Archive For October, 2004
The Indymedia Seizure
[The Blogging of the President] by Ian Welsh On October 7th the hard drives from two Indymedia servers in the UK were seized. They have since been returned but here’s the interesting thing – to this day we don’t know why they were seized. The company running the servers, Rackspace, has been forbidden by court [...]
Quarantining dissent
Yes, a little old news, but just picked up by John Dvorak on his blog, and it has good articles referenced. -RS How the Secret Service protects Bush from free speech Good article. This is a real issue Republicans should be concerned about. I always thought that the USA was a “free speech” zone. When [...]
W Ketchup
No, this is not a spoof. They sold around 100,000 bottles of this ketchup. I’m like the founders, suprised no on else thought of it. -RS
State by State: The Bill for Iraq War
Interactive Map from Center for American Progress Navigate through our new “State by State” interactive map, which details the $150 billion cost of the Iraq war from the perspective of the states. Tags: war <BR/>
Washington Whispers
[USNews.com] The un-voters Who are the 45 percent of Americans who are eligible to vote but don’t? Pollster Peter Hart knows. He tells us that they’re not shirkers of civic duty. Instead, many think they just don’t know enough about the candidates. "They don’t feel that they’re adequate" enough to choose, he said. And, "a [...]
America’s Thirst for Pointless Debate Has Not Been Quenched
[The Specious Report] New York City, NY | The unexpected popularity of the Bush-Kerry Presidential debates has sent “reality TV” producers scrambling to satisfy this newly-discovered audience. “It caught us totally by surprise,” admitted veteran reality choreographer Mark Burnett. “Nobody thought the genre could sink any lower. I mean, after you find out that people playing Jenga [...]
Women deserved more than fluff
The concerns of a critical bloc of voters merited more than a token, softball question BY GAYLE SMITH AND MARA RUDMAN Gayle Smith and Mara Rudman are senior officials at the Center for American Progress and the American Progress Action Fund. This is from the Washington Post. The final debate between President George W. Bush [...]
I’m Osama bin Laden and I Approve of This Message
Ooops: He’s alive. And he’s condemning Bush. Which of course means that he wants Kerry to win. Unless he really wants Bush to win and is just by default endorsing Kerry in order to get people to vote for Bush out of spite. But then again, if we’re smart enough to figure that out, then [...]