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Seems to me that Daily Kos is a website that's brought up quite frequently in Slashdot (political) stories these days, many times for an opinionated view. Why is this the case and not with, let's say - Redstate? I know that Kos is a reader of Slashdot, but I don't think that has anything to do with it.

How far the future are you looking where "Should Iran wake up one day and decide to nuke Washington" be possible?

My personal opinion? 10 years or so.

I mean, they'd have to develop a nuclear weapon,

Perhaps you haven't been following the news...

a long-range delivery system (Arguably harder than making a small fission device),

Iran presently possesses the ability to launch against Southern Europe with its existing devices and can acquire other technology as needed.

weaponising their little pop-gun fission device so their long range delivery system can carry the thing (Very hard)

Iran presently possesses ballistic missile capability. While they have yet to develop ICBMs, their regional weapons are quite good. Additionally, why would it need to be ground launched from Iran? They have a wide terrorist network (yes, they actually do...) capable of using a nuke, and if recent GAO reports are any indicator of the present quality of border control when it comes to fissile material, I've got my doubts.

and then be Bat Shit Crazy enough to use it,

Again, perhaps you haven't been keeping up with the news...

hoping that the US don't simply shoot it out of the sky before it gets to them.

Countermeasures to missile defense systems exist.

Then they'd be turned into the world biggest sheet of glass.

Would they? I'm not entirely convinced. A small nuclear attack of that sort would likely result in a proportional strike - good bye Tehran, for example. Massive retaliation MAY not be the response, though it certainly is possible.

I mean, I'm all for sensationalist propoganda and fear based war-mongering, but that's some pretty futuristic fture you've got there.

I think you meant to post that over here. Go knock yourself out.

There's a word for that, you know...

Let's review:

• The United States Government is spying on you;
• The United States Government lied to you to get you to agree to go to war;
• The United States Government is sending your children half way across the world to be killed;
• The United States House and Senate are refusing to their jobs of representing you and advocating for your rights and interests;
• The United States Government has undermined your reputation among nations by abandoning global cooperation and diplomacy and acting unilaterally;
• The United States Government has endangered your safety by antagonizing and attacking foreign people, thereby turning them into extremist people;
• The Federal Government and the governments of several states are eliminating your right to self-determination via voting by systematically ignoring all evidence placed before them of voting irregularities and compromised electronic voting machines;
• Etc., etc., etc....

In case you haven't been paying attention for the last seven years, it may interest you to know: You are being systematically fucked. The press has been bought off; they will do nothing to help you. There is only one person left who can do something about it...

But, you see s/he's too busy, and can't be bothered, at least not yet. See, there was the American Idol finale a couple weeks ago where whatshisface (or was it whatsherface?) won, thanks to your attentive help and eager phone calls. Oh! And, and missing the final episodes of Survivor, Will and Grace, The Amazing Race, and House were simply unthinkable! And then there was "March Madness" back in... uh, March, I guess...

"Public corruption? Senate scandals? Incompetent emergency management officials? Mendacious Attorney Generals? Fuck that! I need to know if Natalee Holloway is still dead..."

See? Very very busy. So if something important is going on, it will need to be really important before we get his/her attention and they start to act and save the United States. It will need to be shocking so that we grab his/her attention. And it will need to be big so that they understand the importance of acting now. In fact, it will need to be so big that it will swamp out all the other "important" stuff for months.

And so, the question we all need to ask is:

What Will It Take?

Schwab

Liberal == grown-up == intelligent == understands nuance

If you had any familiarity with the fever swamps of the Left, you would've known better than to make that asinine assertion.

Well the editor, Frank Salvato, seems to be a content thief. The flying pig logo he uses on his "The Fifth Column", looks awful familiar to me.

But maybe Salvato is just a dupe and got the graphic from the talentless - Propagandizing PhotoHacktress - thieving - disrespecter of a Navy Corpsman, Linda Eddy, who has No Shame, and is listed as a contributor on the site.

