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2006-07-19T06:43:00.000-04:00

DORMANTThis used to be a political blog but it has been dormant for some time. Check out the links to various heroic blogs.

2005-08-24T22:50:00.000-04:00

USEFULThis site is OK for sheer volume of material but for a place called "chordie.com" they sure like to feature a lot of tabs for which, as I have told good2go, I have little enthusiasm. Plus, you can't trust all the chords as they chart them - more than a few are plain wrong.On the other hand, I have a lot of enthusiasm for these items, noted by Birdman, but I do not have the payroll. You

2005-08-10T00:54:00.000-04:00

DORMANTThis used to be a political blog but it has been dormant for some time. Check out the links to various heroic blogs and check the archives for audio you may not have heard.

2005-05-01T03:38:00.000-04:00

FOURNIER GETS AWARDIf you have read any Damfacrats material, then you know that the AP's Fournier is one of the most obvious whores for the Bushies. He got an award for it, what a surprise.

2005-04-16T00:41:00.000-04:00

BLAMStock market dumps! Damafacrats don't own stock.Yo te veo, guero!

2005-04-12T23:52:00.001-04:00

I'M NOT SCAREDWhen you read this story you realize there is not one new idea in it. It's the same old t'rriss' tale. Every detail released by the government matches some other story ...same buildings...plotting for years...plans of buildings found in their possession... a mass destruction charge that really doesn't pan out ...no activity by the t'rrsss' since AApril of 2001 ... gub'mnt says

2005-04-12T23:52:00.000-04:00

2005-04-10T11:59:00.000-04:00

STUNTING THE RUBESAs to the photo below, see here. The Shrub in Chief says "a-nope, there ain't no Social S'cure money in here ...better dial up my banker buddies and get to privatizing."

2005-04-06T00:03:00.000-04:00

HALF MASTFlying American flags at half mast for the Pope is about as creepy as saying the Pledge of Allegiance during mass. Bleh.

2005-04-05T23:58:00.000-04:00

HIGH WATERGet used to it. Global warming isn't helping when it comes to the highest waters since 1904.Perhaps the most effective use of the w'r on t'rr is the distraction from that about which we really need to worry.

2005-04-03T14:27:00.000-04:00

OIL HIGHEST PRICE EVERThat conquest of an oil rich country is working out great. AIG stock took a beating; they've paid my fees before. Nothing to see here, move along past those two all important coffins, ignore the rest.

2005-04-03T03:32:00.000-04:00

OFFENDING EVERYBODYI seem to be in the mood for it lately, so, allow me to repeat my friend's comment on the Pope's death: "they better make sure that whoever they get to replace him doesn't like to bang little boys."

2005-04-01T00:13:00.000-05:00

FOX BLOCKERAlright.From Raven.

2005-03-31T23:13:00.000-05:00

MY HONEST OPINIONI'm glad Terri Schiavo is dead because I believe she would have wanted to be dead. I say "would have" because at the time of her death she wasn't capable of thinking at all. Plus, the courts looked at all the facts and heard all the smart-lawyer arguments from both sides and they made the hard decision. Respect it or go get your nooses, you crackers.I got guys trying to give

2005-03-17T21:20:00.001-05:00

OPEN LETTER TO JESTERSTARHey starI understand what withdrawal is...there was a time when the news and the blog were a 24/7 obsession for me...right now, I'm tryin to focus on practicing the law, making some money and finding a totally sweet apartment somewhere ... not to mention the females ...so anyway, you know the deal, there are no aliens in Washington (probably), just inhuman corporate

2005-03-17T21:20:00.000-05:00

2005-03-08T20:49:00.000-05:00

RUN AGROUNDThanks to everybody who checks in and to all who have spied this blog over the past 18 months or so but this ship isn't going anywhere lately. A point arrives where a blog is just not a blog anymore.I'll be showing up every now and then, here and at the blogs of others, so I guess it's "see ya later."In the meantime, here's hoping for peace.

2005-02-23T23:42:00.000-05:00

HIS DAYS ARE NUMBEREDThis guy, al-Jaafari, looks to be the new Iraqi Prime Minister. He looks like a legitimately popular figure, heading up a conservative Islamic party. Amazingly, he had to beat out Chalabi for the spot, the sleaziest of sleazballs, who had no business being anywhere but jail.The trouble is, if al-Jaafari is not a convenient choice for Rummy & Co., he's done. I'll be

2005-02-21T02:26:00.000-05:00

ANOTHER GREAT MIND LOSTDr. Thompson, we'll ingest something extralegal for you.

