Tag: decision-2004
The Monster Slash
[Found in dagonell‘s blog, whilst reading a friend’s friends list.]
Take a look at The Monster Slash, a commentary on Bush’s environmental policies ala JibJab. Yes, that is Bobby Picket singing.
Sports and Politics
First of all, birthday wishes of the day to cafemusique.
I’m not a real big sports person; I’ll go to perhaps an occasional baseball game. Yet I noticed an interesting parallel in the World Series parings that I made in a comment last night, and I want to explore more now.
The Boston Red Sox won the AL pennant, after 86 years. John Kerry is from Boston, and we haven’t had a president from Boston in over 40 years.
One potential NL winner is the Houston Astros, from Texas. George W Bush is from Texas.
If the World Series paring ends up being Boston vs. Texas, is this a harbinger for the election itself? If so, go Sox!
(meme) Political Opinions
Damn straight!
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You preferred Kerry’s statements 89% of the time
You preferred Bush’s statements 11% of the time Voting purely on the issues you should vote Kerry Who would you vote for if you voted on the issues? Find out now! |
Note: Please participate in the Six Degrees of Voting project (the map is really neat to watch), and indicate you are voting… and announce the project and get your friends to vote as well, and their friends, and …
(meme) Six Degrees of Voting
[Snarfed from kerinda. I posted this yesterday, but only had one person sign up. C’mon folks. Indicate that you’re gonna vote!]
I’m registered. See how many of your friends/family are.
OK, so what’s this all about. From the site:
We all know the “Six Degrees of Separation” theory: Everyone knows everyone within six degrees. Keeping this in mind — if you agree to vote, and you get all your friends to agree to vote, and they get all their friends, and so on, then, theoretically, everyone will be voting November 2nd. Even Kevin Bacon. Six Degrees of Voting.com serves to facilitate that concept. If you signup, you are pledging to vote on November 2nd. Get excited, this is an important election. You will then get a link that you can send to your friends and family.
So, as I’ve said, I’m registered and I’m voting. See how many of your friends/family are.
(After you’ve registered, post this in your journal, updating the URLs as appropriate)
Six Degrees of Voting: Tell Your Friends!
[Snarfed from kerinda]
I’m registered. See how many of your friends/family are.
OK, so what’s this all about. From the site:
We all know the “Six Degrees of Separation” theory: Everyone knows everyone within six degrees. Keeping this in mind — if you agree to vote, and you get all your friends to agree to vote, and they get all their friends, and so on, then, theoretically, everyone will be voting November 2nd. Even Kevin Bacon. Six Degrees of Voting.com serves to facilitate that concept. If you signup, you are pledging to vote on November 2nd. Get excited, this is an important election. You will then get a link that you can send to your friends and family.
So, as I’ve said, I’m registered and I’m voting. See how many of your friends/family are.
More Election Stuff…
Electoral-Vote.Com (which, for the first time in a long time, is showing Kerry with enough electoral votes to win) is reporting a Salon.Com story that Bush had a radio receiver taped to his back during the first debate so he could receive messages via a tiny hearing-aid-like device in his ear. Note that the Commission on Presidential Debates has verified that one of the rules of engagement the Bush campaign insisted on was no camera shots of the candidates from behind (which one of the pool cameras did anyway). He has a picture that does clearly show what appears to be a bulge.
Sigh. Perhaps the “uhhhh” from ‘da Prez’ were when he was listening for the answers. Too bad they couldn’t have just said to him, “Just say: Vote for Kerry, he’s the right man for the job. I’m just a puppet for the men behind the curtain.”
(On the health front: Head-OK today. Shoulder/Arm-Annoying today)
Bush/Cheney Does Not Espouse Judeo-Christian Values
What, you say? What do you mean: they’re against gay marriage? Those are Judeo-Christian values. They’re pro-family. They’re courting evangelicals.
I’ll say it again: Bush/Cheney do not espouse Judeo-Christian Values.
What do I mean? Well, both Judaism and Christianity teach that is is possible to repent from sinning. They teach that someone does not sin until they actually commit the act; up until that point, there is the possibility that they may repent and change their ways, even if they have sinned in the past. Repent, ye sinners!
However, the New York Times reported that V.P. Cheney is saying that it was right to attack Iraq simply because “As soon as the sanctions were lifted he had every intention of going back” to his weapons program. Well, in my mind, I have many intentions that might be illegal or immoral. I don’t act upon them. (Although the NYT link is gone, it is reported here)
Just consider what would happen if we used “intent to” as a crime, as opposed to “commission”. Let’s jail all the homosexuals: they intend to have gay marriages. Let’s jail all drivers: they intend to speed. You can see where this would lead us… down a very dangerous road.
Don’t think it is happening? What administration is jailing people and treating them as second-class citizens because of believed intents? Can you spell “C A T S T E V E N S”? I knew you could.
And it’s not just Cheney. President Bush was making similar statements today: According to CNN, Bush acknowledged that Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction at the time he ordered the invasion but said Saddam Hussein was “systematically gaming the system” and the world is safer because he is no longer in power. “He was doing so with the intent of restarting his weapons program once the world looked away,” Bush said. “Based on all the information we have to date, I believe we were right to take action.”
I’ll say it again: Bush/Cheney do not espouse Judeo-Christian Values.
Update: In good news, the Projected Final Election Map for today (October 7) shows that Kerry wins in a landslide, 538 to 0.