(yeah, it's personsal, i was a lotterywinner_and_conscriptDoc)

Well the editor, Frank Salvato, seems to be a content thief. The flying pig logo he uses on his "The Fifth Column", looks awful familiar to me.

But maybe Salvato is just a dupe and got the graphic from the talentless - Propagandizing PhotoHacktress - thieving - disrespecter of a Navy Corpsman, Linda Eddy, who has No Shame, and is listed as a contributor on the site.

(yeah, it's personsal, i was a lotterywinner_and_conscriptDoc)

It is NOT an established fact that comments or trackbacks are part and parcel to a blog

If that were so, you could get a site indexed just by leaving a well-worded racist comment and then lodging a complaint.

The quoted comment isn't worse than a thousand others on Daily Kos (search [google.com]) Democratic Underground (search [google.com]).

Holocaust Denial
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/13/162842/565 [dailykos.com]

General Antisemitism
http://news.google.de/news?hl=en&ned=&ie=UTF-8&q=s ite%3Aindymedia.org+jews&btnG=Search+News [google.de]

Jewish conspiracy for 9/11
http://news.google.de/news?hl=en&ned=&q=jews+wtc&b tnG=Search+News [google.de]

Considering your abject failure to cite even one thing you claimed to be citing in the first two, I didn't bother to waste my time even checking this.

Cite some actual articles or go away.

You're begging the question. It is NOT an established fact that comments or trackbacks are part and parcel to a blog. And it's not stated specifically anywhere in Google News' terms or conditions, at least as far as I can find. If that were so, you could get a site indexed just by leaving a well-worded racist comment and then lodging a complaint. That's why sites like Slashdot have disclaimers.

The quoted comment isn't worse than a thousand others on Daily Kos (search) Democratic Underground (search). But that's the whole point. They're COMMENTS.

Typical. Claim with no backup. It's amazing how liberals are engaged in all this bad behavior that nobody can ever seem to source...

If you'd like examples of racist news items from the left at Google News, here's a couple to get you started:

Holocaust Denial
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/13/162842/565

General Antisemitism
http://news.google.de/news?hl=en&ned=&ie=UTF-8&q=s ite%3Aindymedia.org+jews&btnG=Search+News

Jewish conspiracy for 9/11
http://news.google.de/news?hl=en&ned=&q=jews+wtc&b tnG=Search+News

It is censorship, but Google's a privately-held company and can censor their content all they want.

Which of course makes it possible for the creative crypto-designer to work around this particular device type, if necessary. But I would think that any reasonably encrypted channel is immune to this automatic filtering.

Here is a good blog entry on the technical aspects of the AT&T-NSA scandal.

I fully expect Daily Kos to be brimming over with phone switching and network engineering experts in a few hours.

Still, the amount of traffic these things can handle is pretty impressive.

Narus works directly with Verisign so any SSL encrypted traffic can be decrypted in real-time. See http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/10/235017/000 for more information.

I agree with your rant about the system, the people, the limits of our choices and our career politicians. But those factors produce Republicans and Democrats who are different. Not different enough. And neither is generally "good". But Republicans are far worse. Compare Nixon and Bush to Johnson and Clinton. Compare the Cold War Democratic Congress to their successor Republican Congress - especially the Johnson/Democrat government to the Bush/Republican government. Republicans are much worse. For current differences in severe degree, Daily Kos runs stories documenting the difference. If you can find Republican promoters who can "balance" that with Democrats who are worse (on the facts, not just lies, innuendo and rhetoric), I'd like to see it. But I don't expect you will.

So until we change the system, we'll get much more dangerous career Republicans than Democrats. That's the difference we have to vote on for real in real elections.