2005-02-17T22:02:00.000-05:00

BARBERINI FAWNGood column by Maureen today, although it's a shame she had to credit Howie the Hack Kurtz with anything. I don't even know what a Barberini Fawn is and I don't think I want to know.

2005-02-09T15:34:00.000-05:00

GANNON I would be white-knuckling it through some Scotty Mc press steno session and hearing an occasional decent question. Then some jerk would chime in with a total gift of a question and even some of the press corps could be heard groaning. It was Gannon, although that's not his real name. He is another fake reporter hired to push propaganda for the White House. Thru Buzzflash, also all

2005-02-08T01:50:00.000-05:00

DA MAYOR Ossie Davis. I was lucky enough to be in the same room with the man and his wife, Ruby Dee, at Charlie Rangel's birthday party last summer. He wrote and delivered the eulogy for Malcom X. He lived in Harlem, my town, now, when he was about my age. A great actor and a WWII veteran, who banged on the peace drum his whole life. "Those who know, don't tell, and those who'll tell,

2005-02-05T15:41:00.000-05:00

MEDIA HATES THE COURT As do the members of the Cartel. As I have mentioned many times, the key to power for the neo-fascists is the dstrcution of the judicial branch. Hence, the media pimps stories like this, without any follow-up story, wherein the decision will get tossed as completely absurd: A Colorado judge ordered two teen-age girls to pay about $900 for the distress a neighbor said they

2005-02-03T01:36:00.000-05:00

TRANSLATION To do this right, one would have to go through the whole unbearable speech. This part, which I had posted below, should serve as a decent example: To promote peace (achieve brutal submission) in the broader Middle East (Syria and Iran), we must confront regimes (kill innocents) that continue to harbor (fail to arbitrarily arrest) terrorists ( innocents) and pursue (fantasize about)

2005-02-02T23:42:00.000-05:00

"FROM DAMASCUS TO TEHRAN" SOTUS tonight. Yeah. Maybe the Shrub could conjur up a few more irrelevant quotes from "ordinary citizens" in Iraq and the States and pretend that their sold-out, fatfuck view of things was shared by everyone. Maybe he actually thinks we don't know where we are going next. Actually, he would be right but it is right in our faces: To promote peace in the broader

2005-01-30T11:55:00.000-05:00

BUSH REALLY DOESN'T GO TO CHURCH He barely ever goes. Today, AP's ANNE GEARAN - "services at the Episcopalian church he regularly attends a block from the White House."

2005-01-29T01:44:00.000-05:00

"PERSONAL" NOT "PRIVATE" About a year ago, I was doing regular posts that simply quoted from Orwell's 1984 with a link to a story to demonstrate the flagrant similarity between Orwell's fiction and our current reality under the Cartel. It's not like I thought up the idea and when you read or re-read 1984, it becomes unavoidable. Anyway, Bilmon returned to the Whiskey Bar recently and has been

2005-01-29T01:12:00.000-05:00

INCREMENTS A good friend of mine, known here as Harlem J, or Flecha, to some, was a Sandinista back in the day. We agree that there was an immediate and healthy presumption of sneaky self-infliction in regard to the A-Train and C-Train subway fire. One must always ask the question: "who benefits?" The left does far too little of that these days. The city first said it was a homeless guy who

2005-01-25T22:42:00.000-05:00

SEN. MARK DAYTON FROM MINNESOTA This is the guy that cleared the air during the 9/11 hearings to make sure everybody knew the FAA and NORAD were completely full of crap with their changing story. This is the guy that left Washington pre-election, sending his staff away, to make sure everybody knew that the fear-mongering warnings he was secretly getting were a sham. His point: if anyone

2005-01-24T02:23:00.000-05:00

HEARINGS McCain expects some hearings about Rummy's plan for a global free-fire zone with only Rummy's finger on the trigger. Hearings. A fat lot of good that will do. Rumsfeld needs to be "hearing" McCain's foot in his ear but it won't happen.

