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Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing politics.slashdot.org

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the tis-the-season dept.

With the US Presidential Election coming up, we've had a lot of story submissions that we would like to post, but they don't fit very well on the Slashdot main page. To address this, we'll be running special political coverage between now and the election in our new Politics subsection of Slashdot. Please submit stories directly to the section for consideration. As with all sections on Slashdot, there will be stories available within that section that don't get posted to the main page, so please visit the section if you are interested in more coverage. We'll do our best to be fair with story selection. We think we can do a good job since the Slashdot editors represent a diverse spectrum of political ideologies. The discussions are up to you guys. Here's hoping the experiment works!

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  1. Re:Slashdot is not for politics by Maagma · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ahh! But there are things in politics that relate to nerdy things and technology. For instance, all of the voting machines in California. Nerdy, yet political in some aspects.

  2. What about those flags? by ESqVIP · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm not from the US, you insensitive clod!

  3. Re:Great... by stienman · · Score: 2, Informative

    Visit your homepage preferences and select Politics to avoid seeing these stories on your main page.

    -Adam

  4. Re:Really? by Saint+Nobody · · Score: 4, Informative

    just read pudge's journal and jamie's responses to his posts. and then the ensuing wars of words as they both explain how completely and wrong the other's arguments are.

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  5. Re:Non-US Elections by DAldredge · · Score: 1, Informative

    Bush did get the most electoral college votes so he won. You don't understand our election system, I suggest you research it.

    Don't forget their are 50 states in the Union and the EC system ensures that the smaller states get a voice in presidental elections just like the 2 senators from each state, regardless of population, is suspose to insure that each state gets it's uniqure issues heard.

  6. Re:All stories? by stienman · · Score: 4, Informative

    Visit your homepage preferences and uncheck all the section boxes. This will 'unhide' these sections from your main page.

    -Adam

  7. Re:Funniest. Summary. Ever. by pudge · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, and I am saying it is funny to think that, since I am an official of the Republican party in Washington state, a precinct committee officer.

  8. Re:Politics on Slashdot? Never! by funk_doc · · Score: 3, Informative

    I just took the Political Compass and the test in itself is quite skewed. Questions like:

    Abstract art that doesn't represent anything shouldn't be considered art at all.

    Aren't political questions. There are many questions like this. If anyone would like to take a real political quiz, try The Worlds Smallest Political Quiz

  9. Why the American flag? by fritz+il+gatto · · Score: 1, Informative

    I am sure a good 30-40% of your users are not from the US.

  10. Re:Swift boats weren't liers by jasonhamilton · · Score: 2, Informative
    Thurlow DID get a medal that day, but Thurlow did not know the exact reason - he assumed it was due to helping aid the boat that hit a mine.

    This is going to be a long quote, reading it isn't needed, but it will show you that Thurlow had no reason to question WHY he got a medal when his actions that day clearly deserved it.

    Kerry's third Purple Heart was his ticket home. It also was much of the basis of his Bronze Star, repeating "his bleeding arm" and shrapnel wound from the mine story. The problem is that his operating report was a total lie since Kerry's shrapnel wound "in the buttocks" came not from a mine at all as he falsely reported, but at his own hand. Larry Thurlow, an officer on shore with Kerry that day, recounts that Kerry's shrapnel wound came not from any mine, but from a self-inflicted wound when Kerry (with no enemy to be seen) threw a concussion grenade into a rice pile and stayed too close. See Exhibit 10, ? 3. This "brown rice" incident with rice/shrapnel lodged in Kerry from his own grenade is also recounted by James Rassman, a Kerry supporter and "the no man left behind" on page 105 of John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best, by Michael Kranish, Brian C. Mooney, and Nina J. Easton (New York: Public Affairs, 2004) (the "Kranish book"). See Exhibit 21.

    Most surprisingly, John Kerry himself (while falsely reporting to the Navy and public that he suffered a shrapnel wound from a mine explosion so as to get a third Purple Heart and go home) reflected in his own journal that his buttocks' wound came, not from any mine but, rather, from a grenade tossed into a rice cache by himself or friendly troops (in the absence of any enemy fire). "I got a piece of small grenade in my ass from one of the rice bin explosions." Exhibit 15, Tour, at 313; see also Exhibit 15, Tour, at 317. "Kerry . . . also had the bits of shrapnel and rice extracted from his backside." See also the sworn statement of participants that there was no hostile fire (Exhibits 6, 7, and 10). It also should be noted that the rice extracted from Kerry's backside could hardly be the result of an underwater mine, as Kerry claimed in his operating report.

    The conclusion is that Kerry lied by reporting to the Navy that he had been wounded by shrapnel in his backside from an enemy mine when in reality he negligently wounded himself and then lied about the wound in order to secure a third Purple Heart and a quick trip home.

    As recounted in the attached affidavits of three on-scene participants (and verified by many others present) Kerry's operating report, Bronze Star story, and subsequent "no man left behind" story are a total hoax on the Navy and the nation. As recounted in the affidavits of Van Odell (Exhibit 6), Jack Chenoweth (Exhibit 7), and Larry Thurlow (Exhibit 10) (and verified by every other officer present and many others), a mine went off under PCF 3 -- some yards from Kerry's boat. The force of the explosion disabled PCF 3 and knocked several sailors, dazed, into the water. All boats, except one, closed to rescue the sailors and defend the disabled boat. That boat -- Kerry's boat -- fled the scene. After a short period, it was evident to all on the scene that there was no additional hostile fire.

    Thurlow began the daring rescue of disabled PCF 3, while Chenoweth began to pluck dazed survivors of PCF 3 from the water. Midway through the process, after it was apparent that there was no hostile fire, Kerry finally returned, picking up Rassman who was only a few yards from Chenoweth's boat which was also going to pick Rassman up. Each of the affiants (and many other Swiftees on the scene that day) are certain that Kerry has wholly lied about the incident.

    Kerry's account of this action, which was used to secure the Bronze Star and a third Purple Heart, is an extraordinary example of fraud. Kerry describes "boats rcd heavy A/W and S/A from both banks. Fire continued for about 5000 meters." Exhibit 17. In other words, the boats

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  11. Plastic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I am somewhat weary posting this, but here it goes anyway (and I hope I won't regret it)

    If you're interested in Slashdot-style discussion of non-technical topics such as politics, culture, etc., give www.plastic.com a click.

    If you have used ./ you will feel at home with the UI (actually it's much more streamlined, though at some point it used to be Slashcode) and the read/respond process.

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