The system would be much more balanced with a series of improvements. First, no donations by corporations whatsoever to politicians. Unions are corporations, as are parties and nonprofits, PACs, whatever. Only live humans can donate. No donations to individuals, either. All donations must be made by a human to a race, like the race for representative from a single district. All registered candidates can draw equally from the total donations. The donations/withdrawals are administered by the FEC, which can be audited by any candidate, the government, or watchdog group registered with the FEC. We'd see bribes drop, total donations drop, total campaign expenses drop, the media layer drop, and just enough money sent and received to ensure every candidate spends money that the people want them to use to get their message to their voters. So the return favors would drop to nearly nothing.

Every elected official should be audited every two years for life. That's about 30,000 officials nationwide, with a 50 year career window, for a maximum 750,000 audits a year. Reelections and late-start careers drop the number of audits; we're probably talking about 200,000 audits at average $5,000 apiece, for $1B every 2 years, $500M a year. Out of a $3-5T local+federal budget, that's 0.001%.

Make every elected official's salary automatically equal to the median income of their constituents - for life. With all other income prohibited, except investment in government securities. The only way to increase their income is to increase their constituents', even over decades. Pay their income for the rest of their life, regardless of reelection. Pay an extra term income bonus to any who forego reelection. We might not get the most talented people elected, but we'll get more people interested in the public service and power - and keep them from financial control by narrow interests. Criminal and civil penalties for wrongdoing will also deter them much more, without riches to cover those "business costs". And it will probably drop the audit cost to closer to $100M a year or less.

If we got all that under control and stabilized, we could fix the structure to account for what we've learned about voters over the past 200 years. We could add a lot more representatives. People like modern Americans can personally relate to at most 30,000 other people, like our town. So we need about 6700 representatives for about 200M American constituents (eligible voters). We could make voting first by mail, then by phone, then by Internet as we learn about the security of those systems, with voting booths in every post office and one or two alternate locations as final resort, during the entire month of November. With a second confirmation election in December, triggering a final election in January if not confirmed. When a district resizes beyond 20,000 or 40,000 November voters,

Not to be an ass, but what secret CIA prisons? The ones that the EU investigated and found no proof of...

Ahem.

"The CIA has, on several occasions, clearly been responsible for kidnapping and illegally detaining alleged terrorists on the territory of (EU) member states, as well as for extraordinary renditions," Claudio Fava said in his first interim report of the European Parliament's probe into the alleged CIA abuses.

The article you cite says "De Vries [the CIA-abuse denier] came under sharp criticism from the EU parliamentarians for refusing to consider earlier testimonies from a German and a Canadian who described to the committee how they were kidnapped and imprisoned by foreign agents, and from a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan who alleged that British intelligence services used information obtained under torture".

Asserting that the EU investigated and found no proof of CIA kidnapping may have a comforting feel of "truthiness" for you, but I'm afraid that reality once again is showing a liberal bias.

Bush is nominating Hayden to direct the CIA. Even though Hayden broke the law by spying on us, saying the 4th Amendment doesn't require probable cause. It does.

So Bush's government is derailing justice to protect his compiling vast complex databases of our private communications. In the hands of Iran/Contra conspirators.

After Bush's Justice Department agreed to drop their in-house investigation into Bush's NSA wiretap spying because Bush's NSA told them they didn't have security clearance, these lawsuits are the main obstacle to Bush spying on you as much as he can, taxpaid by you.

Next week, NSA whistleblower Chris Strom will reveal to the Senate how the NSA domestic spying goes even further than these latest exposures (despite Bush denial at every step). Probably spying on us with our satellites, which they scare us into paying for as part of that useless $BILLION Star Wars missile shield.

Feel safer?

Lies, Damned lies, and Statistics.

--Mark Twain

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/12/10481/1427

Maybe more Americans would reject the NSA domestic spying if Bush and his minions weren't relentlessly lying about the scope and depth of the program. Maybe if they were reminded that the Bush administration can't keep secrets, or if they were reminded that presidents can't wiretap political enemies, though they will certainly try, more people would reject it. Americans are always anxious to appear "patriotic", especially when told every day that we're at war for our existence, and we've been attacked by maniacs who would destroy us. Ask us on the phone if "you support the president", and we're at least 50% more likely to say "yes". Especially when we know the president is listening, and dimly remember that he can send anyone to Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib for reeducation.