2005-01-23T11:41:00.000-05:00

TASTELESS JOKE AT A JERK'S EXPENSE You know, when the joke is inappropriate but the guy suffering its results is so deserving. I have gone almost cold turkey from all the telescreen propaganda. I flipped on NBC today, hoping to catch McGlaughlin Group and got Chris Matthews instead. Anyway, there is Andrew Sullivan on the panel, the famously homosexual Republican, saying he is "completely

2005-01-22T01:37:00.000-05:00

BOOB BOY LEAVES FCC Let me guess. Michael Powell, Boobgate inquisitor, will be a high-paid lobbyist soon, for the industry he has supposedly been regulating. No word from the NYT as to his next job. Huh, wonder why... OFP was already thinking along this line ...

2005-01-21T01:01:00.000-05:00

"GLOBAL FREE-FIRE ZONE" The latest Seymour Hersch article reads like a Kurt Nimmo piece. Should we trust Nimmo more or Sy less? I go with the former. On to Iran.

2005-01-18T22:52:00.000-05:00

MEDIA TAKES A DIVE So, is anyone asking how the exit polls could show Kerry ahead all the way until midnight and then suddenly Bush is a big winner? Nope. Apparently, they want to know why the media was so irresponsible that it relied on the only system the world knows to verify whether election fraud has occurred. Where the media is grossly irreponsible, ie the Iraq War, it points a finger

2005-01-18T22:23:00.000-05:00

LEARN TO SPEAK If there is one thing I can't stand, it is when people who think they are smart bigshots say the exact opposite of what they are trying to say. Like when some self--proclaimed genius says "could care less." They really mean "couldn't care less." For another example: As for U.S. troops leaving, [Condi Rice] said in response to forceful questioning from Republican Sen. Chuck

2005-01-14T21:20:00.000-05:00

CONYERS THANKS THE INTERNETS For this challenge to Ohio's electors to have occurred, I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the internet activists, who spread the story of my efforts and supported me in every way possible. I am also thankful to the alternative media, including talk radio and blogs that gave substantial attention and investigation to these matters when all but a handful in the

2005-01-10T23:59:00.000-05:00

RASPBERRY GETS IT RIGHT Tweed recommended this column and I thank him. Raspberry's tone is just right. Certain people with a "U.S. Rep." in front of their names came awfully close to announcing something. Something about the election and the dirty deeds therewith. What, exactly? Well, something intentional and something really sketchy. It's kind of like when I was robbed once. I was

2005-01-10T01:57:00.000-05:00

DON'T MENTION THE 9/11 COMMISSION Is this weird? The AP headline about Tim Roemer, running for DNC chair, screams "abortion foe." Why doesn't the article even mention he sat on the 9/11 Commission? Weird.

2005-01-08T20:41:00.000-05:00

IT'S A CHLORINE NEW YEAR This, among many other reasons, is why the War on T'rr is a joke. Any act that harms people is not necessarily more reprehensible because it is intentional. An intentional killing of one person is not as awful an event as the accidental death of ten. Give or take. What tends to matter is whether something is preventable. The Property Worshipers will kick and cry if

2005-01-08T13:10:00.000-05:00

MAYBE IT'S JUST THAT SIMPLE I have often wondered what reward is so great that various media people overtly shill for Bush or turn the other way while America gets the shaft. Maybe it's just outright sickening bribery. Have you ever seen or listened to Armstrong Williams? Count yourself lucky, if not. He's Black. He's conservative... but not really. He's really just a buck dancer, for which I

2005-01-07T20:54:00.000-05:00

THANKS BARBARA The Senator from California had the guts to do what even Senator Al Gore did not. Join the "keepin' it real" House Democrats in protesting Ohio's electors. That triggered the first ever official debate on a state's slate of electors. Without a Senator, Ms. Boxer, in this case, there could be no objection. Basically, the ol'e Democrat family kicked them where it hurts one time

2005-01-05T01:22:00.000-05:00

BAGHDAD GOVERNOR BUYS IT Gunned down in his car. Makin progress. White House spokesman Scott McClellan acknowledged security "challenges" in Iraq but said the election timetable would not be changed.Looks to me like if Saddam busted loose, killed Allawi and a million other people, kicked Rumsfeld in the behind and cast all the ballots tomorrow, these jokers would still say "the election

2005-01-04T01:15:00.000-05:00

ALL MY BEST Don't want to give the wrong impression. I sure hope life is good for everybody who visits this site. I sure hope everybody has a grand and fantastic new year. Thanks for all the kind words I can't complain. Life is good for this Downtown Damfacrat. It beats Iraq, and I have friends in Iraq. Be well.

