No Way, No How, No McCain
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 27
Thursday, March 20
Bush's Tax rebate
(Don't send this to the Gov of NY....He was ahead of this e-mail....)
How to use the rebate
As you may have heard the Bush Administration said each and every one of us would now get a nice rebate.
If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China.
If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs,
If we purchase a computer it will all go to India,
If we purchase fruit and vegetables it will all go to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatamala,
If we purchase a good car it will all go to Japan,
If we purchase useless crap it will all go to Taiwan
and none of it will help the American economy.
We need to keep that money here in America, so the only way to keep that money here at home is to buy prostitutes and beer, since those are the only businesses still in the US.
Sincerely,
Client #10
Sunday, October 14
Comcast Caught Filtering Political E-Mails
Is Comcast blocking political emails? Read and decide for yourself. FTA.. It took us a number of days to nail down Comcast as the cause of the problems, and then more days, working with Comcast's abuse department to identify exactly what was going on. We'd reached that point by Thursday, but Comcast was slow to fix the problem.
read more | digg story
Saturday, February 10
Obama launches social network
Despite having a strong presence on Facebook and YouTube, the Democrat presidential hopeful has launched a social network of his own. MyBarackObama.com invites supporters to create a profile, blog their campaign experiences, plan and attend events, find other supporters, and help raise funds for the campaign. Overkill or a winning strategy?
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Wednesday, October 11
digg - Olbermann: "Why does habeas corpus hate America"
digg - Olbermann: "Why does habeas corpus hate America":
"First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me."
Friday, September 29
NY Times: Bush's "Tyrannical Law" is "Low Point in American Democracy"
Geneva Conventions sidestepped; basic habeas right to challenge imprisonment cancelled; coerced evidence allowed; torture allowed; secret evidence allowed; judicial review blocked; U.S. residents could be detained indefinitely with no hope of appeal. Nearly all Senate Republicans voted Yes.
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Thursday, September 21
Good message, from the Dalai Lama
INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R’s:
Respect for self.4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Respect for others.
Responsibility for all your actions.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon
Tuesday, September 12
Olbermann's 9/11 Valentine for Bush: Who has left this hole in the ground?
Who else has the balls to say it? Keith rips George a new hole.
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Thursday, September 7
Chicago Evacuation Drill
My building was selected as one of the buildings involved in the drill. Here's some pictures of the action.
Monday, August 28
Saturday, August 12
Video Game Law Backfires for Illinois
A federal judge has said the State of Illinois must pay over a half-million dollars in legal fees to the video-game industry for fighting the "Safe Games Illinois Act" intended to keep minors away from violent or explicit video games.
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Friday, August 11
What's Wrong With Showing Your ID?
If a 19 year-old college student can get a fake ID to drink, why couldn't a bad person get one, too? And no matter how sophisticated the security embedded into the ID, wouldn't a well-financed terrorist be able to falsify that, too? The answer to both questions is obviously 'yes'.
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Wednesday, July 26
The buck stops . . . where?
"The buck stops . . . where?
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi criticizing the lack of congressional oversight concerning Iraq war contracts:
'Why this huge contract has not been and is not now being adequately audited is beyond me. The potential for waste and profiteering under such a contract is substantial.'
Then again, what do you expect from --
Wait. Those were the words 40 years ago of Rep. Donald Rumsfeld (R-Ill.) criticizing the lack of congressional oversight concerning Vietnam war contracts.
The company he was talking about would later become a unit of Halliburton.
Our government has shortcomings.
Lack of continuity is not one of them.
Sunday, July 2
When Republicans Hurt Our Freedoms, The Terrorists Win.
"Every time a Republican attacks our freedoms a terrorist gets his wings."
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Tuesday, June 27
Bush approval rating by state
This shows bush's approval rating by state (per month) since the 2004 election. Could we be a blue country by 2008?
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Friday, May 5
AT&T to stop local goverments from implementing Fiber
Four more Chicago suburbs were sued by AT&T Inc. for delaying plant improvements that will lead to a launch later of the telephone company's video service.
The new defendants are Itasca,North Aurora, Wood Dale and Geneva. Suits were filed against the Illinois communities May 2 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Previously, AT&T sued the communities of Carpentersville, Roselle and Wheaton, Ill., as well as two communities in California.
According to local regulators, 10 communities have put the brakes to the improvement drive, called Project Lightspeed. Of those, seven have been sued and three more anticipate legal action.
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Thursday, May 4
Easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine
It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine, says University of Pennsylvania visiting professor Steve Freeman. That's because Vegas slots are better monitored and regulated than America's voting machines.
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Tuesday, March 21
Electronic voting good, design bad
Where I voted had the electronic voting machines, but who ever designed them was an IDIOT.
Its a nice an electronic machine, but instead of voting touch screen, you have this obtuse dial thing-a-magig at the bottom of the device to control the highlighted section. Then press the Enter key instead of touching the screen. Very tactile but unnecessary confusing. Ironically I voted in a nursing home. Hope the Alzheimer patients voted early :).
I am surprised how much unaposed people are running. There was one entry where no-one was running. So, I had a chance for a write in, just for fun I put myself. I felt like I was putting in the high score for Asteroids, rotate right, to N, left back for B, right all the way for a space....
Good news is that were was a paper ballot backup which I was able to verify before submitting the ballot.
Thursday, January 26
Young Americans and Alberto Gonzales
Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him.
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Sunday, December 18
Bush OKs illegal wire taps...says he will continue to break the law.
Bush says he will continue breaking the law with illegal wiretaps. Also calls the Constitution just a "goddamned piece of paper" here: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml
OK, how would this not be impeachable compared to what Clinton did?
Clinton lied in a lawsuit, Bush lied to congress, the UN and the USA and its caused by his own admission over 30,000 Iraqi deaths and over 2,000 American solders and mercenaries/contractors.
I feel sorry I voted for him.
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