Maybe more Americans would reject the NSA domestic spying if Bush and his minions weren't relentlessly lying about the scope and depth of the program. Maybe if they were reminded that the Bush administration can't keep secrets, or if they were reminded that presidents can't wiretap political enemies, though they will certainly try, more people would reject it. Americans are always anxious to appear "patriotic", especially when told every day that we're at war for our existence, and we've been attacked by maniacs who would destroy us. Ask us on the phone if "you support the president", and we're at least 50% more likely to say "yes". Especially when we know the president is listening, and dimly remember that he can send anyone to Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib for reeducation.

Let me guess, these polls were done by phone?

Washington Post: Hello, do you have a minute to take a survey?
Citizen: Of course I do!
Washington Post: Great! We were just wondering whether you're concerned with the recent news of the NSA?
Citizen: You mean the fact that they are collecting the phone call records made and recieved by each citizen of the United States?
Washington Post: Yes, probably even this very phone call right now ... how do you feel about that?
Citizen: I'm fuckin' pissed!
Washington Post: So you're conncerned? You know, on our last poll about the NSA, the one where we covered them routing and recording phone calls, people sure answered differently.
Citizen: Wait a second ... you mean they can record transcripts of phone calls?
Washington Post: Yes, probably even this very phone call right now ... we do use AT&T.
Citizen: Ah, I've changed my mine. I am completely fine with this acceptable form of combating terrorism. Sic Heil Bush & all that jazz. I love my country and would sacrifice every bit of privacy for it. Goodbye!

There are big differences between Democrats and Republicans which really matter.

I think it's time to Slashdot these companies.

If you have Verizon, MCI, AT&T, SBC, or BellSouth for local phone service or long distance, DIAL 0 and complain to the operator.

If you have Cingular, AT&T, or Verizon for cell phone service, DIAL 611 and get a customer service rep on the line to complain to. REMIND THEM THEY ARE IN VIOLATION OF THEIR AGREEMENT WITH YOU, AND THAT YOU CAN SWITCH TO ANOTHER PROVIDER WITHOUT PENALTY.

More info here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/11/91046/7966

Here ya go:
 
  I DID read slashdot everyday when I am in China without any problem!

I have no way of knowing the validity of this, since it is exactly the sort of thing a Party agent would say.

Not very sure about particular political news with some external links. But there are big ./ fans in China who read here like mine.

Again, don't know, but you should be able to play around on all the particular political news sites you want. Otherwise you are facing the same censhorship you claim not to be facing.

I am sure everything what we discuss here is also censored by U.S goveronment as well.

I have yet to see any of the numerous critical unfriendly of the administration things that I've posted be censored. I am no fan of the Moron in Chief, or the criminals in his cabinet, and I consider them people who wish they had the skill to be actual facists. Somehow I've never been censored.
 
 
And you also will be F***ed talking about what really happened in iraq.
 
  Go to http://www.dailykos.com/, and look up Iraq war diaries and the daily grief photo. Nobody who posts to Daily Kos has gone to jail. All the scandals and dirty little facts about the administration get posted there, and yet nobody has yet been fucked for it. However, you have to censor yourself from saying fuck.
 
  Why Fox news never report how U.S soilders treated iraq people who have no weapons?
 
Because Fox News isn't even remotely unbiased, and is owned by one of the administration's buddies, Mr Murdoch. According to Faux News, or Al-Jazeera West as a buddy of mine calls it, every day is a perfect day for the Bush Administration. The mainstream media as a whole in America is corrupt and decadent, but they aren't forcefully controlled by the government. Their motivations are money. Any regular American citizen, myself included, can speak out against the government as much as they like, and with our internet we can make our voices heard loudly and by many. Whether people pay attention is another matter entirely.
 