2005-01-02T03:14:00.000-05:00

GET YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF MY DESERT Nothing much changes in Iraq. Maybe it gets worse as it goes along. I could almost fall into apathetic acceptance of this Amirkin administration full of evil-doers if it wasn't for this hideous war. Almost. The only thing that changes in Iraq is the motivation that the government and the gullible press claim drives the rebels. We know this, right?

2004-12-31T10:14:00.000-05:00

A LONG DECEMBER "... maybe this year will be better than the last."

2004-12-27T19:55:00.000-05:00

NOT QUITE READY TO FORGET ABOUT THE VOTE This voting weirdness compilation page is current. Also, Rep. Conyers has many pointed questions about why Ohio's Hocking County Brd of Elec got together with the Triad voting machine people and openly decided to blow by mismatched counts - in other words, if the hand recount doesn't match the machine (the whole question), the Triad folks say it's human

2004-12-22T01:18:00.000-05:00

WAR IS PEACE War is Peace.

2004-12-22T01:14:00.000-05:00

RECOUNT IN OHIO FALLING FLAT Green Party representatives told Schwartze on Monday they would challenge the recount because the county did not use a truly random procedure in selecting 3 percent of ballots for a hand count as required under state law. The county picked from only the five precincts that each had enough ballots to equal 3 percent, instead of randomly picking from all

2004-12-21T01:25:00.000-05:00

WEATHER REPORT It was the coldest day I've had in New York City today. -11 with the wind chill. However, as reported by CNN: Around the Lower 48 states, temperatures Saturday ranged from a morning low of minus 16 in Saranac Lake, New York, to a high of 76 in Valdosta, Georgia.

2004-12-19T18:09:00.000-05:00

"PERSON" OF THE YEAR Jesus Christ on a popsicle stick this is unbearable.

2004-12-19T13:25:00.000-05:00

WHEN A CUT IS NOT CUT More like a sliver. A tiny slice. The LA Times reports that the WH wants to cut the Pentagon's budget. By 60 billion. Over 6 years. With spending on the wars and other stuff, taxpayers are looking at well over 500 billion a year. That is about a million each minute, which doesn't include all the interest payments to China, the private banks, etc. 60 billion over 6

2004-12-18T17:35:00.000-05:00

IT'S ALLRIGHT MA ... I'm only dying... 1304 dead American military people in Iraq.

2004-12-18T13:51:00.000-05:00

TAMPERING WITH THE OHIO RECOUNT The wolves are at the door for the sneaks in Ohio. The recount is happening. So, if they cheated, how do they avoid exposure? They cheat on the recount. 1. Green Party leader David Cobb testified recently that a Triad executive showed up at the recount location in Hocking County and monkeyed with the machine. 2. Fairfield County simply shut down the recount. It

2004-12-15T23:38:00.000-05:00

ABSENT To the precious few who still glance in this direction, sorry I've been absent. All I've been doing is working and drinking up every Nick Drake recording I can find. (He's a long way from Necro, that's for sure, J-Star). Anyway, the New York Times decided to do some reporting during my silence, as they occasionally do. The story is U.S. Representative Conyers demanding an Ohio vote

2004-12-12T23:34:00.000-05:00

PANEL HIGHLIGHTS Go watch the half-hour video from the Rep. Conyers hearing on Ohio vote fraud the other day. These people are mega-pissed, as we all should be. One lawyer quoted Ghandi: "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then ... you win."

2004-12-11T13:26:00.000-05:00

IN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In the AP, not much has been written about "technology failures, voter confusion and overcrowded polling stations in minority and poor neighborhoods." Let alone outright fraud and manipulation. So this is kind of weird. I had thought that about 3 in 5 Provisional ballots were valid and that Kerry got about 60%. Here is

2004-12-11T13:02:00.000-05:00

UKRAINE Anybody paying attention knows that the Ukraine vote was fraudulent, so they have to re-run the election. The people actually stood up and refused to take it - imagine. Today I see that the "loser" was also poisoned. One can now examine the full spectrum of options for people like the Bush Cartel, when it comes to voting. 1. Fair and square; 2. lies during the campaign; 3. rigged, or

2004-12-10T21:31:00.000-05:00

DO YOU REALLY NEED MORE? This, "Myths and Mysteries," is a good read: ... it's simply hard to comprehend how Bush got 61.7 million votes, shattering Ronald Reagan's old record of 54.5 million from his landslide victory in 1984. What makes Bush's numbers even more incredible is that he got them as John Kerry also surpassed Reagan's record with 58.5 million votes. Comparing Nov. 2's

2004-12-10T08:38:00.000-05:00

DENNIS K DEMANDS VOTING RIGHTS A lot of good ideas and a good understanding of the problem with private E-Voting. Too bad fat ass Dems won't do anything about it.

