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A pleasant reminder that we’re waking up from 8 long years of Republican nightmare
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- Saturday 8th November 2008
Seen Change.gov? Imagine – a government that actually uses the internets to communicate with the constituents.
Thanks to Barrie for the…
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In the Minnesota Senate race, there’s a reason the count is so close
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- Friday 7th November 2008
The voting machines are not so technically sophisticated as loaded dice.
On Monday, Threat Level published a letter written by a Michigan election clerk to the chairwoman of the federal Election Assistance Commission asserting that optical-scan machines made by Election Systems & Software failed pre-election tests because they counted votes incorrectly.
Oakland County Clerk Ruth Johnson…
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Randomness
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- Thursday 6th November 2008
“Tomorrow when you go to the polls, make my life difficult. Make the next four years really hard, so that every morning all we can do is come in and go, ‘Madonna is doing some Kaballah thing, you wanna do that?’ I’d like that. I’m tired.” – Jon…
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Bush administration prepares to screw us one last time
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- Thursday 6th November 2008
Emissions? Phooey! Labor protection? Ha! Mining? See ya later! Hazardous material? Sorry!
I believe the word on rattlesnakes is that they’ll bite you even after the head is severed from the body.
I hope someone is preparing to prosecute Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft as war criminals. Please let me know if you’re aware any plans. I’m not one of those “let’s all come together now…
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YES!
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- Wednesday 5th November 2008
YES!
“His triumph was decisive and sweeping, because he saw what is wrong with this country: the utter failure of government to protect its citizens. He offered a government that does not try to solve every problem but will do those things beyond the power of individual citizens: to regulate the economy fairly, keep the air clean and the food safe, ensure that the sick have access to health…
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Voting chaos guide
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- Monday 3rd November 2008
From ProPublica, both nationally and by state, covering machine malfunctions, paper ballot shortage, inadequate facilities, illegal challenges, menacing poll watchers, etc.
Threat Level is doing a pretty good job on this as well; especially the bogosity involved in electronic voting machines.
The AP sizes up the potential…
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A short explanatory article for our foreign readers
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- Monday 3rd November 2008
What’s it like when your society not only doesn’t have universal health care, the government and corporate interest actively discourage such a radical notion?
If you lose your job, you lose your health insurance.
A problem that looms for many Americans, no matter who wins the…
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A footnote to the McCain/Palin slimeball express
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- Sunday 2nd November 2008
Juan Cole at Informed Comment has a great post on the trashing of renowned scholar Rashid Khalidi by the Republican troglodytes. Khalidi’s bad because he writes books, teaches in Ivy League schools, advocates for the Palestinians, and apparently is not 100% white. Obviously a…
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The Republican campaign to steal the election, Part 5,728.4 (Now with documented BS)
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- Saturday 1st November 2008
1) Don’t vote for Obama! He’s not qualified to be president because, um, he’s got some relative that’s in the country ILLEGALLY! And it’s only 3 days before the election, and you can believe us, because this was leaked by a gen-u-wine GUMMINT OFFICIAL!!! And a MURDOCH NEWSPAPER!!! Did we mention that the election’s only 3 days away, and don’t vote for Obama?…
2) McCain adviser and…
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New report confirms US tortured detainees; cites irrefutable medical evidence
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- Friday 31st October 2008
The Harvard Law Record reports today on recent findings by the Physicians For Human Rights:
Hashemian concluded by citing the words of Maj. General Antonio M. Taguba (USA-Ret.), who stated, “there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”
All the more…