  I watched it on Channel 4 in the UK about 2 seconds and it is terminated suddently.

So what you're saying is that the UK censors. They're not even a part of the discussion.
 
There ya go, Party agent, I have addressed your points.
 
  Hey, what's score of reading course you get in the secondary school?
 
I personally was tested at a post-graduate reading level when I was in 5th grade. I am an exceptional reader and writer.
 
  I say 80% news here about china is just about sensorship and none of other countries recevie such manner even iraq. As the biggest IT manufacturer base in the world, is this kind of news we only to know about China?
 
Much like the Bush Administration, if the Chinese government, which you work for, does not like bad press, you should stop doing things which will generate bad press. You should free Tibet, allow religious freedom for all religions in China, and permit anti-government dissent and speech. When China has a free press, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, then we can focus on great things like IT manufacturing. Right now I suspect the reason your country is so good at IT is because it makes it easier to weed out and hunt down dissidents.

They aren't interested in Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft. This massive lobbying is the result of only one thing: VoIP. VoIP has freed people and businesses from being tied to the circuit-switched network that is the core source of revenue for many telcoms. AT&T, Verizon, and the other players desperately want to tilt the playing field back into their favor. VoIP startups have been popping out of the woodwork over the past two years. At the very least, Ma Bell wants to slow down the growth of these nimble companies by charging tarrifs, which get passed onto customers and lessen the biggest incentive to switch to VoIP: cost savings.

Cable companies now are simply jumping on the bandwagon. Which, if you notice, seems to coincide with the rollout of their own VoIP services.

Last December I founded a small-business VoIP company myself. So I've been following this issue very closely; it's the only time I've ever contacted a federal representative in my life. However, this is bigger than simply a slower Google or putting me out of business. It's about real jobs and real innovation being extinguished.

Please read a recent blog entry of mine to put a face with this imporant issue. Or, even better learn what you can do to help.

Yeah, anybody who thinks the U.S. government censors political content should just go to http://www.dailykos.com/, if we were anywhere close to being like China with regard to snuffing political dissent, that site wouldn't exist and all of us who post there would be jailed.

It's semantic datamining in realtime all the data that flows through AT&T's San Francisco peering point. See http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/8/14724/2 8476

BushCo just used a rather obscure Federal Secrets action to try to get the EFF v. AT&T lawsuit thrown out last Friday afternoon. See http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/ (It's the third or fourth story down)

I found one here: http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/59811

Neither. Reality

By the way, as I am in old foggy Blighty I did not see it, but here is the full transcript: http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/59811 .

And all I can say, applause, applause...

For us deaf peeps... http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/59811 /

Crooks and Liars doesn't have the full footage. Instead, check out the 3 segments on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIRXur61II

The transcript is also available here:

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/59811

Actually there are some cells (the triple junction mono-Si and for that matter thermophotovoltaics) that have higher efficiencies (in the 30% range) the more light you throw at them. You do still have to keep them cool, but it's been found that passive cooling is sufficient for a good number of systems -- I think some even over 10 suns. This system likely doesn't use the triple junction cells because you have to get into the 30-100 sun range to realize the improvement, and they are expensive.

There are a lot of concentrator systems due to hit the market in the next year or two -- here's my current list: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/7/114711/ 9242

This system will probably have a lower Wp/m3 than a regular panel, however price counts for a lot and many people have more roof, or yard for that matter, than they need so systems like this have an appeal. However since they are for the most part even pickier about incident angle they are mainly going to be of interest in areas that don't get too much cloud cover. There are some omnidirectional reflector arrangements but they aren't flat profile -- clouded areas will probably be looking at more tolerant thin films, which are also pretty poor in the Wp/m3 department.

The big question at this point is whether there will be a reduced-silcon undercutter on the market soon or whether companies will bid in at the going rate in order to monetize and pour that into more manufacturing facilities. I guess we'll see the first test of that when the EverGreen Spruce string ribbon panels get to the retailers.