2004-12-09T01:21:00.000-05:00

WAITING TO POUNCE Wired E-Vote News, a link to which you can find to the right, is not really what it purports to be. It remains mute until a "debunking" story rolls around, whereupon it pounces, crying "everything is fine." Anyway, some professors at some little punk schools (read: Binghamton) are professing that the Berkeley study, the one suggesting that e-voting problems were the only

2004-12-08T01:35:00.000-05:00

THAT DOG CAN TALK Maybe this will jinx him but - not a mediocre post in the bunch.

2004-12-08T01:16:00.000-05:00

YOU HAVE TO GET IT RIGHTSure, there are real stories about whacko voting numbers but you have to get it right. When people dis bloggers, they say it is because bloggers aren't trustworthy. Well, they are - to an extent. I can't tell you how many dicked up stories I have read that are close to the truth but screw up the facts or even just get written with typos that sluff off the power of the

2004-12-07T23:58:00.000-05:00

NEXT SPRING Gore's losing manager, Ms. Ineffective, Donna Brazile, is the "voting rights expert???" Oh, Christ. The DNC strategy in Ohio: McAuliffe, along with DNC voting rights chair Donna Brazile, said a team of lawyers and voting rights experts will be formed in coming weeks. The study should be completed next spring, he said.Hey, what's the hurry, right? Thru this stellar compilation page.

2004-12-06T22:44:00.000-05:00

GOOD SIMPSONS MOMENT Check out the screen shots at Uggabugga.

2004-12-06T21:42:00.000-05:00

"CERTIFIED" What on this Green Earth took them so long??? Nothing. It was pure delay. Bush wins Ohio by 118, 975 votes. Insert "raspberry" sound here. Laugher line of the article (look for the word "finally") The presidential election hung on Ohio, prized for its 20 electoral votes. Not until the morning after the election did Kerry finally concede ...

2004-12-05T23:18:00.000-05:00

OHIO QUESTIONS FOR BLACKWELL Twelve Congresspersons wrote the Ohio Sec. of State a letter, demanding answers to 34 questions about voting fraud, suppression and irregularities. Here is the pdf of the letter, a summary of some of the questions and Keith Olbermann's take, which includes a discussion of the Steeler's QB.

2004-12-04T10:17:00.000-05:00

SHRINKING AND DELAYING Bush "won" because he "won" Ohio by 136,000 votes. They have been counting those absentee ballots and the provisional ballots, which were cast and checked on later. The word in the press is that now Bush leads by 119,000. Also, it appears that about 2/3 of the 150,000 provisionals were valid. As Jackson noted on Countdown this week, it is transparently unfair that Bush's

2004-12-02T13:44:00.000-05:00

IT'S OFFICIAL November was the month with the most American military deaths in Iraq. 137. At least the end may be near. I'm almost convinced that Bush is clinging to the January election in Iraq so he has an excuse to yank troops soon after they are held. My only question is, do they go to Iran or come home? Not much of a question, I guess, because it is becoming more and more apparent that

2004-12-01T07:53:00.000-05:00

GLIBS! Just when I go and slam them, I find out that the Greens (and Libertarians - GLIBS) are taking fire for America on the front lines of Ohio's recount. A state judge has issued an ex parte order (that means an order where one party was not given input) to halt the recount. On top of that, the Democrats may be ready to come charging down the hill like Gandolf and his reinforcements in "The

2004-11-30T23:31:00.000-05:00

3RD-RATE GREENS The Greens can be so cool. Then they say or do something that seems just plain ill-informed. Recount in New Mexico - cool. In Nevada, WTF? In Nevada, the lack of paper trails or receipts for electronic voting machines is the primary concern.Uh, no. Nevada is like the only state to have paper almost100% of the time.

2004-11-29T22:50:00.000-05:00

MORE K. OLBERMANN ... what several voters' groups see as the incongruity of an underfunded Democratic candidate for the Ohio Supreme Court, C. Ellen Connally, getting a net 45,000 more votes in Butler County relative to her Republican opponent than Kerry did relative to his. She finished ahead of her party's presidential nominee by 10,000 net votes or more in five Ohio counties; by 5,000 or more

2004-11-29T22:27:00.000-05:00

THE DIFFERENCE Sometimes, whatever you think about a person, it's important to isolate the merits of what they say. In the AP: Jackson said too many questions have been raised to let the vote stand without further examination. ``We can live with winning and losing. We cannot live with fraud and stealing,'' Jackson said Sunday at Mount Hermon Baptist Church.

