCA, the explosion of power of the RIAA and MPAA, and the spread of DRM. I wasn’t the only one wearing a blue ribbon, was I? This man was misquoted for saying that he created the internet, when he simply said that he had a part in it. This man, who is NOT running for political office, is attempting to help the environment, anyway. (Shut up, Gerry. It doesn’t matter if it’s possible. It matters that people try.)
Now, one of their own guys is exposed, and they turn on him like a pack of hyenas. They call him the worst thing in the world. They call him a Democrat.
And they expect you to believe this bullshit. The sad part is, you probably already do.
One of our nation’s founding documents starts off with “All men being created equal…” According to American Airlines, they were wrong.
Ever wonder what Clinton’s last days in office were really like? Watch it all here.
Is anyone going to ConClave next weekend? I’m looking to hitch a ride from Lansing (as my car will be in WI with
Okay, back to scribbling in my little notebook. :)
There was a speech that was made before the President’s speech. It was made by a New Yorker, and one who lost friends in the destruction of the World Trade Center. This person is a veteran sports broadcaster, and one smart cookie. I recommend reading, watching, or listening to his speech.
I also recommend, if you intend on speaking with me about politics, or about this disaster, that you have sources ready to cite, and facts that have been checked. Christopher Chase has a good example of this right here.
In unrelated news, I have a nagging suspicion that the hard drive in my iBook is on its way out. Either it’s a self-contained group of sectors, or it’s a growing fault. Apple’s disk utility doesn’t see a problem, but I’m getting some pretty consistent read/write errors. I think I may pester
Leave it to a web comic to school us
From this article:
“The surest defense against terrorism is to refuse to be terrorized. Our job is to recognize that terrorism is just one of the risks we face, and not a particularly common one at that. And our job is to fight those politicians who use fear as an excuse to take away our liberties and promote security theater that wastes money and doesn’t make us any safer.”
I hereby reject those philosophies that require sacrificing freedom in favor of safety.
When your society is free, a logical and necessary risk taken is that your neighbor, who is also free, might do something stupid with their freedom.