Because here at Slashdot we like to take topics one at a time. If you want a forum where you can post about your pet cause in any thread that's remotely ideologically related to it, then I highly suggest Daily Kos. The community there consists of activists and ideologues who are more than willing to take a series of issues as a trend that can be dealt with en masse. They even encourage thread hijacking, to a certain extent.

Yet I doubt even they would be too kind to someone who complains about the very existence of the story. You wanna talk about China? Try the umpteen other slashdot stories about it. Better yet, look for a forum that deals with it specifically, preferably an activist forum since that seems to be your angle on the issue. You'll have better luck there discussing it with people who know the issues and have some influence to actually do something about it.

The main provisions of the means test are as follows: People with insufficient assets or income could still file a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which if approved by a judge, erases debts entirely after certain assets are forfeited. But those with income above the state's median income who can pay at least $6,000 over five years -- $100 a month -- would be forced into Chapter 13, where a judge would order a repayment plan. Under current law, a bankruptcy judge determines under which chapter of the bankruptcy code a person falls -- whether they have to repay some or all of their debt. Each state's median will be based on U.S. Census numbers but would have to be adjusted for inflation, and how to calculate that adjustment has not yet been defined. The Census Bureau's latest figures show state median incomes range from $55,912 in Maryland and $30,072 in West Virginia. According to THE WASHINGTON POST, "it is estimated that the proposed legislation would force 30,000 to 100,000 additional filers a year into Chapter 13."

The bill also:

        * Imposes new filing requiments on ALL filers.
        * Requires people filing for bankruptcy to pay for credit counseling.
        * Gives top priority to a spouse's claims for child support among creditors' claims on a debtor in bankruptcy.
        * Allow for special accommodations for active-duty service members, low-income veterans and those with serious medical conditions in the new income test for bankruptcy applicants.
        * Restrict the homestead exemption in states to $125,000 unless the person in bankruptcy bought his or her residence at least three years and four months before filing. Florida, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota and Texas have unlimited homestead exemptions that allow wealthy people to file for bankruptcy and keep their mansions in those states sheltered from creditors. (Source: The Associated Press)

I don't necessarily disagree with his thinking, but it's worth having some perspective on how "progressive" his voice really is. I saw mention of this editorial on DailyKOS in this article yesterday. Notable quote:

"Moore may indeed have been an early Greenpeace member, in the distant mists, but more recently can be better described as the founder of Greenspirit Enterprises, a consulting organization focused on improving the environmental PR of his mining, logging, biotech and energy industry clients."

I'm not saying he's full of it, but before we say that even environmental progressives are re-thinking nuclear, it might be useful to actually get the thoughts of people still in the progressive environmental movement.

From DailyKos http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/16/183226/505 Bluntly put, Patrick Moore is a paid consultant for the mining, logging, biotech and energy industries, and putting him out as "ex-Greenpeace" is a lot like calling Scooter Libby an "ex-Hill staffer." Moore is indeed more significantly described as founder of Greenspirit Strategies Ltd -- a firm that, if you are a company in the extraction or other environmentally damaging industries, can "assist in communicating your issues".

It's sad to see Slashdot so easily punked. The liberal blogs chewed up this canard yesterday and spit it out. See http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/16/183226/505 --Dan

I'd be more impressed if Moore would admit that he's now serving as a consultant for the mining, logging, and energy industries.

Hell, I'd settle for the Washington Post admitting that they're trying to pull one over its readership.

All I said was that the tactics are Nixonian, and used the technical political term "ratfucking", which also derives from Nixon - still standard in the Republican Party. I said that when Republicans do it, that's what it's called. So I didn't actually imply that Republicans are doing it, just that they do it. Any inference that Republicans are doing the ratfucking we're discussing in this subthread is on your part. Though I'll take credit for helping you do it. Because they're ratfuckers.