2004-11-24T01:29:00.000-05:00

THE GAO The Government Accountability Office seems like a pretty decent government organization type thing. After all, it's the office that busted the Thugs for creating fake news medicare ads and other tax-funded "illegal propaganda." So, it can't be bad if they are going to check into this voting thing. Unless it's a whitewash ... I don't think it's a whitewash. Here's a list of the 14

2004-11-23T07:46:00.000-05:00

CAN'T WIN IF YOU DON'T PLAY It's just a State House seat but after a recount in NH, the result yanked it from a Republican and gave it to the Democrat.

2004-11-21T22:39:00.000-05:00

MIT BACKS OFF A weeks or so back, some MIT guys claimed they did a study showing how all the erroneous exit poll numbers were still within the margin of error. In other words, there was nothing about which to worry. The Times and the Post grabbed it and wallpapered our intelligence with it. Now, in the wake of the Berkeley study ("ghost votes"), the MIT guys are not so sure. From Olbermann:

2004-11-21T21:22:00.000-05:00

THE BAD AND THE UGLY You shouldn't ever lose your sense of humor. Besides, if Russell posts a photo like this, to do so is not possible.

2004-11-21T02:35:00.000-05:00

100 DEAD Americans in Iraq, in 19 days since the election.

2004-11-18T22:36:00.000-05:00

TIME TO GET REAL First, read this comprehensive run-down of the bizarro election results. It's good, although poorly written in some sentences. Then, to all those touted ad-revenued bloggers who proudly dwell in the "reality-based community," as they say (based on Suskin's NYT article revealing the GOP's outspoken contempt for those who are "reality-based" instead of proudly inventing the

2004-11-18T22:25:00.000-05:00

DEMS PRETENDING TO TRY ... AGAIN "Thank you to the Greens and all others whose support for a recount will rescue a shred of honesty in the conduct of the 2004 Ohio election," said [our main man Dennis] Kucinich. The little ol'e Dem Party of Ohio is feigning a flex. They filed suit to get the 150,000 provisional ballots counted in a uniform manner. Those are the check-up-on-you-later ballots

2004-11-18T21:59:00.000-05:00

UC BERKELEY STUDY SHOWS IMPOSSIBLE VOTES The heavy statistic dudes figured out that anomalies occurred to such an extent in the large Democratic counties (Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach), plus all the other counties (and only those) where e-voting was used, that it is statistically impossible for the results to be real. Someone fetch the tar and feathers. A research team at UC Berkeley

2004-11-17T21:15:00.000-05:00

SKETCHY BUSINESS IN VOLUSIA Looks like people are a wee bit defensive about being scrutinized regarding the vote records. This is a good story about some do-gooders who ended up looking through the garbage to find the awful truth. Very sketchy. Will Kerry grow some balls any time soon? Don't bet on it. In his first extensive interview since his Nov. 2 defeat, Kerry was asked by the Fox News

2004-11-16T23:17:00.000-05:00

NINETY-ONE DEAD SINCE ELECTION DAY Americans in Iraq. Over 1200 total. Updated 11/17.

2004-11-16T07:52:00.000-05:00

NO PERLE? How could The Times run an article about this without mentioning Richard Perle?

2004-11-16T01:22:00.000-05:00

OPEN LETTER TO THE TIMES As I said ... Instead, you invoke the imprimatur of Harvard, Cornell and Stanford, citing an email by three unnamed political scientists ... ... that Times article was really offensive garbage.

2004-11-15T07:48:00.000-05:00

DAMAGE TO THE POSSIBILITY OF EVER KNOWING I'm not sure a bigger lie than "help is on the way" has ever been uttered in a presidential campaign.

2004-11-15T07:34:00.000-05:00

THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT NOTHING Review by Camile Paglia of a new Frank Zappa book. Ms. Paglia is a great mind and this review, although nothing special, is at least pretty accurate. Addicted to black coffee and cigarettes (he was fiercely antidrugs), he slept during the day and saw little of his family. ... An ally of Larry Flynt, Zappa was a militant advocate of free speech who, in 1985,

2004-11-14T13:11:00.000-05:00

AS TO BLOGS Every idiot in the mainstream media wants to write a condescending article about blogs. The most important point, raised so infrequently if at all, is that news and political blogs are Logs of The News. Much of what we do is just highlighting parts of the mainstream news. It's largely about emphasis and connecting the dots. We can't be accused of making things up if we are

2004-11-14T08:13:00.000-05:00

SIXTY-ONE DEAD SINCE ELECTION DAY Americans in Iraq. Updated from 56 since this morning.

2004-11-14T07:59:00.000-05:00

OUT OF TOUCH WITH NO SENSE OF IRONY From a letter to George Bush from Christian psycho, Bob Jones: Put your agenda on the front burner and let it boil. You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ.From a review of the movie 'Silver City,' discussing the character "Dickie," based on George Bush: Meanwhile, Dickie shows his political inexperience in an informal

2004-11-13T19:51:00.000-05:00

I LOVE THESE PEOPLE Have you seen the "sorry, everybody" photo gallery?

2004-11-13T19:36:00.000-05:00

KERRY HAD HALF A BILLION Apparently, we still need to hold a bake sale to get some form of real Democracy. Donate to the Green/Libertarian Ohio Recount here. They need another 50K.

2004-11-12T21:48:00.000-05:00

NUMBERS C'mon. Look at these huge percentage variances in optiscan counties. This is not a Dixiecrat thing. Learn, dammit, learn.

2004-11-12T21:40:00.000-05:00

NADER GETS HIS NH RECOUNT He'll count the eleven precincts he thinks smell the worst, then decie whether to proceed. I suppose some Democrat will create a way to slam him for this ...

2004-11-12T20:57:00.000-05:00

MESSAGE TO BLOGGERS Look, I'll save you the trouble of reporting the news for the next four years. Democrats will scheme and scour for money, ideas and messages to beat the next version of Bush. They have all been wrung out for every drop of salience in the effort to bet Bush this time, so, sincerely, but not without total hopelessness, good luck with all that. Bush, the Republicans and the

2004-11-12T20:49:00.000-05:00

SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER This is a good column: "If it were up to us, we'd be screaming bloody murder." This NYT article is complete crap, which I do not have the energy tonight to "fisk" or fisk it, I would. It is enough to say that it blames the blogs for resting their "proof" that the election was "stolen" on "disproven" claims, even though no one is saying anything about proof, the claims

2004-11-12T07:22:00.000-05:00

CHANGING THE PROVISIONAL BALLOT RULES In Florida, in 2000, Katherine Harris was Sec of State and the head of the Florida Bush campaign. In Ohio, this year Ken Blackwell is Sec of State and the head of the Ohio Bush campaign. The provisional balllots are being counted now. It seems a brand new rule was created to eliminate ballots without date of birth, as of Tuesday. Date of birth was not

2004-11-12T01:15:00.000-05:00

MY GUYS At a news conference today, Nader demanded recounts in four voting districts in that state (NH). And he said the national vote had made this county - quote - "the laughing stock of the world," that - quote - "this election is not over," that the outcome in Ohio had been - quote - "hijacked from A to Z" and that John Kerry should demand a recount there. RALPH NADER (I),

2004-11-11T23:47:00.000-05:00

EVEN DICK MORRIS KNOWS Dick Morris, the one-time Clinton friend turned Fox stooge, wrote an article about how accurate exit polls are. This is why it was so "odd" that they all showed Kerry winning the key states - until CNN had them "updated." Of course, Dicky Toe thinks it's because there was some leftie bias. I can't explain that theory, because false polls for Kerry would suppress Kerry's

2004-11-11T08:05:00.000-05:00

HOW IS THE GOP USING ARAFAT? I'm not sure I get this. Distraction from Iraq is always a good move for these corporatists. Hinting at some biblical turning point. Insinuating fear as things unravel in Palestine. I just can't say which one or why the GOP telescreen thinks this story demands blanket coverage. In the end, I think the message is: "celebrate, America, another Arab is dead."

2004-11-11T01:11:00.000-05:00

COUNTDOWN KEEPS UP THE SEARCH FOR REALITY Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, 8:00 p.m. Where's the Democratic Party in all this? Ralph Nader asked that question today, issuing what he called a challenge to Senators Kerry and Edwards to fulfill their promises to make sure every vote counts, particularly in Ohio. ... ... North Carolina has another problem, too. First, it was UniLect Corporation machines