I'm especially inspired by the current events of this week, in which Bush's #2's #2 told a detailed story of Bush as head ratfucker.

There are at least three reasons why we shouldn't trust their dirty, nasty, evil b0xen:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboa rd.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=11874&mesg_ id=19911/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/10/1172/9052 /
http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf/
Violation of warranty? Sure. I can see that.
Still, nobody is answering the question: "why on earth are computers the best answer to solving the handicaped voter problem?"
I could hire some little old ladies for minimum wage and get them to help disadvantaged people cast their ballots for less than $27 million!
Or, at the very least, if these machines are supposed to be SO easy to use, just get one or two of them for each precinct. You don't need every parking stall to be handicap accessible, and you don't need all of your voting booths to be, either.
In my mind, Bruce Funk is the only sane election official in the whole state.

You may be right about the jobs you mentioned as pot-averse. However, I think its clear that for the most part most employers are far too concerned about it, simply because its illegal. People realize many of the reasons why the prohibition of herb is irrational and unjust, but they don't usually give smokers and dealers their proper cred as freedom fighters.

This can present a really big problem in some communities, because our paranoid nation (I'm referring to the States) has hired so many security guards and cops that most of them have very little to do. When it occurs to them that they could be a bit more draconian about pot dealers and smokers, they end up harassing some really sweet people who haven't done anything to hurt anyone in the least. And its not just harassment but also some really sad consequences like permanent records and lost jobs and misplaced distrust and other mad wasteful gestures that are basically done out of trying to save face as being 'compliant with the law', or out of honest misunderstandings about the true dynamics of the substance.

The economic, racial, prison crowding, social, and medical reasons to support legalization are pretty clear. But, in case you all haven't heard the astounding findings that came through in the past year, please check out this post. http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/26/195849/16

The best candidate the Repugnicants have!

when, exactly, did they repeal the 22nd amendment?

They haven't yet. But, it isn't for want of trying.

Or are you saying that these drastic changes will occur within the next two years?

The 22nd amendment is nothing to a president with 'war powers' , or, hadn't you yet noticed?

this guy at my company who works on information security found the key hard coded in the diebold source code. source code which he found online. for those that don't know about cryptography, this is bad.
He gave a talk about it last year and advocated a paper ballets and optical scanners as others have.

This piece on DailyKos outlines why this likely isn't the case, written by a very well respected economist. Granted, that story is geared towards Iran, but the arguments apply to Iraq in 2000.

The bottom line: we helped a campaign that was the walking dead and gave it new life, pumped in resources, and made it competitive. We did much to even the playing field even if ultimately we came up tantalizingly short.

It's ironic that this topic would get posted today...as it marks the 0-for-20 record for them in backing House candidates (they couldn't even get Cuellar [TX-28] into a stinking _runoff_!).

Actually they were backing his opponent, Ciro Rodriguez. Here is a link to the DailyKos post mortem:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/8/125826/ 7694

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    100% Troll

I give an alternate citation for the story, and that's a "Troll"?

Pentagon TrollMods just hate the Daily Kos.

I don't recall that. Do you have a website / video for reference (today's not my day for google, search results don't turn up much)

wait... here it is.
click for links to movies/transcripts

this is great!

Since my previous post was modded into oblivion and I have karma to burn, I'll link to another discussion. I'd suggest that those who are angered by this other discussion go there and participate in the discussion, rather than simply making it disappear here, in order to avoid the irony of "trollmodding" a link to a political site into oblivion on a censorship story.

See Daily Kos discussion about this topic here.

Since my previous post was modded into oblivion and I have karma to burn, I'll link to another discussion. I'd suggest that those who are angered by this other discussion go there and participate in the discussion, rather than simply making it disappear here, in order to avoid the irony of "trollmodding" a link to a political site into oblivion on a censorship story.

See Daily Kos discussion about this topic here.

I read about the Pentagon blacklisting non-warmonger websites, but favoring the warmongers, at Daily Kos.